Moonspeak Random Non-Japanese Asian RPG News Thread

[LESS T_T]

Chinese odysseys.

Raiders of Chanyu, or rather, Dynasty Come: Warband:

Choose your fate and those you protect
As a small Garrison Commander in ancient China you are entrusted to protect an out lying area of Emperor Qin Shi Huang lands that border the nomadic Chanyu rulers of inner Asia. Use your wits and experience to stay alive and keep betrayal and the Chanyu raider at bay.

Odyssey in Ancient China
Your area of jurisdiction covers an open world of 50 sq km of farmlands and rice fields to lush forests, swamps and mountains bordering the areas of the Chanyu.

Stamp your Authority
Enforce your rule to maintain order and productivity whilst responding to village needs, conflicts or raids from the Chanyu. Lead or order raiding parties on the Chanyu to inflict revenge or steal resources. Your decisions affect how your enemy and peasants respond.

Memories and Interactions
With hundreds of peasants and warriors, every character has their own identity with specific memories and experiences that shapes their skill, attitude and behaviour. Morale, loyalty and obedienChoose your fate and embark on an odyssey as a garrison commander in ancient China. Maintain order, crush insurrection and protect the lands under your jurisdiction from the nomadic Chanyu clans of the Xiongnu.ce is not guaranteed, beware of treachery.

Player Skills
Skills are not limited to fighting, movement or objects, build memories and create confidantes to help identify those who'll betray and undermine your authority.

Take Command of Your Garrison and Jurisdiction
Manage the specialized resources of your garrison as you customise squads of warriors and peasants as they enforce your will, go on patrol or into battle.

Villages and Peasants
The peasants all have skills related to the type of produce of their home village (e.g. cart driver, livestock tendering, crops, cloth etc) and work collectively to produce output for their village and the emperor. Take control of your jurisdiction and manage it's production output, food and resources reserves.

Resources can be moved between villages or stolen from the Chanyu clans of the Xiongnu. Peasants can be captured from the Chanyu and used to bolster your work force

Use the Resources of the World
Use the resources of the world to boost morale and reward your peasants. Manage the ox and cart transports needed to move heavy resources around the world. Don't let perishable resources go to waste such as hunted deer if transport is not available to cart it

Gameplay

• Third person and first person when armed with a crossbow
  
• Play in real time across a whole year
  
• Ensure villages in your jurisdiction meet production quotas
  
• Manage and use the resources inside your jurisdiction
  
• Protect your jurisdiction from raiding Chanyu
  
• Attack the Chanyu and capture peasants and resources
  
• Treat peasants harshly or with kindness to ensure quotas are met
  
• Command any warriors and peasants
  
• Create squads and embark on any mission or stay at base and await news as missions unfold
  
• Consider how news is received from peasants and warriors as you move around the world
  
• Seek help and learn new skills
  
• Advance time

Peasants:

• Hundreds of peasants each with their own identity, skill, attitude and memories
  
• Attitudes of peasants vary based on their experiences; treatment, food levels, resources of home village and attacks from raiders
  
• Attitudes and skill affect village produce output
  
• Disenchanted peasants who are treacherous and deceitful
  
• Find peasants who'll inform on the disloyal

Warriors:

• Warriors are skilled with sword or crossbow. Fast messenger warriors take orders around the world
  
• Build squads to action your commands
  
• Give orders to individual warriors or to squads
  
• Warriors improve skills through experience
  
• Beware of disloyalty from those seeking to take over your command

MONKEY KING: HERO IS BACK, action adventure based on an animated film based the Journey to the West:

 

[Lyre Mors]

Chinese odysseys.

Raiders of Chanyu, or rather, Dynasty Come: Warband:

Weird. According to a post in the game's steam forum, the development team is actually from the UK? Very strange, because that trailer and the game itself kind of screams "I'm made in China."

 

[LESS T_T]

Huh, indeed.

 

[Abu Antar]

https://gematsu.com/2019/08/xuan-yuan-sword-vii-coming-to-ps4-xbox-one-and-pc

 

[Lyre Mors]

Well, this excellent-looking Action RPG installment of the Gujian series



looks to finally be getting a long promised English localization very soon, according to this update (as auto-translate on Chrome reveals)! You can also see some screenshots of said localization there. Apparently the localization is done and they are reaching out for partners for western promotion.

I'll be watching it closely and purchasing day-one for some of that sweet, sweet fantasy wuxia action.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[InD_ImaginE]

From the screenshot it seems combat in the next Heluo Games' game will be back to Tales of Wuxia simpler top down perspective. And it seems there will be elemental rock paper scissor in form of Chinese 5 elements.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[Abu Antar]

From the screenshot it seems combat in the next Heluo Games' game will be back to Tales of Wuxia simpler top down perspective. And it seems there will be elemental rock paper scissor in form of Chinese 5 elements.

I guess that this is it:

Spoiler

Characters.

Spoiler

 

[Abu Antar]

Hey Abu Antar, did you end up playing the Way to Nether DLC for the Tale of Wuxia Prequel? Looks pretty cool, but I'm wondering how substantial it is in terms of content and if it's worth checking out after the main campaign.

