Look at all of you. Complaining about superfluous issues in your vidya. "Waaah, the story's unengaging! The aesthetics aren't as good as nocture/sj/whatever! They changed the gameplay! Too few save points! It looks ugly!" WHo fucking cares bro. This shit is the best playing megaten and it aint even fucking close. Does anything else really matter?
Perhaps blowing my load a little because I haven't fully completed it, but I think I can safely say this is the best game it probably could have been. Top notch gameplay, basically every change made to the battle system from 4 is objectively better (them removing smirk entirely, changing how light/dark attacks work, changes to buffs/debuffs, STATUS AILMENTS BEING ACTUALLY USEFUL).
And sure, maybe the story isn't as engaging as your personas and the like, but you know what this game has that those dont. Fucking cutscene direction. God, after playing FF10 and this I have no idea how the fuck people ever put up with peesona 5's decade long cutscenes of models standing there and doing absolutely nothing but a couple of stock animations. Jesus, jrpg fans have been putting up with that kind of shit for too long.
Anyway. Game's fun. Aesthetic's cool. Doi's design work has increased tenfold from 4a and SJR. I like running around the mountains collecting shit. Sidequests perfectly alleviate any need of grinding while giving you fun new content. Ratio. L. You fell off. Stan Bladee.
Perhaps blowing my load a little because I haven't fully completed it, but I think I can safely say this is the best game it probably could have been. Top notch gameplay, basically every change made to the battle system from 4 is objectively better (them removing smirk entirely, changing how light/dark attacks work, changes to buffs/debuffs, STATUS AILMENTS BEING ACTUALLY USEFUL).
And sure, maybe the story isn't as engaging as your personas and the like, but you know what this game has that those dont. Fucking cutscene direction. God, after playing FF10 and this I have no idea how the fuck people ever put up with peesona 5's decade long cutscenes of models standing there and doing absolutely nothing but a couple of stock animations. Jesus, jrpg fans have been putting up with that kind of shit for too long.
Anyway. Game's fun. Aesthetic's cool. Doi's design work has increased tenfold from 4a and SJR. I like running around the mountains collecting shit. Sidequests perfectly alleviate any need of grinding while giving you fun new content. Ratio. L. You fell off. Stan Bladee.
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dudes are really fucking mad that you cannot stack buffs/debuffs to instantly win until the end of the game lol
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you can become just as broken with buffs in this game too because they refresh the stacks. Still not a fan of locking demon skill slots but sick game
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@jardhead idk, in previous games the suku buffs/debuffs made way more of a difference, in this one ill be at +2 and they'll be at -2 and they'll still hit me like 9/10 times
i agree tho they needed to be nerfed (while still being useful). ill still love how the others play but this one is easily the best no contest. the battles in the other games just came down to spamming buffs/debuffs, winning automatically if the boss doesn't have dekunda/dekaja, and then spamming them even more if the boss does have them lmao
i agree tho they needed to be nerfed (while still being useful). ill still love how the others play but this one is easily the best no contest. the battles in the other games just came down to spamming buffs/debuffs, winning automatically if the boss doesn't have dekunda/dekaja, and then spamming them even more if the boss does have them lmao
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@turdl3 yeah not sure what they did mathwise but on hard mode like you said suku is awful. It seems to only be needed so you don't miss but doesn't really affect enemies. I just meant debil/luster felt so strong overall even though they got "personafied". Boon boost makes them last forever and fights just seem to be much quicker thanks to your burst windows with magatsuhi. Other thing is magatsuhi buffs are beyond broken for some fights when they can move you up 4 levels lmao
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I am sorry backloggd user "eeleye420", I cannot associate with you. Anyone who gives a single electro-swing album a higher score than 1000 Gecs by 100 Gecs is a disgusting person in my book.
shut up wheatherday fan
i disagree with electro swing being better than 100 gecs but that user has based as fuck 5s and 4.5s so i forgive
weatherday is good as well
weatherday is good as well
electro swing is objectively the worst genre and this is not debatable
are we going to make a music discussion on a videogame review website
how is a story being bad or the aesthetic not being up to snuff a superfluous issues?
me playing pacman: bro how can i enjoy this it looks bad and theres no story
maybe if this was a review for Pacman your point would be valid, but the strong story, a cool aesthetic, and a few other things are kinda the soul of the series, so them being kinda bad in this game is not really a superfluous issue. But whatever bro, happy you had more fun than me with this game.
chief i agree with you on the other points but as a massive smt fan i can safely say the majority of games story's are mediocre at best. theres at most like 2 games in the series with stories i would describe as "good"
idk man, I really like nocturne's story, it takes a more symbolic way of telling its story and how picking a side is important and IV's nihilistic themes and making you think if it's even worth saving Toyko. So V having barely having a story at all really urckes me the wrong way.
^ nocturne barely has a story and iv's narrative is just derivative of the first two games in the least creative ways imaginable. i'll give it to you that nocturne has cooler characters at a surface level, but like... that's not even slightly high praise
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