Atlus Monark - 'new school RPG' by SMT veterans, out early 2022 [PC/PS4/PS5/Switch]

[Carpincho Pampeano]

Finished the game a month ago and forgot about it.

Spoiler

It's not very good, as always Furyu's best game is the original Caligula on Vita.

 

[grimace]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21RlIWaI10I

MONARK - Demo Trailer (PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC)
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Jan 25, 2022

They leaned into the weebness.

Gotta control my madness.

 

[Jermu]

Reviews are out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/stwqen/monark_review_thread/

:D

 

[GhostCow]

Reviews are out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/stwqen/monark_review_thread/

:D

>Transphobia

 

[Abu Antar]

General opinion seems to be good combat, not so great everything else.

Might get on a sale. Too much to play, and ELEX II + Triangle strategy release very soon.

 

[Gangrelrumbler]

Reviews are out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/stwqen/monark_review_thread/

:D

2/3 of the cons are actually pros.

 

[Puukko]

It's out. First impression: I have never played a game that hid its ini file this well. If someone finds it, please let me know. I'd like to see if there's an option there for the fps cap; it's 60.

 

[Miner 2049er]

I'm happy with the port. My gfx card stays cool and no gamepad detection issues. For reference: My card runs hot very fast and I still use a 100 year old PS2 controller.

After the initial personality test, my highest sin was lust. It appears to determine the first party member/disciple you get.

 

[Puukko]

I'm happy with the port. My gfx card stays cool and no gamepad detection issues. For reference: My card runs hot very fast and I still use a 100 year old PS2 controller.

After the initial personality test, my highest sin was lust. It appears to determine the first party member/disciple you get.

I got wrath. Accurate, I'd say.

 

[Carpincho Pampeano]

Furyu's worst game and i was fucking mad with what they did to Caligula with Overdose. Go with low expectations and you will have fun, at least the OST is good.

 

[GhostCow]

I just started this. Probably won't have more than about 30 minutes to play tonight but I thought the personality test was kind of interesting. Might be fun to see what kind of results we get. Here's mine.

 

[Hobo Elf]

I'm more interested if the game is good or not. Let us know what you think after you've put some hours into it GhostCow .

 

[Rean]

Reviews are out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/stwqen/monark_review_thread/

:D

Ok, I was hesitant since I wasn't the biggest Caligula fan, but now I'm getting it for sure!!!

 

[deama]

So this game any good?

 

[Carpincho Pampeano]

This is one of those game that you play if you are a NEET same as compile trash. It's too meh in all it's aspects to be really worth your time.

 

[Rean]

 

[Rean]

Only played for about an hour thus far, the game's far superior to Caligula Overdose (not that that was a hard task). Interesting characters, a semi-competent overarching plotline. Main character is an absolute nobody who's granted powers, some may like this, some may not (personally not a fan). Very Persona-like. It immediately throws you into the thick of things, but by doing that, it obviously loses a lot of the atmosphere-buildup Persona games have.
Art and UI are also improved since Overdose. PC settings are lackluster and basic.

Happy to keep playing.

 

[Puukko]

I played a few hours of it to give me something to do before Elden Ring and I plan on returning to it once my immediate gaming plans clear. I'm an if... fag and the premise tickles that itch though that's where the similarities seem to end. It's far more story and character focused with lots of dialogue. It's got a pretty cool twist on the seven deadly sins and I want to see where they go with that. The combat is fun so far and it's got those vocal boss themes. Graphically it looks like an upscaled Vita game.

I'm very damn near the target audience for this game but I can't in good faith tell anyone to buy it. 60€ for a niche AA JRPG with a port that's functional and that's about it. Hard no.

 

[GhostCow]

I've played up to the first boss. Was going to do a full review, but this game doesn't really deserve it so I'm just going to copy/paste the notes I took while playing.

Models are pretty low poly. Nozomi has square boobs. This looks like the Neptunia Vita ports at best. It definitely looked better to me in trailers.

Non-human models look decent
You can respec but you only get 80% of your points back
Talking to people is important because you'll get psych tests that raise stats
Everything feels extremely linear with no way to grind and no real twists or turns in the skill tree. It's like the devs wanted to be lazy and make everything easy on themselves

You get XP rewards for being good at the game so being good at the game makes it easier and being bad makes it harder
The soundtrack is pretty good. Probably the best thing about the game. This is my favorite song from it so far.


Overall this is the most mediocre game I've played in years. Not good, not bad. Might beat it, might not.

 

[Nifft Batuff]

 

[Hobo Elf]

Doesn't sound too promising. Think I'll just skip Monark and get Atelier Sophie 2 instead. Maybe it'll be worth a look when it's heavily discounted.

 

[Carpincho Pampeano]

Doesn't sound too promising. Think I'll just skip Monark and get Atelier Sophie 2 instead. Maybe it'll be worth a look when it's heavily discounted.

Atelier Sophie 2 is really good, go for it, yesterday i played it for 6 hours straight. I don't want to derail the thread so that's all i'm going to say about it here, once i finish it i will talk about it in the Atelier thread.

 

[GhostCow]

I've been listening to the soundtrack a bit in my car over the last two days and I have to say that this song is really good too

 

[Bigg Boss]

Lots of bad reviews for this. Looks like a straight Persona ripoff which I did not know was a AAA thing yet but the price says it is.

 

[GhostCow]

This game doesn't really have anything is common with Persona other than the fact that both are turn based JRPGs with a modern Japanese high school setting.