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Lost Dimension |OT| not Lego Dimensions
- Thread starter Hibiki Kurosawa
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Hibiki Kurosawa
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So, this is my first OT, so be nice, please! If there are any errors or misinformation, please let me know. Feedback is greatly appreciated!
Mister Megative
Banned
Well done 
Outtrigger888
Member
I thought it was a Lego dimensions OT when I clicked. Nice OT though ha
How involves is the finding the traitor section? Is there a mode where I don't have to bother with any of it?
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Looks good for a first time OT.
Though you might want to add the price info to the product info section.
Though you might want to add the price info to the product info section.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Thanks for the feedback guys.
Cool! I figured there'd be some typos, haha, but I don't mind correcting them. I have OCD tendencies like that
I considered it, but the thought that stopped me from putting it in is if someone discovers the OT or looks into the game in a few months time, the price wouldn't be up to date. I suppose it's worth adding as most people will be seeing the thread now.
Cool! I figured there'd be some typos, haha, but I don't mind correcting them. I have OCD tendencies like that
I considered it, but the thought that stopped me from putting it in is if someone discovers the OT or looks into the game in a few months time, the price wouldn't be up to date. I suppose it's worth adding as most people will be seeing the thread now.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
I'm one of the few unfortunate JRPG fans who has yet to experience VC as well (though I've seen a decent bit of gameplay and have been dying to get the opportunity to play it), but from what I understand Lost Dimension shares some similarities to it, yet is still largely it's own thing. I doubt you'd be at a disadvantage.
How involves is the finding the traitor section? Is there a mode where I don't have to bother with any of it?
Actually let me clarify this. I know some other reviewers who were a bit confused at how this process actually works. Sorry, it's really not that complicated but there are a few steps so I apologize if this is a bit wordy. Skip over this if you'd rather figure it out on your own (shouldn't be any spoilers though)
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First of all, traitors are random with the exception of the first one in a first playthrough.
Once you get past the opening sections of the game, Sho (main character dude) will hear 'suspicious voices' after each battle you clear. (Note, you take five other characters into battle.) Text and character icons float across the screen, and red text will appear if there is a suspicious person in that five-person group. I know some people start by trying to match the text with the artwork but that's not how you're supposed to go about it at all. All that matters is the number of suspicious voices. Basically, there can be up to three suspicious (red) voices in any five person group. So, what you are supposed to do is change up your party composition and see how many red voices there are for each permutation. Then, the game gives you a useful tool to use simple deduction to nail down who the suspicious characters are.
After that, you use a 'Vision Point' (which start off as somewhat rare) to dive into a characters mind to see with certainty if they are a traitor or not. If you are efficient with your dives, you should have plenty of Vision points to work with.
The final step is to convince other people to vote against the traitor. You don't get to decide who is voted out of existence on your own, you have to manipulate the democracy. After battles, other characters will often ask you questions like "Do you think Marco is the traitor?" or "Who do you think is the traitor?" Basically answer their questions to sway their eventual vote. Note, if a character wasn't a traitor in section 1, they still could be a traitor in section 2! Basically after each stratum of the tower, the traitor (and suspicious voices) reset.
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A couple of other notes:
- You can still befriend traitors
- If you fail to execute a traitor, they will not out themselves and will still be cooperative in the next stratum, but they are still traitors and there will be a new traitor too.
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If you fail to catch one traitor, you have a chance to make up for it later
In short I suppose you could ignore it entirely and let you squad execute whoever they decide to, but then there's a good chance you end up handicapping yourself.
I heard there were lots of freezing issues and stuff.
Thank you for this; will help me out immensely once I start playing.
Pretty sure my first playthrough was less than 20 hours.
There is an Easy and a Normal difficulty that you can change between at any time. Normal isn't bad at all though. You can replay earlier easier levels to gain exp and such too.
robotzombie
Member
Thanks for the info Seda
How is the actual gameplay/battle system? Is it fun?
Also, is leveling up/upgrading characters a good system?
How is the actual gameplay/battle system? Is it fun?
Also, is leveling up/upgrading characters a good system?
Basileus777
Member
Any good reason to do multiple playthroughs?
You can only get the true ending (and most of the story, which is still pretty minimal) by playing a second time. The true ending requires befriending every character, which is impossible to do in a single run. After you talk to any character enough, you unlock a dedicated 'character-mission' and after clearing that, you should get a new gold symbol on the character page to indicate a complete social link. These stay in New Game +.
