Dragon's Crown Thread of Import Impressions and Elf

FrostuTheNinja said:
I hear you loud and clear. This is one of those "dream games" for me. Arcade style brawler with RPG trappings and sprite work. 8D
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Yes i know, wish capcom would stop being dumb and let Red Earth/Warzard out the vault, so many hours/quarters spent in the arcades on that old school classic.
 
The comic of the fighter someone posted in the comment section of that article was golden.

I might get this for Vita and play as the wizard first. I would get it for PS3 but this game looks a lot funner on PSVita, and I need more games for my Vita anyways.
 
Espada said:
Haha, yeah if this game hooks me bad my backlog is going to grow to monstrous proportions. Swinging back and forth from Fighter and Wizard is going to be a nice and refreshing. I'm still trying to decide on a third, and Elf is looking like that choice.
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Elf is my third choice, as well. Once again, she looks to behave differently from both the Fighter and Wizard, allowing her to strike from a distance or go in-close for a direct attack. She's a lot more agile than both [from what I can see], so that's another reason why I want to give her a try. She's, in some ways, a mix between both the Fighter and the Wizard, and looks to strike a nice balance.

Ugh, why do I have a feeling that this game will be the death life of my backlog, especially considering how full August already is. I don't even know if I'll go ahead with my PS4 purchase this year after all, considering there's no launch game that interests me enough to buy it right away and it's not as though I won't have enough PS3/3DS/Wii U/etc. games to play.
 
chrono01 said:
Elf is my third choice, as well. Once again, she looks to behave differently from both the Fighter and Wizard, allowing her to strike from a distance or go in-close for a direct attack. She's a lot more agile than both [from what I can see], so that's another reason why I want to give her a try. She's, in some ways, a mix between both the Fighter and the Wizard, and looks to strike a nice balance.
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Goddamn, you broke down the reasons why she's my 3rd choice. I really like her gameplay dynamic, and hearing that you can make her a Dagger Elf, Arrow Elf, or Kick Elf only sweetens the deal. Plus, her charged arrows are cool as hell.

Ugh, why do I have a feeling that this game will be the death life of my backlog, especially considering how full August already is. I don't even know if I'll go ahead with my PS4 purchase this year after all, considering there's no launch game that interests me enough to buy it right away and it's not as though I won't have enough PS3/3DS/Wii U/etc. games to play.
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I'm going to be juggling Dynasty Warriors 8, Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, and Dragon's Crown in August. All three of these will easily bleed into September. Thankfully I'm not buying GTAV until the next gen port shows up, but it's going to be rough for my backlog for sure.
 
Im really hoping for some DLC characters in the future. Am a little let down that there isnt a thief class, though we do get stuck with that NPC Loni the thief who follows us around.
Used to love playing as the thief in D&D.

Before hoping for DLC do hope that this game meets sales expectations, though Im a little put off by the price of the game with how high it is for a 2d side scroller. Am sure a lot of other folks feel the same way, who would have been potential day 1 buyers.
 
So I'm assuming from the fact that you imported it that the game isn't region restricted? I was hoping to be able to import the US version to NZ, rather than wait months for Atlus to sort itself out and get it released here.
 
NZNova said:
So I'm assuming from the fact that you imported it that the game isn't region restricted? I was hoping to be able to import the US version to NZ, rather than wait months for Atlus to sort itself out and get it released here.
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Yeah, Atlus has confirmed that it's region free.
 
Are we getting the Japanese voices for the character narrations? I know we're not getting the default Japanese narrator but what about the other characters?
 
Parakeetman said:
Im really hoping for some DLC characters in the future. Am a little let down that there isnt a thief class, though we do get stuck with that NPC Loni the thief who follows us around.
Used to love playing as the thief in D&D.
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What would a playable thief class offer that the Elf doesn't? Serious question.

Before hoping for DLC do hope that this game meets sales expectations, though Im a little put off by the price of the game with how high it is for a 2d side scroller. Am sure a lot of other folks feel the same way, who would have been potential day 1 buyers.
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I don't see how it being a 2D side scroller makes the price unreasonable.

SMK said:
Are we getting the Japanese voices for the character narrations? I know we're not getting the default Japanese narrator but what about the other characters?
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Are you sure we're not getting the default Japanese narrator? The Japanese get the English narrator.

I am curious though if the voice pack will include the Japanese character-narrators. It would be nice to have options.
 
