@bindiana yeah I'm not sure why they're approaching the trailer as a Souls game when the actual game was really far from it.
It's really more Ghost of Tsushima with character creation. The boss fights can be similar to Sekiro due to its parry mechanic but there are difficulty options.
This is a true open world RPG, don't worry.
And difficulty options are here to stay. The studio wanted to make the game accessible to everyone.
I played the closed beta on PC and it was really good for its current state.
The trailer really doesn't do it justice. It's a full open-world RPG with anything you can think of that made it an RPG. Crafting, Dungeon, World-Boss, Side Quests, Activities, factions (martial art schools), gear qualities, talent trees (and of course ability to learn other school of martial arts and wielding different weapons), and many more.
There was a point where every single JRPG players have abandoned their hope to see the continuation of this outstanding Falcom series being localized in the west after Sky
So I'm a bit emotional now thinking that we're only two Trails game behind from Japan with this new release in Kiseki Connected Universe.
@BeerIsAwesome What remake/remastered game titles in the past decades that didn't come out with "remake", "remastered", or a variation of "reloaded" in their title to differentiate it?
@ThroughTheIris56 You do know that Sony has been covering the bills for promotions and marketing materials for any Square's games that are PS Exclusives right?
Those people that were so vocal supporting Microsoft gobbling these studios back then because it provides them with a stable environment to create are surprisingly quiet now.
After back to back failure with Andromeda and Anthem, temper your expectations on this. It's still EA and whatever left on that shell company that used to be Bioware.
"Releasing this year" with absolutely 0 trailer and gameplay showcase when Atlus has been busy with their marketing works for Metaphor releasing in October. Yeah...
The issue was not Liam though was it? it's that egomaniac Lauren and her writing team that thinks they can craft a better story than the source material; when they all failed as a real book author.
Honestly, the only reason I got PSPlus was for cloud-saving. But even that's no longer worth it after the latest price hike. With inflation and constant rise in cost of living, subcriptions are the first to go.
Absolute trash, so much so that I'm going to skip the third part of the game. Nothing like being told "let's change fate and destiny" over and over again only to have the ***** end plot giving you the exact same childhood trauma but this time in 4K and a bloody PhD to understand it.
This is why Nomura should've stayed in designs where he belongs instead of attempting to write a story. Such an insult the OG plot.
A solid 8, questionable English VA and level designs aside; accessible fluid combat, great characters, extremely fun boss fights, and Keiichi Okabe's god tier soundtracks made Shift Up maiden's voyage on a console game a home run.
As usual, Ubisoft once again misread their players on what we wanted in a Watch Dogs game. They are first and foremost still a character driven story. Watch Dogs 1 and 2 were a commercial success because the players care about what happened to both Aiden and Marcus.
Legion removed this character-driven stories in favour of a gameplay that wasn't even that good to begin with. I had my time with Legion but I honestly can't remember what I did in it or how it went. On the contrary, I can still recite Aiden and Marcus stories if I wanted to.
No loss. Ubisoft has been flailing and flailing recently, I can't wait to hear and cheer about their bankruptcy.
I played this on PC, for the studio's side project that was worked on alongside My Time at Sandrock, it was surprisingly complete and really addicting. Great chill game.
Very well deserved. It was a fantastic entry into a genre that has been really barren for a while, and hopefully it'll be a continual IP for them to create a sequel in a space that has been long dominated by Fire Emblem.
Definitely a game made you wanting more and more even after it took me 100+ hours to complete everything the game has to offer. It was just that good.
6/10.
It serves what it attempted to do well enough but that's it. A very safe game following a very safe open-world mechanic without introducing anything new or mind blowing. Is it fun though? absolutely. Splitting your enemies in two with a nodachi never gets old.
@Orochilocka I answered this before and I'm still surprised people can't see why most are hating on Rebirth's open world checklist.
Rebirth is a lazy attempt at open world designed with a closed-world map mindset. You can only climb where you are told, you can only glide when you are told, and your ex warrior superhuman still can't jump a short distance to go to a tower so he had to circle around a short cliff that was jumpable by any normal human standard.
