It was designed for a Genesis controller, where you could actually ALWAYS hit the diagonals, because they always had their own little "lip". Controls awesomely with that dpad!
from what I understand, the fourth is probably the best in the series
I tried to play it a couple years back but it has some problems that make it real rough by modern standards
i.e. nothing you can do in battle is documented, the only way to find out what (for instance) a spell does is by casting it
Yeah that's a fair complaint about it. And even then when you use some spells, it'll affect enemies but the results don't get declared. This is a problem the entire series has, for the record. In part 2, some spells actually don't do what they're supposed to. The Steam-available version has a mod that fixes part 2's errors.
Yeah, I've beaten PS4 like ten times and there's still a few spells I'm not clear on. The weird ones are usually debuffs or instant death spells that only work on specific types of enemies. The rest are just series staples where you're expected to just know the name by now. Also the manual, in all its black and white and incredibly cheap glory, had a list of spells with descriptions to get you started. Only the first like 10, but, better than nothing.
The macro system is still one of the best combat tweaks of all time, and it continuously pisses me off that no other RPG uses it. Bravely Default came the closest, and that was great. The manga style cutscenes are also incredible, and really show off a style of storytelling that only existed in this brief period. Late enough in the SNES/Genesis years to know how to fit all the great art in there. But FF7 comes out like a year later, steals most of the game's story, and makes fancy 3D cutscenes the norm. Even when we started getting more visual novels over here, things made for the DS and other handhelds especially, most of them are still 'simpler' than how PS4 is presented.
The game itself is very easy by most RPG standards, so I highly recommend giving it a shot (or another shot). Just keep a FAQ or wiki open and search for anything confusing, or any references you don't quite get. There's no real puzzles I can remember, but there are a few spots where the game isn't quite clear on where you should go next. The Talk system usually helps with that, where the party chats amongst themselves and tries to remind you about what's happening.
That Sega Heroes game just started and I went ahead and gave it a shot. It's...actually not horrible? The Sonic characters look way better than the more human ones, but they're all surprisingly well animated. There's even a fairly amusing story/campaign. I've so far even run across a few good mechanics to cut down/eliminate what I thought would be bad grinds.
Of course, it just started, so it still might tank in the long run. Once I burn through all the basically unlimited starter stamina and get into the meat of the game.
I've been messing with it for a while, but I don't do these games often, so I'm interested in what strategies you've got.
Well I've been playing Marvel Puzzle Quest for a while...so the fact that 4 matches don't clear lines and 5 matches don't give free turns is weird. 4+ matches creating the skill gem is interesting, though. But it also messes up some cascades I attempt, by dropping the gem right where I don't want it. So far all I've figured out is that it's best to try to match lots of 4s near same color gems to be able to use the skill gem after, rather than make big 6+ matches, or otherwise leave gems sitting around with nothing to match to them.
As far as teams/skills go...no clue. Still just have the first few free guys. The looting system is a great idea, although you can only replay a stage so many times before a timer stops you, unfortunately. Finding 1/10 of a character and working towards 10/10 is more satisfying than hoping for a rare drop, too. If there's no character/roster limit and you can just collect everyone, I'll be fairly happy.
So, Sega Heroes has been a bit weird this first week or two. Apparently it had a 'soft launch' or beta thing going on for a while now, so some people are already at end game. Separate servers for the PVP aspect, though, and no friend codes...so...no real impact. They completely changed the game's structure on launch, which also made guides almost impossible, and it's been hard to even get advice. Then, strangely enough, they changed things around again a week or so in to make it closer to the beta. Weird, but good changes, mostly.
So you find shards of a character to recruit them (or promote them). In the beta you could find basically every hero in the game in the regular campaign. So, if you wanted to grind them out, you eventually could. They removed most of the heroes and moved the 'good' ones to way later in the campaign. Then reshuffled them, like I mentioned earlier, to make it easier to get useful heroes. And you don't have to beat/play stages again to grind, you just click 'loot' and it takes stamina and gives you the drops you would've gotten if you'd played the stage. This even applies to special event stages and your daily resource grinds, which is very handy. It just means, strangely enough, you don't play the actual matching game nearly as often as you mash 'loot' and collect rewards. Weird.
There's a secondary campaign mode where you can use characters exclusive to that mode, that has its own stamina bar and everything. Unfortunately, the required characters are all fairly rare, so...most people (like me) had something like 1000 stamina building up with 1 out of the required 4 characters recruited. Then today they just gave everyone a set of four starter characters for that mode, free. These guys would've taken weeks of grinding to get for free, or a good chunk of real money to unlock. So, pretty cool!
I'd encourage anyone interested to give it a shot, since they seem fairly serious about making changes based on feedback. You can join the official Discord and there's an official suggestion channel where you can vote on suggestions and they get marked when a dev has read them and everything. Not sure how long the free characters will be up, or if that's going to be a standard starter gift from now on, but possibly worth downloading and checking your mail to see. As a JSR fan, I'm pretty happy to get free Beat and Gum.
Yeah, actually paying for anything seems like a really bad idea. They'll advertise one of the rare characters for like 200 gems, which seems fine. Until you check the details and see that just gets you 1/5 of them unlocked. And it's usually something like 2500 gems to fully unlock them. Which I assume is $25.
