iapetus said:I'm sorry to hear that. I'm waiting for the PSP RPG thread to complement this.
How dare you come forward with a message of peace and togetherness.
iapetus said:I'm sorry to hear that. I'm waiting for the PSP RPG thread to complement this.
AniHawk said:How dare you come forward with a message of peace and togetherness.
Oh, okay. Overwhelming greed is fine.iapetus said:I see it less as peace and togetherness, and more as an overwhelming greed to have all the RPGs on all systems.
charlequin said:You people are no fun!
After next week is over Luminous Arc will probably move to my most anticipated game slot -- SRPGs are awesome and this one looks gorgeous and promises to have an awesome soundtrack and (hopefully) fun gameplay.
I haven't been following Etrian Odyssey like basically at all. Can someone explain to me what's exciting and awesome about it? Everyone seems pumped, so if it's gonna be great I wanna know all about it!
Also, this is mildly off-topic but does anyone know if Yggdra Union is still coming out in the US?
Pureauthor said:Isn't Etrian Odyssey the localized Yggdra Union?
And from what I can tell, it's like SMT.
charlequin said:After next week is over Luminous Arc will probably move to my most anticipated game slot -- SRPGs are awesome and this one looks gorgeous and promises to have an awesome soundtrack and (hopefully) fun gameplay.
Pureauthor said:Isn't Etrian Odyssey the localized Yggdra Union?
And from what I can tell, it's like SMT.
basically a 1st person dungeon crawl. SMT had the negotiation with demons and fusing demons aspects tho and the alignment system which basically puts it away from the rest of the rpg crowd.charlequin said:I don't care to spend $1,000 on copies of the last few SMTs and the translation-patched original doesn't emulate right in ZSNES, so I think I'll need more words than that. (As in: sell it to me when I've never played an SMT.)
I've played both and I loves me FF3DS! Scarlet is just picky. ^_^Red Scarlet said:I posted my annoyances near the end of the official topic. Many people disagreed with them, so I'd try it out yourself and decide. Many people thoroughly enjoyed the game (not sure if Trin had played the original), while I and maybe a handful of others were disappointed with the game overall. A lot of my complaints about the original game weren't really "fixed", and in some cases were for the worse. I came into the game not expecting much to begin with, either. But that's me.
RevenantKioku said:I've played both and I loves me FF3DS! Scarlet is just picky. ^_^
TiVo said:Thanks, for this thread.
I am buying every game listed.
Someone needs to do a DS awesome games on a whole thread like the GBA one.
I'll probably end up getting FF3DS anyway despite my gut feeling to stay away.
Just what we need, calm rational commentary from someone who attempted to troll earlier in the thread.Chris Michael said:This serious internet argument has reached epic Gamefaqs proportions.
Chris Michael said:... but man, the DS has pretty shit graphics. :<
Not until a day or two from now.Llyranor said:Isn't Magical Starsign coming out today? Where are the impressions?
Not so -- Azure Dreams DS has already been released in multiple regions. It's Tao's Adventure.Maxrpg said:--------------------------
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Maxrpg said:Any impressions from Magical Starsign? Who likes it? Who thinks it sucks? ETC? I need to know so I can pick it up!
Ah, true, true. :lol :lolChemo said:Not so -- Azure Dreams DS has already been released in multiple regions. It's Tao's Adventure.
Heh. I know just how you feel. My list is almost as long as yours, and it seems to continuously grow.youngblood000 said:My list of "DS Games I Will Buy" is now up to 27, with about 30 more "DS Games I Might Buy (but probably won't)." ...And I haven't even mentioned consoles yet... Heaven help me.
I made it because people should know the awesomeness that is about to descend on the DS.youngblood000 said:Thanks for the thread, but at the same time, WHY did you have to make this...? Was it to taunt me!? My list of "DS Games I Will Buy" is now up to 27, with about 30 more "DS Games I Might Buy (but probably won't)." After owning a DS for 6 months, I only own 12 games (being a full-time student doesn't leave much time for money-making), which means that it'll take me forever to buy all these games and play them all, and in the meantime, more games will be released and announced. ...And I haven't even mentioned consoles yet... Heaven help me.
Now 7:53 into the game, I have to stress this more than ever before. Back when I wrote this, I didn't realize that the battle system was going to bring in timed attacks/defense reminiscent of the three types of Mario RPGs, that the cast of characters would remind me as much as it does of Breath of Fire (except with personality), and I also just reached a boss who speaks quite a bit like a slightly more sane Fawful from M&L1, or less sane Koal from Advance Wars DS. His dialogue:Jiggy37 said:Short form:
Magical Starsign takes a lot of the things that past RPGs have succeeded with and tosses them into a salad bowl to see if they'll work in new combinations with each other. Generally, they do.
Jiggy37 said:Now 7:53 into the game, I have to stress this more than ever before. Back when I wrote this, I didn't realize that the battle system was going to bring in timed attacks/defense reminiscent of the three types of Mario RPGs, that the cast of characters would remind me as much as it does of Breath of Fire (except with personality), and I also just reached a boss who speaks quite a bit like a slightly more sane Fawful from M&L1, or less sane Koal from Advance Wars DS. His dialogue:
Boss: You came, just as Master Kale said you would. You are like strung-up marionettes being controlled by puppets within a puppet show INSIDE a puppet show!
Party: *confusion*
Boss: You will never take the aquarino! Your flimsy little plan is as transparent as soggy rice paper! And I am the crazed sumo wrestler crashing through the wet paper bag that is your pathetic scheme!
So, yeah. Putting that aside, it's the dialogue that seriously carries this game--not just the above, but also the dialogue of the main faction of enemies, a great sequence of detours satirizing governments, the speech styles of every different species I've run into, and the most entertainingly blunt set of signposts since, well, probably ever. And the encounter rate is kept to a pretty minimal level, almost to the point of not interfering, which is cool. For those who liked the humor in Earthbound, Mario and Luigi, etc., this should be right up your alley.
On the downside, the difficulty isn't as high as I'd like it to be anymore--once I got the third character it's been pretty smooth sailing, except when fighting bosses. (I almost wonder if it was supposed to be smooth sailing from the beginning and I just didn't know because I was a Light character fighting predominantly at night.) The battles are mostly still kept interesting by the timed actions and also by what I just said: the fact that they're not that common, so you're not going to be fighting the same enemies over and over again. I can't say I've seen any enemies get old yet, which is rare in even some of the best RPGs.
Also, not sure whether I'll ultimately agree with IGN, but the game hasn't seemed too linear to me at least so far. I already had one diverging path, and ended up going through a dungeon meant for four characters at higher levels with three characters at lower levels. We'll see.