As requested, character stats: (Note: I took this table straight from GameFAQs where it was posted by a user named SieKensou)

<<<------>>>----STR-----CON-----INT-----MGR-----DEX-----LUK
Fighter>>>>------S---------A---------D--------C-----------B---------B
Dwarf>>>>>------S---------S----------E--------D----------C---------B
Amazon>>>------A---------C---------C----------C---------B---------A
Elf>>>>>>>------B---------C----------B---------C---------A---------A
Sorceress->------E---------D----------A---------S---------B--------A
Wizard>>->------D----------C---------S----------A---------B--------D
 
twentytwo22 said:
As requested, character stats: (Note: I took this table straight from GameFAQs where it was posted by a user named SieKensou)

<<<------>>>----STR-----CON-----INT-----MGR-----DEX-----LUK
Fighter>>>>------S---------A---------D--------C-----------B---------B
Dwarf>>>>>------S---------S----------E--------D----------C---------B
Amazon>>>------A---------C---------C----------C---------B---------A
Elf>>>>>>>------B---------C----------B---------C---------A---------A
Sorceress->------E---------D----------A---------S---------B--------A
Wizard>>->------D----------C---------S----------A---------B--------D
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Are the differences between letter grades substantial? Is the gap between A and S bigger than B and C? Does Dexterity affect mobility and attack speed?

Fighter has really good stats, damn.
 
Caerith said:
What would a playable thief class offer that the Elf doesn't? Serious question.


I don't see how it being a 2D side scroller makes the price unreasonable.


Are you sure we're not getting the default Japanese narrator? The Japanese get the English narrator.

I am curious though if the voice pack will include the Japanese character-narrators. It would be nice to have options.
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Generally the thief classes in games are known for just combo mania. While Elves get shoehorned off into the ranged category with bows / magic. I still need to play the Elf character in this game, but as am one who enjoys using a thief in most fantasy type of settings where available. If you are familiar with the D&D game by capcom it had both an elf and a thief in it to give you one example of how it works.

Caerith said:
If I had to guess, I'd say about 62% of GAF will be on PS3.

Source: Dragon's Crown GAF Playerlist
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If the game wasnt so bloody expensive Id consider double dipping for the PS3 version also. Unless owning the VITA ver somehow does allow for playing on the PS3 too. Which I dont recall seeing anything of off hand, but have not looked into the issue too deeply. Past knowing that data between the two versions is interchangeable.
 
Not too many people going Wizard, I see.



Good, in D&D:SoM, we were always fighting who's going to play as the black and white haired wizard, because he was just so cool.
Only 4 more hours...
 
dubq said:
Oh, sweet - thanks for posting that doc!
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Thank CrazyTank940 for making it ^^

Parakeetman said:
Generally the thief classes in games are known for just combo mania. While Elves get shoehorned off into the ranged category with bows / magic. I still need to play the Elf character in this game, but as am one who enjoys using a thief in most fantasy type of settings where available. If you are familiar with the D&D game by capcom it had both an elf and a thief in it to give you one example of how it works.
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Generally, but the Dragon's Crown Elf isn't the Mystara Elf. Take a look at the Elf gameplay trailer and compare it to the Thief from Mystara-- it looks like the only thing the Elf doesn't do is expose her midriff.

If the game wasnt so bloody expensive Id consider double dipping for the PS3 version also. Unless owning the VITA ver somehow does allow for playing on the PS3 too. Which I dont recall seeing anything of off hand, but have not looked into the issue too deeply. Past knowing that data between the two versions is interchangeable.
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You can transfer your save from Vita to PS3, that's the only interplay between them. No cross-play, no cross-save.

And I still don't understand what you mean by "so bloody expensive." Aren't console games usually $60?
 
dubq said:
Is GAF going mostly PS3 or Vita with this? Or both?*


*wish it was Cross Buy :(
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Plan on getting both versions plus you can share save files between the two, just trying to decide if i want to DL the vita version from jpn psn store or wait the two weeks for na....decisions decisions...
 
Caerith said:
Are you sure we're not getting the default Japanese narrator? The Japanese get the English narrator.
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Going by second hand information from the people who've played it at events and the fact that Atlus hasn't said anything about it, leads me to believe that there will be no dual audio for narration and the npcs. Also, in most of the articles they only talk about changing the battle voices to Japanese when customizing characters. I'd love to be wrong though, because I was looking forward to having couple of my favorite va's do the narration.
 
JokerAceX said:
How would one get his info added to that list as well?
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I just added my info.

All I did was double click the cells and input my info. Simple and easy.

I'll be on PS3--finally decided. Was so close to Vita but I really wanna play this beast on the big screen in 1080P.

Seems like barely anyone is going Dwarf either :/. I'm gonna rock Dwarf and dual wield this beast and boost crit.

I'm really really surprised there isn't a rogue type character though--super quick and fast, low hp, dual wield, high crit, fast attack speed, low strength.
 
SMK said:
Going by second hand information from the people who've played it at events and the fact that Atlus hasn't said anything about it, leads me to believe that there will be no dual audio for narration and the npcs. Also, in most of the articles they only talk about changing the battle voices to Japanese when customizing characters. I'd love to be wrong though, because I was looking forward to having couple of my favorite va's do the narration.
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One of the articles that's been linked here (wish I knew which one) indicated that there's a menu option to change the audio for the narrator and NPCs. The Japanese version that's been streamed in so many places includes English as well, so I don't know why they would exclude Japanese from the NA version (especially not if you can use Japanese for your character). I haven't seen anything about the character-narrators audio options though, for either version.

