Been ill the past two weeks but I'm back on form and I've got to the final chapter of Okage: Shadow King.
This has been one hell of a journey. This game clearly has some problems (The pacing has been all over the place since chapter 4 and I think the game must've been rushed to completion). But even with it's faults I've still found it to be a charming and enjoyable journey.
Plus it actually got serious rather then being the goofy and light-hearted rpg it has been up and it severely caught me off guard... In a good way though
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
With Okage done I've gone back to Persona 3 Portable that I'd left on hold a few months ago.
I LOVE Persona 3 and playing as FeMC in Portable is cool with some bloody brilliant tracks (Way of Life is an absolute banger and Time is utterly delightful).
... But Portable is such a gimped experience for how it had to be originally presented on the PSP that I genuinely don't know how anyone can say this is the "definitive" version of P3 by a long shot.
The character models may be rather basic in P3/FES but they add so much.
Like there's the scene with Shinji headbutting the goon when you're trying to find out about Fuuka. It's not that big or important of a scene but the visual novel presentation of P3P kills so much of the original charm.
And don't even get me started on the missing anime cutscenes. The opening in Portable is SO goddamn awful compared to the original anime cutscene with the rising tension as it keeps switching between Yukari putting the evoker to her head and the Protag wandering to the train station.
I've even been playing the game with the characters doing as they wish in battle (with portable having less tactic options then FES) on hard mode and... Oh it's not that hard at all. It's almost like people never learnt the tactics system properly. Marin f'ing Karin my ass.
I've only really done 2 of the new FeMC social links so far with Rio and Saori and... I genuinely don't know what to make of them.
Poor Rio being in love with stupid Kenji of all people but it's Saori's social link that confuses me the most with her being such a doormat. The whole world is out to get this poor girl and it just comes off as such a depressing and mean spirited link compared to everything else.
I AM still enjoying the game as it is Persona 3 and I do love the cast. There's none of the protag hero worship like in 4 or ESPECIALLY 5 and the fact the S.E.E.S team are more like colleagues working towards a similar goal rather then being super happy BFF's does make them seem more believable then the more 1 dimensional anime tropes the later games provide for the main cast.
I do miss Junpei's jealousy MC that's completely lost with FeMC.
Plus there's a lot of scenes without the protagonist being a part of them which seems to happen very rarely in 5 if I recall.
... Didn't mean for it to turn into a P5 rant there but oh well. Seems I'm still rather bitter about not enjoying it
Oh you'll be going into P3 blind @Bentleyma? That's really cool I hope you enjoy it when Reload comes out!
I'll admit I may be a bit overly harsh and critical on Portable (Especially as I haven't got far enough to see much of the new content that portable added in exchange for these compromises I'm grumbling about) as vanilla Persona 3 was my first Persona game and my first Atlus game so... It does hold a very special place in my heart.
There's definitely reasons to give P3P a look... Perhaps after you've played reload though?
I dropped Persona 3 Portable because I didn't realise how close we actually are to Persona 3 Reload (and I really want to get that) so I've jumped over to Persona 4 Golden
Forgot how long it takes to get going in P4 but once you're over that hump (The fast forward is very handy for a returning player) I've been enjoying it quite a bit.
The new shuffle time mechanic is cool though honestly a bit busted.
Saved Yukiko and I'm having a blast with it.
Not a fan of Erin Fitzgerald's Chie. She is admittedly a better fit for Chie then Tracy Rooney in vanilla P4 but I just don't really like Erin and how obnoxiously loud she can get.
Sam Riegel taking over for Teddie meanwhile I'm not too fussed over. I do prefer Dave Wittenberg as Teddie in vanilla but Sam does a pretty good job as well.
Overall having a great time in P4G and the music is an absolute top tier
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
Trying to play and enjoy a somewhat decent run of King of the Hill for Mortal Kombat 11. Its kind of annoying since other players have been going overboard with crazy combos when they play as Joker, Scorpion and frikkin Noob Saibot. thats all they ever play as.
That and slowly trying to level up my rank for Kombat League. Im almost Champion rank.
I downloaded Don't Starve again. One of the earliest titles I played on the PS4 and one that, despite really liking it, I was never really good at surviving any more than about ten days.
Let's hope I can change that this time around!
"A corpse... should be left well alone. Oh, I know very well. How the secrets beckon so sweetly. Only an honest death will cure you now. Liberate you, from your wild curiosity." - Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower.
@KAIRU I had it on my MacBook and recently had it on my iPhone. Great game.
The aim for me in the early days was to find the buffalo creatures as the poop is one of the key resources to building a good base as you need it for growing seeds and replanting berry bushes. Those are both key to getting you through winter.
And then surviving that first onslaught of the dog enemies around day 10.
Once you get far enough in, it becomes about not getting cocky and doing something stupid. Such a frustrating game when you do one little thing badly and lose a 100+ day game.
@Thrillho It really is some mindless fun, isn’t it?
