I'll have to give that game another look someday. What I've seen didn't hook me but everyone seems to give it really glowing reviews.
This is depressing because it's a really great game, it's almost as if it was forgotten.
Something interesting is that the player can make this segments much larger on shorter depending on their "real life" decisions specially if they never leave the house.
Not really, Undertale, Lisa and this game basically announced themselves at the same time after the most frustrating "Mother 4" delay around 2014 and the blog/comics are far older, it totally was inspired by Yume Nikki tho.
Sounds to me like they were working with some limited, cheapo chiptuney VSTs on the first versions, and then by the latter versions had used the kickstarter money to buy more synths / samples. I don't necessarily dislike the second versions, but they don't seem anywhere near as appropriate to the game's style as those nice pulse wavey goodies.
I dunno what's with people saying it's a hard game, it's really not.
I didn't hear that it was hard, just that it had some shallow and clunky mechanics atop systems that never got too deep.
NGL if that game was at all self-aware of itself and ruthlessly made fun of how pretentious its entire being is, it could have been great. I saw a clip of this with no context for what it was, and I thought it was parody. And it seemed like a really funny parody - like 'how can you actually be stuck this far up your own ass.' The little minigames on attacks seemed like a cool idea to me at the time, and I didn't think about it.
Imagine having to play the same repetitive, tedious mini-game every time you attack on an RPG turn based fight for a single move, for all party members, every single time, all the game.
Yeah, that was one of the things. I think I got shown a boss fight, so I assumed the player was using, like, special moves that had these games attached. Or that there was a way to skip them for a 'normal' outcome. Or any number of other things which an even mildly not-retarded dev could include in a game to have this neat little minigame be a nice flavor rather than a tedious annoyance.
With that much prose being fully voiced, it pretty much has to take itself seriously or else the money goes to waste.
Not just repetitive, meaningless as well outside of one move that's bugged and actually significantly boosts it on success. If not for that, every encounter are effectively against damage sponges.
The dialog in particular is so endlessly laughable that I kinda wish I had made a yIIk thread instead.
