Chaotic_Heretic
Arcane
yeah tend toa gree with you.Generally speaking:
Japanese blobber = mechanically complex and full of features and new mechanics.
Western blobber (except Grimoire) = usually goes for style over substance, and features very simplistic mechanics and limited exploration.
The western blobber generally features:
- less complex itemization
- less races or sub-races
- less classes or lesser class variety
- less statistics and less statistically-important gameplay
- less attributes and skills
- less levels, areas and maps
- less new mechanics
(for example Elminage introduced a fantastic crafting and enchantment system, and being able to recruit summons from the enemy pool in order to aid you in battle; they also introduced the ability of combining captured monsters in order to create new ones, and also introduced unique skills for the many different classes, unique skills for the different races and also a pool of generic skills that allow non-class related abilities and manuevers; among even more features that include multiple additions to the traditional spell systems like as well the introduction of special bosses inside dungeons that chase after you in real-time)
Anyone who isn't trying to troll can see that a game like Operencia, or the recent StarCrawlers, can't compete with the better japanese blobbers. To say that a game like this one is more evolved is laughable.
EDIT: Also I'm not trying to say that a japanese blobber is automatically good either, for example the most recent one I played Mary Skelter was absolute animu garbage that made me ashamed to have even played it. Of course there are many bad blobbers out of japan, it just so happens that there are also some great ones that are arguably genre-defining, that have no competition from the west, and these games don't get the respect they deserve because MUH CODEX KOOL CRED or flat-out untrue misconceptions like the shit Sinatar spouted.
Elminage is awesome, espically since the art style is not animu kawai.
EO has garbage art, but fun combatfag and character progression.
mary skelter is total garbage.
tokyo abyss fells like EO lite to me.
stranger of sword city was p.. good, but quite a bit of animu.
have you tried caligula overdose aweigh? Your recommendations on blobbers tend to agree very nicely with my taste.
Tired of shills going BT4 and Coperencia is enjoyable 111!!!