did yall who say this was a masterpiece ever finished the game ?
my god this is a crazy polarizing game, for every great there are 2 terribles.
pro : night and day system based on time
con : a time based quest system without the ways of making you skip the waiting, some missions will make you wait almost 20 minutes because people are sleeping.
pro : an immersive style, your character needs to rest
con : if you get tired mid quest, get ready to stare a few minutes at the screen while musashi straight up takes a nap in front of you.
pro : npcs react to time and day.
con : same problem with the time, the town can be blowing up but they will take their sweet nap and give you the mission in the morning, the npcs will also lock you into their dialog without you being able to skip it, that means sitting through a 20 second dialog box every time you go buy some C-drink to heal.
pro : zelda style, exploration is the key
con : who said you need to know how to design a zelda game to make one ? just throw a bunch of missions on random places and let the player search the entirety of the map, even if some missions are time based, i'm sure that will sell our latest guide magazine (and apparently it did )
i could go on, combat being simple buttom mashing, you being able to take enemy powers to progress but having to sit through almost 40 seconds of a dialog box explaining to you how the power works regardless if you've seen that dialog box 100 times already.
the game has secrets, but not in the metroidvania sense that you get stronger, no no the secrets are for story progression, who makes these ??
the last boss is also a joke, know his patterns and you can cheese him by attacking before he can go to the next animation.
but, despite all that, what carried it for me was the extremelly charming cutscenes, voice acting, fun npcs and puns, lots of them, this game has some amazing personallity under this cryptic monster of a guide selling design.
this is a example of a game that i wish had a remake to iron out these mistakes and make a 10\10 experience, because the style is already there, but its not that it lacks foundation, its that the foundation is poor and might break any time, most of the reviews treat it as such a masterpiece yet a lot of them say things like ''best game ever, never beat it tho''
my god this is a crazy polarizing game, for every great there are 2 terribles.
pro : night and day system based on time
con : a time based quest system without the ways of making you skip the waiting, some missions will make you wait almost 20 minutes because people are sleeping.
pro : an immersive style, your character needs to rest
con : if you get tired mid quest, get ready to stare a few minutes at the screen while musashi straight up takes a nap in front of you.
pro : npcs react to time and day.
con : same problem with the time, the town can be blowing up but they will take their sweet nap and give you the mission in the morning, the npcs will also lock you into their dialog without you being able to skip it, that means sitting through a 20 second dialog box every time you go buy some C-drink to heal.
pro : zelda style, exploration is the key
con : who said you need to know how to design a zelda game to make one ? just throw a bunch of missions on random places and let the player search the entirety of the map, even if some missions are time based, i'm sure that will sell our latest guide magazine (and apparently it did )
i could go on, combat being simple buttom mashing, you being able to take enemy powers to progress but having to sit through almost 40 seconds of a dialog box explaining to you how the power works regardless if you've seen that dialog box 100 times already.
the game has secrets, but not in the metroidvania sense that you get stronger, no no the secrets are for story progression, who makes these ??
the last boss is also a joke, know his patterns and you can cheese him by attacking before he can go to the next animation.
but, despite all that, what carried it for me was the extremelly charming cutscenes, voice acting, fun npcs and puns, lots of them, this game has some amazing personallity under this cryptic monster of a guide selling design.
this is a example of a game that i wish had a remake to iron out these mistakes and make a 10\10 experience, because the style is already there, but its not that it lacks foundation, its that the foundation is poor and might break any time, most of the reviews treat it as such a masterpiece yet a lot of them say things like ''best game ever, never beat it tho''