RE: We chat about videogames and videogame accessories.
04-11-2014, 07:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-11-2014, 11:58 PM by Godbot.)
If Ghost Trick's plot flying off the rails at the end was a dealbreaker for you, even though you liked the gameplay and art, then you won't like Radiant Historia either.
FFTA2 was fun! The gameplay is pretty easy but enjoyable, there's an enormous amount of content, and the character customization/multiclassing is really elaborate and interesting.
The trick is that you kind of have to go easy on the game, and make challenges for yourself. Missions don't scale with your protagonist's level, so you'll end up overleveled for a lot of the sidequests you do, which means you'll probably want to assemble a B-team of weird builds you want to try out. The character customization also allows for some really broken combinations (blood price summons with an element that heals you, any given King of Cinquleur, etc.) so you kind of have to discover those builds, laugh about them, and then not use them, or you'll make the game too easy for yourself.
Tales of Symphonia is definitely more enjoyable with a friend. The real fun of it is in the co-op combat, and also in laughing at the slightly awkward cutscenes and how the protagonist is Robin from Teen Titans. I never really got into the other Tales games, but I'd imagine they work pretty much the same way.
I loved pretty much everything about TWEWY, the mechanics very much included. It's hands-down my favorite DS game. But as for its downsides, some people get sick of the protagonist before he develops, you'll have to deal with a lot of unanswered questions until the post-game content clears (some of) them up, and there are pretty frequent fetch quests. There's a lot of stuff you kind of have to just go with. Oh, and the female characters are all pretty good or better, but the cast is like two-thirds male.
But really, it all comes down to whether your soul burns bright enough with fighting spirit to rise up and make yourself a true Slammurai.
FFTA2 was fun! The gameplay is pretty easy but enjoyable, there's an enormous amount of content, and the character customization/multiclassing is really elaborate and interesting.
The trick is that you kind of have to go easy on the game, and make challenges for yourself. Missions don't scale with your protagonist's level, so you'll end up overleveled for a lot of the sidequests you do, which means you'll probably want to assemble a B-team of weird builds you want to try out. The character customization also allows for some really broken combinations (blood price summons with an element that heals you, any given King of Cinquleur, etc.) so you kind of have to discover those builds, laugh about them, and then not use them, or you'll make the game too easy for yourself.
Tales of Symphonia is definitely more enjoyable with a friend. The real fun of it is in the co-op combat, and also in laughing at the slightly awkward cutscenes and how the protagonist is Robin from Teen Titans. I never really got into the other Tales games, but I'd imagine they work pretty much the same way.
Quote:I mean, I guess there's a decent chance I won't like TWEWY either despite being interested in the mechanics, but that's just my luck.
I loved pretty much everything about TWEWY, the mechanics very much included. It's hands-down my favorite DS game. But as for its downsides, some people get sick of the protagonist before he develops, you'll have to deal with a lot of unanswered questions until the post-game content clears (some of) them up, and there are pretty frequent fetch quests. There's a lot of stuff you kind of have to just go with. Oh, and the female characters are all pretty good or better, but the cast is like two-thirds male.
But really, it all comes down to whether your soul burns bright enough with fighting spirit to rise up and make yourself a true Slammurai.