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This game is just begging to have a custom music feature, but nope.

My ears were bleeding after playing the beta for like half an hour.

Yumm.. I could go for something spicy right now.

I have only had my PS4 for less than half an year, I won't be happy if Sony really starts pulling stupid stuff like this at this point.

I just wish this game had a custom music feature of some kind, the default soundtrack in this game is absolutely terrible to the point of making it unplayable for me. And at least the beta version seemed to have a glitch where it would play the music even if you had it turned off from the settings.

The soundtrack seems a bit too soft for my tastes, but other than I'm all for it.

@ShogunRok
Another thing I kinda want to know: The game DOES have 2-player offline co-op first of all right? I've heard somewhat mixed messages about this. Then other thing, in DW8E player 2 was massively gimped because he could only the basic stratagems each character had and unlike player 1 couldn't learn more. If you've given 2 player co-op a try, does Player 2 get all the same benefits and features as player 1 in battles?

I've got this pre-ordered but my copy hasn't even been sent yet. Kind of annoying.

@ShogunRok Well, here is a question: Do the enemy officers use Musou moves in this one? For whatever reason they didn't in the original SW4 and I felt that made the game way too easy.

I really enjoyed the PS3 Jojo game even though I don't really care for manga/anime in general.

This one, I'm not interested for. 3D fighters rarely work in my experience.

I dunno about all this, but I decided to buy Nobunaga's Ambition Sphere of Influence last sunday, and boy was that a great purchase.

That gets my playstation game of March 2016 award, screw the fact that the game was released last year.

FF13 was so godawful, I will be highly impressed if they manage to make this even worse.

I hope they don't though.

Never really understood the fascination of Rank in these types of games, especially when you start to disconnecting just to keep it up.

@rjejr
There is no western PS3 release in the first place.

Way too much for me.

I vote 300-399.

350 sounds like a pretty safe bet.

Strategy titles, especially ones in large scale like this one, are very hit or miss with me, but thankfully it looks like this will go to the hit gategory. Love the crazy amount of customization and the style this game has, the music is decent as well.

@oats-81
Yah, that kinda worries me too. With spells and super moves being thrown left and right I would except it might get a tad confusing. Not to mention having to manage that many characters' equipment and whatnot might also lead to a bit too much time being spent on the menus.

Oh well, guess we'll see.

Like always I keep it at english voices at first, but if they do start annoy me then I switch to japanese.

I heard nothing particularly offensive in this video as far as I can tell.

@Shellcore
The battle system is similar to Tales of series if you've ever played those, though for whatever reason I much prefer how SO battle system handles.

Agreed Last Hope's dub was truly terrible. I generally like to play with english dubs, but by the time Lymle shows up anyone halfway sane will switch to the japanese VAs. Sadly that didn't improve the characters themselves, aforementioned Lymle still is one of my most hated video game characters of all time and the rest of the cast is pretty terrible as well.

I'm rambling now I realize, I liked parts of Last Hope, particularly the battles and the enviroments but there was a lot of stuff that annoyed me. I hope that SO5 is closer to the quality of the excellent Star Ocean Second Story.

They made the right call I think. Even though I don't care for Street Fighter series at all, I've seen this game in action and it looks absolutely fabulous, some of the best looking graphics I've seen in games so far definetly.

This game is hilarious, it gives let's players great material to work with.

@Labyrinthman
Energyyyy.... Arrowww.... SO Second Story was cool like that.

But if you're specifically refering to Last Hope. Ugh, that was one of the very few instances where I was forced to switch to the japanese VAs, it was just that gringeworthy, though sadly that didn't make the characters any more likeable.

I dunno, been looking at some gameplay and I'm not feeling this one at all.

In my eyes this has been kinda undermined by 3DS' JRPG offering for this year. Still looking forward to this though.

I didn't even know this was a thing.

Considering these are supposed to be just bonuses for paying for the online I don't really see what people are complaining about.

I haven't payed for PS+ a single time myself yet because I barely do online and the current subcription model just doesn't work for me. I wish we could have the option to instead pay for game hours. Like for example I could pay 5 bucks and it would give me 10 hours of online game time, and the time would tick only when I actually play online. Something like that would fit me much better.

I have two, so I can just charge the other one while playing with the other. I don't really see it as a problem.

Well, for me the 3DS is the best place to game atm (JRPGs galore!), but PS4 still has a plenty of potential, it has some decent releases already, but nothing I would write home about, well except Axiom Verge but that is a multiplat nowadays. The console itself is very solid.

@ultranx I believe I mentioned that I would withhold my full judgment until I beat the game. No need to get angry.

That being said I have beat the game now and my opinion hasn't changed. Some of the endgame bosses were a bit more interesting, but the AI never really improved and it got really frustrating when they started to throw bosses healing moves that heal way more than you can deal damage with an average party in quite a few turns, ending the battle just became a matter of whether or not the AI felt like spamming their healing move.

