@Kidfried Yep. My feelings on that are actually a little mixed. The core gameplay, which is basically a third person shooter, is a little mediocre to be frank. It's not bad per se it's just not good and doesn't stylistically fit in with the series as a whole.
The story is actually pretty good by the end and has some very heavy themes dealing with child abuse. It does tie into Danganronpa 1 and 2 and you're accompanied by Toko Fukawa a.k.a Genocide Jack who was one of my favourite characters in the first game.
Unfortunately there are also some "fan-service" moments that made me extremely uncomfortable. One segment sees the protagonist trapped in a machine that fondles her and you have to break her free via the touch screen, which in turn touches her more and thus has a certain physiological effect on her. Further, in one boss fight attacking the boss will see her clothes get destroyed until she's in her underwear.
I'd say I overall enjoyed it because of the story, but it's definitely the weakest game in the series.
I like Ultra Despair Girls more than the original Danganronpa, to be quite honest. It's a cool, creepy story, and I like how it expanded on the worldbuilding of the first two games. It's also essential to play before you go into Danganronpa 3 (the anime conclusion to the first two games). The TPS gameplay isn't ideal, but it's more of a puzzle game than a shooter anyway.
I really liked the relationship between Toko and Komaru by the end of the game.
@mookysam I'm still shocked, to this day, that NISA released Ultra Despair Girls uncensored in the West. There's no way that would happen if the game were to be localized today. Too much dark and sexual subject matter. And the molestation machine, LMAO!
Now I am probably the last person to get get hooked let alone try a mobile game, but after watching my co-worker playing World of Kings I had to try it. Basically it's World of Warcraft mobile. Now I don't think it's made by Blizzard, unless they are using a shell corporation to put this game out since the backlash they got for Diablo Mobile, or it is indeed a Chinese knockoff. Whatever the case may be you can tell it's heavily inspired by WoW. Even the graphics look like they were pulled right out of WoW.
Anyway it's a full fledge MMORPG for free on mobile stores it has everything that WoW does dungeons, PvP, crafting, Guilds etc and Since I did play WoW for many years till my PC died I figured I'd give it a try. Right now I am playing a Dwarven Archer and just hit level 20 (level cap for now is 60) and been playing it with a few friends. Been actually having a blast with it and it scratches that WoW itch nicely. Only problem I have is I wish I had a at least a tablet to play it on cause after awhile playing it on my phone hurts my eyes.
Other then that if you are a fan of WoW or MMOs in general or just looking for a deep game I highly recommend this game even though it is mobile and I am not big on mobile gaming.
@RogerRoger I was just curious. I thought to myself that I ought to revisit the original Tomb Raider games but didn’t know how to do so. I have a PS3 slim which I almost never use. My Vita would also seem a decent option. Crossing my fingers about the PS5 having full BC for all generations other than the PS3, since the pesky cell processor will surely make it unrealistic for last gen.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@RogerRoger Thanks for checking on that. That’s kind of you. I wonder why Chronicles is missing - especially since the port exists in Europe already.
It would be nice if they patched trophies into the games. It would motivate me a little more to give them a try. Surely if they do a re-release or upscale for PS4 or PS5 it will have trophies (a la the PS1 Final Fantasy games); and we need the same treatment for Metal Gear Solid, btw. Since Sony flubbed the PlayStation Classic so epically, maybe they will get working on that.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
Doom 3 went in a slightly different direction and is more of a horror game @KratosMD from what I've heard, never played it myself. Still a First-Person Shooter mind you but might be a bit slower then DOOM 1 or 2!
Probably a good idea to get it on PS4 unless it works great with a pro controller or something? (Don't have a switch so I'm not sure about any of your controls and the likes)
@RogerRoger Thanks for your Infamous impressions. It sounds very much like my my first impressions. And yes, I initially thought it would be more of a brawler or combo builder (akin to Arkham Asylum and Spider-Man), but I think the first infamous came out pre-Arkham, so yes - get used to it because the melee is definitely secondary to the third person shooting. Like you say, it’s not a criticism of the game necessarily, but it plays a little bit different in the combat part of things. And the different power ups / super moves add some nice variety too. How do you find the climbing / scaling / parkour? I remember thinking it was a bit “sticky” and it took some getting used to also.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
It's an RPG with Monster Catching Battling... But with Flutes and lutes!
