I really wish I liked Radiant Historia's battle system more, but it bored me to tears. What I saw of the plot seemed good but I just couldn't push through the fights.
Did you not like how fast the battles were or something?
I thought they were too slow. Also I don't really like that kind of micro level tactics with the positioning stuff.
Also none of my moves felt cool. I need a little pizzaz in my jurps.
yeah i can't imagine describing radiant historia's battle system as "fast".
It was baffling how long some of the enemy attack animations were. How you had to wait through each one individually, and how you couldn't skip any of it.
I don't remember much about the battle system aside from pushing guys into traps. radiant historia is a game I've always figured I would replay some time but have not. lately though I have been thinking about getting rid of a bunch of older games, and this just tanked the value of my RH copy if it had any
Playing World of Final Fantasy, and I just unlocked Omega.
And Omega seems to be kinda unusable?
In order to progress anywhere on Omega's Mirage board, I am required to unlock Meltdown. Which is a passive skill that causes Omega to self-destruct and hurt all my allies if it takes damage when it's at 10%HP or lower. Meaning that not only is its health only about 90% of its displayed amount, but having it out is a liability to the rest of the party. Is there any point to using Omega, in that case?
I'm thinking in particular of a sidequest where you are trying to help a coffee shop owner, an employee of whom has destroyed an expensive cappuccino machine by accident and run away
And when you find her she thanks you for fixing things but still panics because she wrecked shit and ran away.
"I'm probably still fired, aren't I?"
And one of the responses you can choose is "You're probably super fired"
Shit was on point... but the strengths of XCX's dialog was almost exclusively down to the flair given to it in translation, I think
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the barista quest is the one thing I remembered from my last playthrough
she does the lord's prayer but it's all coffee puns!
I haven't played XCX since May. Got to the second half of the boss fight with the lion people. My need to grind money and EXP was handily demonstrated by the boss destroying one of my allies' Skells 10 seconds into the combat. I want to get back to it, but the need to grind (and the relative difficulty of raising every party member, compared to XC) stopped my momentum dead, and I just haven't gone back.
Enlong on
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Playing World of Final Fantasy, and I just unlocked Omega.
And Omega seems to be kinda unusable?
In order to progress anywhere on Omega's Mirage board, I am required to unlock Meltdown. Which is a passive skill that causes Omega to self-destruct and hurt all my allies if it takes damage when it's at 10%HP or lower. Meaning that not only is its health only about 90% of its displayed amount, but having it out is a liability to the rest of the party. Is there any point to using Omega, in that case?
I'm pretty sure he's garbage
Honestly we powered through the game on the back of shiva/ramuh/ifrit and all of their variants and couldn't find much of a reason to use anything else other than for variety's sake + behemonster as our XL of choice for cheesing some tough stuff with guarding forever and then spamming consecutive revenge blasts
Yeah, Ramuh/Shiva/Ifrit are hugely powerful not just for raw strength but because they float they laugh at earthquake attacks like some bosses love to spam.
Playing World of Final Fantasy, and I just unlocked Omega.
And Omega seems to be kinda unusable?
In order to progress anywhere on Omega's Mirage board, I am required to unlock Meltdown. Which is a passive skill that causes Omega to self-destruct and hurt all my allies if it takes damage when it's at 10%HP or lower. Meaning that not only is its health only about 90% of its displayed amount, but having it out is a liability to the rest of the party. Is there any point to using Omega, in that case?
I'm pretty sure he's garbage
Honestly we powered through the game on the back of shiva/ramuh/ifrit and all of their variants and couldn't find much of a reason to use anything else other than for variety's sake + behemonster as our XL of choice for cheesing some tough stuff with guarding forever and then spamming consecutive revenge blasts
I abused Gravity at the end a LOT. It's how I took down the secret boss in those extra 4 dungeons too. Guard spam>Gravity>Mega Phoenix (I have so many)>repeat.
I think there's a lot of good dialogue in XCX, it's just that the worst of it is right in the forefront with Elma and Lin. A lot of the interactions with the random townspeople are pretty good, I thought.
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There are just so many little things that made XCX kind of a chore to play
The big thing that prevented me from really sticking with it to the end, though, was that combat just never clicked with me
It never feels like it's really giving you any feedback about whether you're doing the right thing or not, you have only the vaguest control over your party members by deactivating most of their skills and then trying to herd them with those skill triggers, and it's all incredibly visually messy.
I like it, and have enjoyed the story thus far, aside from the stupid, stupid "everyone threatens to eat Tatsu" joke. I want to finish the story and see where it and the various sidequests go.
And I like the combat, but my characters feel so very weak, probably due to me not leveling up enough, or something.
Yeah, Ramuh/Shiva/Ifrit are hugely powerful not just for raw strength but because they float they laugh at earthquake attacks like some bosses love to spam.
Hm...
I think I may have missed something. I'm pretty sure I'm like 80% though the story (I need to go to the Chainroad next), and I am nowhere near having Shiva, Ifrit, or Ramuh. I have a Mishiva, from that first Bablizz I got early on, but I haven't seen any of the other "mini" versions of those three, and I haven't gotten a Shiva Memento, or anything of the like.
I've mostly been using a Red Dragon/Searcher (or Searcher/Mishiva) combo on one character, and a Lucky Toad/Behemoth (or Lucky Toad/Unicorn) on the other. My Mega-Mirage of choice has been Iron Giant.
So I picked up the PS4 version of Kingdom Hearts 1.5/2.5, flew through KH1 in two sittings, and now I'm on to Chain of Memories for the first time.
After spending most of the afternoon with it, my review so far: Holy shit, I hate Chain of Memories.