Square Enix created a pretty good open world with FF15, but Rebirth was just a lazy attempt at recreating that with their arbitrary invisible walls. Open world doesn't work with Rebirth traversal and it's only frustrating.
Open World works with RoR and any AC games because they did give the freedom of exploration with their traversal. In an era where true open world games like Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade Chronicles exist, Rebirth was just a sorry excuse to pad the short story in order to earn more money.
"And on this episode, we're going to outline how we made our players believe they can change fate and destiny by keep repeating that phrase in our marketing. But at the end of the game, we decided to kill off Aerith anyway so nothing change. We'll still give you your childhood trauma but this time in 4K and a PhD to understand our mess of a multiverse plot. Oh we'll make this another Kingdom Hearts mess and a worse graphic than Remake. Also here's Chadwick"
"Obviously, the cost of making games is increasing, and you don’t need to invest in any of these items to enjoy the outing"
It's funny that this site didn't use this kind of sentiment when SEGA and ATLUS showed their DLC package with Persona 3 Reload and Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth but just outright bashed them. Biased article is the worst.
Yeah even I can't support this ***** practice. They can keep this DLC, I'll get it when it's heavily discounted and *****. I couldn't care less of the other two "expansion pass" DLC and just wanted to play The Answer.
What an absurd practice but not surprising from greedy ATLUS.
@Giggleshot the different is AC series gives you the freedom of movement in their open world games and that's why it works.
Square Enix lazy and horribly designed open world restricts your movements every single time with arbitrary invisible walls and single points of climbing. Hell the stupid EX soldier still can't jump in 2024. It's an "open world" designed with single player restricted map movements because they can't do open world right and it's just frustrating how much it turned this otherwise great series into garbage.
FF7 never need any of these. Just give us the great series we loved back then and focus on that. Remake got it right, but Rebirth is what happened when they lost sight on what made the series great in the first place.
But lesson learned, I'll skip the next game and just watch the new ending from YouTube or something because Square clearly has lost their passion for storytelling with Rebirth and trading it for bloated trash in the name of money.
@PaperAlien yeah the burnout rate is real. I'm just powering through the main story right now and if this is how they're approaching the third game, I'm gonna skip it and just watch the events on Youtube.
6.5. Great new combat mechanics and great story, ruined by bloated mini-game trash and the open world map that was so poorly designed that your EX soldier still can't jump or climb anywhere in 2024. So much so that he had to walk around the cliff to find a different route just to go to a tower that was literally a jump away for any normal human.
And whomever designed Gongaga Jungle needs to die in a fire.
What an embarrassing and lazy attempts at an open world when games like Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade Chronicles exist.
@ShogunRok Thank you for the excellent review. Vanillaware never miss. The trailer intrigued me, the demo hooked me, and this review solidified my urge to play it day 1.
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Re: Hold Your Horses, Dragon Age: The Veilguard Actually Looks Sick in Gameplay Teaser
Push Square: "You can't judge a game by just the 2 minutes CGI trailer!"
Also Push Square: "Look at this less than 2 minutes gameplay reveal, game looks sick!"
Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Finally Ventures to PS5 Later This Year, Trailer Gives First Look
Damn BioWare...The bar was so low it was practically a tripping hazard in Hell, yet here you are, limbo dancing with the devil.
Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Shifts to 'Real-Time Action Combat'
Larian was cooking, BioWare was microwaving.
Re: Capcom's Strange Tactical Action Game Kunistu-Gami Is Out Next Month on PS5
I'm absolutely intrigued by this game just by the art direction alone.
Re: Video: Is Concord Destined to Fail?
@AdamNovice It doesn't affect me as I have a PlayStation.
but I'm also a PC Gamer where we'd rather not play the game when it's exclusive to Epic Game Store than actually made an Epic Game Store account.
Re: Video: Is Concord Destined to Fail?
Priced game with PSN account required for PC players. You're delusional if you think this game is not DOA.
Re: Dragon Age Dreadwolf Will Finally Be Revealed This Weekend, Except It Technically Won't Be
Dragon Age: Desperation
Re: Concord Is Sony's Answer to Overwatch, Launches August, Beta Test in July
If this was their answer, they should've just let it go to voicemail.
