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Retr0gamer

Hmm let's see how a thread like this works.

Anyway for the first post I'd like to let people know that ATB podcast with its host Kat Bailey is back on 1up. The first episode might be Western RPG focused but the podcast is well worth a listen.

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Sephiroth_dude

Playing through royal atm, when I played persona 3 years ago it didn't click with me but I'm loving it this time around, just defeated the first boss and its taken me 15hrs just to do the first dungeon!

Xenji

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Just spotted Trials of Mana demo on steam. Anybody tried it yet?

It is great and very true to the original, they have totally overhauled the combat system and fleshed out the story and interactions between your selected characters.

S-E seem to have put a lot more effort into this than the horrible Secret Of Mana remake.

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Xenji wrote: »

It is great and very true to the original, they have totally overhauled the combat system and fleshed out the story and interactions between your selected characters.

S-E seem to have put a lot more effort into this than the horrible Secret Of Mana remake.

Played it for an hour today. It's great. I have a massive soft spot for snes era rpg's though so I think I'm giving it far more of a chance than most jrpg's. Haven't been this excited/impressed by a jrpg in a long time. I played Secret of Mana to death back in the day and only played the original of this on emulator but never finished it. Showing you exactly where you need to go is handy enough as I'm not into sandbox games anymore. Haven't the patience for non-linear games.

The Phantom Pain

I can't stop obsessing over building my kingdom in Ni No Kuni 2. I don't think I'm going to actually finish the game at this rate :eek::P

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Trials of Mana remake out Friday

Doodah7

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Trials of Mana remake out Friday

Voice acting in the demo is horrendous. Gawd awful American accents...

Retr0gamer

Getting great reviews despite the voice acting bring brought up a lot.

Xenji

Going to be sticking with the Japanese VAs.

Retr0gamer

Xenji, you played scarlet ambition yet? Keep hearing how amazing it is.

Xenji

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Xenji, you played scarlet ambition yet? Keep hearing how amazing it is.

No but it is on my list along with Atelier Ryza once I get FF7 and Trials Of Mana finished, I think the last SaGa game I played was Frontier 2.

Sephiroth_dude

Sakura Wars is out Tuesday, worth a look?

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Doodah7 wrote: »

Voice acting in the demo is horrendous. Gawd awful American accents...

Don't pick Charlotte under any circumstances. Here R's are replaced with cutesy W's

Xenji

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Sakura Wars is out Tuesday, worth a look?

I would probably give it a miss, from what I have read it is not a patch on the original games and has a lot of gameplay issues.

Originally the series was about 10% sRPG and 90% visual novel/dating sim, now it looks like it is more of a glorified musou game with VN elements.

Xenji

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Don't pick Charlotte under any circumstances. Here R's are replaced with cutesy W's

Neill Corlett had those in for his famous fan translation of the original and SE used the same for the Mana collection as well, I wonder if he is to blame.

Carlie is actually one of the best characters to have in your team if you want a easy playthrough.

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Xenji wrote: »

Neill Corlett had those in for his famous fan translation of the original and SE used the same for the Mana collection as well, I wonder if he is to blame.

Carlie is actually one of the best characters to have in your team if you want a easy playthrough.

Apparently the game is ridiculously easy as is. Game still hasn't been released on Steam

Xenji

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Apparently the game is ridiculously easy as is. Game still hasn't been released on Steam

The original was pretty easy up till the later parts of the game where the difficulty really spikes and you have some very tough boss fights.

Black Rabite is still one of the toughest boss fights I have encountered in any game.

Retr0gamer

RPGamer did a best of the decade series:

https://rpgamer.com/2020/04/rpgamers-rpgs-of-the-decade-introduction/

Worth a read.

_Godot_

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Horizon Zero Dawn aren't rpgs and shouldn't be on any top 10 rpg list imo.

Retr0gamer

Horizon shouldn't be in it because it's cack.

The Phantom Pain

Platinumed NI no Kuni 2. Such a pleasant surprise for a game I bought on a whim. Took me about 94 hours. Would thoroughly recommend to those like me who are fairly new to JRPGs as it's very accessible. My only quibble is that it has a perfect story ending...but then has an endgame, and the endgame just limps along and wasn't needed. Still a wonderful game. Have any of the hardcore RPG fans played it and what do you think?

Retr0gamer

Kind of ignored it because the first game was one of the worst RPGs I've played but heard the second one is t bad if not spectacular.

Gamer Bhoy 89

I've had Persona 5 for a couple of years now, but haven't touched it. I was thinking it's time to finally play it, and I happened upon P5 Royal, which is apparently an updated version of P5.

Do I have to play P5R? Can I just play P5 without needing to pay another 60 euro just to play the updated version? Am I missing out otherwise? 60 quid seems like a lot for features I feel I might not miss out on.

sniper_samurai

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

I've had Persona 5 for a couple of years now, but haven't touched it. I was thinking it's time to finally play it, and I happened upon P5 Royal, which is apparently an updated version of P5.

Do I have to play P5R? Can I just play P5 without needing to pay another 60 euro just to play the updated version? Am I missing out otherwise? 60 quid seems like a lot for features I feel I might not miss out on.

P5R adds quite a bit of new content and due to that is a different game with it's own trophy list. Nothing stopping you from playing the vanilla version, which is still an excellent game in and of itself.

Gamer Bhoy 89

sniper_samurai wrote: »

P5R adds quite a bit of new content and due to that is a different game with it's own trophy list. Nothing stopping you from playing the vanilla version, which is still an excellent game in and of itself.

Yeah I'm just gonna dive into the vanilla one. I've never played a Persona game before, despite owning three of them, kinda.... (SMT: Lucifer's Call and Revelations Persona on my PS Classic, as well as P5) so I don't think I'll be missing out on anything.

noodler

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Yeah I'm just gonna dive into the vanilla one. I've never played a Persona game before, despite owning three of them, kinda.... (SMT: Lucifer's Call and Revelations Persona on my PS Classic, as well as P5) so I don't think I'll be missing out on anything.

If you are like me, after 110 hours dragging on, last thing on your mind will be additional content..

noodler

I appreciated the DQXI love on those lists.

I absolutely adored it.

Need something else to sink my teeth into.

Anyone any recs? In the jrpg mold?

Is there a recommended starting point for these "tales"games perhaps?

Retr0gamer

The recommended starting point for tales games is do t bother. They're all the same. I enjoyed Symphonia and I hears later ones are good but any of the ones I tried are just the same as Symphonia.

Ff7 remake is out. Probably a good one to sink your teeth into.

Gamer Bhoy 89

noodler wrote: »

If you are like me, after 110 hours dragging on, last thing on your mind will be additional content..

dragging on? is it bad?

johnny_ultimate

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

Yeah I'm just gonna dive into the vanilla one. I've never played a Persona game before, despite owning three of them, kinda.... (SMT: Lucifer's Call and Revelations Persona on my PS Classic, as well as P5) so I don't think I'll be missing out on anything.

From what I’ve heard Royal is the one to play for sure if you haven’t played the original as it smooths out rough edges, but more of a ‘maybe’ if you have (and I didn’t love the original to the same degree as P3 and P4). Obviously a different call if you want to spend the extra cash given you’ve already got the original, though

sniper_samurai

Gamer Bhoy 89 wrote: »

dragging on? is it bad?

Not really, but it does outstay it's welcome a little. The summer break is very badly paced with no dungeon and full of events that eat your days without being able to progress social links.