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Topic	Celestian Tales: Old North is A Suikoden-like JRPG
streamofthesky 07/05/22 12:32:59 AM #15:	Revelation34 posted... How good is it? Dark Arisen? I love it. My favorite part is the Bitterblack Isle dungeon that the expansion adds. You can skip to it in just an hour if you want and ignore the main game, though its intended to be post-game content and is VERY HARD. Best part of the game is the combat and builds, it's really like no other game w/ the ability to climb on huge monsters and stab their eyes out. Game also has a very old school D&D kind of feel especially when dungeon crawling, with the pawns to make up a party and how the lighting and darkness works. Melee, archery, and magic builds are all satisfying to play as (though casters balance downright overpowered massive spells by having somewhat lengthy casting times, so if you're impatient, don't go that route or stick to lower powered spells and buffs). Music/sound/voice acting is all good. Pawns infamously repeat their chatter a lot which annoys some people and others grow to love it (can turn it off if you're the former). It's an open world game but honestly not that great in that regard. You can spontaneously walk into some epic battle or ambush and there's some cool things to find but otherwise there's not much exciting about it. Part of why I prefer BBI, where it's just a straight up super-dungeon. Story in the main game is probably the weakest aspect of the game. Starts interesting, and the end portion is pretty solid. But the 70% in between is...non-existent. Just a bunch of (usually) disconnected quests to get some lore for the world and kinda just being left to your own devices. With tons of sidequests, some interesting... One of the unintentionally funniest side quests and the most perfect summation of what the middle of the game's plot feels like (spoilers, if you'd rather not be spoiled on it): you attempt to sleep w/ the Duke's wife without any real build up or prior interaction w/ her; get caught, thrown in prison, and escape... and nobody in the castle including the Duke react any differently to you afterwards and you're just like, "WTF even just happened?" But that kind of ridiculousness has a charm of its own, in a "so bad, it's good" kind of way... <cite>streamofthesky posted [p:966345098] in Celestian ... [t:80071718]...</cite> <quote>Revelation34 posted... </cite> <quote>How good is it?</quote> Dark Arisen? I love it. My favorite part is the Bitterblack Isle dungeon that the expansion adds. You can skip to it in just an hour if you want and ignore the main game, though its intended to be post-game content and is VERY HARD. Best part of the game is the combat and builds, it's really like no other game w/ the ability to climb on huge monsters and stab their eyes out. Game also has a very old school D&D kind of feel especially when dungeon crawling, with the pawns to make up a party and how the lighting and darkness works. Melee, archery, and magic builds are all satisfying to play as (though casters balance downright overpowered massive spells by having somewhat lengthy casting times, so if you're impatient, don't go that route or stick to lower powered spells and buffs). Music/sound/voice acting is all good. Pawns infamously repeat their chatter a lot which annoys some people and others grow to love it (can turn it off if you're the former). It's an open world game but honestly not that great in that regard. You can spontaneously walk into some epic battle or ambush and there's some cool things to find but otherwise there's not much exciting about it. Part of why I prefer BBI, where it's just a straight up super-dungeon. Story in the main game is probably the weakest aspect of the game. Starts interesting, and the end portion is pretty solid. But the 70% in between is...non-existent. Just a bunch of (usually) disconnected quests to get some lore for the world and kinda just being left to your own devices. With tons of sidequests, some interesting... One of the unintentionally funniest side quests and the most perfect summation of what the middle of the game's plot feels like (spoilers, if you'd rather not be spoiled on it): you attempt to sleep w/ the Duke's wife without any real build up or prior interaction w/ her; get caught, thrown in prison, and escape... and nobody in the castle including the Duke react any differently to you afterwards and you're just like, "WTF even just happened?" But that kind of ridiculousness has a charm of its own, in a "so bad, it's good" kind of way... </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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