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XBlaze Code: Embryo |OT| - More Blaze, Less Blue
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Basileus777
Member
I played through the first route, and my main complaint with it is the pacing. It felt like I was being rushed from scene to scene with nothing being given time to breath. And it was really odd how every single fight scene was skipped over and not shown, and this is a game from a fighting game franchise!
Basileus777
Member
Interface23
Member
Got this too, luckily my Gamestop is letting me exchange it for PS3 version
MaximumSpider
Banned
Did Aksys say anything about the glitch?
Interface23
Member
Not yet. I tweeted them and got no response as of yet.
Interface23
Member
Got a reply to my tweet
Chris Rivera ‏@Lord_Hysteria 7m
@Bo_deWindt Don't know if you can do anything about this but there is a huge save glitch in Xblaze on the vita that makes platinum imposs.
Frank deWindt II
‏@Bo_deWindt
@Lord_Hysteria Yeah, we're already looking into things
So hopefully we get some resolution soon!
Chris Rivera ‏@Lord_Hysteria 7m
@Bo_deWindt Don't know if you can do anything about this but there is a huge save glitch in Xblaze on the vita that makes platinum imposs.
Frank deWindt II
‏@Bo_deWindt
@Lord_Hysteria Yeah, we're already looking into things
So hopefully we get some resolution soon!
Tizoc
Member
Is that the PSP game or the musou-like game?
Interface23
Member
3DS Game I think
Think I'll play some Rorona in the meantime while this is sorted out.Got a reply to my tweet
Chris Rivera ‏@Lord_Hysteria 7m
@Bo_deWindt Don't know if you can do anything about this but there is a huge save glitch in Xblaze on the vita that makes platinum imposs.
Frank deWindt II
‏@Bo_deWindt
@Lord_Hysteria Yeah, we're already looking into things
So hopefully we get some resolution soon!
3DS game that had a nasty glitch, which made Aksys release a patch a month or so later.
MaximumSpider
Banned
Cool. Putting this on hold until this is sorted out.Got a reply to my tweet
Chris Rivera ‏@Lord_Hysteria 7m
@Bo_deWindt Don't know if you can do anything about this but there is a huge save glitch in Xblaze on the vita that makes platinum imposs.
Frank deWindt II
‏@Bo_deWindt
@Lord_Hysteria Yeah, we're already looking into things
So hopefully we get some resolution soon!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
Wait, the 3ds game was bugged? Did they ever fix it?
Tizoc
Member
It was, but they fixed it a month or so after the release.
We're currently looking into the VITA issue and will hopefully have it resolved sooner than later
Thank you for acknowledging the issue, let's hope it gets sorted out soon.
MaximumSpider
Banned
Yay! Can't wait.We're currently looking into the VITA issue and will hopefully have it resolved sooner than later
Hours Left
Member
Cool.We're currently looking into the VITA issue and will hopefully have it resolved sooner than later
I'll wait to start playing until then.
In case you do want to start sooner than later, the entire game (including the gag route) is fully playable (just go ahead and turn off auto-save in the settings menu).
The primary thing that will be affected is obtaining all the AOS entries (story recaps you read by saving at specific segments of the game) due to the current issue, which will prevent you from obtaining the AOS related trophy, and ultimately the Platinum.
Unfortunately I don't have an ETA as of yet, since it would depend on the time it takes for the developer to address the issue, for us to check it, and then get it approved and released.
But once we have a better idea, I'll be sure to let everyone know
Ideally it will hopefully be a few weeks or less, but no promises as of yet~
Basileus777
Member
I've read through three routes, and I'm feeling more and more disappointing with this. The whole dialogue only and no prose approach is probably the biggest problem, it doesn't work all that well. The main character has no development because you never see his thoughts. It especially kills the pacing of scenes, it constantly feels like you are being rushed through from to scene and nothing is given time to breathe. Way too often you are reading a few lines, seeing a transition, reading another line, seeing a transition, and then a loading screen, and on and on. I actually think the comedy scenes in the common route have been the best part of it.
Edit: I finished the rest of the VN bar the gag route, and the Mei/Koun routes don't suffer from the same pacing issues that bothered during the end of the other routes. But they were just really short side routes.
Edit: I finished the rest of the VN bar the gag route, and the Mei/Koun routes don't suffer from the same pacing issues that bothered during the end of the other routes. But they were just really short side routes.
I know they made a visual novel written by Tomokazu Sugita, weirdly enough.
Basileus777
Member
It's true that the bonus VA stuff isn't subbed and I encountered those weird background problems for like 3 TOI articles. But I encountered no crashes and platinumed the game experiencing only one bug, which was that one scene replay didn't unlock and I had to skip through a few chapters again to get it. This is on the PS3. Unless the Vita version is drastically different, that's a bunch of hyperbole.
I don't know, I'm not reading a lot of positive feedback of the game anywhere on the internet. Not to mention, USGamer review is out:
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/xblaze-code-embryo-review-vita
http://www.usgamer.net/articles/xblaze-code-embryo-review-vita
0.5/5
Basileus777
Member
It wasn't very good and my impressions in this thread weren't positive, but the game isn't broken and a 0.5 score is lol worthy, especially when it's from someone who admittedly didn't read much of it and spends most of the review ranting about moe. He couldn't even figure out of the really simple route mechanic works, complains about having to start over after bad ends, and about the production values when that is actually one of the strengths of the VN! It sounds like he's never played a VN like this before and is ranting against the genre more than anything specific about the game. It has many flaws, this reviewer just isn't capable of articulating them.
Basileus777
Member
It's a shame that his review is such a mess then, though I'm skeptical that an actual VN enthusiast could possibly be confused by Xblaze's route structure or by the concept of bad endings. It's honestly one of the worst reviews I've ever read, up there with whoever blasted Nier because they couldn't figure out how to fish. He quit the game before even finishing one route!
And I didn't even like Xblaze.
Be that as it may, his review is poorly put together. It also certainly didnt read as being from a VN enthusiast, while it would be fine for him to point out what he felt were the games failings at several points he seemed genuinely confused by mechanics and critical of others that are more or less de facto standards when it comes to VN's (and not to sound elitist but his opening list of VN's read more along the lines of "VN-lite" than something an enthusiast would list - not that I think it matters either way, just stood out a little I thought)
Yup, people have already started platinuming it
Hours Left
Member
Awesome.The patch should now be out which addresses the VITA ver saving issues, if you guys want to go ahead and check it out
Yup, people have already started platinuming it
That's great, now I just have to wait until my supplier gets the game this week or the next. Thanks for the attention, Akselziys!
MaximumSpider
Banned
Just checked and my Vita already had it downloaded.
Time to play!
Time to play!
Tizoc
Member
The patch should now be out which addresses the VITA ver saving issues, if you guys want to go ahead and check it out
So fast!
Will update the game today thanks.