Good job, guys. You broke Schala!
I'm fine now. Kind of.
*looks at the screenshot again, and then scrutinizes Hope again*
What the fuck is this? Toriyama this isn't "time stands still for everyone". What is wrong with you. Do you know what time travel is? Oh, you obviously don't because FF13-2's story is a colossal mess and its concept of time travel
didn't make sense! It was so boring to play. And now I think LR's going to make even
less sense. Because what the flip at Hope!
I... I...
Why is it every time this game comes up, it has a tendency to piss me off? Remember the last time this happened? It's not necessarily that the game looks bad (even though it does), but it looks so boring. Gawd.
At least Seven Force knows what's up and is playing a game that's
good and does time travel
right. And it's one of the best versions of ATB around. >:V
...but what happens when it ends up being your fav. FF13 game thanks to its gameplay?
You did kinda convinced me to skip majority of cutscenes in FF13-2 in a future replay for the Platinum though~
Not when the gameplay in the E3 demo looks exactly what I expected in terms of looking like one-note semi-auto/semi-passive nonsense. It
still looks like everything I disliked about the first trailer for this game. No freaking thank you.
FF13-2's platinum isn't even hard and you can do it on a single playthrough. That's what I did, and it was the majority of people's first platinums in that game's OT from what I remember. It's just the casino trophy and fragment that was complete bullshit.
Schala don't kid yourself.
You were always going to play through this game anyway.
Not when it comes out! Nope. No way. Unless someone gives it to me as a gift because they presumably would want to see me suffer, I dunno.
Speaking of this, I'm kind of going through Trails in the Sky right now, and my god, I have never played a game with slower pacing than this.
If I wasn't so goddamned sure this was building to somehting great I wouldn't be able to take it. I don't thin the slow pace is bad per se, it's trying to do something , I can see that. It's just I have never played a game with pacing so slow.
I mean shit, things happen, but they take foreeeveeerr.
The first Trails in the Sky game is probably the worst one out of the trilogy I've played. Even when I played it for the first time, I had to restart it because I felt kinda bored and put it down for a while. But it's best to keep moving in Trails games. I found it boring for the same reasons you did, and I didn't get super-interested in it until towards the end. I mean, I don't mind the setting and atmosphere because that's the sort of thing that Suikoden has, but the pacing didn't rope me in like it did everyone else. That's why I usually hesitate to say what I think about the first Trails game. I don't like it as much as GAF does, and I wish SC and 3rd would come out here just so people could experience better games. Even Zero has better pacing than FC.
The second one is much better in terms of pacing than the first, and more shit happens. You realize things are at stake because the first game ended up telling you that. Plus you have Suikoden-esque geographical and political references thrown about the place, some of which you won't fully realize until you play 3rd, Zero, and presumably Ao.
The 3rd is my favourite out of the Sora no Kiseki games, and it's the game that finally clicked with me in terms of being a "oh, so this is why people love these games!" sort of thing. But it's so remarkably different from FC and SC, because of where it takes place, what it does, and its emphasis on characterization. Doing the sidequests in 3rd completely matters, and I've learned so much about the characters from the past two games while doing so. It acts as an excellent bridge game between Sora and Zero that I'd hate to see it not localized here since some of the stuff that comes into play in 3rd kind of sticks around in Zero (and Ao, I think). I'd written a set of impressions for 3rd in a PM to someone else before, but since it involves some spoiler content, I'm not sure if I should post it in here. But the soundtrack is just excellent, as I'd written in the past. It's my favourite soundtrack of the the three Sora games. FC is meh, SC is alright, and 3rd is SO good.
While
AC2 was my LTTP GotY in 2012, since I finished 3rd in January, I guess that'd make it my LTTP GotY 2013. It was
that good. Asura's Wrath is my 2013 "2012 GotY", and I'll make sure to write that down right now.
Shoot, even Nayuta felt like a better-paced Trails game, and it wasn't even a Trails game. It was a nice hybrid of Ys and Trails, and its platforming was so fun.