Although on the other hand it's nice that there's a guaranteed option to get exactly what you want, if you give them the cash. Compared to 1% drop rates in other games.
It seems like using gems to refresh your stamina and refresh stages to loot is a better deal. I'm just hoarding them for now, though.
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It was designed for a Genesis controller, where you could actually ALWAYS hit the diagonals, because they always had their own little "lip". Controls awesomely with that dpad!
No sale, unless there's a Final Fight "oh, my car!" bonus stage...
Like Mega Man Legends? Then check out my story, Legends of the Halcyon Era - An Adventure in the World of Mega Man Legends on TMMN and AO3!
Like Mega Man Legends? Then check out my story, Legends of the Halcyon Era - An Adventure in the World of Mega Man Legends on TMMN and AO3!
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I tried to play it a couple years back but it has some problems that make it real rough by modern standards
i.e. nothing you can do in battle is documented, the only way to find out what (for instance) a spell does is by casting it
PS4 with a tad of wiki glancing here and there is a great choice. The prior 3 are...difficult to muddle through.
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The macro system is still one of the best combat tweaks of all time, and it continuously pisses me off that no other RPG uses it. Bravely Default came the closest, and that was great. The manga style cutscenes are also incredible, and really show off a style of storytelling that only existed in this brief period. Late enough in the SNES/Genesis years to know how to fit all the great art in there. But FF7 comes out like a year later, steals most of the game's story, and makes fancy 3D cutscenes the norm. Even when we started getting more visual novels over here, things made for the DS and other handhelds especially, most of them are still 'simpler' than how PS4 is presented.
The game itself is very easy by most RPG standards, so I highly recommend giving it a shot (or another shot). Just keep a FAQ or wiki open and search for anything confusing, or any references you don't quite get. There's no real puzzles I can remember, but there are a few spots where the game isn't quite clear on where you should go next. The Talk system usually helps with that, where the party chats amongst themselves and tries to remind you about what's happening.
It totally stands on it's own, and playing the previous game largely only allows you to go "Oh hey I remember that thing!"
Of course, it just started, so it still might tank in the long run. Once I burn through all the basically unlimited starter stamina and get into the meat of the game.
Like Mega Man Legends? Then check out my story, Legends of the Halcyon Era - An Adventure in the World of Mega Man Legends on TMMN and AO3!
a low poly reskin
and a kart racer in its engine
Well I've been playing Marvel Puzzle Quest for a while...so the fact that 4 matches don't clear lines and 5 matches don't give free turns is weird. 4+ matches creating the skill gem is interesting, though. But it also messes up some cascades I attempt, by dropping the gem right where I don't want it. So far all I've figured out is that it's best to try to match lots of 4s near same color gems to be able to use the skill gem after, rather than make big 6+ matches, or otherwise leave gems sitting around with nothing to match to them.
As far as teams/skills go...no clue. Still just have the first few free guys. The looting system is a great idea, although you can only replay a stage so many times before a timer stops you, unfortunately. Finding 1/10 of a character and working towards 10/10 is more satisfying than hoping for a rare drop, too. If there's no character/roster limit and you can just collect everyone, I'll be fairly happy.
So you find shards of a character to recruit them (or promote them). In the beta you could find basically every hero in the game in the regular campaign. So, if you wanted to grind them out, you eventually could. They removed most of the heroes and moved the 'good' ones to way later in the campaign. Then reshuffled them, like I mentioned earlier, to make it easier to get useful heroes. And you don't have to beat/play stages again to grind, you just click 'loot' and it takes stamina and gives you the drops you would've gotten if you'd played the stage. This even applies to special event stages and your daily resource grinds, which is very handy. It just means, strangely enough, you don't play the actual matching game nearly as often as you mash 'loot' and collect rewards. Weird.
There's a secondary campaign mode where you can use characters exclusive to that mode, that has its own stamina bar and everything. Unfortunately, the required characters are all fairly rare, so...most people (like me) had something like 1000 stamina building up with 1 out of the required 4 characters recruited. Then today they just gave everyone a set of four starter characters for that mode, free. These guys would've taken weeks of grinding to get for free, or a good chunk of real money to unlock. So, pretty cool!
I'd encourage anyone interested to give it a shot, since they seem fairly serious about making changes based on feedback. You can join the official Discord and there's an official suggestion channel where you can vote on suggestions and they get marked when a dev has read them and everything. Not sure how long the free characters will be up, or if that's going to be a standard starter gift from now on, but possibly worth downloading and checking your mail to see. As a JSR fan, I'm pretty happy to get free Beat and Gum.
Like Mega Man Legends? Then check out my story, Legends of the Halcyon Era - An Adventure in the World of Mega Man Legends on TMMN and AO3!
Although on the other hand it's nice that there's a guaranteed option to get exactly what you want, if you give them the cash. Compared to 1% drop rates in other games.
It seems like using gems to refresh your stamina and refresh stages to loot is a better deal. I'm just hoarding them for now, though.
Steam
Disturbing.
Steam
Looks like a regular hedgehog eye
Just beady black watery orbs for this Sonic