Re: Open World Martial Arts RPG Where Winds Meet Announced for PS5
@bindiana yeah I'm not sure why they're approaching the trailer as a Souls game when the actual game was really far from it.
It's really more Ghost of Tsushima with character creation. The boss fights can be similar to Sekiro due to its parry mechanic but there are difficulty options.
This is a true open world RPG, don't worry.
And difficulty options are here to stay. The studio wanted to make the game accessible to everyone.
Re: Open World Martial Arts RPG Where Winds Meet Announced for PS5
@FuriousMachine The boss fights are souls like, but you have difficulty options to make it easier like Rise of the Ronin.
I don't play Souls-game as I hate them, but Where Winds Meet will be a day 1 for me.
Re: Open World Martial Arts RPG Where Winds Meet Announced for PS5
I played the closed beta on PC and it was really good for its current state.
The trailer really doesn't do it justice. It's a full open-world RPG with anything you can think of that made it an RPG. Crafting, Dungeon, World-Boss, Side Quests, Activities, factions (martial art schools), gear qualities, talent trees (and of course ability to learn other school of martial arts and wielding different weapons), and many more.
Can't wait till it's launched.
Re: Preview: Trails through Daybreak Is Set to Push Falcom's Fantastic RPG Series Forward
There was a point where every single JRPG players have abandoned their hope to see the continuation of this outstanding Falcom series being localized in the west after Sky
So I'm a bit emotional now thinking that we're only two Trails game behind from Japan with this new release in Kiseki Connected Universe.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Pre-Orders Already 'Looking Very Strong'
Why? is the gameplay trailer out?
it's a Ubisoft game:
1. It always looks better in the trailers.
2. It's 50% off in 6 months.
Stop pre-ordering from this studio.
Re: Yes, the Next Madden on PS5, PS4 Is Called Madden NFL 25 Again
@BeerIsAwesome What remake/remastered game titles in the past decades that didn't come out with "remake", "remastered", or a variation of "reloaded" in their title to differentiate it?
You really could not see the difference here?
Re: Hermen Hulst, Hideaki Nishino Replace Jim Ryan As PlayStation CEOs
"Look, it doesn't take a genius to know that any organization thrives when it has two leaders.
Go ahead, name a country that doesn't have two presidents. A boat that sets sail without two captains.
Where would Catholicism be, without the popes."
Re: Square Enix to 'Aggressively' Pursue Multiplatform Strategy from Now On
@ThroughTheIris56 You do know that Sony has been covering the bills for promotions and marketing materials for any Square's games that are PS Exclusives right?
Re: Helldivers Turn on Arrowhead Following Undemocratic Firing of Community Manager
JFC, Helldivers community have more ***** drama than the TBS Saturday night line-up.
Re: Master Detective Archives: RAIN CODE Gets an Updated 'Plus' Version on PS5 in October
Played this on Switch and definitely will grab this on PS5 again. Such a great and fun game if you like detective stories.
Re: More Xbox Layoffs Reportedly Inbound as Company Attempts to Cut Costs
Those people that were so vocal supporting Microsoft gobbling these studios back then because it provides them with a stable environment to create are surprisingly quiet now.
Re: The Big Dragon Age: Dreadwolf Reveal Is Incoming, 2024 Release Date Reportedly Set
After back to back failure with Andromeda and Anthem, temper your expectations on this. It's still EA and whatever left on that shell company that used to be Bioware.
"Releasing this year" with absolutely 0 trailer and gameplay showcase when Atlus has been busy with their marketing works for Metaphor releasing in October. Yeah...
Re: The Witcher's Ciri Says She Hopes Fans Give Liam Hemsworth a Chance as Geralt
The issue was not Liam though was it? it's that egomaniac Lauren and her writing team that thinks they can craft a better story than the source material; when they all failed as a real book author.
Re: Gaming Subs Like PS Plus, Xbox Game Pass Aren't Growing At All
Honestly, the only reason I got PSPlus was for cloud-saving. But even that's no longer worth it after the latest price hike. With inflation and constant rise in cost of living, subcriptions are the first to go.
