You're the average joe of the game, worse you're the unlucky version of average joe, but it all changes when a lovely girl in maid outfit let you try your luck at a lottery... Against all odd you win.... You win godhood... But reality is a harsh mistress and being god for you means satisfying the prayers of some strange fellas.. Or at least so it seems.....
If you've played ZHP the story of an unlucky guy getting an important role that turns out to be a nightmare should be familiar, after all it's the same premise of zhp.. If you haven't played it, after finishing this game go and buy zhp on psn, seriously it's a GREAT game!
AngelMaid follower (you get to choose a follower among your angelic maids that will accompany you in your fights acting as a secondary party member.. Nice per se but the ai isn't exactly stellar)
Well I'll not indulge into this, for the game itself is quite scarce with details about your angelic cohort, so i'll follow their example. Yeah I'm being lazy
Hardcore Gamer Magazine - The Guided Fate Paradox is a niche game, but that shouldnt scare off anyone who has a taste for Japanese RPGs. - 80
Vandal Online - NIS does what NIS does better: a great mix of strategy and RPG. This is not their best game, but it still is a solid adventure you should try if you are interested in what it has to offer. - 76
NowGamer - A punishing tactical JRPG in a deceptively cute wrapper, The Guided Fate Paradox is for those who love Disgaea but wish it was just a little more complex. The difficulty of dungeons ramps up at an overwhelming pace, and doesn't ease off. - 80
Cheat Code Central - Though The Guided Fate Paradox is a very difficult game, with the danger of being overwhelmed and losing everything you've worked for constantly looming overhead, I cant get over how streamlined, easy to understand, and enjoyable this particular adventure is. - 94
God is a Geek - The real Paradox, then, is what exactly this game wants to be: visual novel or hardcore dungeon crawler. Whats here is entertaining enough, no need to worry about that, but youll enjoy it more once you accept that youve got a slightly sleazy schizophrenic on your hands. - 60
Got the Limited Edition coming in. Looking forward to playing it next week - you Europeans are lucky getting it in October .
Hopefully I'll actually get through the game. No matter how much I love them, there's something about JRPGs that makes me stop a few hours in and never come back. I think the only two I've actually beaten this gen are Nier (if that counts) and Hyperdimension Neptunia.
Impressions are welcome, was thinking of getting this, but Nisa has been sorta underwhelming recently other than Disgaea. Wondering how similar this is to that.
I've heard good things about this game, but I wonder if I should wait for the (inevitable?) Vita version. (Though this game has no DLC, so maybe it won't get one...)
Well this is zhp with a new skin..
It's basically a roguelike on the low end of the difficulty spectrum..
Each time you enter in a dungeon your level is back to 1, but the levels you have when you clear a dungeon are stored and influence your stat growth, initial stat etc.. Basically a lvl 1 char with 200 stored level will roughly translate in a char that at level 10 equates more or less lvl 15-16 in terms of pure stat, more if you factor in equipment..
Equipment comes in various type head, leg, special, arm (you have two arm slots) and each let's you esecutrice a special skill.. Skills are usually tied to gear and not to you.
Every action you perform consume energy (even moving) and when energy reach 0 you consume hp to move (but you can replenish energy with food).
So far the game is really nice, and a worthy successor to zhp (there are quite a few good tunes too).
My only gripe so far are voices..
If you listen to jp voices and get to familiarize with the characters, you'll soon realize that some of the us voices aren't a good choice..
For example laniel us muauauau laugh is obnoxius with the us va...
Personally i'm enjoying it, but the roguelike approach can be offputting for some, though the game is so easy in the storymode that this can be used as a appetizer before going in the dark side of roguelike where you death is a certainty
Ah yeah, story is passable, a few well orchestrated joke, but nothing memorable...
Altough their take on cinderella story was intriguing
I've heard good things about this game, but I wonder if I should wait for the (inevitable?) Vita version. (Though this game has no DLC, so maybe it won't get one...)
Is this a good title entry to the whole genre? Never played a game like it, before, but I'm curious. Just afraid I'd suck at it, and it'd be too difficult with no experience.
Looking forward to this, and getting this on the 5th, but I still need to finish Disgaea D2. And once that's done PS4 will come out. So it may be awhile before I even get to this game sadly.
Looking forward to this, and getting this on the 5th, but I still need to finish Disgaea D2. And once that's done PS4 will come out. So it may be awhile before I even get to this game sadly.
Ah, I'm only getting AC4 and BF4 at launch, so it really depends how long those games take me to see if I can fit in this game before inFamous comes out. And maybe even lightning returns.
I want to try this game when it comes out. However, I have a concern.
I have a really low tolerance of the kind of games where it's just an excuse for way too much innuendo and contrived porn situations. I'm not sure what the Japanese word was.
I'm okay with cuteness, even sickening levels of it, but I'm not some little boy who has never touched a woman before, that kind of stuff doesn't interest me, it's actually a bit offensive.
This game seems like it might have a lot of that, I haven't read much about it. Can someone clue me in?
I want to try this game when it comes out. However, I have a concern.
