From what I've played of Conception II, it's not bad, but it's not something I want to play 40+ hours of. Demon Gaze I at least hope holds more staying power.
One thing that kept me also amused with demon gaze is trying to get better gear from doing loot runs on the circles w/ using the gems. Besides advancing the story further and leveling my characters. Its nice too that the dungeons do each look quite different and have their own themes.
The battle system against most of the scrubs are fairly easy and like in that very quick initial 6 minute video I did you can see how fast skipping through the battles are. On enemies you know will be a pain in the ass, you can just slow things down a bit to think out the fight a little more. Also including the bosses. There are some optional side quests too which has an "interesting" boss fight. That is actually more difficult than most of the bosses you will encounter at the time.
Game can provide a challenge though so its not that everything is super easy. But the stuff like the demon system along with being able to summon one of them into battle along with their active and passive skills, upgraded weapons it does make things a bit easier than the more traditional wizardry games. One thing for sure is you should get your moneys worth time wise.
One game that Id really like to see NIS try to bring, though might be a bit hard as its a little late to the game considering it was a PSP title is Dungeon Travelers 2. While that one is an even larger fanservice mess as a hardcore wizardry fan the company behind it Aqua Plus obviously loves the genre as its an excellent wizardry type of dungeon crawler under the cute girls everywhere outer layer. On top of that the character classes are pretty good, esp after meeting the level reqs your class tree branches off into different choices. The story and characters are enjoyable also. But yeah its a very fan service heavy game. Personally in some ways though I really liked the game more than Demon Gaze as it relies even more so on the use of your characters and their skills and the fights can be pretty challenging. Id consider doing a late Impression Thread as would like to introduce folks to the series since it really is something that is fantastic. If Aqua Plus ever did a non-fan service more serious type of Wizardry title I think it could seriously blow the doors off of most other ones out there. Thats how highly I think of their skills in the genre.
Will get this. Hopefully the localization isn't shit.
Id say with the history of the work NISA does with their localization of JRPGs that you should be fine. Still am real glad that they managed to get their usual which is having dual audio too. Since the Japanese VA work is pretty great I thought. Really gave the characters personality. While I usually dont listen to dub stuff am curious to hear how the English voice work is.
