Yeah that I agree with. It’s bad form to not assess something on its own merits, rather than decrying it’s not something totally different. It’s okay to use something totally different as a point of reference! But otherwise yeah I agree.
Persona 3 was a mistakekinda yea. some of these were real quotes
Fair enough. I don’t think it is Persona’s ‘fault’, I just find using a preview to take that stance on an Atlus game a bit pointless when SMT deserves to be viewed as it’s own thing, not through the thing it isn’t. Which just pigeonholes it even further as ‘like Persona but without xyz’, rather than an awesome RPG series in its own right. But as you say, it’s a problem with the article itself, not the concept of a comparison between relatively similar games.
This sounds awesome. Are the skills actually meaningful and not +1% to various attributes as seen in other recent titles that have boasted extensive skill systems?
I find them super meaningful, but some of them can just be minor modifiers. Basically like just any other RPG.
Just found out it's sub native resolution in handheld mode. Kind of expected. Oh well. Looks like gameplay wise is really glowing.
So it runs mostly at 60 in the open world and 30 in battles then? If so...that's kinda of impressive. I'm not exactly tech savvy but if they capped the fps to 30, wouldn't it help the game achieve native resolution in handheld mode?
No, it’s 30 constantly (except UI transitions)
Thanks for the information. I just saw your post above. It's been a long day for me lol.
The fuck is this?
You said sub native in handheld but does it still runs smoothly and looks OK? I mean I don't expect a super impressive looking game i just hope its not to blurry.
Honestly that’ll come down to your personal tolerance and preferences. I think it’s impressive looking, but it is very distinctly a blurry game, and that can definitely get problematic in a desert area. It doesn’t bother me, but I could see it bothering others.
Haha no problem!
Thank you so much. I played both xenoblade games in handheld only and they were fine for me. So now I'm really excited!
This should be good then
that's just asking for another Wii U situation
i would like to see it
I mean yeah if the choice is no games or games on Unreal, I’ll take games on Unreal
You should be able to now
Certainly, but reviewers are also catering to an audience, and an audience wants to know whether or not a game is for them. So telling a person who's only played P5 that SMTV is just like a previous SMT title is kinda not telling them anything at all
Looks far blurrier to me tbh
To be fair, assuming the reader has played P5 is just as much an assumption as assuming they’ve played SMT III, IV or IV:A, but at least the previous games in the series have had relatively recent releases on Nintendo hardware. I mean, Nocturne came out on Switch, only what, 5 months ago? It’s directly comparable and a similar game in the same series on the same system, you’d think that would be the obvious comparison rather than using an entire article to just talk about how much they liked P5. Explaining the history of both would have been a lot more accessible to everyone if that was the intention.
Every SMT game on 3DS and Switch put together have not sold as much as P5 alone has lol, I’m not even counting Royal in that number. Mathematically it’s far likelier your reader is familiar with Persona than SMT. By a factor of like 5-6x.
I’m aware of the sales, but it’s still a far more apt comparison is my point. If the only reason to make the comparison is based on sales alone and who has heard of or played whatever over the last however many years there are plenty of other RPGs to compare it to as well.
Huh? Polygon's P5 and P5R reviews were extremely highly trafficked, the games both ranked extremely highly in their GotY awards, they very clearly have a sizeable P5 audience.