I have a really low tolerance of the kind of games where it's just an excuse for way too much innuendo and contrived porn situations. I'm not sure what the Japanese word was.
I'm okay with cuteness, even sickening levels of it, but I'm not some little boy who has never touched a woman before, that kind of stuff doesn't interest me, it's actually a bit offensive.
This game seems like it might have a lot of that, I haven't read much about it. Can someone clue me in?
From what I've seen of the game, it does not have a lot of fanservice at all. In fact I haven't seen any in the videos I've watched. I think you'll be fine.
I want to try this game when it comes out. However, I have a concern.
I have a really low tolerance of the kind of games where it's just an excuse for way too much innuendo and contrived porn situations. I'm not sure what the Japanese word was.
I'm okay with cuteness, even sickening levels of it, but I'm not some little boy who has never touched a woman before, that kind of stuff doesn't interest me, it's actually a bit offensive.
This game seems like it might have a lot of that, I haven't read much about it. Can someone clue me in?
So far nothing excessive, some sprited stuff sure but certainly nothing @ar tonelico level or similar... Thankfully..
I'll add the review when i finish this conf call
Wow, forgot this was out tomorrow. As someone who liked the faster pace of ZHP, I might get this one of these days once it's cheaper & I have more money if it's pretty much a spiritual successor.
I'm interested, but at the same time I don't know if this will bring anything to the table to justify playing it instead of going back and playing ZHP again. If the gameplay is pretty much the same and the story is worse, I don't know if there's a point.
I'm interested, but at the same time I don't know if this will bring anything to the table to justify playing it instead of going back and playing ZHP again. If the gameplay is pretty much the same and the story is worse, I don't know if there's a point.
I've never played ZHP, so I'm going into this game totally blind. I preordered Paradox on Amazon and should have it tomorrow. I'm excited to finally get to dive into this game, and I'm glad to see a few good reviews for it too.
aka Kamisama to Unmei Kakumei Paradox (神様と運命革命パラドクス
Has anyone else played this game? It was released January 24 with this game. It's a roguelike and a spiritual sequel to Zettai Hero Project (I didn't play that since I don't have a PSP). I finished the main storyline in about 30 hours and sunk another 20 in the postgame so far, here's my impressions of it.
The good:
The various factors that you can use to power your character (equipment, god modification tiles and grails)are fun to manipulate.
Nearly every world in the main storyline has a unique gimmick. I was most impressed by world 5, where each stage takes place
on a cube, and you're allowed to travel from side to side whenever you cross an edge.
Similarly, most of the boss fights that end each world place you in interesting circumstances.
The bad:
And some of the boss fights don't, they're just gear/level checks.
The quality of the graphics seems a minor step down from Disgaea 4, from the moment the main menu appeared.
There's lots of NPCs who only appear as silhouettes in cutscenes. I didn't like that, felt a bit cheap.
Storyline is pretty bad. Lots of stuff happen without much explanation, and some of it is pointless, like the end-of-chapter segments with
Ranael reporting to the demons
. Disgaea's end-of-chapter segments were at least amusing. On a related note, not much character development.
Some cheap deaths due to the UI. There's an enemy that will petrify you a few turns after you've been attacked. I didn't pick up on this because the petrification indicator wasn't easily visible when you're in an area where your vision is reduced.
Another example is there's no visual indication of an enemy's attack range, you have to memorize based on what the enemy is. In the postgame there are extremely powerful enemies that are
humanoid silhouettes that can be equipped with the same sort of equipment you can. They will always be significantly higher level than you, and engaging them is very dangerous since you can't reliably tell what their attack range is, unless you're able to identfy their equipment and the corresponding attacks.
There are also enemies which are almost palette swaps of other enemies, but possess wildly different characteristics. (Perhaps this is typical of roguelikes, I'm not too familiar with them)
I'm interested in this. Really liked ZHP, even though I didn't finish it. (The stage gimmicks got a bit tiresome, especially the
balloon
world)
That said, I'm wondering if I was playing it wrong? I played ZHP like I would play a roguelike, I wasn't too attached to my stuff and if I died (losing my gear) I then I'd just keep playing, with "total level" going up etc.
The review I watched mentions that he'll spend a lot of time leveling up gear, and if he dies (losing the gear) he will just reload his old save. Which way is the better way to play? Won't he be missing out on increasing his Total level that way?
I'm interested in this. Really liked ZHP, even though I didn't finish it. (The stage gimmicks got a bit tiresome, especially the
balloon
world)
That said, I'm wondering if I was playing it wrong? I played ZHP like I would play a roguelike, I wasn't too attached to my stuff and if I died (losing my gear) I then I'd just keep playing, with "total level" going up etc.
The review I watched mentions that he'll spend a lot of time leveling up gear, and if he dies (losing the gear) he will just reload his old save. Which way is the better way to play? Won't he be missing out on increasing his Total level that way?
Based on my experience your stats grow faster through your equipment than through your level. And you really do get attached to your equipment, cos you can cultivate them over several runs. Not to mention you can fuse them into other equipment, transferring a portion of the stats they have.