As a small compliment the story did get better after about halfway point and I did end up quite liking most of the main cast of characters even with the questionable localization quality. But overall I still found it a mediocre JRPG for the reasons I stated on my earlier post. I would give the game something between 5/10 and 6/10.

Bleh, that girl in particular belongs to the "overly apologetic" trope of characters, which is a trope I find quite insufferable.

Trailer doesn't clarify if they improved the game speed though, specifically the running speed of the characters. The first one was by far the slowest Musou game I've ever played and it destroyed any chance of it being even halfway decent.

Too bad I suck so much at shooters, I'll never be able to experience this.

Anything above easy is just impossible for me.

I managed to struggle through it, it got a little better in terms of stuff actually happening after the midway point and it did have some pretty exciting set-pieces for boss battle and whatnot at times, but it was a very mediocre RPG overall.

Loved the Digimon designs though, VenomMyotismon's (derpy) evil eye lasers we're pretty awesome.

As far as western games go, it's one of the best. It's a great game, but just not my style.

I really liked 999, but I wasn't too big fan of Virtue's Last Reward. If this one looks ends up looking good I might need to try and finish that one.

I really have no complaints with the PS4 menus, they're fast, easy to navigate and work hell-of-a-lot better than the PS3 menus.

Well. I kinda wish you could mix and match themes by using music from one and artwork from another.

@Robronoa
Number 3 is awesome too, and a lot more refined compared to BoF2 in terms of gameplay. Both games share amazing soundtracks, stories and characters.

I tried 4, but the game had a weird shift to this arabic style music, which I abolutely hated. And when I don't like the soundtrack in the game, it just ruins the entire experience for me.

I played through BoF1 as well, it was alright. Nothing more, nothing less.

Cool I guess, Street fighter just has never appealed to me for some reason. The gameplay just feels exceedingly stiff and slow compared to many other modern fighter and even with the HUGE cast of characters in 4 I had trouble picking any character I actually liked, everyone just seemed to belong either to the "cool" quiet type or super eccentric (to the point of being obnoxious), only few characters being somewhere in between.

I'll just wait for Tekken and the new Guilty Gear instead.

@Robronoa
Whoa, a Breath of Fire 2 fan? Awesome! it's one of my most beloved games from my childhood.

@TheMightyPunram
Well.. More so the battles themselves (Though I do wish the battle system in itself was a bit more complex too). The boss battles aren't very interesting at all, they just repeat the same patterns which sometimes don't even make much sense, one of the bosses I recall used: a move to buff itself -> strong attack -> move that puts confusion on one of your peeps.

And the boss just repeated the same pattern over and over again.. even though the effects of the buff hadn't even faded at that point it just recast it. And that is a recurring theme I've noticed with battles in this game. the bosses are just so basic and boring, even older RPGs had some elements of randomness to their moves, I would accept that too, though adapting AI would obviously be the best choice.

That's a pretty generous score. I'm at chapter 7 now and even though it's definetly not bad, it's not that good either.

For a Digimon game there seems to a bit too little focus on the actual critters, the battles are kinda basic and boring (made even more apparent when in between game sessions I played the Bravely Second demo, which had far more to it's battle system). And the translation has been pretty goshdarn terrible.. The e-mail system messages in particular seem to have been translated out of context, which make some of the replies make zero sense.

The game also has messed up many of those dialogue choice options. It's hard to explain, but basically they have the "choose your rensponse" thing pop-up when it's just a regular old line, and it's awkward as ****.

I do enjoy the Digimon raising, the art style is fun and colouful and the music is actually pretty catchy at times.

I'm thinking 6/10, but I'm starting to lean to 5/10, but I will hold my judgement until I'm done with the game.

Hope they improved on the game speed. I couldn't get into the first one cus you move like molasses in that, by far the slowest musou game I've played.

I liked it just fine, but it's pretty much required to have a friend to get full enjoyment.

Meh, I hope they announce Lei soon.

I think I'll get this when it drops around the 20 or so range. Gotta have at least a few non RPGs on the PS4 too.

I'm playing through Phantasy Star 2 for the first time, playing it from Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection/Ultimate Megadrive Collection. It is quite dated, but as a JRPG lover I feel like it's one of those games I'm required to do.

Meh, western games just aren't my thing. (Though I did enjoy Fallout 4 to some extent). EDF 4.1 is the most fun game on the PS4 as far as I'm concerned, can't really make a list yet cus I only have 6 retail PS4 games so far.

@JMillsDezign
XONE is also pretty much 100% relegated to western games as far as I'm aware. And with that in mind I have no interest in that thing, japanese games are what I bought my PS4 for.

@Feena
I'll be looking into those, thanks for the recommendation.

I've owned the PS3 version since it was released but still haven't touched it. I wasn't the biggest fan of Atelier Ayesha either.

I wish this company tried making their games bit more RPG like instead of just making then about doing menial tasks. they clearly have the talent to do that as they proved with Mana Khemia, which was an excellent mixture of classic JRPG style with the item crafting stuff they have here.

I played the the GC version about 5 or so years back, I didn't really care for it tbqh, I'll take any other classic style RE before it.