Satsuma wrote:
1) Iconoclasts (PS4)
2) Detroit: Become Human (PS4)
3) Far Cry 5 (Xbox)
4) Shadow Warrior (Xbox)
5) Guacamelee 2 (PS4)
6) Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon (PS4)
7) Far Cry Primal (PS4)
8 ) Golf Story (Switch)
9) Octopath Traveller (Switch)
What’s the game about: it’s a JRPG with 8 characters each with their own story split into 4 chapters.
What’s the story about: It varies from a swordsman who has lost his mojo, a merchant who wants to travel the world, a scholar investigating a mysterious disappearing book and so on. Some of them will be more interesting to some people but they’re all told nicely in an atypical JRPG fashion.
What’s it look like: Pixel-art. Urgh. But wait! It’s bloody lovely with a style of its own. Yeah it’s all pixels and stuff but the effects make it look fantastic. This ever present depth of field effect, lovely lighting, masses of particles blowing up and shit and just it’s all really well presented.
What’s it sound like: fucking lush, mate. Orchestral, even. Lovely music throughout that’s a real joy to listen to.
So is it any good: Excellent. The stories vary as you’d expect but the fighting is the highlight. It’s a typical rock, paper, scissors style of early JRPGs (so I hear) but it’s just so fucking fun when you blat a muthafucker and a megaton of numbers come crunching out their face cakes. The most numbers I managed was thirty thousand but I’ve seen someone blast over a hundred thousand out and one shot a boss. I just how it’s a reet challenge for me but can be abused like that. I wish I had the time and patience to work out all the systems and what not but the depth is there for those that want to get stuck in. Mind you, the pacing is a bit weird: it seemed to me that the required levels forced you to do each character’s chapter in turn - so do everyone’s chapter 1, then everyone’s chapter 2 and so on - so by the time I was doing all the last chapters I was about 10 levels over the required level. If you did one characters full story you’d be massively underlevelled, so whereas it’s probably possible and you can do any characters story at any time in any order; I don’t think it’s meant to be done that way. And each chapter has the exact same structure: wander about town, enter dungeon and kill boss. Fin. It gets a bit tiresome but at least you know what to expect. Anyway, I’m shit at JRPGs and had a tough time to start with but once I got going I had a whale of a time. By the time I was near the end I was overlevelled and had it mostly figured out. I never once had to grind enemies to finish the game either which I was happy about. I expected the grind would be necessary for these types of games, but no, just normal progression and I was fine and even over prepared.
So if you like JRPGs you’ll probably find a good time with this. If you’re shit at JRPGs I’m not sure this will convince you but it might. I don’t know what you lot like.
I knocked through the lot in 52 hours so it’s quite meaty but not Persona 5 100+ hours meaty.
I’d give it a 8.5.