Oh cool, thanks! I'll keep my eye on this one then, hopefully I can afford it when it comes out
Wow this will need me to be a lot more involved than just killing things, i may need to wait till after i finish re: hollow I don't want to push through this if there's a detriment to traitors making it past the vote.
Final question, are there a variety of boss type enemies?
DangerMouse
Member
mgs2master2
Banned
from this it kinda sounds like that assassin card game. I kinda like it
I finished the game a couple of weeks ago and felt pretty average about it all. Here's some things that stood out to me.
1, Assisting/covering fire is incredibly important. For the stages where your party is split up, I'd make a concerted effort to come back together just to take advantage of the link assist followup attacks.
2, Finding the traitor is easy. Persuading your teammates is not. I'd continuously have to run the same missions over and over, TRYING to convince party members of who the traitor is. Since you get a premonition of how people will vote, you can see the outcome and keep repeating missions to see the changes.
3, On one of the final stratum, I had a two-way split for who the traitor is. FIFTEEN times in a row, the votes would be 50/50 and it would have to go back to recast the votes.
4, A lot of the character abilities felt useless to me. Not once did I end up using Zenji's Link abilities during my playthrough and still wound up doing alright.
5,
1, Assisting/covering fire is incredibly important. For the stages where your party is split up, I'd make a concerted effort to come back together just to take advantage of the link assist followup attacks.
2, Finding the traitor is easy. Persuading your teammates is not. I'd continuously have to run the same missions over and over, TRYING to convince party members of who the traitor is. Since you get a premonition of how people will vote, you can see the outcome and keep repeating missions to see the changes.
3, On one of the final stratum, I had a two-way split for who the traitor is. FIFTEEN times in a row, the votes would be 50/50 and it would have to go back to recast the votes.
4, A lot of the character abilities felt useless to me. Not once did I end up using Zenji's Link abilities during my playthrough and still wound up doing alright.
5,
JUSTICE!
huh, I sometimes had clear a 'dummy mission' (like, one of the first ones you can beat in a single minute) an extra time or two to persuade votes but getting an overwhelming majority on the traitor was never a problem.
On the
third stratum, it took about a dozen quick missions to finally get the vote tallies where I wanted.
From what I hear, people who played it liked it. The problem was that no one knew it came out so its sales were lack luster.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
Its just good to have in there initially as folks generally seem to ask that otherwise. Once a thread is old people will have to imagine that the price possibly has changed, that and no one really expects the price to be updated again. lol
Dragon1893
Member
I played the demo on PS3 and enjoyed it. Love the concept too, so I'll be getting this eventually.
Does it run well on the Vita? Any significant downgrades from the PS3 version?
Does it run well on the Vita? Any significant downgrades from the PS3 version?
HyperZone<3
Member
are the stage layouts/other elements randomized as well?
also, its awesome that the protagonist nearly has the same name as 80's ninja movie star (and original Tenchu motion/voice actor) Sho Kosugi.
also, its awesome that the protagonist nearly has the same name as 80's ninja movie star (and original Tenchu motion/voice actor) Sho Kosugi.
Hibiki Kurosawa
Member
Again, thanks for the feedback and the kind words! It always helps! And thanks so much Seda for elaborating on things and clarifying things! It's truly appreciated.
I hope to get the game tomorrow as things have piled up for me this week and I won't get a chance today (most likely, but we'll see). When I do pick it up, however, I expect to be able to answer more questions more easily. I still have to decide PS3 or Vita, though. What is everyone else going with?
I suppose it doesn't hurt to add.
I hope to get the game tomorrow as things have piled up for me this week and I won't get a chance today (most likely, but we'll see). When I do pick it up, however, I expect to be able to answer more questions more easily. I still have to decide PS3 or Vita, though. What is everyone else going with?
I suppose it doesn't hurt to add.
That is an excellent bit of trivia.
Kresnik258
Member
Cancelled my pre-order for this today. I want it, but I reckon I'll be able to get it cheaper a few weeks after launch and I'm in no rush to play it.
Love this OT though, very nice.
Love this OT though, very nice.
Dragon1893
Member
Yeah, good job with the OT, forgot to mention that in my first post
HyperZone<3
Member
an Atlus game going down in price, that soon?, I'm not so sure about that. Regardless make sure you download the DLC within the next two weeks, otherwise you'll miss out on the free stuff while its still free.
You may say that now, but you're probably gonna need that healer in your party.
Heh, probably. But still.
Heretic Kazuma
Member
This is pretty much how I feel too, except replace Agito with George for loljustice. Need a healer though, so I suppose I'll begrudgingly let Sojiro live until I get rich enough to heal through items alone, lol.