I dunno Bravely Default/Second were pretty fun (if poorly balanced, the Damage vs HP amounts could have used another tuning pass IMO) and Octopath was..better than I thought it was going to be.
Bravely Default was a fucking travesty of a game. It was entirely broken and undercooked. Half of the classes were beyond useless because the developers forgot to design enemies that used status effects in ways that challenged the player and required them to change up their party. The story was derivative and tedious and the twist was juvenile at best. Anyone that likes Bravely Default can neck themselves for my pleasure.
Forget the Bravely Default shit @Honka Honka Burning Love we have to talk about FF7 Remake because I just finished up watching footage from this game.
What, you still think that reviewers actually play the games they "review"?
Too true.
I know that there's a long tradition of mentally ill characters realizing that they are in a video game (such as that homeless crazy guy in Twisted Metal and Flandre Scarlet in Touhou Project), but they're really laying it on thick with the "this guy is nuts" here.
No fucking thanks, I wasn't interested in that shit ever.
Hold the fuck on, Junction system in 8 could be easily abused right off the bat. It wasn't tedious infact it removed tedium because you could kill anything within 1 or 2 turns. hell if you abused the limit break system and had an intentionally weakened character, Squall's limit break with 99 Ultima junctioned to attack would do over a billion damage killing anything in the game in 1 turn. Getting 99 Ultima at the start of the game was also easy because of how the card exchange system worked. There was a little weak as shit crab enemy that could be eventually converted into ultima. This was right after getting ifrit IIRC. And for Ifrit junctioning 99 water was no big deal either since you could draw it from the enemies outside the dungeon. So you literally just go from Water to ultima and you're set for the rest of the game as far as attack goes. For HP just junction health majic to your HP to have insane amounts of health.
I've been watching playthroughs to keep up with the memes and there are big cracks before then. In particular all the melodramatic and prolonged death (or maybe not) scenes at the sector 7 support pillar. They made it a point for death to be abrupt in the original game and it was far more effective. Also fucking lol at Cait Sith here.
Around the same time so I bundle them together I guess. Also I expected death to be overblown this time. Sadly. Having people die for real was important so when Aerith dies you know it's for real on some level, even if you have hope. Her death was the only drawn out one, and I always interpreted that as the world slowing down as something horrible happens to our main character.
