Soriku said:
What are you talking about you idiot? This game looks awesome.
OK, so ignore this foolish, foolish comment (well, sort of) I made earlier this month. I started looking up more info on this game and I really want this now when I previously had almost no interest in it at all.
First of all, the art direction is beautiful. I hadn't noticed it till now but this game probably has one of the best art directions for a fantasy RPG I've seen. Just by looking at the pics in the OP you can see a lot of effort has been put in it to make it look unique and stand out. And best of all is that much of the art is translated incredibly well in game.
Just look at the vid starting at 1:28. The transition from art to in game is almost unnoticeable. Really well done. I kinda wish the game had character models that looked like the AR demo like this...
...but I'm sure I'll get used to it.
Second, some real interesting stuff about the scenario. It's written by the same guy that did Steins;Gate and Chaos;Head (Naotaka Hayashi), both popular visual novels as well as animes with good stories. It's a little strange that I personally say this though since I dropped Steins;Gate (lol) but I dropped it because I felt it was too slow. Anyway, this is a fantasy story and since it's an RPG I'll be more patient. The game is also said to be written for an older audience, so I'm expecting the story to be good. The direction seems interesting at least (from Wikipedia):
"The games producer Tomoya Asano was attempting to make a game with "appealing and likable characters and a scenario that surprised players", and after encountering Steins:Gate, asked Hayashi's employer, 5pb., if he could work on the project.[2] During development, Asano asked Hayashi to increase the age of the characters, and make sure that all the characters were appealing, whether good or bad."
Third, I read this "Someone asked if the game will have voices just during event scenes and movies, or if the game part of the game will also have voices. Asano replied that most of the events have voices, and the main characters have a massive amount of voice." Thank god. Voice acting helps a lot with the immersion so I'm happy there's lots of voice.
Fourth, I'm surprised at what they say the length is. 60 to 70 hours just for the story? Now, developers usually overshoot their hours so I'm expecting it to be more like 50-60 but doesn't change the fact that this game will be long, especially with how they say there's extra stuff and there's a wireless aspect too so we'll see how that plays out. I'm happy that this isn't another 20-30 hour RPG likes ones found on the DS. If they make the scenario interesting, it could very well be a long epic.
Lastly, for the negatives I still don't like the random encounters and one save slot. I know the devs tweaked things based on user feedback, including a faster running speed, but nothing really has been said about the random encounters so I'm hoping it's not bad to begin with. I heard something like you'll be able to choose encounters or something but I don't know if that's true. If someone has heard about this and can shed light, it'd be appreciated. I think one save slot is inexecusable though. If I want to replay the game I'd have to delete my file...screw that.
Now, just localize this SE.
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Just saw this too, great post
And no, I never heard anything about choosing encounters, but some other forum users report something like this, but no official info yet. It's not from the battle demo, as all those battles were scripted too.
Anyway, if you want to replay it, just buy another copy and help the cause :P. No, seriously, it's not a cool feature, but at least makes one wonder what are those wireless features that made this necessary.
