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"Oh wow, they're actually localizing a Madou Monogatari game for WW release, maybe I should check it out..."
no PC version
"Ah well, maybe next time..."
no PC version
"Ah well, maybe next time..."
JRPG General - Video games were never meant to be shorter than 50 hours.
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If that shit is on Switch 1 (and it most definitely will be) just emulate that shit. Ryujinx and Yuzu can run any switch 1 game you throw at it with usually no issues as long as you have a decent enough rig
Also is the series worth getting into? I saw a vid a long while back about the PC-98 Madou Monogatari games and they seem like solid, albeit archaic first person dungeon crawlers.
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I settled on grabbing the Switch version since I can pop it into my Switch 2 and hopefully smooth out any rough edges in performance. I could have also grabbed the PS5 version but my PS5 is sitting unplugged in a box somewhere and I don't really feel like digging it out for one game.
As for whether or not it's worth getting into, I dunno. I saw some gameplay footage and it looked like a reasonably fun dungeon crawler. I figured I might as well grab a copy and at least encourage IF to release more good slop instead of bad slop.
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Yeah I just finished this one and it's probably my favourite Persona game. My computer broke so I needed a console game while I wait for parts, this series is great for when you have exactly one hundred hours to waste.
Terrible fucking title though; I didn't know it existed (or probably thought it was some chinese gacha shit) until I had a reason to look.
I saw some old KF posts of retards missing the point of the titular"metaphor" and complaining about a bunch of DEI shit that it doesn't actually contain, so I'd ignore that if anyone's interested. Basically it's that there's this "fantasy novel" which describes our world, which is a fantasy to them because they live in a somewhat grimdark fantasy setting with a lot of strife and racial tensions and shit, so our ideas of democracy and egalitarianism seem like a utopia. But as it goes on you realise it's actually about how hollow and hypocritical the real world is. It sounds cool to them, but as someone who lives there you know it's a bunch of fucking lies.
It's not preachy or anything, you just have a naive fairy companion who questions the policies of various political candidates for you to make up your own mind, and then you beat them up for being faggots.
The end does drag a bit, but every modern Persona game has that issue. It's a consequence of the sense of mystery and urgency and stuff making the first 75% so compelling I guess, and apparently they still haven't figured out how to fix that. But damn the whole social/attribute gimmick works so much better when you actually have an important goal behind it rather than just passing some stupid high school exams.
LightDragonman1
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First of all,
>going to /v/ for gameplay opinions
Yeah there are a ton and Expedition 33 is not a perfect game. As I've said several times in the Expedition 33 thread and even in my post about the game in here, the game and the devs have a clear love for old JRPGs. The only reason why it's getting a lot of attention and praise for "solving JRPGs" is because there's no "icky anime aesthetic" attached to the game so normies can play it without feeling any slight tinge of shame. As silly as that sounds, that's more or less the reason for this game's success.
When it comes to issues with Exp33, I'd argue the combat (or mainly the parrying) gets old by the endgame with a lot of sidebosses and even some basic enemies requiring you to effectively parry parry parry and nothing else as every other strategy means nothing when you get 1 shot by every basic attack from them. It really kills all build variety and options when enemies are so ridiculously overtuned with both speed and damage that the only viable way to beat these bosses without it taking 5+ minutes (this can happen pretty often by the way) is to build around tanking attacks that do large amounts of damage and building as much shield as possible or to just make a 1-shot build because the parrying got old 80 hours ago (I'm not ashamed to say I did this one for some of the endgame bosses).
I'm still glad the game is doing well, it's a solid game that the devs clearly put a lot of love and care for and I'd love to see a sequel or something that deemphasizes parrying in favor for some other mechanics. There aren't a whole lot of good new games out there for various reasons. I just disagree that it "solved" JRPG combat entirely. I think these people just need to play more JRPGs.
