The soundtrack for XVI was amazing and they grabbed nearly all of the best songs. Excited to play that DLC myself soon.
Honestly considering jumping to P5R despite starting P3P. Just haven’t gotten a rhythm on the latter so I’m curious to see if I have better luck with the former. I know I’m cool with the general style as I did enjoy soul hackers 2 and TMS#FE
So as a big Tales fan I'll give a quick thought for starting with each of these and a few others
I wish they included this also-
Sorry for double post.
I wish they included this also
Sorry for double post.
Have to admit it's a great capstone for Theatrhythm's DLC, although I wouldn't be opposed to more in the future. They even gave it its own slot with the other FF titles rather then stuffing it in the Final Fantasy series slot like I thought they were going to do.
Pokemon Crystal Legacy sounds really fun, and we're not getting a new Pokemon game this year (other than DLC) so I'm a bit tempted. But if you get the chance, both Chained Echoes and Octopath 2 are phenomenal games
Maybe try sticking with P3P at least until you see the dungeon gameplay. You’ll have a good sense of the loop after you finish the first set of floors.
I couldn't disagree with this take more
Why though?
The latent talent changes up the battle system and adds a further layer beyond boost points and breaking the enemy.
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There's also a lot more done to keep the structure of the chapters to not be so rigidly town -> dungeon -> boss -> repeat four times.The latent talent changes up the battle system and adds a further layer beyond boost points and breaking the enemy.
The classes are the same but the balance is better, as latent talent vastly improves apothecary and beasts aren’t limited use any more.
The guild system means you can have more than one of each class in the party which makes swapping everyone around much easier when reforming the party.
Exploration now includes verticality and water, where in OT field areas were just a crossroads. Now rivers go under bridges and through tunnels and different areas, while climbing changes the dungeons around and means more hidden areas.
Various QOL improvements like telling you exactly how much an item improved a stat, and the cursor starting on new pickups when looking at the time menu.
Better characters than the original set (your mileage may vary but Castii is amazing and one of the all-time great JRPG characters to me).
A final chapter that ties everything together and rounds off the game well, rather than just a post-game super boss.
I played them literally back to back and found OT2 a great example of an iterative sequel that improves on almost everything. To me OT is a solid 8/10 but OTII fully realises the concept.
Enjoyed Octopath Traveller 2 so much that I played through OT1 immediately afterwards, here’s my thoughts on the series.
I enjoyed Octopath Traveller 2 so much. An easy 10/10 game for me, one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played. I just couldn’t put it down. Even while I played it, I knew that I had the original OT in my backlog of rpgs, but for some reason I hadn’t started it. Usually, after finishing a long rpg, I...
That’s definitely one of the appeals of RPG skill systems— finding ways to break it all and revel in your newfound might.
The intermissions are cool in a vacuum, but yeah, the general opinion is that they hurt the pacing a bit compared to the original game. I wish they’d been put a bit later on and spaced out, but I won’t say more than that. Just push through them - they aren’t too long and you’ll be back to the good stuff soon!
Depends on your preferences, and a lot of other things! Persona is such a different style of game from Xenoblade that they're almost hard to compare in some ways. For me, the gameplay loop in Persona 5 is pretty much unmatched, and the only game that's right up there with it is Xenoblade 2. Persona 5 starts off slowly and just builds and builds as it goes; once the gameplay gets crunchier and you really unlock all the features and get into it a ways, it really sings. Plus I'm just addicted to demon fusion.
Had a similar feeling from P4 (which I last left after the second dungeon, though I might get back to it later). The game is great in most aspects but the gameplay wasn't hooking me. I'm not a huge fan of the daily life parts and the dungeon crawling just makes me wish I was playing SMT. I prefer having a full party of demons to constantly train up and fuse, instead of that mechanic being limited to the protagonist and with no EXP share type mechanic to level up party demons
I’m still conflicted on this. I’m super interested in 2 but I’ve got 1 in the backlog… and a ton of other rpgs
This is why I can't get into SO, the sci-fi elements often get dropped for 80% of the game to be another dime a dozen sword and sorcery fantasy. I'm still planning to get SO2 as it's the "best" and somehow only SO I've never played.
It’s a shame really, like I said I don’t get why space opera stuff gets dropped to do chainmail and swords for the nth time. It is hilarious in SO4 that the thing that makes the party go for swords and archery is that alien energy fields only block fast projectiles. A sci-fi trope from Dune and Star Trek if ever I heard one. Also naturally the main characters are experienced sword fighters and archers just as hobbies. That was, er, convenient. Star Ocean 2 does at least have a pretty likable cast, although I particularly like that you can choose not to recruit most characters if you find them annoying, something I’ve done twice already.
My dream game has always been a "prime directive rpg" where the 3-5 planets you explore are at different levels of tech and you can only use equipment/items appropriate to that planets tech level. I realize the same premise could work with a time travel set up, but I'd prefer a story where the moral conundrum isn't "will fixing this mess up the timeline".
I'll triple dip if that happens and join you!
It's funny because you can see it as handicap from the 4th dimension beings or whatever they were to make more entertaining watching the games.
This is an awesome idea. Would be a great way to keep forcing players to change up their playstyles too!
Also change up the party too. Your party could consist of
This would be a great idea for a game. Closest thing I can think of (that isn't really close at all...) would be Rogue Galaxy, since it has you going to lots of different planets with different tech levels and getting party members from all over the place who use different equipment styles, but IIRC it's not limited in any way and the game overall is still more fantasy-feeling rather than really leaning into the scifi.
That’s an awesome concept, I’d love that.
That’s yet another rpg I hope we see again one day. I remember skipping it in the closing years of the PS2, I think
It's available as one of the "PS2 on PS4" PSonline games, I have it there and played it around 5-6 years ago for the first time. It's... not amazing, although it has a lot of that PS2 Level 5 charm and feel. Same composer, graphical feel, and just overall 'vibe' is very similar to Dark Cloud 2, for example.
