JRPGs

FYI for anyone playing Soul Hackers 2 -- I'd strongly recommend changing Gameplay settings to this:



Fixes the retarded camera placement/movement, and hiding load screen tips reduces load times from 10+ seconds to practically instant on both PC and Xbox (the game is cross-buy and cross-save if you get it digital on either platform, just like Yakuza 7 last year). Also, if you have ultrawide on PC, you have to play in borderless windowed mode to prevent the window from stretching. The PC version is a pretty lazy port, but it's handy to load it up there when I'm fusing demons rather than try to navigate the calculator on a laptop or tablet.

Speaking of fusing demons, I'm pretty sure they balanced the game around using the cash payoffs from their item DLC because the cost of everything is goddamn insane. I'm still being stubborn, but I'm getting close to saying fuck it and just turning it on.

Finally finished Torna. What a great DLC. It makes the base game's story better, has new combat mechanics, and is just generally great. Makes me want to play through Xenoblade 2 again honestly.

Really want to dive into X3 now but I think I'm going to play Astral Chain first and wait for a Black Friday sale or something.

Xenoblade 3 got its first update. Gogol Vuaga now exists and drops in Lower Wildwood, and all of the food that was broken now works properly including +CP%. Helpful if you haven't finished all of your classes yet.

Valkyrie Elysium will be released next week, 9/26 for pre order and 9/29 for normal (both PS5). Will be released 11/11 on Steam. Has a demo out on PS4/PS5 which consists of a tutorial, then the entire first mission + 2 subquests, pretty lengthy demo. I found it to be pretty fun, and thankfully, you don't control a party of characters, just the MC. My only worry is that the game could be fairly short, and there doesn't appear to be any cosmetics for the MC (so kinda boring in that sense).

Release trailer, shows a lot:

And now another demo is released: Star Ocean 6 on PS4/PS5.

Valkyrie Elysium demo was pretty weird. They give you the ghost dudes for the tutorial but then take them away for the first mission (and you don't get either one back yet as part of that mission). Hopefully there's a lot more depth to the game than what was shown in the tutorial too; my first impression of it was that it's just a watered down, less interesting, and uglier version of Scarlet Nexus.

Really wanted to preorder it for the early access and get the deluxe edition for Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth remaster, but I think I'll wait for reviews of both games. Especially since they've said nothing about the Lenneth remaster besides that it exists and will release on 9/29. If it's a PS4/5 port of the mobile port it could be decent, but I can't even find a screenshot of it (or who the developer handling the port is) now.

Wo Long demo was pretty disappointing too. Hopefully Star Ocean surprises in the opposite way, since my expectations couldn't possibly be lower after the Intergrity & Faithlessness shitshow. Actually downloading the demo was a pain in the ass--you have to search for Star Ocean on PS5 and then go to the ... menu and change to Demo before the download button will show up. Sony needs to start hiring some UI/UX people who know the meaning of the word "intuitive".

Vorph said:

Valkyrie Elysium demo was pretty weird. They give you the ghost dudes for the tutorial but then take them away for the first mission (and you don't get either one back yet as part of that mission). Hopefully there's a lot more depth to the game than what was shown in the tutorial too; my first impression of it was that it's just a watered down, less interesting, and uglier version of Scarlet Nexus.

Really wanted to preorder it for the early access and get the deluxe edition for Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth remaster, but I think I'll wait for reviews of both games. Especially since they've said nothing about the Lenneth remaster besides that it exists and will release on 9/29. If it's a PS4/5 port of the mobile port it could be decent, but I can't even find a screenshot of it (or who the developer handling the port is) now.

Wo Long demo was pretty disappointing too. Hopefully Star Ocean surprises in the opposite way, since my expectations couldn't possibly be lower after the Intergrity & Faithlessness shitshow. Actually downloading the demo was a pain in the ass--you have to search for Star Ocean on PS5 and then go to the ... menu and change to Demo before the download button will show up. Sony needs to start hiring some UI/UX people who know the meaning of the word "intuitive".

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Had the same thoughts about Valkyrie, it felt somewhat shallow. Just picking up gems to level up a very baseline skill tree set or skills. Not getting the ghost guy was weird, he was a reward for the last mission, but you can't get him in the demo I think since after the main mission you can't do anything except take the two side quests. I found two, not sure if there is more, if so you'd have to replay the entire first mission to get it I think. And in the mission there was at least one spot where you needed the ghost guy to open up a secret, but since you can't get him, you're locked out from it. The side missions are like small Nioh side quests in a locked up portion of the main mission area, I think one of the missions would let you get to the secret, but you didn't have him there either. If in the full game you can talk to Odin to unlock the ghost guy before you actually do the side missions, then its bad demo design to make you complete them beforehand since it carries over.

It's a wait and see game for me.

Star Ocean was .... not the best impression. Even at prioritize framerate, it had FPS drops like mad when you get to the zone before the first town. From 60 to 20. Lip synch isn't a thing, it's like they just made their mouths move up and down when speaking. Combat wasn't bad though, and liked the verticality. But again, felt like it was just zooming around to pick up gems.

Wish modern games would push more towards the RPG side of ARPGs instead of just ACTIONrpg

Neither of the two impressed me.

That the PSN store doesn't have a separate demo tag section is just strange. I had to google how to find demos the first time. Didn't occur to me to find the game, then select the dots and activate the demo. Demos don't show up when searching for "Demo" either.

TJT said:

Harvestella looks great to me.

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I got as far as character creation:


Silly me for thinking that the Type A / Type B faggotry was as retarded as it was going to get.

Rajaah said:

Is that Valkyrie Profile game on 9/29 a remaster of the original one on PS1?

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Not exactly. Valkyrie Profile 1 for PS1 was remastered as VP: Lenneth for PSP, which was remastered again for mobile a couple years ago. The PS4/5 version is probably a remaster of the mobile version.

Fire Emblem Engage - Divine Edition preorders went up today. Still available at Gamestop for anyone who's interested. $100 for a Steelbook, art cards, art book, and poster seems steep to me. Doesn't even include the (so far unannounced, but inevitable) season pass.