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Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (PS4)
Adol Goes to Jail
Adol heads to the Romun-occupied city of Balduq, a city with a giant prison as its main landmark, only to be arrested for being central to too many near-miss apocalypses to write off as a coincidence. One thing leads to another and he becomes a Vtuber- I mean Monstrum, a sort of Stand user or mutant, doomed to fight creatures born of human malice in a dark parallel world.
The gameplay here expands upon the base of Ys 8. There are even still empty potion bottles even though you're in a city. The main gimmick is Monstrum powers, mostly traversal abilities, and any party member can access them as long as the original user has joined the party. Adol the Crimson King has the grappling hook ability to zip to specific places or to targeted enemies, while others glide or climb walls. The combat has been redesigned pretty significantly. While Ys VIII was all about spamming specials until you run out of energy, IX gives you less of it to work with, and restores it only by not using specials, or a charged normal attack once unlocked. Instead of the EX finisher move, there's an EX mode, boosting your power and giving you HP regen until meter runs out or you use the finisher. This fills quite quickly, so combat works as more of a strategic flow, alternating normal moves, Monstrum powers, special moves, dodge, parry, and EX activation, than the straight-up spam in VIII. The Grimwald Nox dark world battles replace Raids and are fairly similar. The story is still pretty wild but I think VIII's was crazier and more surprising.

New Jersey

Here we go, off the rails, don't you know it's time to raise our sails

It doesn't look terrible to me. 3D Sonic is a pretty low bar. But with all the stuff coming out in this time range, I don't think I'll give this game a second thought.

Strash?

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I don't know why they aren't showing more of the actual stage stuff which is the part that looks good.

Trying to convince us that the other parts are good?

Maybe next time it'll be nothing but Vampire Survivors-likes

Nobody Saves the World: Frozen Hearth (PC)
If you played this developer's Guacamelee! add-on (or built-in part of Guacamelee depending on what version you played) El Diablo's Domain, this is the same idea. The focus is a set of minigame challenges using the game's mechanics in creative ways. In NSTW this means combining your acquired forms and abilities into new loadouts to overcome them. It won't last hours and hours, but it's a $5 mini-expansion. It also gives you two new forms to play with in the base game's world, since you can't master them within the minigames. It was a nice surprise to get a reason to return to this game at all.

That's why Gamecube still has the definitive version of RE4

Same on PC I think, but maybe there was a mod.

More like ending disservice

Not last in the other topic or first in this one -_-
CODE VEIN(PC)
Well, this was played in the drive to "play Souls-likes" but this lacks a certain level of intentional design that the genre needs. Maybe it's not a Souls-like at all but a weird spinoff of a Monster Hunter clone that sort of tried to jump on the bandwagon. That said, it's not a terrible game. The map feature is very welcome, but certain areas seem determined to counteract the quality of life provided by stuffing in as much convoluted verticality as possible. Combat is okay but not great. The RPG elements are okay but not great. The tone clash between metal post-apocalyptic vampire soldiers and melodramatic sentimental memory walking sim segments is laughable. The companion characters alternate between clearing groups of enemies and being incompetent. They say the dumbest things I've ever heard as we walk through a level. Don't tell me "We can go up here!" as we reach the bottom of a ladder! Anyway, it's kind of a fun time but I think I should keep higher standards.

This Rise of the Robots reboot is unrecognizable!

I haven't been watching Ragnarok trailers, but seeing this one incidentally, yep, it looks cool!

Well I've seen the name on Steam for ages.

I imagine Avengers was a "success" in a corporate profit margins kind of way. It might have been, anyway.

MacArrowny posted...

Maybe? Like a year after or something? I don't think any of the Sony developed PSVR games have come to PC so far.

I'm joking. I mean I finally got a VR setup and this is still a wasted part of Sony's presentations to me.

MacArrowny posted...

hope people are hype for VR games...

I got a Valve Index. Should I be hoping these Sony VR games come to PC?