Re: PS5 Fans Mostly Happy with Sony's Third-Party Deals, But PlayStation Studios Need to Step Up
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Re: Poll: What Do You Think of Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth's Ending?
Absolute trash, so much so that I'm going to skip the third part of the game. Nothing like being told "let's change fate and destiny" over and over again only to have the ***** end plot giving you the exact same childhood trauma but this time in 4K and a bloody PhD to understand it.
This is why Nomura should've stayed in designs where he belongs instead of attempting to write a story. Such an insult the OG plot.
Not everything needs to be a ***** Kingdom Hearts
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Stellar Blade?
A solid 8, questionable English VA and level designs aside; accessible fluid combat, great characters, extremely fun boss fights, and Keiichi Okabe's god tier soundtracks made Shift Up maiden's voyage on a console game a home run.
Re: Family Friendly Level-5 Boss Would Love to Make Violent, Erotic Games
Let them cook!
Re: Rumour: Watch Dogs Is Dead, and Legion Reportedly Killed It
As usual, Ubisoft once again misread their players on what we wanted in a Watch Dogs game. They are first and foremost still a character driven story. Watch Dogs 1 and 2 were a commercial success because the players care about what happened to both Aiden and Marcus.
Legion removed this character-driven stories in favour of a gameplay that wasn't even that good to begin with. I had my time with Legion but I honestly can't remember what I did in it or how it went. On the contrary, I can still recite Aiden and Marcus stories if I wanted to.
No loss. Ubisoft has been flailing and flailing recently, I can't wait to hear and cheer about their bankruptcy.
Re: Random: We're In Awe of Metaphor: ReFantazio's Box Art
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Re: School Management Sim Let's School Teaches You a Lesson on PS5, PS4 This Summer
I played this on PC, for the studio's side project that was worked on alongside My Time at Sandrock, it was surprisingly complete and really addicting. Great chill game.
Re: Physical Backers of Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes Hit with Unexpected Shipping Costs
Mine comes directly from PSN digital store with 48h early access.
I honestly don't know why people still struggle with physical copies these days and age.
Re: $130 Version of Star Wars Outlaws Under Fire as Ubisoft Prices Increase
Gonna...Pass...on this game or at least wait till it's deeply discounted for a complete edition.
Re: Video: Our Favourite PS5 Games of 2024 So Far
Inifnite Wealth then Unicorn Overlord.
Can't wait for Megaton Musashi and Eiyuden Chronicles this month.
Re: Stellar Blade Director Recommends Players Wear Clothes, Where Possible
Oh don't worry, there will be streamers playing a naked run for a challenge within the first two weeks.
Re: A Unicorn Overlord Sequel Could Be Considered
An absolutely resounding yes!!
Re: Run a Cosy Convenience Store in Slice of Life Sim InKonbini, Coming to PS5
Oh wow, they had me at that first 3 seconds of the trailer music.
Re: Unicorn Overlord Sales Top Half a Million, Could Be Vanillaware's Fastest Selling Game
Very well deserved. It was a fantastic entry into a genre that has been really barren for a while, and hopefully it'll be a continual IP for them to create a sequel in a space that has been long dominated by Fire Emblem.
Definitely a game made you wanting more and more even after it took me 100+ hours to complete everything the game has to offer. It was just that good.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Rise of the Ronin?
6/10.
It serves what it attempted to do well enough but that's it. A very safe game following a very safe open-world mechanic without introducing anything new or mind blowing. Is it fun though? absolutely. Splitting your enemies in two with a nodachi never gets old.
The best open world game of 2013.
Re: Documentary Details the Creation of PS5's Critically Acclaimed Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
@Orochilocka I answered this before and I'm still surprised people can't see why most are hating on Rebirth's open world checklist.
Rebirth is a lazy attempt at open world designed with a closed-world map mindset. You can only climb where you are told, you can only glide when you are told, and your ex warrior superhuman still can't jump a short distance to go to a tower so he had to circle around a short cliff that was jumpable by any normal human standard.
