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Max Wilco posted:I was playing as Claude, and I remember I had to restart a few times before I got the Dexterity perk. Why did you have to restart? I'm unfamiliar with SO gameplay.
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NikkolasKing posted:In terms of your more notable JRPG composers, Sakuraba gets far and away the most hate in my experience. But having first heard him with Baten Kaitos, and also heard his efforts in SO3 and 4, I like him a lot. He has a very obvious style but so what. His soundtrack for Valkyrie Profile is absolutely sick nasty and goated
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:10 |
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most of the distaste for sakuraba comes from the later tales games where he seems to really be phoning it in. id say everything from vesperia to his work on zestiria is indistinguishable mush. (zestiria has good songs, but they're by go shiina.)
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:12 |
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Remind me, what's Motoi Sakuraba in paycheque mode?
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:14 |
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FireWorksWell posted:Why did you have to restart? I'm unfamiliar with SO gameplay. If memory serves, while most talents can be learned by using skills, Dexterity can't, and Dexterity is really important for pickpocketing, a thing which you wanted to do mostly when your party is split up and you only have your MC.
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:15 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Remind me, what's Motoi Sakuraba in paycheque mode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-iws0WehOA
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:18 |
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ImpAtom posted:I would not. The remake sounds like it's like 70% the same. Chaotic Flame posted:Unless you just REALLY want to compare the original with the remake, there's no reason to replay the original with the remake two days away I kind of wanted to compare the two, but I suppose I could always just look up a playthrough of the original on YouTube to see. FireWorksWell posted:Why did you have to restart? I'm unfamiliar with SO gameplay. LibrarianCroaker posted:If memory serves, while most talents can be learned by using skills, Dexterity can't, and Dexterity is really important for pickpocketing, a thing which you wanted to do mostly when your party is split up and you only have your MC. Yeah. From the Before I Play entry: https://beforeiplay.com/index.php?title=Star_Ocean:_The_Second_Story posted:Reset the game repeatedly until your main character - either Claude or Rena - has Dexterity. Play the game as normal until after Cross, when you have Celine and get the mission to go to the cave. Get Sensibility 1 and 2, from Cross and Herlie.
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:19 |
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Endorph posted:most of the distaste for sakuraba comes from the later tales games where he seems to really be phoning it in. id say everything from vesperia to his work on zestiria is indistinguishable mush. (zestiria has good songs, but they're by go shiina.) Sakuraba is good when he has time but I started noticing when he seems uninspired or rushed to do a game's score around when I first played Tales of Rebirth, where some tracks it seems like he has 4 or 5 song ideas that he's mashed together to try and make a full song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyWgII06Eeo This one for example. There's also just some Sakuraba-isms like battle track themes that overuse glissandos which I personally find noisy
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:19 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inkynlZfW0M i liked this song in xillia that was incredibly poorly audio balanced so itd just overwhelm all midbattle dialog and drown it out
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:20 |
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Inspector Gesicht posted:Remind me, what's Motoi Sakuraba in paycheque mode? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjwiNfPmc7E
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:20 |
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Also there's like 8 games that have a world map theme like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7CKPuJlrSU
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:23 |
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the later tales games do have some occasional good sakuraba songs mind, like fury sparks, mad dance, until the sword is exhausted, but he only seems to have managed like one or two per game for a while there. Berseria has some decent character themes and Arise has a bit more effort in most of its songs (even if there's still only a couple i'd call real highlights,) so hopefully he's on the upswing. Might just be a result of them not cranking out Tales games every couple years anymore, though.
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:23 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrM_MDiS8oY otoh they reused this song for like 7 games straight
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:24 |
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The only Motoi Sakaruba work that I'm really familiar with is the Dark Souls 1 soundtrack, which is pretty iconic, but...I dunno, there's always been something off about some of the songs to me. Not bad, necessarily, but some sort of odd quality to the compositions, or the instrumentation. There is the album he did with Deja Vu (Baroque of the Future). I've been meaning to check it out. I listened to the track Prelude while typing this out, and I think it's pretty good (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpudqxTPesQ). With what I played of SO2, I remember the track you hear in the first town starts to get really grating after it loops for the hundredth time. However, I recall the battle theme pretty easily.
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:27 |
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Lunacid 1.0 is out and its good. Started over to experience it fresh after not playing in over a year.