I think sometimes the spawning of the creatures and animals that you get food and supplies from can be a bit annoying but if you get lucky with a lot of animals close to one another I’m sure that could be incredibly beneficial!
I remember seeing a video of someone who was on Day 1,000 and it wasn’t even a challenge anymore. It was crazy!
"A corpse... should be left well alone. Oh, I know very well. How the secrets beckon so sweetly. Only an honest death will cure you now. Liberate you, from your wild curiosity." - Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower.
@KAIRU Yeah, once you get a certain length into your own game then it's normally your own stupidity that lets you down. My best one I had a main base with a pen for the buffalo to harvest the poop from, solid walls and then loads of traps set up to protect me from the demon dogs. And then little outposts set up around the map for when I ventured further afield.
Another tip is putting the traps for the rabbits just above the holes. It seems to have a much better success rate of catching them than just scattering them about.
@Thrillho Yeah, the traps above the rabbit holes is usually my go-to strategy for catching them.
I’ve never really gotten far enough into the game where I’ve actually gotten a proper base set up. Usually I’m too busy trying not to, well, starve. 😅
"A corpse... should be left well alone. Oh, I know very well. How the secrets beckon so sweetly. Only an honest death will cure you now. Liberate you, from your wild curiosity." - Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower.
Loads of traps to catch rabbits. Put live rabbits into crates at your base. Normally at least two that are full.
Collect as much poop as you can to build farms and fertilise berry bushes you’ve picked up.
Have two crockpots built so you can have food cooking while you go out exploring for the day. Try looking at some online calculators for what combos produce what. Fish sticks are great for health! (And can use twigs to make)
Save as much of the above as you can for winter. Building a thermometer can help you predict when that’s coming.
I m normally survive off berries and carrots for the first few days until I have a base set up with the above all to try and get through that first winter, while also getting some armour and weapons together for that first “invasion”.
@Thrillho Thanks for sharing this! I’ll have to give it a go next time I’m playing.
"A corpse... should be left well alone. Oh, I know very well. How the secrets beckon so sweetly. Only an honest death will cure you now. Liberate you, from your wild curiosity." - Lady Maria of the Astral Clocktower.
I've made quite a lot of progress in Persona 4 Golden and am now at the Void Quest dungeon to go get Mitsuo Kubo.
Having only played the PS2 release I didn't actually know about the Scooter assists so when Yosuke suddenly spoke up after a critical hit to do a follow up attack (and he wasn't in my party) I thought the game had glitched... At least until he suddenly rammed right into a shadow on his scooter.
Golden really cranks up P4's goofiness huh?
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@HallowMoonshadow Glad you’re enjoying P4G, it’s a gem. It’s one of those games that I look back on fondly, but don’t plan to play again because there’s parts of it that do drag on. As is the case for the series anyways. 😄
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
I started MediEvil as a bit of Halloween related fun, but I'm actually enjoying it more than I thought I would. It's tricky, but not off-puttingly so, with an endearing, knockabout sense of humour.
Good job, Parappa. You can go on to the next stage now.
Seeing the very good reviews for Talos Principle 2, I decided to try the first one and I like it so far.
Not too difficult for now but I imagine it gets more complicated and there seems to be quite a lot of puzzles to solve.
Speaking of Persona and enhanced versions any interest on your end for Persona 3 Reload@Th3solution? Seems like they've added a few things such as new events for all the male members of S.E.E.S and I have to admit, it does look rather nice too.
Ha great minds think alike as I also started playing it for some Halloweeny fun @Gremio108. I suppose you've finished it by now right? Hope you still enjoyed it!
I just popped the platinum for it over the weekend.
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@HallowMoonshadow I don’t know. Right now I have no plans to play Reload, but I’ve been impulsive with my game playing lately so it’s possible. My backlog is enormous, but that hasn’t stopped me from buying new games and playing them right away.
It been some years since I finished P3. The series used to be one of my favorites, but after P5, I haven’t felt like going back to it. As far as JRPGs go, I’ve been riding the Final Fantasy wave more. Maybe I’m part of the problem, but I haven’t felt compelled by old-school JRPGs recently. And I’m a little off-put that they have been recycling older Persona games and adding expansions (to already really long games, mind you) rather than giving us anything about a true proper next installment in the series. Persona 5 came out in 2016, so like what — over 7 years ago — and we have no info about Persona 6. Instead they keep iterating the old games and porting them all over the place instead.
I don’t mind remakes, remasters, and meaningful expansions. But at some point there needs to be something new.
Sorry, that turned more into a rant than I had planned. 😅 But I know you catch my meaning. At the end of the day, there’s so much other output that I have been happy to just ignore the franchise for a while. Meanwhile Final Fantasy is churning out new content like crazy, even if it’s newly styled action based gameplay. And other developers have taken up the mantle of putting out retro styled JRPGs, like Sea of Stars, all the Tales games, all the Legend of Heroes games, Octopath, etc., etc.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
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