Square Enix created a pretty good open world with FF15, but Rebirth was just a lazy attempt at recreating that with their arbitrary invisible walls. Open world doesn't work with Rebirth traversal and it's only frustrating.
Open World works with RoR and any AC games because they did give the freedom of exploration with their traversal. In an era where true open world games like Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade Chronicles exist, Rebirth was just a sorry excuse to pad the short story in order to earn more money.
Re: Documentary Details the Creation of PS5's Critically Acclaimed Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
"And on this episode, we're going to outline how we made our players believe they can change fate and destiny by keep repeating that phrase in our marketing. But at the end of the game, we decided to kill off Aerith anyway so nothing change. We'll still give you your childhood trauma but this time in 4K and a PhD to understand our mess of a multiverse plot. Oh we'll make this another Kingdom Hearts mess and a worse graphic than Remake. Also here's Chadwick"
Trash game.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Dragon's Dogma 2?
Gonna wait till the discounted complete edition, if I even still interested by then.
Re: Dragon's Dogma 2 Slated for Adding Sinister PS5 Microtransactions at Launch
"Obviously, the cost of making games is increasing, and you don’t need to invest in any of these items to enjoy the outing"
It's funny that this site didn't use this kind of sentiment when SEGA and ATLUS showed their DLC package with Persona 3 Reload and Like A Dragon: Infinite Wealth but just outright bashed them. Biased article is the worst.
Re: Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra the Official Name of Amy Hennig's Marvel Game, Out in 2025
Who is Skydance New Media and why have I never heard of them before?
This trailer is fantastic!
Re: Preview: Rise of the Ronin Shows Promise, But It's No Showstopper Yet
@ShogunRok how does it feel coming to this from Rebirth? because that game utterly burn me out on Open World contents.
Also "Custom Character", do you create your own Ronin in this game?
Re: Live-Action and Cutscenes Meet for a Rise of the Ronin PS5 Launch Trailer
I'm wary on this, gonna wait for a review.
They should have included a demo for this game.
Re: Persona 3 Reload: Episode Aigis Will Be Locked Behind Expansion Pass
Yeah even I can't support this ***** practice. They can keep this DLC, I'll get it when it's heavily discounted and *****. I couldn't care less of the other two "expansion pass" DLC and just wanted to play The Answer.
What an absurd practice but not surprising from greedy ATLUS.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth?
@Giggleshot the different is AC series gives you the freedom of movement in their open world games and that's why it works.
Square Enix lazy and horribly designed open world restricts your movements every single time with arbitrary invisible walls and single points of climbing. Hell the stupid EX soldier still can't jump in 2024. It's an "open world" designed with single player restricted map movements because they can't do open world right and it's just frustrating how much it turned this otherwise great series into garbage.
FF7 never need any of these. Just give us the great series we loved back then and focus on that. Remake got it right, but Rebirth is what happened when they lost sight on what made the series great in the first place.
But lesson learned, I'll skip the next game and just watch the new ending from YouTube or something because Square clearly has lost their passion for storytelling with Rebirth and trading it for bloated trash in the name of money.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth?
Notice how it's only those that are not even halfway through the game ("I just hit Golden Saucer, OMG~!") that gave this game a high score.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth?
@PaperAlien yeah the burnout rate is real. I'm just powering through the main story right now and if this is how they're approaching the third game, I'm gonna skip it and just watch the events on Youtube.
Square is absolutely regressing with Rebirth.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth?
6.5. Great new combat mechanics and great story, ruined by bloated mini-game trash and the open world map that was so poorly designed that your EX soldier still can't jump or climb anywhere in 2024. So much so that he had to walk around the cliff to find a different route just to go to a tower that was literally a jump away for any normal human.
And whomever designed Gongaga Jungle needs to die in a fire.
What an embarrassing and lazy attempts at an open world when games like Tears of the Kingdom and Xenoblade Chronicles exist.
Re: Unicorn Overlord (PS5) - An Utterly Brilliant Strategy RPG
@ShogunRok Thank you for the excellent review. Vanillaware never miss. The trailer intrigued me, the demo hooked me, and this review solidified my urge to play it day 1.