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I really enjoyed Baten Kaitos but it comes with a caveat, it takes a while before it is good.
The problem is at the start you only have a small hand of cards and haven't much tactics to use. However once that hand grows bigger the game gets far more tactically interesting as you have to decided on using say an item that will heal the enemy if you have the possibility of getting a high level run or flush.
It actually works really well and the battle system really makes the game, it's a whole heap of fun once it gets going.
Everything else though... music is good. Story is so unmemorable I can't tell you what it's about and visuals range from gorgeous to out of place and ugly. But it's a game where you play it for the amazing battle system.
Legend of Dragoon on the other hand has no redeeming features.
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While everyone is raving about Last of us 2 and Cyberpunk , here I am eagerly waiting for Star Ocean First Departure R .
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Arcadeheroes wrote: »While everyone is raving about Last of us 2 and Cyberpunk , here I am eagerly waiting for Star Ocean First Departure R .
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Who ever is making these remakes for Square Enix should be taken out back and shot.
Got the DQ1-3 Switch ports. They look so ugly. Basically you have the backgrounds from the excellent SNES remakes but really badly drawn high res sprites slapped on top. Not only are they ugly but the different res assets just totally clashes.
I would like to blame this on Square being lazy and porting the mobile version over, except the mobile versions are excellent and don't have the awful new sprites. They actually put effort into to this port to make it worse.
Still.... nice to have them on Switch. Just wished they had been lazy this time as they've made the game look so much worse.
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M2 were involved with the Collection Of Mana and besides a few quirks I have no issues with them.
OK, that was a good one.
This one though kind of looks like it was done by the same team as the horrible FFV and FFVI mobile/PC ports. These aren't as awful as those, but it's even more maddening that in this case they had excellent mobile ports to draw from and choose to put effort in to make them worse. A lazy mobile port would have been the best case
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Started into FFX yesterday, managed to get nearly 10hrs played. Loving it so far and definitely has grabbed me more than the others I've tried. It's great that I never had a PS cos I'm getting to experience games like this for the first time. Think I'm close to first Blitzball tournament though so will see how I feel about it after that.
Hopefully pick up DQ11 tomorrow now and should have about 800 hrs worth of JRPG in the backlog so will hold off on buying anymore for a few weeks anyway
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Started into FFX yesterday, managed to get nearly 10hrs played. Loving it so far and definitely has grabbed me more than the others I've tried. It's great that I never had a PS cos I'm getting to experience games like this for the first time. Think I'm close to first Blitzball tournament though so will see how I feel about it after that.
Hopefully pick up DQ11 tomorrow now and should have about 800 hrs worth of JRPG in the backlog so will hold off on buying anymore for a few weeks anyway
How do folks here rate The Zodiac Age?
I think its a great game, very different from other titles, the battles aren't turned based but real time, I would give it a shot.0 -
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Unless you went with the professional sphere grid you can't go wrong. Every character is on a linear path until about the post game. Just fill in every node you can along the way. Kimari is the one exception as he can choose lord of paths at the start but he is useless anyway!
You farm sphere nodes in the arena later on but it's only needed for post game. Don't worry about it for now. The game is extremely linear.
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Blitzball becomes a lot more fun once you get the chance to recruit better players.
It's also technically not optional for the post game as you get Wakkas overdrive from it which is essential for it. But it is a lot of fun. Not triple triad fun but close.
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So while DQ11 on switch is great and all theres a few niggle.
Texture quality is noticeably reduced in many areas.
It only runs at 30 FPS which is very jarring after the 60 FPS PC version. It's even more jarring when they have turned off any motion blur effects.
Anti Aliasing is also either gone or very low and there's very low antistropic filtering.
It actually ends up looking better in handheld mode.
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