JRPGs

Aazrael said:

Is Xenoblade just a fantasy rpg with no connection to the other Xeno-stuff?

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Same uhh how shall I say, "World" but all the games(If I remember right), are in Virtual Worlds it's a very weird connected story.

Sorry if that was a spoiler, but that kills any of my desire to play.

I once read this fantasy novel, a nice large single book - now days I am sure it would be a classy trilogy. Anyhow, it was a good fantasy story, had an interesting magic system that was druid like with nature connections, etc. etc.

At the end, out of nowhere the epilogue was some dudes stepping back from a monitor and saying "eh, that was interesting, not what we expected... shall we reboot?" there was zero inference of this in the entire book, and it did nothing to make the book better- it just made me feel... empty...that it was worthless.

I know that is odd to say "Why would a fake world being in a fake world matter?" but well... I guess it does, to me at least.

Folanlron said:

Same uhh how shall I say, "World" but all the games(If I remember right), are in Virtual Worlds it's a very weird connected story.

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I dont recall the worlds being virtual. It 100% isnt in Xenogears.

I don't remember virtual worlds and from what I remember Xenoblade 1 wasn't supposed to be related (a different name entirely) but Nintendo forced it. After that they sort of became canon to the overall XenoVerse.

The story is definitely weird sci Fi stuff, but they're awesome.

10 year old vita game getting remastered



nier replicant left PS+ today but i managed to platinum it last night ~30 hours, weird game liked the first 15 hours or so but they clearly ran out of money at some point. I think Automata is a much, much better game and honestly I didn't really get anything out of Replicant that made me appreciate Automata more, if anything Replicant is just a weird confusing game.

I think I will start the Nier Automata anime now though, i think the season finale is this week

For anyone on the fence, Romancing SaGa 2 demo is up on PS, Switch, and Steam. It actually looks pretty good and doesn't seem to have been remastered for the "modern audience". Hopefully the Switch version doesn't suck for performance/load times. Don't use my PS5 unless I absolutely have to, PC version is infected with Denuvo, and Square being the asshats they are don't release these types of games for Xbox.

Instant buy for me. One of the greatest.

CaughtCross said:

Instant buy for me. One of the greatest.

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Don’t like the new Luna voice.

Will pre order, will seek physical copy with necklaces books and stuff

Awesome, was just thinking of this the other night.

… will there still be soap to buy?

One of those series I've always heard about but never played. Guess I'll finally give it a shot.

I never finished eternal blue but I'd rank silver star story among my top JRPGs of all time.

The remaster looks great too while maintaining the charm it had. Instant buy for me as well. But I am hoping for a physical release.. I mean with the boxes it had, they'd have to be retarded to not do that

So, we all live in a simulation....

But 2 nights ago, I was thinking - "I would love to start a company that truly remasters games - like FF7 remake in terms of visual, but keeping the 'old time classic' battle systems. I would do Lunar - I would make the graphic style like what Wild Arms 3 tried - I am sure we have the technology. It would be 3d real time anime, it would look exactly like the anime scenes but during everything, map, town, battle system, like a 100% playable anime."

Then this... so while not what I was thinking - it was still the same game...like come on cosmic simulation! lol

I wonder if this is off of the mobile game? After I had that imagine session, I said "I should buy the mobile version to see what differences it has"- because Lunar has now a good half dozen versions - each with small changes or translation things to the story and characters.

As for those that have never played, the soap joke, is at the very beginning of the game you have 1 chance to buy "Soap" or sometimes "Soap on a Rope" - and it is a completely useless item... until you get to the hot springs, you cant enjoy the hot springs without soap!

The first one you find is along the story, it is the men's hot springs. The 2nd is later, it is the women's hot springs and is surrounded by /very/ hard bad guys. If you use your soap- you get an anime cut-scene of the characters enjoying their time in the spring... we get to see way too much of Nash and not enough on the other side of the coin with the other spring ;-P lol - so save some cash before the boat trip and buy atleast 2 soaps... if they keep the scenes, or cut them for "Modern audiences"

In Lunar 2, the hot springs and how one of your characters reacts during each time there, is actually part of the plot and character development. My only save in Lunar 2 is right before the final tower and boss...and I am under leveled and leveling there is hard - there is no way to get any more items or anything.

Looks like it is off of the PSX release SSSC - obviously it is using the anime cut-scenes and general visuals - Alexs sounds fine, but again, sorry that Luna was, rough... wonder why they would go about redoing all the voice acting but keeping the cut scenes?

Still - first day buy. I consider Lunar the Silver Start Story Complete akin to LoTR in the world of JRPG's - yeah, its like 100% "JRPG Anime Tropes" but done SO SO WELL. Just this preview reminded me of how long the game actually is, I forgot about a lot of things.

Siliconemelons said:

Looks like it is off of the PSX release SSSC - obviously it is using the anime cut-scenes and general visuals - Alexs sounds fine, but again, sorry that Luna was, rough... wonder why they would go about redoing all the voice acting but keeping the cut scenes?

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They are using the voice acting from the PSP release of Lunar which redid the voices and changed the translation.

CaughtCross said:

They are using the voice acting from the PSP release of Lunar which redid the voices and changed the translation.

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Urgh, so the "new" boat song then? Bo, the PSX version was great, even if it did not match the translation it was a better song... they each have their own take, so I guess.

So this is the PSP + Mobile version mixed?

edit: They did keep/change the faries in Ghalions tower- so that was a good thing to me, adds a little humanity to him

My PSP playthough was on the psp and I never use headphones so it most likely was muted or low volume.. sad for this game as it is an awesome music driven game.

I just found my PSP, my little 4yr old son is like "get it new batteries, I want to play it!" he thinks the UMD slot is really cool.... I got a tactics advanced save I need to beat on there

Siliconemelons said:

So this is the PSP + Mobile version mixed?

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Don't know yet gameplay wise. Just that they are using the PSP voice acting.

Metaphor Refantazio demo is coming today to all platforms. It's the prologue and progress carries over to release.

Not sure when it'll be up on US stores, I used time zone shenanigans to get it installed this morning on XSX. Preordered it there too, since Sega games are always PlayAnywhere and it's only way to get a PC version not infected with Denuvo.