Hey all! Whatcha been playing! Missed last week partially because I was thiiiiiis close to being done with titanium court and really wanted to finish before the thread. And I did! I absolutely loved it. For those who have played
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I ended up starting to leave asap as soon as I saw what was happening. I got some curses lifted kinda by happenstance. But I really enjoyed the characters. Had a big goodbye at the end. Puck helped me out, set the enemy up with Hop. It was a great time. Really wish there was a Kacey’s mod kind of thing for the game because it really is fantastic on mobile. Portrait mode! It’s awesome!
Now I’m playing the OOT remake and really enjoying it. I think the art style works. Game still fucks all these years later
I played through Final Fantasy Resonance. The combat was fun and I had a good time just mindlessly grinding for EXP, but the story is a real letdown.
The first half is just kinda generic and bland. Nothing you haven’t seen, if you played JRPGs in the past. The second half is a lot worse though. Just stupid and nonsensical, which really dragged the game down. The characters are also walking tropes and not interesting at all.
Despite the problems, I still had a good time (mostly), since I was doing anything but the main plot for most of the game, and just had to experience the garbage story in small bursts. However, near the end, there wasn’t anything else left to do, so I had to engage with it more.
The game also likes to waste your time with tons of small animations, that you can either not skip at all or just partially. If you’ve played the FF7R games, they do the same thing. Otherwise there are a bunch of small QoL additions to make things pretty smooth. You can fast travel to any POIs you’ve been to, almost from the very beginning and it doesn’t really matter where you are most of the time. I think the game said I can’t leave someplace twice (and you need to walk/teleport out of dungeons before you can fast travel), but otherwise it doesn’t care. Because of the pseudo-job system (called Visions in the game) you can actually get some real character builds going, and you can change those at any time outside of combat. No need to get to an Inn or checkpoint or something. This system is missing some option to save your builds though, since it can get tedious with up to eight party members and almost a dozen of slots to fill each. EXP sharing is also really easy, since your whole party always gets full experience, doesn’t matter if they’re active, dead, or whatever, which was definitely a big reason for me to continue grinding.
There is also tons of stuff to do, almost everything combat related, with a ton of optional minibosses, and even Super Bosses, so you can flex those min-max muscles, if you want to.
Definitely check out the demo first, if you’re interested in the game. I don’t recommend it for the story alone, only if you like the combat. The demo is decently long (5-10 hours) and progress carries over to the full game, so you don’t really lose anything.