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MaxwellGT2000 on 02 May 2011
Gnac said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:

The game is awfully boring, VA is par for the course lately with JRPGs which means it can be alright but typically read with little to no emotion so the lines come off bland and boring... so you have game play which takes a while, walking around in dungeons that takes a while coupled with walking around in town to talk to NPCs that usually say nothing of importance, and VA that's so monotone that complied with everything else it makes it an ambien pill in video game format.

Y'know, Eternal Sonata was one of those games on my "get around to" list. But this description makes it sound a bit like Fragile Dreams (another Tri-Crescendo title). The gameplay in that felt frankly awful; stretched out to create an artificial feel of getting somewhere. Only the story kept me going, but I fear that the subject of ES is much too niche.

Maybe I will still play this, but it has lost some appeal.


You're free to try it, being a huge JRPG fan myself I tried it, hell even played it two player on PS3, but even then I found it to be a pain, like with anything I always tell people to try it for themselves, but I'll always tell you my feelings on the title if you end up agreeing with me, great, if not more power to you lol but in general my feelings usually reflect those of most people I talk to (at least with JRPGs)



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Wagram on 02 May 2011
MaxwellGT2000 said:
Xxain said:

1.  You should already br playing SO4... i gaurentee you u will nevr put it down once you start.

2. ES doesnt get any better BUT doesnt get any wors either its a good JRPG for 2007 not now though


Apparently a good JRPG for 2007 means standards fell down somwhere between 2000-2007  

Also Star Ocean 4 suffers from a lot of the same problems, bad voice acting, story is really bland, and the environments are really bad, the one remarkable improvement versus ES is that SO4 has a pretty decent combat system.  In all honesty if people are big JRPG fans they shouldn't be playing home consoles rather handheld consoles as PSP and DS both slay the competition.

I play them on all systems and I would take S04 over anything on the PSP or DS.

The only GREAT handheld JRPG I have come across so far is Crisis Core. This of course is my opinion. :P

Edit: I wrote console instead of handheld



xinstantnoodlez on 02 May 2011

I still haven't played ES, I just recently started resonance of fate and apart from the extremely confusing intro it's really good. 



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Xxain on 02 May 2011
MaxwellGT2000 said:
Xxain said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
Xxain said:

1.  You should already br playing SO4... i gaurentee you u will nevr put it down once you start.

2. ES doesnt get any better BUT doesnt get any wors either its a good JRPG for 2007 not now though


Apparently a good JRPG for 2007 means standards fell down somwhere between 2000-2007  

Also Star Ocean 4 suffers from a lot of the same problems, bad voice acting, story is really bland, and the environments are really bad, the one remarkable improvement versus ES is that SO4 has a pretty decent combat system.  In all honesty if people are big JRPG fans they shouldn't be playing home consoles rather handheld consoles as PSP and DS both slay the competition.

JRPG fans play JRPG's undictated by platform...all is one in our world.

2. DS and PSP JRPGS arnt without fault themeselves either. too many ports and remakes..and too little fresh content( too much been there done that)

though Radiant Historia is fantastic


Not saying they should be playing handhelds for the fact that they're handhelds, I'm saying if you want to play good new JRPGs you should be playing handhelds cause that's where they come out, Final Fantasy 4 Heroes of Light destroys FFXIII for example, and there has yet to be a JRPG on the home consoles to even live up to Nostalgia (unless you count FFIV the after years which is made by the same team)  much less titles like Dragon Quest IX.

The big problem I see is that big names that have been trusted for years seem to release home console JRPGs and they turn out to be much worse than past games and not living up to standards, but fans of these companies fight tooth and nail to support these titles, while some really creative things are happening with small teams on the handhelds and things are evolving faster for JRPGs than they have in over a decade, while home console games are just stuck in that past decade where Cloud clones are the standard for story and the various parts of ROLE PLAYING are thrown out the window.


your overblowing the handhelds and undershooting consoles

1. console do have creative JRPGs just like dS

- Resonance of Fate

- Valkryia Chronicles

- The Last story

- Demon Souls

2. if there is any JRPGS stuck in the past its ones developed for handhelds: how many inhanced ports do we have on DS and PSP... go look rightnow. most handheld JRPGs are created with the mindset of making a SNES or PS1 RPG..how many RPGS released on DS and PSP can you actaully say wrer made for them? not alot. I will agree that handhelds on average have a higher succes rate in quality, but they dont push new territory.. Radinat Historia and tweeny are 2 that pop into mind

you talk abuot standards...what standards?

another problem..no jRPG has set the standards for a modern JRPG yet. SE was suppose to do that like they always do but we know how that went.

