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Post by Sarge on Aug 30, 2019 12:38:40 GMT -5
Against my better judgment, I have pre-ordered River City Girls for Switch. If anyone else is interested, there's a four-week pre-order period on Limited Run Games right now. With shipping, it ends up being I think around $10 more expensive than the announced digital price.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 4, 2019 18:17:57 GMT -5
I think the original came out in 2010, so this is still best mentioned here I think. I know there's not many fans of this series here though (think Sarge maybe likes some of the Blade's?)
I know it's me being snarky, but I still haven't forgiven NoA for not really wanting to bring this West side at all originally. You could tell with the little marketing it had, low print run, etc they just barely cared and were completely failing their developers and IP's... here we are in 2019 and Monolith Soft are now a serious pillar for Nintendo thesedays. Wonder if we'd be saying that had these new Xeno's never came to the West. I think Xenoblade 2 is Monolith Soft's best selling game already.
I still haven't played Xenoblade X on the Wii U, kind of hoping that one gets the port... but eh. Knowing Nintendo that might not be for another 5 years.
Anyways I loved the first Xenoblade and seeing it in actual HD refined a bit could be nice, but I think I'd only double dip if they give this a journalist mode or something like that actually haha. The combat in that one is kind of a grind after awhile. I recall taking a whole summer off from playing the game then went back to it and finished it up. I loved it all around but the gameplay wasn't the best part and overly drawn out. That was not the story with Xenoblade 2 and especially Torna though, I could not put those down and the combat was incredible in those for me.
EDIT:
Deadly Premonition 2???
Not sure if Swery is involved or what, but wow. And the original shadow dropped on Switch today... I'm watching some streams and the performance looks better than the 360/PS3 versions haha. Hopefully they did some retooling on it and improved that framerate.
Trials of Mana though, wow it looks amazing.
Also:
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Post by Sarge on Sept 4, 2019 20:52:12 GMT -5
This is cool, but I'm pretty sure I'm not up to another 99.5 hour run.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 4, 2019 21:06:53 GMT -5
Gotta shred those pointless sidequests, I only spent 73 hours on it myself.
Anyways, I'm just happy to see Xenoblade get some love, a second chance, and more exposure. The 3DS version never sounded ideal.
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Post by Ex on Sept 4, 2019 21:39:21 GMT -5
I found the original Xenoblade to be incredibly overrated, and that was after spending over 80 hours beating it. I gave it a 7/10. Thoughts from back then:
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. The game constantly abused 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 bad plot, reams of pointless gopher fetch 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 needed to be. For most folks this won't matter, because 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.
That said, I was clearly in the minority in not being madly in love with the game. So in that regard, the port is a good thing.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 4, 2019 21:49:14 GMT -5
Did my big edit not go through?
Of that big three for the Wii, I liked Xenoblade a lot.
I thought The Last Story was crap, gave up after 5 hours. I'll try it again, but it seemed like the D grade version of The Lost Odyssey. I wish Sakaguchi went out in better form since he's only done mobile stuff since.
I'm still looking forward to Pandora's Tower though. Came out last so I'd have to talk about it in this forum. I get a lot of Castlevania, Fumito Ueda, and Nier vibes from it.
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Post by Ex on Sept 4, 2019 22:02:59 GMT -5
Personally I enjoyed The Last Story more than Xenoblade. My main issue with TLS was its iffy framerates at times. I've not played Pandora's Tower yet, though I've owned it for years. I'm pretty sure it's interesting conceptually if nothing else.
Edit: TLC = TLS ugh
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Post by Sarge on Sept 4, 2019 22:44:01 GMT -5
Xenoblade was good, but TLS was possibly my GOTY that year. Fantastic stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 5, 2019 6:27:44 GMT -5
Well, I might actually want to buy a Switch if Deadly Premonition 2 is going to be an exclusive for it. I'd be happier about it if Nintendo finally released the Metroid Prime Trilogy on the Switch. Ridiculous how you can play The Witcher 3 or Skyrim on it, but no Metroid Prime.
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Post by Xeogred on Sept 5, 2019 6:41:43 GMT -5
Yeah, Nintendo really makes it feel like Metroid is a D-list priority or something.
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