You play as Levant
Though he's renamable! and well... His home village gets attacked by the Locusts Of The Apocalypse, The Onibubu, so he's quickly married to his friend Mahbu (She's voiced by Michelle Ruff in english! (Yukari Takeba in Persona 3, Rukia Kuchiki in Bleach, Velvet in Odin Sphere and Sadayo Kawakami in Persona 5 to name a few other roles))
Made into a Cocoon master and sent into the nearby Beetle, Dragonfly, Spider and Moth forests that contain monsters or Divine Beasts, to find a cure to the sickness that has taken hold of the village!
Expect a coming of age-y story from the game, with pretty heavy religiousy themes along with honour, duty and tradition with plot points that include reincarnation, the evils of man & the darkness in people's hearts, Divine Spirits and even an upside down tree!
Oh and ya know... You seal monsters into cocoons using your flute and use them to fight and can merge your monsters together to change or add new skills, make your monsters attributes change, give them joint elemental affinties and even change your monsters appearance
Here's the opening to show it off a little more
Now... ya might be thinking "Scotchy that looks a lot like Studio Ghibli... but they only did the animation for Ni-No-Kuni!" and technically you're correct (the best kind of correct).
But the game had a collaboration with artist Katsuya Kondō who did character designs for Kiki's Delivery Service and I Can Hear the Sea
And yeah... It's fun... Pretty rare to find nowadays too (Least it is the UK). It only got onto the japanese store of the PS1 classics on PS3... So... Good luck finding a copy if you're interested
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Oh my god, do you ever, like, COMPLETELY forget the existence of something until someone mentions it, and then you just get this rush of memories and emotions and whatnot?
That's me right now.
I LOVED this game as a kid. It has to have been... 16 or 17 years since I played it. I probably actually still have it on my shelf, come to think of it, and never paid the box a second thought when I was unpacking it between moves.
The PS1 had a lot of great monster collecting/raising/battling games. Also really love Dragon Seeds and Monster Rancher 2.
Ha! I love it too as a grown woman, discovered it on an Official Playstation Magazine Uk Disc @Ralizah alongside a demo for Crash team Racing!
Managed to snap up a copy on holiday for £15 like four years later and it honestly made that rather crummy holiday worth it :')
It's what I'd consider my first RPG! (I don't count Pokémon for some reason).
I... Think I've heard of Monster Rancher? Did it get an anime with like a little pink duck like thing with a leaf on it's back and a yellow eyeball monster? Never heard of the other one though... You americans got a bunch of stuff we never did... Honestly I'm surprised Jade Cocoon got over here
You played Jade Cocoon 2 on PS2? Cus it's hopefully what I'm gonna play after this once I'm done seeing as it's fairly short at like 15-20 hours
Previously known as Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy
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"You don't have to save the world to find meaning in life. Sometimes all you need is something simple, like someone to take care of"
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy I... actually had no idea there WAS a Jade Cocoon 2. I'll wait your impressions. If it's as good as the original, I'll keep my eyes peeled.
Dragon Seeds was super niche even here in the U.S., so don't be surprised you haven't heard of it. It was mainly a game where you bred dragons for combat purposes. The battles were intense rock/paper/scissors-esque affairs where you had to try to predict your opponent's next move and counter it with your own. Not the best game ever made, but it had a pretty good soundtrack.
Monster Rancher did, indeed, have an anime adaptation (which sucked), but the games were probably the closest thing to true monster raising sims I've ever played, considering your trained, fed, played with, and battled your monsters (as in, used them to battle other people's monsters, ala Pokemon), and you can stick with them through their entire life cycles (people moan about Aeris getting skewered by Sephiroth, but, let me tell you, nothing in a game will ever shock me as much as when I discovered that the monsters you spend so much time raising can actually die of old age; they can also die in battles if they go particularly wrong, and the monsters will sometimes run away if you're especially strict and uncaring toward them). The gimmick of the series was that you generated monsters from "disc stones," which, on the PS1, meant CDs and other PS1 games at the time. In the PS2 sequels, I believe this expanded to include DVDs as well. Anyway, the game would generate a unique monster based off something in the disc's data, so you could actually keep elaborate lists of what discs contained what monsters.
