After being bitten by the Monster Hunter (3 Ultimate) bug again recently after dropping it last year when I hit a wall, I decided to find a similar game for my little used Vita. I was down to either Soul Sacifice Delta or Freedom Wars. I decided to pick up a digital copy of SSD.
After playing about seven hours, here's some thoughts on it-
Loved the monster designs. Man are the monsters cool looking. The bosses I mean. The trash mobs look like what they're supposed to, but the monsters are out there in design.
An example- The Three Little Pigs monster
Loved the background setting- Imagery from all over combined in a blender and then spit out and painted as a backdrop to fight these monsters. Toppled greek statues, fairy tale imagery, pegasus wings stuck in the gground but moving. Great nightmarish imagery. However, after you see the arenas a few times, you no longer really pay attention to it as the action and bosses are at the foremost of importance.
Loved the little stories so far. These monsters that you're hunting are just greedy sorcerors who let greed turn them into monsters. Well, that's just one of the reasons you become a monster. A great metaphor to guilt, rage, etc. It is presently a little too slowly, but whatever, I can deal with that.
What I've found confusing is the offering upgrades and random shards and whatnot that you pick up automatically and show up in the post battle screen. Not sure what they do but it hasn't stopped me from progressing at a good clip so far.
Similar to Monster Hunter, I found that playing with other people really helps and makes it more fun and gets you upgrades mighty quick. Numerous times by the time I got to the boss, my overpowered teammate had already killed it. Great for grinding offerings. I won't do multiplayer too much, but like in MH, just enough to get some good armor to move me along. Only found a few lobbies in action though when I played, so I created my own and people were pretty nice to my low levelness.
Don't understand sigils and that arm stuff yet nor the factions, but it hasn't affected me all that much. I hope it's not necessary to understand it and I can complete the game without it, much like crafting in rpgs.
Anyways, after almost seven hours, I'm still enjoying it and don't regret picking this over Freedom Wars.
ETA- I only have a 4gb memory card so I had to delete my unfinished P4G game in order to download SSD. Don't regret that either.
After playing about seven hours, here's some thoughts on it-
Loved the monster designs. Man are the monsters cool looking. The bosses I mean. The trash mobs look like what they're supposed to, but the monsters are out there in design.
An example- The Three Little Pigs monster
Loved the background setting- Imagery from all over combined in a blender and then spit out and painted as a backdrop to fight these monsters. Toppled greek statues, fairy tale imagery, pegasus wings stuck in the gground but moving. Great nightmarish imagery. However, after you see the arenas a few times, you no longer really pay attention to it as the action and bosses are at the foremost of importance.
Loved the little stories so far. These monsters that you're hunting are just greedy sorcerors who let greed turn them into monsters. Well, that's just one of the reasons you become a monster. A great metaphor to guilt, rage, etc. It is presently a little too slowly, but whatever, I can deal with that.
What I've found confusing is the offering upgrades and random shards and whatnot that you pick up automatically and show up in the post battle screen. Not sure what they do but it hasn't stopped me from progressing at a good clip so far.
Similar to Monster Hunter, I found that playing with other people really helps and makes it more fun and gets you upgrades mighty quick. Numerous times by the time I got to the boss, my overpowered teammate had already killed it. Great for grinding offerings. I won't do multiplayer too much, but like in MH, just enough to get some good armor to move me along. Only found a few lobbies in action though when I played, so I created my own and people were pretty nice to my low levelness.
Don't understand sigils and that arm stuff yet nor the factions, but it hasn't affected me all that much. I hope it's not necessary to understand it and I can complete the game without it, much like crafting in rpgs.
Anyways, after almost seven hours, I'm still enjoying it and don't regret picking this over Freedom Wars.
ETA- I only have a 4gb memory card so I had to delete my unfinished P4G game in order to download SSD. Don't regret that either.
