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I am making this thread to give myself somewhere to yell about 13 SENTINELS: AEGIS RIM
Mr. G
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okay I think most of y'all already played this but now it's time for me to play it and I'm only in the prologues and my head is already spinning
the game is called 13 Sentinels and yet there seem to be way more than thirteen sentinels and there was a part of the game that was very specifically set in 2024 and then it said "6 months later" and suddenly the year was 1984 and I am already lady looking confused at math dot jpeg and I've barely gotten started
so I think I'm gonna need this as a resource to commiserate and you can use it too I guess
13 Sentinels: you should probably play it! you probably already did! I dunno!
the game is called 13 Sentinels and yet there seem to be way more than thirteen sentinels and there was a part of the game that was very specifically set in 2024 and then it said "6 months later" and suddenly the year was 1984 and I am already lady looking confused at math dot jpeg and I've barely gotten started
so I think I'm gonna need this as a resource to commiserate and you can use it too I guess
13 Sentinels: you should probably play it! you probably already did! I dunno!
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I'm really looking forward to playing it.
Steam ID XBL: JohnnyChopsocky PSN:Stud_Beefpile WiiU:JohnnyChopsocky
Like there's a jillion characters but there are only three or four characters
But daaaaaaang, did the ending do very little for me. I couldn't invest in any of the characters, because they had only the barest sketches of personalities. I found it harder and harder to care what happened to them, let alone who they randomly declared their love for.
The whole story ended up feeling more like a Wikipedia summary of a story than anything with heart and soul.
take it down a notch, folks
Edit: I kinda hate the battle sections
I am beating these things without even having to move my units
think I'm gonna have to turn it up to get anything out of it
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
It's not the deepest gameplay ever, but I didn't think it was so terrible as to just skip it entirely. Plot actually plays out through those segments as well.
I think for most people they're here for the vn stuff and the tactics game is just in the way
I liked it well enough but I get it
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Yeah I absolutely get it if you don't like it, but the talk around the game has hit the point that it's becoming the assumed stance to just ignore it, and it feels like it'd be a shame if people didn't even really try it. I liked it as a companion to the rest.
First thing I’m noticing is the music and art rules. This almost watercolor art style is way better than I thought it would be.
Some full game spoiler dislikes talk
my work here is done
Maybe I'd be less bitter about it if, in the same month in which I crashed out of watching a stream of Aegis Rim on the line "that was really a man; he just dresses like that for his own reasons", I hadn't also crashed out on a Game Grumps LP of Daganropa and watched my bored friend clicking on random Netflix animes crash out of two or three in a row. Just story after story of writers going, "I cannot conceptualize any possible distinction between a trans woman and a drag queen, and it's very important that this attitude comes through in my art." I had to live through getting got by Zelda, for fuck's sake. It's relentless lately.
Apparently the English localization of Aegis Rim is embarrassed enough that it changes a couple of lines of dialogue later on to try to salvage the situation, but this is enough of a pattern of behavior that the original intent isn't much less transparant to me than cases where, say, a woman with a full beard, ten times the body mass of any cis male character, a voice multiple octaves lower than any cis male character, and a grotesque parody of a human face which isn't even drawn in the same style as the rest of the cast is yelling at some guy and the guy soliloquies "ah, yes, I've heard of this, she's this way because of the Martian radiation, and not some other reason that might get our localization gig canceled after the first season" (literal example from some show, not an exaggeration).
one of the only things I can find to compare it to is something like Her Story, though that is a linear story told in a nonlinear fashion and this is a nonlinear story that is...also told nonlinearly, and basically every piece of new information that feels like it makes any sense at all feels like a huge revelation just to get SOME kind of grasp on what's going on, even if what I think it is ends up being totally wrong
VanillaWare says "Christopher Nolan, eat our entire ass"
good game, i liked it a lot. i am somewhat surprised at the level of acclaim it received because i feel like the game lacks the sort of emotional moments that typically lead to the level of raving that 13 Sentinels has had in certain circles
Everything in heard is just play one until you cant then move to the next
What the fuck am I doing
Edit I got it but man the mechanics of walking around and interacting with stuff in this is pretty unintuitive
like it makes sense when it's doing these clockwork scenes where stuff is happening all the time
but man we're standing in an empty hallway with nothing else going on just keep going
I had to put the game down when an apparently written as nonbinary character was aggressively misgendered and outed by someone chasing them and the result being my pov character continuing to misgender them in their internal dialog and notably doing it way more than any other character had been referred to with any pronouns period up to that point.
Like I couldn't sleep that night and tried to search what the hell was going on because I'd only heard praise for the game and surely someone would have noted something about that in the first few hours.
Basically all I found was hard G type people actually mad thinking it was some kind of woke pandering with a localization change. Which frankly has a lot of layers but anyway...
I don't have the cultural understanding of cross dressing in Japan to effectively judge this. It could be a more normalized thing than my western exposure. I might still suspect that it has ties to trans culture in Japan because of what I do know about Japan's broad LGBT stances though. And even if the localization changed an aspect of a character to make them more understandable to a western audience, then they did a shitty job by changing 2 character establishing lines and making a lot of things read as explicitly transphobic attacks by extension
Although it's hard to get good details since, as you noticed, absolutely nobody who talks or writes about this game cares at all. Like, literally not even one single person.
At the bare minimum I guess I'm glad I randomly stumbled into that shit on a stream before I got rubed into investing time, money, and emotional energy into the game myself. Seems like it was pretty slim odds.
Not anymore!
Switch version just came out.
I still remember people claiming there'd be no gameplay and it'd be just a VN, and the gameplay wound up being some of my favorite parts. This is the team that made GrimGrimoire, they know how to make a good RTS.
Oh perfect! Just finishing up Kirby now, so I can grab it in a few.