All-in-all, it's an INSANELY cool little series. Top of my list for pie in the sky announcements for me would be the announcement of a PS4 or PS5 current-gen Monster Rancher game.
Just looked it up @Ralizah Monster Rancher 2 came to the UK. It was the only one of the series to do so though and so it was just called Monster Rancher. Also it's like £60-100 for a used copy of it... with a sealed one going for £600! 😂
Jade Cocoon 2 was/is... different to say the least. I'll have to put my all into that review/impressions for you!
Just got in the Beetle Forest in Jade Cocoon and got that weird blue little mushroom like monster so I can get some healing skills now... Gonna merge it with my the insecty one that's right at the start
I love the fact merging in this actually puts them together not just gives one or or the other with a slight recolour like most games do... It's pretty neat
@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy@Ralizah Ha, I also played the demo copy of Jade Cocoon loads of times and have never heard of it anywhere else since. There were a few games I knew like that with Tombi (or Tomba outside of the UK I think) being another. The demo for that game was so long and I completed it far too many times.
I'll probably hang on to what's left of my PS1 library, but physically collecting games for that system is NOT worthwhile for cost-conscious gamers.
Nintendo and Sony need to get their act together and offer universal VC programs featuring their best games so I can just play everything digitally. PS3 and Wii were both GREAT starting points on this front, and then both companies just left the idea behind going forward (Wii U's VC was less robust than the Wii's, and the VC is completely absent on Switch; PS1/PS2 Classics seemed to disappear with the PS3, aside from some limited PS1 compatibility with the Vita).
Anyway, I've been obsessively playing SMT: DDS the last couple of days. I've probably logged 10+ hours since Wednesday. I'm basically at the end game now, but there are a lot of optional bosses that seem to unlock stuff in the sequel, so I'm combing through the game to beat them before finishing up the game proper. I am NOT playing through the game again to fight some broken NG+ superboss, though.
I did mention the bonus bosses give stuff before along with other things @Ralizah . I'll mention them below. I'll spoiler tag them still even though I'll remove any spoilery info in case ya don't wanna know
- A character will get a bonus to their stats depending on how many Mantras they mastered in DDS 1. The maximum Bonus is +5 to all
When Serph sells his ring at the start of DDS2 you get more money depending on how much Macca you had at the end of DDS 1
There's a little sidequest that expands both games. You can get a Soma in the final dungeon for doing it.
If you defeated certain optional bosses in DDS 1 you will be able to acquire Special Karma Rings. Hee-Ho Ring, Divine Ring, Skull Ring, Dragon Ring & The Amala Ring (The super boss' ring)
These ones are ever so slightly spoilery
If you import any DDS 1 save then Gale will learn a unique skill in the final dungeon.
Argilla can get a unique skill when you reach the final dungeon depending on a certain dialogue choice in DDS 1
A character can join the party at the end of DDS 2 depending on certain choices in both games
As for me I'm at the Dragonfly Forest in Jade Cocoon... Just met Kikinak and about to fight that silly birdman. Got a Air and Water divine beast, Fire and Earth divine beast & one that's all four elements
So, I made the regrettable mistake of saving in the same save slot for the last ten hours or so of playtime as I've completed various side content (Beezlebub; King Frost; Orochi; etc.) and grinded to fill various mantras. Well, literally AS I WAS SAVING tonight, the power went out for an hour or two. The exact few seconds I decided to save my file. So my save corrupted.
Ahahaha. hahahaha.
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So, I'm just going to gun it to the end of the game before I break my controller.
My PS3 got corrupted and it had to wipe the entire hard drive.... among all the other things I lost my original American PSN account with Persona 2: Eternal Punishment and The Legend Of Dragoon cus I forgot the password for it. They aren't on the UK store at all
It's why I always make two saves with ANY game and if I can't use two save slots I'll make a copy onto another memory card or onto a usb stick.... and I now have a little notepad for all my passwords as well.
Did you manage to fight the dragon bonus boss Huang Long before it corrupted? And how'd you find ol' seven move Orochi?
Meanwhile in Jade Cocoon I just finished up the Spider Forest and everythings really gone to pot! Off to the moth forest to find the Nagi and become the Chosen One Of Light!
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