I’ve finished up the postgame in Star Ocean The Divine Force the other day. Both extra dungeons and super boss true forms defeated. Only have extremely grindy “craft 90% of items and weapons” achievements and Raymond’s playthrough left (I hear it’s 95% the same lol)
This was a great game, very underrated by Metacritic. The story boiled down to an evil man with a goatee wanting to take over the world and the characters aren’t that great, so I guess that factored in. The gameplay is just spot-on though, so fun to explore and fly around and fight things. Tales of Arise is what keeps coming to mind as a “comparison” game and I will say I enjoyed Star Ocean more.
8/10 game for me. Plays really great, weak story and clunky menus drag it down.
I am also playing Fire Emblem Engage, my first FE game. I used to have a mixed-bad opinion on JRPGs that use the Unity engine… Until this game. What a beautiful looking game. It’ graphics absolutely demolishes any other JRPGs I’ve played that use Unity like Soul Hackers 2.
I am not very far yet. I’ve actually chosen to use this game as Japanese reading material, as I’ve been following the Fire Emblem JP Twitter page and the clips they posted seemed fun and understandable for me to read. It’s not been overwhelming so far, and one reason I’m doing this is because the game supports a text log which you can open and replay voice lines which is great for listening comprehension as well. The pre-rendered cutscenes don’t seem to support this but so far the dialogue in those has been simple
