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Eww this comment section is gross.

@hypnotoad An 8/10 is literally "Great" according to their scale 🤷

@get2sammyb
So do you just get dibs on all the Life Is Strange coverage Sammy? Haha. Anyway, the fan base seems to be pretty mixed on this announcement but is there anything that you personally are hoping for from this adaptation? Perhaps some casting or soundtrack wishes?

Personally I would've liked to see people from the show I Am Not Ok With This attached, as it's about as close as we ever got to a LiS show.

That being said, I'd also like to shout out Charlie Covell's other show, Kaos. Incredibly good first season that really deserves more.

Honestly I enjoyed this so much more than Metaphor. Fantastic experience. I absolutely loved tackling all the super bosses in this one.

@Oram77 Haha don't worry, you're not the only one dishing out this scorching hot take. Can't believe we got Serge!

This is such a great idea. Indie JRPGs often get overlooked and could really use this kind of cross promotion and exposure. I also really like how the art style is clean enough for each character to be visually recognizable and distinct even though it's all sprite work. Great job!

I honestly hate the combat. It's turn based Souls that focuses more on learning patterns than actual strategy, something a turn based RPG should excel at.

@3Above I didn't even know Sony wore boots and yet you've still managed to lick them.

Maybe the marketing team should be the one packing things up instead of the devs. I've never even HEARD of this game 😅

@nomither6 I mean, I think the fact that you can be on a hoverboard again at all is pretty great.

@nomither6 did you watch the trailer?

Sad honestly. They're a talented studio and Snake Pass proved they can come up with really unique ideas when not chained to licenced franchises.

So this Mass Effect is going to be the last new Bioware game then huh?

@ShogunRok I'm so curious, have you played SMTV: Vengeance this year? That and Astro Bot are probably the only two games to make me feel real joy this year.

This game has possibly the worst villains of any JRPG that I've played. Easily the worst of the modern Personas by far. What a disappointment. Definitely doesn't belong on this list.

For both Best Game Direction and Games for Impact, I'd really like to see 1000xRESIST and Harold Halibut. Fantastic games that shouldn't be overlooked.

Gyro aiming? Like with lamb, feta cheese and tzatziki sauce? I'm in!

@Jayslow Don't forget SMT V: Vengeance!

@ShogunRok This is great advice. Thanks for the reply. Getting old with changing interests is hard! 😅

@ShogunRok Hi Robert. Great review as always. Sorry if this has been asked already but would you still recommend this game to someone who has been struggling to enjoy anime tropes in JRPG stories recently? I find the writing style to be very bloated and predictable, with poor pacing. I found the demo to be a real slog and was calling out plot twists hours before they happened. Is this something I could expect for most of the main game as well or does it start to deviate from typical anime writing and becomes more original? Thank you!

EDIT: For context, I enjoyed the writing in SMT V: Vengeance and Eiyuden Chronicle Hundred Heroes, but really disliked the way story, pacing, and themes were handled on Persona 3 Reload.

Please for the love of belt buckles, just retire Nomura

@dskatter I 100% agree with this. Not only that, but Nintendo allocates it's extra manpower from its studios to NEW games! Grezzo, normally known for remasters, is co developing the new Zelda. Monolith Soft has an entire B team devoted to learning through helping out various 1st party projects such as Breath of the Wild, Animal Crossing, Splatoon, etc. These situations are not even remotely the same.

Sony be like "Pay has no limits 🤑"
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Hot take, but a lot of these criticisms could also be said of the main game itself.

@Deljo Every one of those games from that "pure crap" list is sitting between an 75 to 95 on metacritic. Name a more consistent publisher.

@OthmaneAD What an insane take. You might not like what you've played but you can't deny their catalog:

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
Hohokum
Stray
Neon White
Solar Ash
The Artful Escape
The Pathless
The Unfinished Swan
Kentucky Route Zero
Sayonara Wild Hearts
Telling Lies
Outer Wilds
Journey
Gone Home
Donut County
Gorogoa
What Remains of Edith Finch

One of the best publishers out there honestly.

Question is, are these actually prospective Pro buyers, or just scalpers?

8 is still my favorite after all these years even though I think 9 is probably the best one. 10 is a close 3rd though.

Feels weird to be putting out guides for a game before the review has even been published 😅

I feel like this game is 9 parts anime and only 1 part fantasy. When the game is trying to sell you on a character's personality by saying "she relishes in eating unconventional food" it makes me feel like they're just randomly drawing anime tropes out of a hat to assign to their characters rather than writing an actual personality.

I think the problem that more players are having isn't that these games are difficult, but HOW the developers have chosen to make them difficult. The Souls genre has been going for a while now and every entry the development team has to come up with a fresh way to keep players on their toes so the series doesn't become stale. I think this has lead to some design choices in Elden Ring that some players just don't agree with.

@Zeke68 Oh no worries at all. It stands for Shin Megami Tensei. It's the older brother series that Persona span off from.

Let's be real here, a Souls style JRPG would be very close to SMT in a lot of ways. Punishing difficulty, dark and oppressive atmosphere, abstract story telling based on differing ideologies and recreating the world where no answer is correct , silent protagonist with fully customizable build options, multiple endings based on your decisions throughout the game. There's a reason I keep recommending SMT to all my Souls loving friends

So someone paid to say the game is good says the game is good? Neat.

My only issue with the Portal is the Touchpad interface. Double tapping the screen is just very unintuitive and not ideal. I would really like the option to be able to remap it whenever possible.

They could've gotten away with just releasing Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 alone honestly. Great announcement.

Feels weird that this game got a higher score than SMT V: Vengeance 😅

@Tecinthebrain My mistake. It looks like Push Square just scores lower in general. It mostly seems to depend on who's doing the review

I gotta be honest, it's getting a little annoying that Push Square always scores lower than everyone else if the game isn't a major Sony exclusive.

I'll be eagerly waiting on this one. The story is definitely my biggest concern about this game. Hashino's games don't exactly have the best writing, the best probably being Persona 4 and Digital Devil Saga

It feels so dishonest to market the new Dragon Age as Dread Wolf, the conclusion to the story in Inquisition, only for them to be like "Just kidding! We didn't actually make that game so we're calling it The Veil Guard now!" as soon as it's almost ready to be released. Just a real bait and switch.

This was a fantastic presentation! I also appreciated the nod to Etrian Odyssey. I'm so excited that turn based combat is based on the Press Turn system from SMT! In fact, it's very exciting to see a lot of these mechanics being taken from Digital Devil Saga 2.

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Filler text to allow my comment.

Art and creativity is dead 😅😅😅

Sounds like someone is jealous of Stellar Blade 😂

Should've been called Wade Whipple & Knuckles

I've been playing this the last few days and it's been a lot of fun. I especially appreciate the writing style compared to modern JRPGs. I agree with basically everything in this review. For those of you looking for a return to that PS1 and PS2 era of JRPGs, this game hits just right.

What this article doesn't mention is that this was just the shipping cost for the standard physical edition (which for PC backers, is just a code in a box). Those of us waiting on extra goodies as part of our pledge, like art books, T-shirts, soundtrack CDs, will be facing additional charges since they are shipped separately from the game itself.

Finally a 3rd person action game. It's what we've been waiting for people!