I remember when I was reviewing Labyrinth of Refrain (and when I was playing Labyrinth of Galleria, for that matter) I consulted some JP wikis that fans were making, and it was very surprising how thorough things were. Especially for Galleria! I was playing through the game at launch, and yet folks were compiling info at a breakneck pace.
My bigger worry is getting spoiled on some of the upgrades and bosses.
I had to consult MANY online guides/forum topics about Refrain when I played it. It has so many systems and mechanics and ideas that just aren't very well explained in-game, but once you understand them it's pretty great.
I can't wait to play Galleria. I hope to be a Galleria enjoyer soon
It's the upgrades for me. Nothing beats getting an upgrade in a metroidvania that you weren't expecting or didn't know existed, and suddenly finding you're much more mobile/more powerful and have a ton of places you can go back and explore.
Would you say that it's better to stick to the main quest mostly to get through it in a timely manner so to not burn out? I've deleted MH World from my PC so that I _finally_ can stop chipping away at that and continue playing the ending parts of HZD, Control, as well as continue my early savegame for Arise (still in the second or third area, lol). It's too much otherwise. @.@
The reason I always want to get kind of spoiled before release isn’t out of hype it’s out of anxiety lol.
It is. From what I recall the AI can be absolute cheating bastards at times, too. Or maybe that's just what I told myself to feel better, idk. It has been a while.
I think it might be, honestly. Not that there's a ton of side stuff to do, it's a very linear game so far just in general anyway. It does seem to be balanced in such a way that enemy XP scales (at least I think it does) relative to your level to some degree, so if you get to an area where there are enemies above your level you'll level up VERY quickly if you just do some chain battles as you explore. The only issue I see with that is that you tend to get the bulk of your skill points from sidequests, so you may want to at least do the really easy ones to keep up there.
Yeah now that there's a Switch version I could see a late 2022 English port. I think Refrain did relatively well on Switch in English? At least given how niche and the type of game it is.
The AI isn't even the problem, it's the freaking obstacles. I kept ramming into the robots on the Iceland course.
Finding out Galleria was releasing on PS4 and Vita only was one of the biggest "What in the actual holy hell" reactions I've had in a long time
I’ve been debating getting Arise myself sometime. Never played a Tales game before and it did look interesting to me
For Tweeting an image that's been on the official Smash Bros website for years?
I can already tell I'm gonna lose my mind on harder difficulties. Game is great, but I'm already raging and it only gets worse from here.
Wow, it really is just in the list of screenshots under Zero Suit Samus.For Tweeting an image that's been on the official Smash Bros website for years?
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I only spent about 30 minutes with it, I really need to get back to it one of these days. The switching colors is both amazingly innovative and also incredibly difficult to actually do.
I’m real mad my Dread amiibo from amazon.de got delayed until November
very good post, i agree with the last point as well.
Agreed on pretty much everything, including the last piece of advice. I don’t think just opening the gates is a good idea. Best to keep adding users in small batches for now.
people are playing too many games here, that's not good!
Thank you so much for the perspective and advice. The enthusiasm behind this project, from both the community and the staff, has been amazing, and we'll try our best to deliver on that. The scope of the site is something we're trying to manage very carefully. There are still a lot of people waiting for registrations to open back up, and while I know there will be growing pains along the way, this is all great advice for us to keep in mind. We're all really happy you and everyone else is enjoying the site so far!
I've always thought the "Nintendo Direct Speculation" community on Era was something that could sustain a forum on its own. Especially because the vast majority of us were always very kind and welcoming people, and nobody really had any problems with people going off topic out of the blue. I'm pretty sure I had a long conversation about the Great British Bakeoff in that January 2018 thread for basically no reason.
It's the first in the series that I've really liked so far. I've tried three or four others already, but lost interest soon into the respective games. Something about them never clicked for me, but Arise is different. It looks nicer, feels more modern, sounds good as well, the fights are stylish and fun. Can't say I've ever felt this way about prior ones.
Arise is excellent! Definitely the one to try out if you're interested in giving the series a go, and a damn good JRPG on its own merits.
