Board 8 > Has anyone actually played all three of those Yoko Taro games, Voice of Cards?

(+) Yeah! (+)

Theyre on sale and im curious.

i still need to pick up the latter two, thanks for the heads up

the first was pretty neat actually, though i will say you'd need to go in appreciating that it is NOT trying to sell itself on its writing or anything like that so much as the aggressively tabletop rpg experience (which is kind of why i'm surprised they made a trilogy out of it, i suppose it was easy to make at least)

UF8 posted...

i still need to pick up the latter two, thanks for the heads up

to complete the bundle with all the trilogys dlc is $29 on steam. I only have the first game in my library right now

Only beat the first game and it was alright, but the trailer for the 2nd just didn't interest me so I dropped the series there.

I've completed the first two, and have the third downloaded. Haven't gotten around to the last one yet.

The stories are definitely classic Yoko Taro and have some dark themes in each. Keiichi Okabe does some of the tracks, but most are done by other musicians in MONACA so you won't hear his tracks much. The first was more of a classic RPG adventure with a number of party members, and the second was following two characters through a journey between islands. I still enjoyed the battle system and the short length - the first one was about 15 hours long and the second about 20 hours long to do everything in both games.

The games originally ran very slow, but they added a high speed mode in a later patch that made it run pretty well (though it did crash on me once - the autosave made me lose almost no progress at least). It's a hard sell without that mode as it runs extremely slow without it, and needs to be turned on every time you start the game.

Really, if you're looking for a good turn-based RPG with some darker story beats, these certainly fit the bill. Just don't expect an epic story or anything like that!

Give me average to above-average plot with good atmosphere, pretty art, good music, and solid gameplay and Im satisfied!