wes

3mo

Cygames killed it with the Relink DLC

These fights are good as f*** man. Need unlimited content in this game Hit 85k concurrent players on Steam the other day so I'm hopeful this will be supported in the future.

Trash Star

3mo

just wrapped up xenoblade chronicles definitive edition on switch 2 gonna copy and paste my review from backloggd

I really, really, enjoyed this, until the final chapter. The pacing falls off a cliff in its final moments and becomes a total slog to get through. Fake fight after fake fight into cutscene after cutscene. It's very unfortunate because everything in the story was finally coming together and it gets totally interrupted by all the stop and go sequences. I ended up switching to casual mode just to get through the fights because I had become invested enough in the story that the conclusion mattered to me more than trying to grind out a few more levels just to be the proper level for the final fights.

I finally decided to jump into this when the Switch 2 upgrades were announced and the story was surprisingly engaging. I knew nothing about it before starting, just had a vague interest and it surpassed all my expectations. Once the puzzle pieces start getting put together it's awesome moment after awesome moment. Learning about the history of the world becomes increasingly satisfying and despite the poor pacing at the end I think all in all it comes together extremely well.

I sorta ended up with a love/hate relationship with the characters. I loved their collective presence (except Riki) and their camaraderie, but I didn't enjoy the actual writing of the characters all that much. The writing always felt either way too stiff and robotic or overly cheesy and juvenile and because of that only a few of the emotional moments connected with me, the rest all fell flat.

The scale and visuals of the environments are incredibly impressive. I took so many screenshots overlooking unbelievable backgrounds and vistas. Unfortunately I found exploring the environments to be pretty boring a repetitive by the mid game. Side quest design is very poor, they're almost all some version of a fetch or delivery quest or kill x numbers of monsters. At least the music is phenomenal. There is always something either beautiful, exciting, hype, atmospheric or touching playing.

I don't play MMO's but I know everyone compares this series' combat to MMO's, so I was unsure how I was going to feel about it but I ended up falling in love with it. It basically ended up feeling like a strategy game where I was managing cooldowns, status effects and positioning. I enjoyed it so much that I ended up clearing out pretty much every dungeon because the combat felt so satisfying once I found my groove. I did find the party system to be a bit limiting though. I felt like I had to have a bruiser/tank and healer at all times or else the party would get demolished quick. That meant I ran with Shulk, Dunban and Sharla for the majority of the game. Maybe I was building the other characters wrong but whenever I tried to experiment and switch someone in, combat felt significantly more punishing and not very fun.

The other games are definitely on my list to play at some point but I think once I finish the dlc I'll just wait for Genesis next year.

4/5

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2mo

the closest I'm getting to filling the Fire Emblem void as a PS5/PC gamer

wes

2mo

You can play all FE games besides Fortune's Weave if you really want to

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2mo

oh I'm specifically talking about Fortune's Weave in this instance lol

wes

2mo

Switch 2 emulator soon come

I am eyeing Fortune's Weave after the new Direct on it, but it'll probably be a bit before I buy it. Not the biggest fan of TRPGs though I did like the single playthrough I did of Three Houses.

Cherrywine001

2mo

I’m gonna play fire emblem for the first time. Should I start with engage, three houses, or wait for fortunes weave?

Cherrywine001

2mo

I’m gonna play fire emblem for the first time. Should I start with engage, three houses, or wait for fortunes weave?

Smoochas

2mo

U must try the gba trilogy too imo

World1

4w

Idk why i’m even still interested in Decapolice.

Atleast we know it’s coming now. Before I had my concerns about whether it was still being made.

wes

4w

Completely forgot about that game Thought it was out already lol.

The AI stuff doesn't bode well for them. They're definitely taking their time putting stuff out. I picked up Fantasy Life i last year on a whim, and it was fine. Thought I'd want to play more after the credits rolled and the "real game" started, but I just lost all interest and uninstalled. Way too long in between updates for it too so not surprised Decapolice is still being worked on.

Cherrywine001

4w

Xenoblade chronicles X looks the most interesting to me (big sci fi fan) but I’ve heard it’s a departure from the other 3 games. Should I start with that one or a different one?