Atlus Citizens of Earth (PC/PS4/WiiU/Vita/3DS) - RELEASED

[lightbane]

http://www.atlus.com/citizensofearth/
An incoming game from (f)Atlus.
Trailer below:


Dunno if it will be good or not, it might be interesting if the endgame includes a mecha boss fight against the President of America or something like that. In any case, it reminds me of Earthbound, so it can't be that bad. Also, that cat lady should be older IMO.

 

[Martius]

Its not Atlus game, its just published by Atlus USA. Actual game was made by some western studio. I think they tried to gather money through kickstarter and failed. After that Atlus backed them up.

 

[Crooked Bee]

This one's released now, and it's looking pretty Earthbound-ey.

Anyone played it already? How long and how good is it?

 

[lightbane]

Okay, I gave it a quick spin. First impressions are good, it is indeed quite "Earthbound-dish", for good or bad. There's voice acting though, but so far it is not annoying, so I give it a pass on this regard. The gameplay is standard jrpg fare, although the "elemental system" includes weird stuff such as a "Verbal attacks" (like lecturing the enemies to reduce their defense temporally) and there are special attacks that require charging energy points through several means (such as hitting an enemy's weak-point, reminiscent to the press-turn system from Nocturne and Digital Devil Saga 1/2 and the combo attacks from Strange Journey). Interestingly enough, you can swap your party members right before combat begins. I'll play more of it later when some time passes, so patches are released and so on.

 

[Crooked Bee]

Thanks for the impressions, I guess I'll give it a spin then.