Yeah I've been very impressed. The level design and traversal in particular is excellent. The dungeons involve some light but still satisfying puzzles. Like in the process of solving it, you can piece together other ways the puzzle can be aligned to get to treasure and stuff after you solve it. The characters so far are little unremarkable, but the gameplay and world carries it, I think. Combat's fun, as well.
I played coffee talk while off work the other day, it was cute!Shit I've played since finishing P4 Golden:
After playing the Somnium Files (a game developed by Chunsoft) and Paranormasight (a game published by Square-Enix), I've decided that the next game I should play is Portopia - a 1980s ADV game developed by Chunsoft and published by Enix.
- Chained Echoes: I tried to play this but uhh I tapped out early cause the combat / battle length felt like it was being "artificially extended" by the overheat mechanic.
- P4 Arena Ultimax: I don't know shit about fighting games, but I played it as a visual novel that happened to have a fighting game attached to it. It had Adachi, so thumbs up.
- LAD Ishin: I started playing this and felt like I should go read up about the Bakumatsu period beyond "Sakamoto Ryoma was a west-a-boo who wore chelsea boots in the 1800s" and never returned to it. Oops.
- Fuga 1: You play as a group of children who have a magic tank in the middle of fantasy Europe and have to fight your way to survival. Sounds like Valkyria on paper, but it's a turn based system rather than the tactical field / X-Com / whatever like Valkyria. I liked the turn based combat - lots of turn manipulation with how you can delay enemies, or manipulate your own turns with the tank guns and how you can swap the kids out. The game's guilt trip mechanic is that you can kill 1 of the children / your party members by sacrificing them to power your tank's Soul Cannon to auto-win during boss battles. You know shit is going down when the somber music starts playing during a boss battle. I sacrificed one kid cause he pissed me off, and the game shamed me for it. C'mon he was annoying cut me some slack.
- Soul Hackers 2: Tried to play this as well and gave the fuck up. "Adult cast and non-silent protag" sound appealing. Too bad the dungeon crawling segments in the Soul Matrix (how you actually level and recruit demons since the story dungeons are kinda shorter) made me want to die. The dungeons even all look the exact same. Combat also feels kinda "??" compared to their other games. Rather than One More / Down -> AoA (Persona) or Press Turn (SMT), Soul Hackers 2's "congrats for hitting an enemy weakness" mechanic was that you'd build stacks each round for hitting weakness, then there'd be like an automatic aoe attack at the end of each turn from your demons and its strength was based on how many stacks you had. I think this is significantly less flexible than how Persona and SMT do it.
- Ghost Trick: It's MISSILE.
- P3P (FeMC): FeMC is hilarious. Don't forget what they took from us when Reload comes out.
- Fuga 2: Direct continuation to the 1st game. Combat system was the same but they made some changes to skills and whatnot. Boron can still become a demi-god, though.
- P5R: The third semester was so not worth playing this 90 hour game over again holy shit. But I do like P5R's combat compared to 3/4.
- Coffee Talk: Pretty chill game about making fantasy creatures coffee in 2020 Seattle.
- AI the Somnium Files: The only other Chunsoft ADV game I've played is 428 Shibuya Scramble; it seems I fell backwards into this line of games from the Canaan anime to 428 lol. Somnium Files was pretty enjoyable as I found the mystery parts engaging. Moma and Mizuki are pretty great.
- Paranormasight: The ADV game equivalent of playing the World of Ruin first. No I will not elaborate.
(I still haven't played Crisis Core Reunion. Oh well.)
That's probably fair yeah. The twists and timeline shenanigans are quite a bit more annoying/less satisfying, and yeah the mask thing for Dante is duuuuumb. I imprinted hard on Ryuki though (other protagonist with Mizuki), so that made up for it.
My brain did the thing half way through Coffee Talk and I had to go into sandbox mode and combine every ingredient systematically until I unlocked all the drinks, but it did scratch the itch in my brain for doing shit like that, and the story was cute, although I'm a bit tired of Fantasy Racism. There's a part 2 as well which I'll probably pick up next time I have a few hours to kill (lol never, I only played the first one cos I was off work having faceplanted the floor.)
Wasn't it more of a way to make emulation less legal? I honestly always thought it was legal in most places to emulate a game and its system you already own on a new system, until they started milking every last drop out of every IP.
As an addendum to my previous post, FUCK Final Fantasy III, Fuck the Cave of Shadows, Fuck the boss of said dungeon (googles it), Hecatoncheir, and FUCK the Fang of Earth. I know what comes next (I played+beat SoM2Freak's NES Translation years ago), so FUCK that too, but I'm still gonna play it just so I can know not to play it for a long time afterwards.
It sounds like you've had quite a frustrating time with Baldur's Gate 3, especially given its high expectations and ratings. It's always disheartening when a game you're looking forward to doesn't meet the standards set by its predecessors or its hype. It seems like the game's reach might have exceeded its grasp, in terms of ambition versus execution. Your experiences with the glitches and AI pathfinding issues are particularly concerning, as they can really disrupt the immersive experience that RPGs promise. It's also a shame when the narrative elements, like the romance options you mentioned, feel forced or underdeveloped. These things can certainly pull you out of the world the developers have worked so hard to create. I appreciate you taking the time to detail both the good and the bad. It's important for potential players to hear about the real gameplay experiences, especially from a platform-specific standpoint like the PS5. Your insights are incredibly valuable for someone who might be considering this game. Do you think these issues are something that could be fixed with patches and updates, or are they too deeply ingrained in the game's design? It might be worth keeping an eye on updates from the developers in case they address some of these concerns. Sometimes a game can be redeemed post-launch with the right support and improvements.
. I mean objectively it's a repetitive game, but it's done really well. The story plods on a bit (I'm in
I personally enjoyed the mountain-hiking-simulator side of this game (well, I like mountain hiking). The concept of pooled online contributions that affect the world structure was really well executed, in my opinion. I was not a fan of the narrative, which seemed to have plot twists just for the sake of having plot twists - it really got old after a while.I finally got started on Death Stranding, and I find it really compelling) and a lot of story and concepts get repeated to an almost insulting degree, but I guess that's the quirky part of it, idk.the second zone atm
Well, after playing, I realized that dibalo is much more difficult to upgrade. I found a service that helps to upgrade, but I have never used something like this before. someone can advise me or give me feedback on their experienc?