 

JRPGS on handhelds and consoles are all have the same problems... a lack of moving forward in how a JRPG is created.. with a few gems that help paint some kinda evolution route for future

1st paragraph is just opinated i cant comment on it.



Soleron on 02 May 2011

Are you disappointed with this?



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MaxwellGT2000 on 02 May 2011
Wagram said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
Xxain said:

1.  You should already br playing SO4... i gaurentee you u will nevr put it down once you start.

2. ES doesnt get any better BUT doesnt get any wors either its a good JRPG for 2007 not now though


Apparently a good JRPG for 2007 means standards fell down somwhere between 2000-2007  

Also Star Ocean 4 suffers from a lot of the same problems, bad voice acting, story is really bland, and the environments are really bad, the one remarkable improvement versus ES is that SO4 has a pretty decent combat system.  In all honesty if people are big JRPG fans they shouldn't be playing home consoles rather handheld consoles as PSP and DS both slay the competition.

I play them on all systems and I would take S04 over anything on the PSP or DS.

The only GREAT console JRPG I have come across so far is Crisis Core. This of course is my opinion. :P


I would agree that Crisis Core would be something to talk about compared to home console JRPGs cause it's much better than those titles but even then it pales in comparison to games like Birth By Sleep, many of the remakes on PSP and DS, Nostalgia, Dragon Quest IV-VI, IX, and The World Ends with You.



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Wagram on 02 May 2011
MaxwellGT2000 said:
Wagram said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
Xxain said:

1.  You should already br playing SO4... i gaurentee you u will nevr put it down once you start.

2. ES doesnt get any better BUT doesnt get any wors either its a good JRPG for 2007 not now though


Apparently a good JRPG for 2007 means standards fell down somwhere between 2000-2007  

Also Star Ocean 4 suffers from a lot of the same problems, bad voice acting, story is really bland, and the environments are really bad, the one remarkable improvement versus ES is that SO4 has a pretty decent combat system.  In all honesty if people are big JRPG fans they shouldn't be playing home consoles rather handheld consoles as PSP and DS both slay the competition.

I play them on all systems and I would take S04 over anything on the PSP or DS.

The only GREAT console JRPG I have come across so far is Crisis Core. This of course is my opinion. :P


I would agree that Crisis Core would be something to talk about compared to home console JRPGs cause it's much better than those titles but even then it pales in comparison to games like Birth By Sleep, many of the remakes on PSP and DS, Nostalgia, Dragon Quest IV-VI, IX, and The World Ends with You.

Can't believe I forgot Star Ocean 2. That game was great.



naruball on 02 May 2011

Eternal Sonata is one of my favourite games this generation. I don't get the hate it gets... (not suggesting that the OP is hating it)



Xxain on 02 May 2011
Wagram said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
Wagram said:
MaxwellGT2000 said:
Xxain said:

1.  You should already br playing SO4... i gaurentee you u will nevr put it down once you start.

2. ES doesnt get any better BUT doesnt get any wors either its a good JRPG for 2007 not now though


Apparently a good JRPG for 2007 means standards fell down somwhere between 2000-2007  

Also Star Ocean 4 suffers from a lot of the same problems, bad voice acting, story is really bland, and the environments are really bad, the one remarkable improvement versus ES is that SO4 has a pretty decent combat system.  In all honesty if people are big JRPG fans they shouldn't be playing home consoles rather handheld consoles as PSP and DS both slay the competition.

I play them on all systems and I would take S04 over anything on the PSP or DS.

The only GREAT console JRPG I have come across so far is Crisis Core. This of course is my opinion. :P


I would agree that Crisis Core would be something to talk about compared to home console JRPGs cause it's much better than those titles but even then it pales in comparison to games like Birth By Sleep, many of the remakes on PSP and DS, Nostalgia, Dragon Quest IV-VI, IX, and The World Ends with You.

Can't believe I forgot Star Ocean 2. That game was great.

Star Ocean 2 and Final Fantasy 4 are my 2 most favorite JRPGS

gawd I love them.



makingmusic476 on 02 May 2011

Eternal Sonata annoyed me with its uneven difficulty.  The game would be easy as hell for hours, requiring barely any effort to get through full dungeons, then suddenly you'd get put up against a boss that can take out your party members in two hits.  Of course, you're not expecting this, so you die on your first try.  Since the game still uses the archaic "die > main menu > load save" game over system, dying becomes all the more annoying.

While the game was absolutely beautiful, the story, etc. weren't good enough to get me to finish it.  I would die on some boss and just say "f it".  I'd go back a few months later, and the same thing would happen again.

Of course, if you're willing to look past minor issues like that, it's still an enjoyable game all around.  The music is especially nice.