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Post by Xeogred on Mar 26, 2020 17:07:37 GMT -5
The second half of this trailer really shows off the new version and man, I'm excited. I'll wait to hear the intricate details when it launches and people get their hands on it. It's even coming with some expansion and new content. If it's anything like the size of Torna that would be insane (Torna is basically a full game in itself).
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Post by Moulinoski on Mar 28, 2020 11:32:54 GMT -5
I was pleasantly surprised with what I saw for Trials of Mana. I invite you to play the game next month for our April Club Retro. Let us know your opinions of the experience. I plan to play the game next month myself (for the first time). Let's see if I get around to it. I haven't yet finished Secret of Mana (I kinda got frustrated that I couldn't use the magic rope in the final dungeon and quickly exit it; and then I got lost inside anyway) and as lame as it sounds, my free time is now being spent on Animal Crossing. It's nice to play something that others are currently playing and talking about for a change. And that's IF I have free time. I've been putting in extra hours at work for reasons I won't get into. But the itch to return to SoM and to start ToM is getting harder to ignore! Edit: Oh yeah, the new Xenoblade DE trailer looks really nice. I don't have a big desire to get it since I already gave the 3DS version like 100 hours of my life, but it looks much, much nicer and prettier. The characters don't all look like hideous butt wipes on polygonal models, which is nice. The environments look much better too but those were always pretty good in my opinion. One day, I hope to try my hand at Xenoblade 2 and to also finish Xenoblade X (stopped playing around the time where I have to do a bunch of stuff for the robot license).
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 28, 2020 12:00:14 GMT -5
What's great is that I just heard today you can access the new Epilogue campaign in Xenoblade DE right away. Great move for us returning fans. And yeah, the one huge nitpick I had with the original wasn't exactly the character models per se, but the individual pieces of armor all looked atrocious haha. I think you can customize the looks now or just have everything stay to their default look. Thank goodness. You're near the end of SoM Moulinoski, get to it!
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Post by Sarge on Mar 28, 2020 12:07:43 GMT -5
Oh, good, it's just a Xenoblade remake, I have no desire to buy it again, regardless of how shiny it is...
*Nintendo announces new stuff*
Dang it, Nintendo! What are you doing to me?
(In all seriousness, I actually have both the US and PAL release of this game. I imported the latter when it looked like there was no hope for it coming over. Then it did. I found the US version for super cheap quite a bit later, so I don't feel bad about it, and you can actually repack your save to make it work between versions.)
The game I really want to see get a remake is The Last Story. That game was incredible, and would benefit a lot more from improving the engine since it gets so chuggy in spots.
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 28, 2020 12:17:33 GMT -5
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Post by Ex on Mar 28, 2020 12:35:30 GMT -5
I already gave the 3DS version like 100 hours of my life I gave the Wii version 80 hours of mine to finish it back in 2018. These were my review notes on Xenoblade after I beat it:
Top 5 things I liked about XC:
A unique, beautiful, and innovative setting. XC provides a palpable sense of exploration. The best graphics you will ever see on Wii. An absolutely amazing OST. Fiora's derrière is magnifique.
Top 5 things I didn't like:
Short sighted battle system that is badly designed, cumbersome, and increasingly tedious. A lame overwrought plot with a boring husk of a main character. Party AI is absolutely, infuriatingly abysmal. The last 25% of XC is a grindy, monotonous, buzzkill slog. XC constantly abuses the ever living hell out the Wii's disc drive.
Overall:
When it was released in the west, many gamers proclaimed Xenoblade Chronicles "the savoir of the JRPG". It's true that Xenoblade Chronicles represents a ton of development work, and is an amazing technical accomplishment for its platform. But any discerning RPG veteran would be hard-pressed to ignore XC's biggest faults; an inept combat system, a simply bad plot, reams of pointless shallow side quests, unbalanced endgame, hours of grinding required if you don't do the side quests, and a play time that's twice as long as it should be. For most folks this won't matter, because hey wow they're running across the beautiful carcass of a dead god. I probably had my hopes too high going in (thanks internet), but this savoir didn't lead me to any promised land. 7/10
I'm not opposed to buying a shiny remake though for the Switch. There were stunning parts of the game I wouldn't mind re-experiencing in higher definition. I've not played XBX yet, though I own it. What was bad about the getting the robot license? The game I really want to see get a remake is The Last Story. I'm totally onboard with that idea. I enjoyed The Last Story quite a lot. But it really did chug and choke on the Wii a bit too often. Case of right game wrong platform.
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Post by Sarge on Mar 29, 2020 16:54:00 GMT -5
Not sure I'd say I'm stoked about it, but a remake of NieR: RepliCant is coming. Do note that this is not the same as the NieR we got, which was NieR: Gestalt. They're effectively the same game, but RepliCant has your cast as brother and sister, and Gestalt as father and daughter.
A new NieR game is also coming... on smartphones.
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 29, 2020 18:24:12 GMT -5
Cool that more people can experience intense depression with this remaster. Much like Deadly Premonition for me though, the original Nier is a game I love but don't really want to play again anytime soon because it's chunky. They would have to straight up change the mechanics/game itself to make it a little more fun haha. I highly recommend it to any ARPG fans though. It's good, the combat just won't blow your socks off or anything. The shmup styled boss battles are awesome and still in there though. But it really shines with the storytelling and characters. Either way, Automata was a huge success and I'd like to see more fans play the original.
I also think the Americanized dad character works way better for the story. I'm not sure if Yoko Taro has weighed in on what he considers canon. But the subtle love affair the old man has with one of the characters and the father daughter thing just all seemed perfect to me, I don't see it having as much impact with a younger brother role. Maybe it's just me though.
And oh boy, just like a lot of Square IP's, a new installment on phones is [EXACTLY] what I'm always wanting...
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Post by Sarge on Mar 29, 2020 19:21:25 GMT -5
I would be shocked if they didn't retool the combat in this one.
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Post by Ex on Mar 29, 2020 20:34:24 GMT -5
I've got the original Nier on 360. I've of course not played it yet. One of the #1 games that is driving me to buy a PS4 this year though is Nier: Automata, looks like a must play. I didn't realize until recently that Nier is a spin-off from the Drakengard series.
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