How in the hell did this garbage heap of a combat system get out of early design stages intact? I'm not going to ask if it gets better later, because I don't care. It's so miserable right now that no promise of future good could get me to endure another minute of it. But I remember KH2's story being about 50% inexplicable gaps that said "See Chain of Memories". So does anyone know of a youtube video or something that summarizes the important story beats and cutscenes?
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So I picked up the PS4 version of Kingdom Hearts 1.5/2.5, flew through KH1 in two sittings, and now I'm on to Chain of Memories for the first time.
After spending most of the afternoon with it, my review so far: Holy shit, I hate Chain of Memories.
How in the hell did this garbage heap of a combat system get out of early design stages intact? I'm not going to ask if it gets better later, because I don't care. It's so miserable right now that no promise of future good could get me to endure another minute of it. But I remember KH2's story being about 50% inexplicable gaps that said "See Chain of Memories". So does anyone know of a youtube video or something that summarizes the important story beats and cutscenes?
Can you describe what you don't like about it? It's possible that while you'd still end up hating it, that you're misunderstanding or intentionally ignoring some important aspects of it.
I beat Chain of Memories by loading up as many Clouds as I could stuff into my deck among other things. And I'd just keep cycling until I pulled those Clouds.
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Yeah, I also couldn't stand CoM's combat. Just let me hit things, not play a bad card game.
They basically put its combat in as the big minigame in DDD. Noped out of that place super hard.
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It was baffling how long some of the enemy attack animations were. How you had to wait through each one individually, and how you couldn't skip any of it.
I'm kind of shocked that I forgot like
every single plot point and situation in XCX in the time since I played it last
which I guess doesn't reflect super great on the game
And Omega seems to be kinda unusable?
In order to progress anywhere on Omega's Mirage board, I am required to unlock Meltdown. Which is a passive skill that causes Omega to self-destruct and hurt all my allies if it takes damage when it's at 10%HP or lower. Meaning that not only is its health only about 90% of its displayed amount, but having it out is a liability to the rest of the party. Is there any point to using Omega, in that case?
XCX's story and a lot of the dialogue is kinda garbage until the last two chapters.
That chapter was good, yeah
I was almost never impressed by the dialogue, but I also tend to have a much lower opinion of Xenoblade dialogue in general than you do
And when you find her she thanks you for fixing things but still panics because she wrecked shit and ran away.
"I'm probably still fired, aren't I?"
And one of the responses you can choose is "You're probably super fired"
Shit was on point... but the strengths of XCX's dialog was almost exclusively down to the flair given to it in translation, I think
she does the lord's prayer but it's all coffee puns!
It doesn't help that all of the story was smushed into a 10 hour campaign sprinkled through an 80+ hour game.
I try to forget how disappointed that game left me
I'm pretty sure he's garbage
Honestly we powered through the game on the back of shiva/ramuh/ifrit and all of their variants and couldn't find much of a reason to use anything else other than for variety's sake + behemonster as our XL of choice for cheesing some tough stuff with guarding forever and then spamming consecutive revenge blasts
I abused Gravity at the end a LOT. It's how I took down the secret boss in those extra 4 dungeons too. Guard spam>Gravity>Mega Phoenix (I have so many)>repeat.
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The big thing that prevented me from really sticking with it to the end, though, was that combat just never clicked with me
It never feels like it's really giving you any feedback about whether you're doing the right thing or not, you have only the vaguest control over your party members by deactivating most of their skills and then trying to herd them with those skill triggers, and it's all incredibly visually messy.
I don't really have anything else to say about it
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And I like the combat, but my characters feel so very weak, probably due to me not leveling up enough, or something.
Hm...
I think I may have missed something. I'm pretty sure I'm like 80% though the story (I need to go to the Chainroad next), and I am nowhere near having Shiva, Ifrit, or Ramuh. I have a Mishiva, from that first Bablizz I got early on, but I haven't seen any of the other "mini" versions of those three, and I haven't gotten a Shiva Memento, or anything of the like.
I've mostly been using a Red Dragon/Searcher (or Searcher/Mishiva) combo on one character, and a Lucky Toad/Behemoth (or Lucky Toad/Unicorn) on the other. My Mega-Mirage of choice has been Iron Giant.
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After spending most of the afternoon with it, my review so far: Holy shit, I hate Chain of Memories.
How in the hell did this garbage heap of a combat system get out of early design stages intact? I'm not going to ask if it gets better later, because I don't care. It's so miserable right now that no promise of future good could get me to endure another minute of it. But I remember KH2's story being about 50% inexplicable gaps that said "See Chain of Memories". So does anyone know of a youtube video or something that summarizes the important story beats and cutscenes?
I really liked the combat system. A lot.
Just search YouTube for "Chain of Memories the movie"
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Can you describe what you don't like about it? It's possible that while you'd still end up hating it, that you're misunderstanding or intentionally ignoring some important aspects of it.
They basically put its combat in as the big minigame in DDD. Noped out of that place super hard.
Yeah. Found them. Wouldn't have expected them there. But now I have Ifrit, Shiva, and Ramewl (Haste and Regen on the same character? Yes, please!)
I remember having trouble with the last few bosses with Sora until I did just that and they suddenly became stupid easy
EDIT: Then again that was the GBA version, not sure if that changes with the remade version
Also, I bought that collection and man
Something just feels weird about playing those games at 60 frames
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I hope KH3 finally gets it right and realizes the on-foot gameplay is merely getting in the way of the rail shooter sections
It's like they saw Tetra Master as an open challenge for worst minigame
It's...different, at least?
Like at least you didn't have to worry about hitting shit because of a bad camera perspective
It was still a shitty rail shooter plopped into mandatory sequences in the middle of a JRPG
Every single piece is a gun or cannon.
Every. Single. One.
Ikaruga, and to continue with the story you have to complete the whole thing on pacifist mode.