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
Kinda want to play this. SO2 is probably a top ten JRPG ever for me and SO3 isn’t far behind, but man 4 and 5 were awful.
I’ve been waiting for Game Pass, despite the trend for SE games being to leave the service rather than join it, but this review has pushed me to wait for sale.
People obviously excited for improved performance, which was bizarrely awful for a game you could make look better on a PSX emulator with shaders, but I’m more hype for potentially a fix for Pip after literally decades of him being bugged to be the worst character in the game.
I think at launch it was mid at worst, but got panned for not being in the same stratosphere as mainline SMT and Persona. With the DLCs, however, I think it’s a solid 7.5-8/10 game on it’s own and a great addition to the service.
You still can. If youve never played it. Might get something out of it. But as someone who bought and played tos on gamecube and bought it at launch…this is an insult.
I started Kakarot and was enjoying it but got pulled away for a few other games (a game club thing, and some GP stuff that called out like a siren). Looking forward to getting back to it. I think I’ll just do the main story. There’s a ton of DLC, overwhelming really.
They dropped too many JRPG in GP… It’s just impossible to keep up.
I’ll try Soul Hackers because I have to, but I’ll probably drop it and maybe I’ll come back to it later this year… If only they could space it out a bit !
This. One of the more annoying party members in the entire series and lacks any redeemable features like being decent in battle (in fact, she might be the worst character in the game there too)
Even though I have GP, I just decided to start buying them all. At least it supports the devs more and I can play them in my own time without feeling rushed. GP is killing it in the RPG department.
Me too. I just play a few hours and buy them if I like what I played.
I bought so many JRPG games like Octopath Traveler, Astria Ascending, Persona 4 and 5…
I’ll probably buy Soul Hackers too. I love that we have access to so many japanese games now, but it feels like we’re catching up 10 years of releases in a few years !
Didn’t pay full price at least.
