Kem0sabe
Arcane
Outriders and narita boy, both on gamepass and good fun. Gamepass has been the best thing to happen to gaming in recent memory, bunch of people are playing games that they would have never bought otherwise.
I went on a three day Dwarf Fortress splurge. Fun game.
I started playing Faery - Legends of Avalon. It's a strange mix of RPG styles: combat it basic turn-based JRPG (except that you get multiple actions per turns) and no random encounters (all enemies are visible), very easy so far, you only control the equipment and leveling of the main character, the maps are small hubs, but you can fly freely (the second map is set around a giant tree and you can fly all around): the fly around freely is really enjoyable and it really cuts down the tedium of moving around.
The setting is kinda European tales and myths (but bowdlerized, a bit like the faeries you'd find in tourists shop in Britany/Western France), for the main quests there’s sometime two different ways of getting to your goal (usually dickishly/violently or with some diplomacy/light exploration), but the general tone is not too serious so far; the game also copies the Mass Effect dialog wheel and the red/blue dialogue choices, but here it’s not to fill colored bars, rather it'd change how well you get along with the party members, but it doesn't seem to change anything other than some generic dialogue lines.
Still I’d say the mix has been enjoyable so far.
There's some jank, but nothing too severe (like the journal which gets info you haven't found yet)
What happened to my 15yo reflexes
Man, used to be able to one shot Raiden without using a continue.
Now I'm using a continue per stage.
What happened to my 15yo reflexes
Front mission 3 was the last great tactical rpg we ever got. It's an absolutely fucking experience from start to end. It's a shame we never got a pc version and are forced to play with an emulator.I beat Final Fantasy VII Remake. It was on PS+, and I thought that I would finally give it a shot. In short, they made a lot of money on this, which is the only thing that matters. Visuals are okay, but I don't think much else is great. The additions weren't good, neither new characters, not new story changes. The voice acting is cringy, and the exploration leaves much to be desired. In the demo, I did not enjoy the combat system, but in the full game, it was probably one of two things that kept me going. The other thing being my curiosity to see the story through until the end. They plaster Sepiroth everywhere, ruining the mystery of the character. It also ends when you leave Midgar, which is not a spoiler. I wonder how many parts they will milk this Remake series with. Three would make sense, so therefore, my bet is at least five games.
I've been plowing through Front Mission 3 . I chose Emma's path, and the game is just as fun as I remember. You do have to be careful, because just going in willy-nilly could get you a game over screen, which I haven't gotten. I'd say that's more due to me knowing the missions, than being actually great at the game. I said in an earlier post that I might not have it in me to do Alisa's path, but that's no longer true. I will absolutely do it. While the game is sci-fi and unrealistic, I like that it feels more down to earth than other mecha stuff from Japan. Political plot, and your mechs won't fly 1500 meters into the air, and do back flips and other shit. In my last session, I reached a scene that would never fly in this day and age. Yun says: Are you retarded?" to one of the other characters. I had forgotten this, and it made me chuckle.
Playing FM3, I got the urge to play more Japanese tactics rpgs, which means that I finally booted up God Wars on PS4. It's made by Kadokawa Games. Warning bells of the highest magnitude should be ringing. When you boot it up, the in-game graphics aren't hot and the English VA is trash. Luckily, I am enjoying the combat system, and the VA is now in Japanese. The game is based on Japanese mythology, so that means thumbs up from me. Even if they butcher said mythology. The job system is fun. (I have a soft spot for job systems.) You can have a main job, a sub job, and a unique job equipped. That's cool, because it means that you can use abilities from three jobs at the same time. There are three difficulties to choose from (Easy, Normal, Hard). It doesn't do anything groundbreaking, but it does offer you a decent srpg if you're into that thing.
Not to be confused with God Wars, I am playing God of War. I'll give them credit for a couple of things: The game is very beautiful. probably one of the nicest looking games that I have ever played. Dialog may be great overall. It's decent from what I have played. What I don't like is the revamped combat system. This does not feel like a God of War game to me in that regard. A very big disappointment. The camera is very close, and it has now abandoned the character action style combat for a more slow paced, gritty, close up combat system. I'm not far enough in the game to comment on exploration, but I really hope to see some crazy locations like you get to in previous games.