I've tried it out for an hour or so. It's more or less a TRPG. You get heroes, but also generic recruits that you can train. There's a world map but you do not explore it. You get points of interest that you get to visit. There are main battles, side battles and free battles. I have only fought in main battles and free battles. The ones that are "free" seem to be there if you need to gain levels. Yes, in the DLC, you gain levels and there's a skill tree for the heroes. The generics only has an upgrade option, though. You can't build those in any preferred way. It's still very early, but I like what I have played so far. My only "glare at the screen" moments are the evasions of enemies. They seem to happen every other attack, and I keep hearing myself whisper swear words.

I will take a photo of the world map and some spoiler free stuff after work, tomorrow.

 

[Abu Antar]

 

[LESS T_T]

Love Esquire, a dating sim/RPG from Philippine:

https://www.polygon.com/2019/10/9/20906524/love-esquire-phillipines-anti-porn-laws-sex-mod

Erotic Steam game created in country with anti-porn laws gets rescued by fan
Love Esquire developer is based out of the Philippines

At this point, seeing a sex game on the Steam charts isn’t particularly noteworthy — there’s clearly a huge market out there that is hungry for adult games. But Love Esquire isn’t quite like most erotic games sold on Steam.

The visual novel, which was released earlier this week following a successful Kickstarter in 2018, follows a lowly squire who is trying to lose his virginity. The game has a mixture of RPG elements, as well as management sim mechanics that scaffold a story-heavy title where the player can romance five different characters. The idea is that by raising your stats and becoming more powerful, you’ll be more attractive to the women around you — and perhaps eventually, you’ll be able to bed them.

Curiously, Love Esquire was made by Yangyang Mobile, a small indie developer based out of the Philippines, where there are strict anti-pornography laws. No surprise, then, that while the game is heavily suggestive — footage shows explicit scenes that are cut off, and the store description warns that there are panty and breast shots — there’s no full-on nudity.

Then again, this is the case for plenty of games on Steam. Developers release sex games, but the actual sex will be hidden away in an easily-accessible patch. Yangyang Mobile did not return a request for comment, but it’s interesting that the store page notes that the game is moddable in a way that implies, while the developer won’t go there, it can’t stop players who want to.

Right on cue, today the game’s news feed was updated with an announcement surrounding the explicit content.

“We had to remove some [cutscenes] to avoid being classified as an ‘adult only’ game,” Yangyang Mobile wrote, noting that a patch is now available on Love Esquire’s Steam workshop page. This developer-created patch is more suggestive than explicit, Yangyang says, “because our country’s laws prohibit us from doing a full-blown [sex] patch.”

But a super fan known as Teófilo, who donated to the Kickstarter, recently created an uncensored mod of those same cutscenes. (You can find it in Love Esquire’s workshop by searching “Hip To Be Squire Uncensored.”) Which is to say — this studio got around harsh laws by relying on a fan mod.

“When you’re playing the game and experiencing man’s greatest pleasure, you’ll know who to thank!” reads Yangyang Mobile’s news post on Steam.

As of this writing, Love Esquire has an overall “positive” rating on Steam, where it is currently outselling titles such as Rust and Skyrim.

 

[Lyre Mors]

Banner of the Maid devs have released a preliminary English version! I will be buying a copy in support. Been looking forward to this one.

 

[Abu Antar]

From Singapore.


From China.

 

[Lyre Mors]

Gujian 3 English version has been released!

https://steamcommunity.com/app/994280/allnews/

 

[Rahdulan]

Gujian 3 English version has been released!

https://steamcommunity.com/app/994280/allnews/

Great news. What I don't understand is why this is apparently always-online and stores your save files on the server instead of locally.

 

[Lyre Mors]

Great news. What I don't understand is why this is apparently always-online and stores your save files on the server instead of locally.

Just found this out myself, and was pretty pissed off about it.

You can't play the game without an internet connection apparently. Tricky Chinese DRM bullshit.

Still, played the game on Hard difficulty for a couple of hours and love it so far. Translation is one of the better Chinese -> English I've seen too, though of course with plenty of errors. Just wish it wasn't tied to these terrible practices.

 

[Abu Antar]

I'm holding off on a purchase because of always online. Read that their previous games were heavily pirated and this is supposed to be the reason behind this online requirement.

 

[Lyre Mors]

I'm holding off on a purchase because of always online. Read that their previous games were heavily pirated and this is supposed to be the reason behind this online requirement.

I probably would have thought twice before buying it had I known too. Though, I've been looking forward to the game for a long time and have enjoyed the first couple hours a lot. I feel like I would have caved eventually anyway, unfortunately. And something tells me they're not going to be changing this any time soon.

 

[Turuko]

Gujian 3 English version has been released!

https://steamcommunity.com/app/994280/allnews/

i saw this this morning, but jesus christ i can't even understand what kind of game it is
going about the screen and gifs, combat is stamina based like DS, with constellations based skill-tree, some kind of base management and companion cards mechanics?

 

[Abu Antar]

Cards is a mini game. Base is a series staple. But I don't think there's stamina. It's more Ys than Souls.

 

[Turuko]

ah alright then
fuck it is 75% off, i'll try it

 

[Abu Antar]

ah alright then
fuck it is 75% off, i'll try it

I'm weakening. I saw the price reduction and might go for it anyway.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

ah alright then
fuck it is 75% off, i'll try it

WTF

I bought the game one hour before the discount is on.

Bloody hell. Kill me

 

[Abu Antar]

ah alright then
fuck it is 75% off, i'll try it

WTF

I bought the game one hour before the discount is on.

Bloody hell. Kill me

Have you played more than two hours? If not, ask for a refund.