Oof. I don't know what's more atrocious between Balan and Babylon, but the seizures thing is a strong point. Quiet Man and Left Alive seem like just terrible games, while the others are affronts to game development legacies.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I've played FFT start to finish at least half a dozen times and never once unlocked Cloud lol.

As I recall he isn't a very good unit

I'd say the entire N64 emulation by subscription thing is hard to care about.

The only reason I'd be excited for a Symphonia port is if they redid the battle camera to make co-op playble.

Seemed fine to me. Good ports, Pikmin 4, updates on stuff. I remember some lousy Directs.

Is that Tears like crying or like ripping?

I'll have you know the Vita version functions. Runs it about as well as can be expected.

I think I already own it on Vita >_>

Also tomorrow, Nobody Saves the World expansion, RPG Time: The Legend of Wright on Steam

I actually never got around to seeing the Lupin movies. I watched part 1 and a significant stretch of part 2 of the TV series before putting it on hold despite it being still pretty reliably good. There is a formula even if it's wild and chaotic.

Is it really an adaptation of Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro?

Mine is paperwarior

Zigzagoon posted...

Doesn't it only stop projectiles?

I'm not sure. It seemed like it was nullifying melee damage as well but I could be wrong.

Yeah, but coming from other games, even brief invulnerability has a lot of potential.

Zigzagoon posted...

I'm also really unsure of what I should be doing when I attach to someone. I almost just completely avoid doing it now. Every time I try and shoot arrows, it always has me pointing in the wrong direction and you can't hold the direction to shoot it correctly. Using music as backpack sucks and down smash is just like decent, I guess. You can popcorn but then it's so high up that it's impossible to use.

My first impulse is to shield continuously and turn them into an unstoppable juggernaut

I was playing this morning and exclusively getting opponents of 16+, often 20+ character levels. Teammates, not so much. I've been cycling through lots of characters so I guess that's how it goes.

SHINE_GET_64 posted...

Pretty sure I killed God already in multiple JRPGs

Either they're different gods or it's not working.

I'd say they're not nerfing hard enough then, but I suppose it is better to go gradually than to have to reverse course. If you don't know the stats, though, it looks like some character getting beaten into the ground every patch.

I don't understand how this game works at a high level and I'm not sure I want to, but how do you nerf the same character for this many consecutive patches? At least they improved the flavor with her car summon.

The crab is also a Mega Man enemy but I'm not complaining.

I think Ghost of Tsushima is a better answer than 4, really.

I dropped out early but it was something. It had an appeal. Kind of hard to define.
I wonder how Problem Sleuth holds up, actually.

I keep signing in to see if the servers are actually non-functional. So far they've been up, just with not-great performance.

Apparently they made Ys 6 into a mobile RPG. Like, it's not a port of Ys 6, but it probably follows a similar plot. I don't know why they did this instead of making up a new game around the Ys world in general, which does have lore despite the episodic nature of the games.

Giant disembodied thighs sound like they could be a decent boss monster, though.

"Mobile game" is a bad enough sign for me

It seems like the Moon is accelerated toward Clock Town by Majora. The Giants aren't just bearing its weight. It's trying to push past them. Think a colony with thrusters. So DK would have to destroy it or kill Majora and not simply knock it back into orbit or further. Even if DK just punches it down, that won't necessarily destroy the Moon, empowered as it is by evil magicks.

Pretty sure it's illegal at all times; widely practiced anyway.

Aecioo posted...

scum

Currently full-price at $35

I think I've heard good things.

Thymesia(PC)
My participation in this one was limited, but I can still say it's a mixed bag kind of game. Indie Soulslike with alright production values, somewhat original combat, and not much runtime, though I think the reviews lowball it. The gameplay is designed pretty well but sometimes making it work is frustrating. I'm currently unsure whether I want to keep trying to get the last achievement, which is to beat the "supposed to lose" tutorial boss at a point in the game when you have nothing to work with, due to a lack of NG+.

Need James Rolfe or someone like that to post "FUCK"