It's a fun JRPG that kind of falls apart in the third act in both gameplay and a bit in the story IMO. If you don't like parrying fights you're probably not gonna have a fun time with the last third of the game. If you don't feel like spending the money you can always pirate it.
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Agreed. Up the cap to 99,999 after beating the paintress, 999,999 after beating Renoir, and uncapped after Clea.
Sure I like the fact this game tries to do its own thing by being European RPG taken a lot of inspirations from JRPG, I feel like most westerners seem to dismiss a lot of JRPG as another Persona, fire emblem dating sim clones when I think there were a lot of variety of JRPG back in ps2 era like Shadow Hearts Covenant, SMT Nocturne, Yggdra Union and Suikoden 5. But after success of Persona 3, every JRPG companies are trying to make Persona clone which is absolutely a crying shame.
Everytime I thought about this game, there was something I thought of but I didn't say anything back then. After seeing this, I have got to say Expedition 33 is really the normie's first JRPG. No fucking wonder Capcom and Square Enix seem to always go for more realistic character design out of most major Japanese companies. These two were the first to go all in to pandering to global audience after all. Back when Squarenix declared they were largely inspired by Game of thrones to make FF16, at that time I was exasperated at how clueless they are but now I cannot blame them at all. In their minds, epic cinematic set piece combined with story of political intrigue would impress average western normies. Maybe they should have made brand new IP inspired by Game of Thrones instead of carrying that motif in FF16.
I know what you mean. Even if I did enjoy it until the end, the plot twists completely sucked the air out of the game and made me kind of not care about anything or sympathize with anyone anymore. In the end all I was thinking of was "I just want to see the end and be done with it." The music, gameplay and cool visuals were really carrying it post first plot twist, and there was no satisfying ending to be had.I'm very late the the party, but holy shit, what a shitshow that was. I don't remember ever going from "this is fucking awesome" to "just let it all end already, I don't give a shit" in a span of a single game. Some sort of a Shama Lama Ding Dong plot twist was pretty heavily telegraphed throughout the first 2 acts, but given how much everyone has been fellating this game I thought it might actually be good this time
Was I supposed to empathize with the wizard family? The one that either routinely creates and destroys a bunch of people (assuming they're sentient (as much as french people can be anyway), which the game seems to imply they are), or are just a bunch of NEETs struggling with The Sims 33 VR Edition addiction? Or was that supposed to be some sort of Reddit atheism/The Aristocrats meta-plot or some shit? Thanks, but I'd rather have my cookie-cutter magical adventure. Although I'm not gonna lie, the Renoir scene at the end was kinda touching and almost made me reconsider, I still picked theMaelleAlicia (RIP Maelle, you were never real) ending, because it inflicts the most suffering on everyone involved.
SAKAPATATE GARBAGE/33. The gestrals are cool, everyone else can go fuck themselves. Oh, and I like the gameplay (ironically, it nosedives past Act 2 as well, because you can just obliterate everything in a single turn now), but the story shat itself so hard I don't even want to touch it anymore.
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There's always faggots that have to hate on anything popular, especially if the popularity is well earned.Look, it's fine to be critical. I also have some criticism and I also believe Act 3 is the weakest.
But I see a lot of pretentious weebs huffing their own farts in this thread. It's the same shit you see everywhere with " thing
God, I hate weebs and weebshit so much.
Do you know why I like this game?
It's not because it's homage to J-shit. I don't play that garbage and never will.
It's a good game.
Maybe the individual parts aren't great, but together, they make something great.
Also, I can't remember the last time I bought a game on release and played it to completion without a single bug? Can any of you faggots name one?
We all know modern practices, where we pay for a broke proof of concept, then pay more for fixes, I mean extra content.
And I also can't remember the last time I bought a game and fully enjoyed it, without getting disappointed by some random nigger or faggot in my face later on, or by something stupid the devs implemented.
It's fun and games forgot to be that. I don't want some epic story or whatever, I don't want to get lectured on modern faggotry, I just want to relax and have fun after a day in the wage cage.
I think that's down to Persona 4, but same difference. Unfortunately waifus sell, what can you do?
If that's the case they may as well give up on the genre now. As a JRPG connoisseur, the unfortunate truth is that they can get very predictable as time goes on and the genre ages.
I think if they made like 20 of these, it would become stale in the manner you are describing. This game, as much as I enjoyed it, partially works because of its relative freshness and focus due to a lack of Japanese cultural character.
I totally agree with all of that. It really was very nice to play a game that had an authentically European feel to it, even with the very obvious JRPG elements and homages.
Sciel and Lune are Waifus.
