Board 8 > Platinum #206 - Utawarerumono: Mask of Truth

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Arti
07/22/21 2:09:35 AM
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https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/6586-utawarerumono-mask-of-truth/ArcticCress
https://www.truetrophies.com/game/Utawarerumono-Mask-of-Truth/trophies?gamerid=5963

All together, this is easily a top 10 game of all time, maybe even top 5.

Last time I complained about Mask of Deception going half its runtime without a plot, this game starts off a lot better than that one did - reminds me a lot of Prelude to the Fallen's storyline, with the interesting civil war storyline through the game. It then shifts and answers practically every last story thread remaining from Prelude to the Fallen and Mask of Deception, tying up the trilogy in the best way possible. The final battle is one of the best in any video game to date.

Not only is the story great, but the strategy RPG portion actually has a decent challenge to it, especially if you take it and go all the way to the end of the Dream Arena. There's a lot of interesting scenarios it gets into and it was a worthwhile challenge to go through it all. I think that was what was missing in the other two games - Prelude had no challenge whatsoever until its one bonus battle and Mask of Deception had a very underdeveloped Dream Arena compared to this one. Being able to succeed in both parts of the game makes this the clear cut best game of its series.

The platinum does not take much besides finishing the Dream Arena to its end, but some of the drop rates on items are ridiculous, and you need to get every drop from every mission (all are repeatable). Some drops have a low rate when you get to the final missions of the Dream Arena, down to a low point of 25% - took about six runs of the last fight to get both of the 25% drops from it. I've seen some comments saying this took many retries to get, luckily this did not happen to me for any of the drops, but my save file still shows a bit over 80 hours played to get everything done. Considering the story was over at around half that, it does take a while to get everything!

Now that I've finally finished this, I can remove its cartridge from the Vita slot and play another cartridge game, which I had a bunch of these waiting to be played, all games that I had started this year or last year, and never got back to. Should be fun!

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ninkendo
07/22/21 2:20:00 AM
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Arti
07/22/21 2:35:53 AM
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ninkendo posted...
Finally arti plays Mega Man 2
more like arti finally plays these falcom games in his backlog, as ys viii and cold steel ii both are Vita cartridge games I need to get back to

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Xiahou Shake
07/22/21 2:52:14 AM
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Absolutely incredible story, easily one of the best in the medium. Glad you enjoyed it so much! You're absolutely right that the gameplay is actually really great as well, for what there is of it. The other two games in the series really pale in comparison in that department.

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MegamanX
07/22/21 10:42:52 AM
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"All together, this is easily a top 10 game of all time, maybe even top 5."

Wow!

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xp1337
07/22/21 3:16:40 PM
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Arti posted...
All together, this is easily a top 10 game of all time, maybe even top 5
100% agreed. I mean, I don't have the mental energy to formulate my exact list but Mask of Truth 100% would be up there contending.

Arti posted...
The final battle is one of the best in any video game to date.
Honestly, I think it might be the best. It's between it and Persona 3, IMO. The way the Final and Combo Strike dialogue changes (it did in Prelude too but it felt like it hit even harder here) is just absolutely amazing. The Haku/Nekone one in particular is so powerful.

Gameplay was indeed very fun and I too had to play that final Dream Arena match a few times for the last drops.

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pyresword
07/22/21 4:06:48 PM
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Aw yeah Utawarerumono. I never 100%'d this but then again I never 100% anything.

Definitely agree on the gameplay also actually being pretty good though.
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