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:44 |
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motoi channeled all their energy into valkyrie profile 2
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# ? Oct 31, 2023 23:45 |
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Endorph posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrM_MDiS8oY It's a banger but it gets more forgettable each time, and not just on account of repetition. Vesperia was close to the last Tales that used synth instrumentation; somewhere in the PS3 era everything turned into big epic orchestra and it makes it sound just that bit more like mush.
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 00:03 |
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Tired Moritz posted:motoi channeled all their energy into valkyrie profile 2 worth it
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 00:03 |
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There was a time where I really disliked Sakura because there was like 3 songs in each of his games that sounded like a remix of some rando SO2 track. But I’ve mellowed out on that.
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 00:07 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGerHt-FoPM Still does good stuff whenever he gets to do a new prog rock album (Star Ocean game).
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 00:30 |
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On the other hand he got chance to do a new Valkyrie ost and turned in a Dark Souls one instead.
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 00:39 |
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i ran star ocean 3's bonus dungeon so many times that those sax chords are stuck in my head to this day
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 00:40 |
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yeah i have no hate for sakuraba's style he just, does a lot of boring work on his "main" rpg series. like contrast this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alsfCwHBZNI with any given tales boss theme he composed in the ps3 era and it's like. incomparable
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 01:42 |
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I dig his Baten Kaitos stuff the most, even as a Dark Souls Enjoyer. The Valedictory Elegy is still my favorite JRPG normal battle theme after all this time, and it's remixed into boss battle themes in cool ways.
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 03:46 |
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I'm more of a Sports Sakuraba guy myself https://youtu.be/rUvGu6OwWCY?si=AL1ryh0XRdWRXw36 https://youtu.be/yM3Wu3j-Vgo?si=H0MMZrSGnfpbe4Ld
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 04:52 |
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https://old.reddit.com/r/BlueReflection/comments/16vwn2r/okay_i_need_to_tell_you_guys_about_suns_latest/quote:So as someone who understands Japanese to an extent, I’ve been playing Sun and following its story since launch, because I love Tie and hate myself. I’ve considered in the past posting story summaries or impressions on here, but decided against it out of a lack of motivation and because I don’t know how much interest in there is in Sun’s story around here. But when I played today’s update, I said to myself: well we had a good run of 1 (one) good game
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 07:00 |
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kirbysuperstar posted:https://old.reddit.com/r/BlueReflection/comments/16vwn2r/okay_i_need_to_tell_you_guys_about_suns_latest/
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 07:20 |
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kirbysuperstar posted:https://old.reddit.com/r/BlueReflection/comments/16vwn2r/okay_i_need_to_tell_you_guys_about_suns_latest/ Two good games and a good anime
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 08:27 |
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Sakurazuka posted:Two good games and a good anime oh right the anime I dunno about BR1 being 'good' though I guess it's better than some of the other stuff Gust was doing at the time (NoA1/2 lol)
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 08:30 |
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kirbysuperstar posted:https://old.reddit.com/r/BlueReflection/comments/16vwn2r/okay_i_need_to_tell_you_guys_about_suns_latest/ shes not a masochist, her whole thing is that shes emotionally numb, so the only thing she can feel is either literal physical pain or extreme emotional pain. shes not a generic wacky masochist her whole deal is trying to escalate the stakes in hopes she'll finally find something that excites her. this'd be the last thing she wants.
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 09:00 |
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Maybe that guy really wants to create a new criminal girls game or something
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 09:03 |
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Meowywitch posted:Maybe that guy really wants to create a new criminal girls game or something
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 09:04 |
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kirbysuperstar posted:oh right the anime
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 09:28 |
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Nights of Azure at least had the good sense to realize it existed as a yuri delivery vehicle and replace the weird creepy dude side characters with weird creepy lady side characters in the sequel
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 10:12 |
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Thuryl posted:Nights of Azure at least had the good sense to realize it existed as a yuri delivery vehicle and replace the weird creepy dude side characters with weird creepy lady side characters in the sequel
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 10:22 |
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The hardest part about the SO2 remake is trying to figure out who I'm cramming into my party on the first run, because 6 party slots(plus Claude and Rena) gets very tight when I simultaneously want to use my old favorites and also test if they improved some of the more lackluster characters.
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 13:02 |
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Early reviews are looking good.
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 13:11 |
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https://opencritic.com/game/15765/star-ocean-the-second-story-r https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frHScXxi0d8
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 13:21 |
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# ? Jun 10, 2024 10:50 |
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I have been burned by SO games many times but this one does not look like poo poo.
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# ? Nov 1, 2023 13:38 |