They only do it if you go to the porn section, even once. You’re busted, man!
Just found out there are plans for an English translation of that, unsure if official or fan.
(Source is excellent)
How could you know that…unless you’ve done it, too!
I know it because everybody around me complains about it, while I never got a single spam, ha!
A likely story.
I probably did click on something while I was there, thinking, “is this really?” And yes, yes it was. And they never let me forget it, either.
Yeah that place is incredibly noxious from what I hear, which is why I never, ever ventured into the unsafe for work areas.
A recent report, from 15 minutes ago, told me it got even worse since they closed the English language parts!
Can’t get Falcom games any cheaper than those though!
It’s worth translating: the game is one of the early examples of a “depression games”, as the Yoko Taro games popularized that subgenre.
Dungeon traversal is different from Wizardry games in your typical JRPG, yes. I was talking mostly about combat system, but Persona also uses simplistic dungeon design. Move the camera lower and make the movement discrete and tell your kids it’s Wizardry, they won’t know the difference. Dungeon Master have strayed farther from this formula than many modern JRPGs.
I’m saying there are a bunch of JRPGs that are pretty explicitly just Wizardry or very close to it (including ones that actually have the Wizardry name and logo), and while it’s clearly been a formative influence on the rest, they - including Persona - are not actually that.
Can you explain this term? I tried googling “Japanese depression games,” but I mostly got recent-ish articles about some Japanese entrepreneur supposedly using RPGs to fight depression. I have never played a Yoko Taro game that I am aware of (no nier).
The Japanese term is “Utsuge-”. It is a genre born in the late 80s (probably tied to the krashing of the Japanese bubble around that period, it can be seen in other medias as well) with games like Last Armageddon, The Quest of Qi or Dinosaur, where a desperate situation gets only worse, until a tragic ending that more or less traumatizes that generation of gamers.
It’s one of my favourite subgenres since my very first JRPG, which I won’t name, as citing games as part of the genre usually is a spoiler in itself.
Edit: Oh heck, what the hell, Phantasy Star II was released at the same time as the three other games I cited!
How quickly did you start committing to the higher reinforcement cost covens? I finally got it in my head that theoretically I could run like 15 party members (maybe a bit less, I was looking over stuff and counting but it was pretty late and I was tired and I can’t remember exactly), and in some cases it’s a boon (e.g. donum power pools to determine spell power I think? and the combined donum points is your mana pool in effect; I was looking through some stuff online but again it was late). I’m just not sure I want to commit to e.g. 50 cost deploys for exploring. Although I’m stuck on the troll king, and it might make sense there.
But it’s clear I need to start opening things up somewhat.
I remember I ran complex ones almost as soon as I got them, because leveling the covenant up lowers their cost.
I think the one I was using mainly when I stopped playing was about a dozen party members (it had a crazy single dancer damage slot, and I had an overpowered bell that I had no right to own on my opinion: this was making sparkles!)
Didn’t realize that. Now running like 15+ people and working on leveling them. don’t have ideal healing (just vanguard/rearguard) but I will live. Noticed the Donum Benefits immediately (in my initial party I was running two Maze whatevers, one in an offensive covenant and the other in one that could heal, but now they are together and properly supported)…
source for earlier statement about Dinosaur.
October 29, 2021
What a timing!
Ooof I gave my Theater person double sharp stat growth and she has no hp. I wonder if that was a mistake for this juncture.
Saviors of Sapphire Wings + Sword City Revisited was half price on the Switch so I picked it up.
Mainly because for some reason Undernauts is not available here in Australia (or Europe I believe) yet. I think it may be due to some Euro language localizations, since we’re all tied to the eShop based in Germany apparently. :(
For some reason I didn’t even know about these games, but I enjoyed Demon Gaze back on Vita (which apparently is releasing on Switch and PS4 on December 9).
Undernauts will be released outside of the US Dec 21st I think.
Will I be all blobbered out by then I wonder?!