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Which is weird because half the threads on E33 on /v/ devolve into coomposting about Maelle in her swimsuit
Like it's not really any less degenerate than most JRPGs, it's just French degenerate instead of Japanese degenerate.
wtfNeedSignUp
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I put it in the same boat as Baldur's Gate 3 in having a solid core with a lot of QoL mixed in, and a variable amount of depth so both casuals and experts can enjoy tweaking the party setup. It's a fantastic game, but I felt that it didn't really manage to hit the emotional and/or gameplay resonance that the greats did. At most you have a sperging on the ending (which admittedly merits discussion rather than being a generic ending) but I just can't see myself remembering it the same as a lot of PS2 classics like Shadow Hearts 2, Valkyrie Profile 1 and 2 and .hack.
It isn't helped that too much of it can be chalked to other games. Party, plot and even gameplay are extremely similar to Final Fantasy 10, only with the Khimari substitute is an actually good character. Dodging and parrying are Dark Souls inspired. If you get sick of the parrying then it makes a huge part of the game lose its appeal, and by the end you won't really experiment with the gameplay systems unless you want to challenge yourself on purpose.
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There isn't anything done in E33 that wasn't done in a JRPG 20+ years ago. E33 is a great game in that it's just as good as a lot of PS2 RPGs but it's not any better than them. Games like Legend of Dragoon and Shadow Hearts have comparable systems. Of course it's /v/ so the guy is ragebaiting, there's almost no crossover between suikoden and E33
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LightDragonman1
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For some reason, E33 and Baldur's Gate 3 are the two highest rated games on Backloggd.
Wonder why that is.
Wonder why that is.
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Somehow she's attracted the lolicons just because she's underage by a few years, there's the usual codewords. I don't get it either.
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100% recency bias on top of being good games in their own right. That new Donkey Kong game is third and it's been out for like a week. I wouldn't take rankings like this that seriously imo.
Poop A Loop
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Finished Octopath Traveler II (including the true ending) and it was amazing. Really good 8/10 that would have been a 10/10 on par with the classics like Chrono Trigger if they had discarded the path gimmick and instead had the characters all go together on a singular journey.
I know there could be something that gets lost when you combine the paths together, but I feel like the potential would be worth it. You can easily see the potential with the limited "crossed paths" stories where two characters work together would occur. The cast would have been even better as a true party working together.
Other than that, fantastic story, glorious music, the battle and job system is interesting, and it all wraps up pretty nicely. I was genuinely sad and little misty-eyed by the end watching everything come to a conclusion.
Unless you think you'd be absolutely turned off by the "path" concept I'd recommend it to anyone who likes JRPGs. Just be prepared for a bit of dissonance seeing only one character interact in a path's story but then splitting into a full four-member party to fight stuff.
I know there could be something that gets lost when you combine the paths together, but I feel like the potential would be worth it. You can easily see the potential with the limited "crossed paths" stories where two characters work together would occur. The cast would have been even better as a true party working together.
Other than that, fantastic story, glorious music, the battle and job system is interesting, and it all wraps up pretty nicely. I was genuinely sad and little misty-eyed by the end watching everything come to a conclusion.
Unless you think you'd be absolutely turned off by the "path" concept I'd recommend it to anyone who likes JRPGs. Just be prepared for a bit of dissonance seeing only one character interact in a path's story but then splitting into a full four-member party to fight stuff.
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Is it worth playing Octopath 1 to get to Octopath 2? Everything I've heard about Octopath 2 makes me believe its a straight upgrade in every way possible.
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I remember playing like 1/3 of the way through and deciding it was too much similar to the first gameplay wise, and that I didn't give a shit about the plot, so I moved to the next game on the backlog.
The first just blue balled you with the plot. Like fuck you for wanting an ending, here is a post game boss rush followed by a super boss that needs all the characters, without save points between them. Either have lots of spare time, hope the boss doesn't use bullshit moves, or copy paste a solution on a guide.
It doesn't help that it's a full on illusion of choice, since you WILL do the character plots in an ascending order of level anyways.