FINALBOSS said:
I'm really really surprised there isn't a rogue type character though--super quick and fast, low hp, dual wield, high crit, fast attack speed, low strength.
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Elf?
 
Caerith said:
Thank CrazyTank940 for making it ^^


Generally, but the Dragon's Crown Elf isn't the Mystara Elf. Take a look at the Elf gameplay trailer and compare it to the Thief from Mystara-- it looks like the only thing the Elf doesn't do is expose her midriff.


You can transfer your save from Vita to PS3, that's the only interplay between them. No cross-play, no cross-save.

And I still don't understand what you mean by "so bloody expensive." Aren't console games usually $60?
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Look at the price in Japan and you will understand. Prices can range from 7000+ to - 6500+ JPY. Which is quite expensive when put into comparison with other titles on the VITA. Even some PS3 titles. Sure its a niche game, but if they wanted to move more units at launch and prevent the initial curious buy then sell, they should have gone for at least the 5500 range with SRP. Game will be cheaper in the US than Japan thats for sure at launch anyways.

Caerith said:
One of the articles that's been linked here (wish I knew which one) indicated that there's a menu option to change the audio for the narrator and NPCs. The Japanese version that's been streamed in so many places includes English as well, so I don't know why they would exclude Japanese from the NA version (especially not if you can use Japanese for your character). I haven't seen anything about the character-narrators audio options though, for either version.
Elf?
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Licensing. While it may work one way, doesnt mean it will the other. For the voice work that is. Its an unfortunate problem that still plagues japan. Same goes for music,
 
FINALBOSS said:
I just added my info.

All I did was double click the cells and input my info. Simple and easy.

I'll be on PS3--finally decided. Was so close to Vita but I really wanna play this beast on the big screen in 1080P.

Seems like barely anyone is going Dwarf either :/. I'm gonna rock Dwarf and dual wield this beast and boost crit.

I'm really really surprised there isn't a rogue type character though--super quick and fast, low hp, dual wield, high crit, fast attack speed, low strength.
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thanks
 
twentytwo22 said:
As requested, character stats: (Note: I took this table straight from GameFAQs where it was posted by a user named SieKensou)

<<<------>>>----STR-----CON-----INT-----MGR-----DEX-----LUK
Sorceress->------E---------D----------A---------S---------B--------A
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Didn't the IGN video say the Sorceress had an 'S' stat for luck? Or at least they went out of their way to say it was the highest of the characters.

Arrgh, too lazy to double check.
 
How many levels are there? Also what's the deal with the HP system? Ive seen videos where a character's health reads something like "386 / 350" does that mean that you can actually have more than max hp? O.o
 
SnakeEyez said:
How many levels are there? Also what's the deal with the HP system? Ive seen videos where a character's health reads something like "386 / 350" does that mean that you can actually have more than max hp? O.o
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Temporarily increased health. After you lose the extra health, it goes back to normal.
 
SnakeEyez said:
How many levels are there? Also what's the deal with the HP system? Ive seen videos where a character's health reads something like "386 / 350" does that mean that you can actually have more than max hp? O.o
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Eating food in dungeons will as mentioned temporarily increase health past the max capacity if you are at full.
 
SnakeEyez said:
How many levels are there? Also what's the deal with the HP system? Ive seen videos where a character's health reads something like "386 / 350" does that mean that you can actually have more than max hp? O.o
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You can boost your health past your max, but you're unable to heal until it drops below your max HP. That's how I understood it.

And there are 9 levels, with an A and B path from what I've seen in streams.
 
Espada said:
You can boost your health past your max, but you're unable to heal until it drops below your max HP. That's how I understood it.

And there are 9 levels, with an A and B path from what I've seen in streams.
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Didn't Destructoid make a preview of the game with Chris saying something like 40 some stages?
 
SnakeEyez said:
How many levels are there? Also what's the deal with the HP system? Ive seen videos where a character's health reads something like "386 / 350" does that mean that you can actually have more than max hp? O.o
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Others have said it, but just to be exact: food items can boost your HP up to 150% of its max.
 
birdcity said:
Can someone explain the Treasure Ranks and those stats listed above?

A, S, E, D ? :| Confused.
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Ranks work in terms of item rarity / Level so to speak. Shouldnt be that hard to understand.

S is highest E lowest.

Therefore one can expect greater things from treasure found with a higher rank than a lower one.
 
Parakeetman said:
Ranks work in terms of item rarity. Shouldnt be that hard to understand.

S is highest E lowest.
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Strange. thanks. I don't play a lot of Japanese games, so I was very confused. No need to be sassy.

Edit: Confused by the letters. I understand treasure rankings based on rarity but didn't know what the letters corresponded with.
 
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