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There is a PSN sale going on right now and I decided that I was going to try Dark Cloud 2. Anyone ever played it? I heard Scott Menville and as a huge Symphonia fan I had to get it lol.

I also played Rogue Galaxy. What is interesting to me besides Will Fredile is that there's really no loading screens (unlike Tony Hawk's American Wasteland........cough) and its seamless.

I know Level-5 also did Izanama Eleven? Doremon, Ni No Kuni, etc. Fun shit.

What's your favorite?
 
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Yo-kai Watch 2 is my favorite 3DS game. That whole series is a personal favorite, shame it never caught on in the West.
 
Chaos Theorist said:
Rogue Galaxy remains probably the best looking and has the best story of Playstation 2 Jarpigs.
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It's a good example of a story with no originality still being entertaining.

Still can't get over the giant Jenga puzzle plot point in the middle.
 
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I absolutely loved the company when I was young. Dark Chronicle/Dark Cloud 2 was my favourite game, and Rogue Galaxy was fun albeit felt a bit too aimless most of the game and derivative to other scifi.
Then the PS3 era started and the company started decreasing in quality. Ni No Kuni was fun but not too memorable besides the artstyle, White Knight Chronicles was shit and I never even got through the prologue of the second game.
PS4 had Ni No Kuni 2 which was extremely mediocre, and I heard they made a gacha game of that series that manages to be a new low for gacha, which is quite an achievement (if someone knows more about it I'd be happy to learn).

Layton had fantastic 3 games, but the second trilogy was just meh. Haven't play any Yokai Watch.
 
I've only played the first of the Inazuma Eleven games, but I really enjoyed it. There's hundreds of players you can get for your team, so it's got good replay value. My only real gripe was the segments where you're forced to have certain players in your party.
 
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I've only played the first of the Inazuma Eleven games, but I really enjoyed it. There's hundreds of players you can get for your team, so it's got good replay value. My only real gripe was the segments where you're forced to have certain players in your party.
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That game was really good. They were making a new one a few years ago but I think it got cancelled.
 
Dark Cloud was amazing, though DC2 was not my thing. Crimson Shroud was good but you basically need a guide and to be in the right mood for it.

Otherwise, I guess Ni No Kuni was okay. It's pretty slow so I didn't play much beyond the opening. I'll probably give it a proper chance eventually.

Looking at their list of games, they have a really cool looking one called Time Travelers, but I guess it's Japanese only.
 
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Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2 are the only games of theirs I'm familiar with, but I did enjoy them when I played them back in the day. The angle it took to saving the world - namely, it's already fucked and now it's your job to put it back together - was novel at the time, and I don't know of too many other games that have handled it that way.
Fuck the first game's battle music, though, it sounds like retards throwing marbles at a xylophone. 2's battle music was phenomenal in comparison.
 
Megaton Musashi X came out in Japan. It's probably not coming out anywhere else in the near future, so if you've got a Japanese PSN or Nintendo account, give it a download (it's free).

It's an action RPG with customizable robots. The customization is pretty elaborate, but you can choose to have the game do most of it for you, which is helpful if you can't read and/or you're very lazy. You'll want to play through the story to unlock all the features, but most of your playtime will be playing free missions to find better parts and weapons, and upgrade materials. I've put over a hundred hours into it (counting the original plus X) and I think it doesn't suck.
 
Megaton Musashi W is out now, and unlike the previous iterations, it's in English and on PC. The PC port is solid and runs well on Steam Deck. Check it out if you were interested in the game before but put off by moonrunes or consoles.
 
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