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 Release date:  Game is live everywhere!Demo: Demo is live everywhere!   Trailers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFc4qyY6Jig https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uDlwqCxNnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cBAv9DxogA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAClzNSWQ5E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRbQ86r8rE8 What is Soul Sacrifice? Soul Sacrifice (hereafter shortened to SS) is an action role playing game from the creative mind of Keiji Inafune (creator of such games as Megaman, Onimusha, Dead Rising, and Lost Planet) that is much in the style of Monster Hunter but with a great deal of atmosphere, high quality presentation, and extremely fun gameplay. It’s also exclusive to the Playstation Vita. The game is based around the concept of a magic that requires sacrifice for power. If you offer something small like plants or metal, you get a small bit of power in return. But if you offer something of great value, such as a human life or part of your own body, then the reward is greatly increased. What are you willing to sacrifice for power?    What’s the story? You’re a prisoner. You’ve been kidnapped by monsters and are held captive by an incredibly powerful sorcerer who seems to be sacrificing humans daily for sinister reasons. There’s no hope, you can only await your inevitable death. But as they come to take away the man in the next cell over he retaliates with magic of his own, but is still easily overpowered by the sorcerer. After things quiet down, a strange book calls out to you. Librom, a monster taking the form of a book, holds all recorded knowledge in the world and offers you a hope of escape. By exploring the memories of other sorcerers that are recorded in the book you can gain the power of magic, just as the other prisoner did. You must study the tome and its secrets in order become powerful enough to escape.    What’s the gameplay like? It’s pretty fair to compare this game to Monster Hunter or any of the other multiplayer boss hunter genre of games that are growing in popularity in the wake of MH. The difference is where MH and its offspring have always tried to play very close to the source material without any big changes, SS seeks to take the gameplay to new and interesting places. Rather than luck based drops, each mission has a set of rewards that you will always get if you play well. Rather than picking a weapon or class that defines your character, you have a large library of diverse and powerful spells to mix and match at your leisure. Much is still the same though, there’s a 4 player online (or ad-hoc) mode that will probably form the basis of the game. Bosses are big and crazy with a ton of attacks, weak points, break offs, and look amazing. There’s still a good amount of grinding but with the removal of random drops, the grinding is much more focused and is considerably shorted with skilled play or cooperation with teammates.       ------------------------------------------------ Soul Sacrifice Delta More recently released is Delta, an expansion/revision/rerelease of the base game with a ton of new content. It includes the entirety of the original game so don't feel like you have to play the original before picking up Delta. What's Changed? More spells for old types: As an example Blood used to have 4 spells, now it has 22. Rising Magic is now Stone Fist and a new Rising magic exists. More variety for each type of magic: Every elemental magic is now rounded out with the elements it was missing and most types now have a few spells that don't function at all like you're used to. As an example there are now throwing magics that don't lock on but spray projectiles in a semi random area for high damage. Balance changes/New Functionality: No longer do Throwing and Explosive rule the school (of magics). A big highlight here is being able to charge up Stone Fist magic to unleash a wave of punch fists. Sigil Balancing: The alignment of a lot of sigils has moved around allowing for other arm types to have cool spells. Allies: Affinity can now be raised by giving your allies offerings. Allies are now not completely stupid and can actually win fights. Allies start with all 6 of their spells. poo poo on the ground: Those blue things on the ground you stopped picking up a couple hours into SS are now no longer so predictable. Now is there not only a whole new set of poo poo to pick up but you can also randomly find player/npc LE/SE without having to actually grind out sacrificing your friends. Ghosts: Ghosts can now do a little bit more. As a ghost you can now pull spells from the offering points located around a level and keep fighting from beyond the grave. Also in some levels there are a limited number of spirit fragments that allow players to be revived after total death. Outfits: Players can now customize their outfit by top, bottom, and accessories rather than just one outfit with the hood on/off. Cursed Points: There is now a new type of cursed point called the Ill-Cursed point that shows up purple in minds eye. Ill-Cursed and Cursed have different break off rewards (yes this means they doubled the amount of boss spells). New rank for spells: A new black colored rank exists for all spells that represents the new highest level of power a spell can be. What's New? New spell types: Spear, Other, Parasitic, Faction, and Rising. More spells for old types: As an example Blood used to have 4 spells, now it has 22. Factions: Now instead of being forced into a sorcerer of Avalon the player can alter their factional alignment to join Sanctuarium (focusing on saving monsters) or Grim (focusing on neutrality). Different factions have strengths in different magics and give out rewards differently. Sacrifice/Save/Fate: A new option for how to deal with a fallen ally/foe is available where you stay neutral and let fate decide, either killing or saving them at random. This gives you the Luck of the ally/monster which transforms into an LE/SE at random after the mission (with a chance to be much rarer than you could normally get). It also evenly gives you the experience in Magic and Life. New Black Rites: A new trio of black rites are available in Sylphid, Lucifer, and Caduceus. All three take away your ability to dodge and reduce your run speed but allow you to temporary grow wings and lock a monster in place, giving it a different status effect based on the black rite. New Sacrificial Rites: Now based on your arm (or faction?) there are different effects of what happens when an ally sacrifices you. Dark Arms will still turn into Gungnir and do high damage to all enemies. Neutral arms with transform into Yggrdrasil which does less damage but restores the offerings of all allies. Divine Arms will transform into Angelus which will do damage as well as healing allies. Combos: Certain spell types can now be comboed together. Weapon magics can now be used with evasion to create teleporting slashes or rising attacks. Some combos require two or more players to pull off like using the Arm magic to punch a Morphed ally into the enemy. Bazaar Ledger: This is something like a shop you can visit allowing interaction with some NPCs. You can purchase new outfits, fight in an arena, get their palm read, and buying rumors Rumors: Rumors are temporary modifiers to quest you can expend. These include increasing the amount of experience earned, chance of rare monsters, and making the fight easier. Rumors are either purchased or earned from the Whisperer or Reader respectively, located in the Bazaar Ledger. There are also promotional rumors you can obtain by checking Local Rumors with the Whisper. Blank Pages: Either by sacrificing some offerings or purchasing them with real life money, you can create a randomized quest line with a big reward for finishing them all. There also exists promotional blank pages that can be obtained by checking Psychic Link from the blank page menu. Alice's Eternal Maze: Take on an endless series of increasingly difficult and randomized fights. See it's own section for more info. More Story stuff: The number of side stories has increased dramatically and by completing them you can unlock a new ending for the original game. New Monsters: A whole host of Fairy Tale inspired bosses have integrated themselves into the game. Rite of Transmutation: After reaching level 100 you can drop back down to level 2 in exchange for carving a sigil on your heart. Each time you do this the sigil gets stronger. Hand Sigil: A new mostly cosmetic sigil slot that allows you to customize the look of your arm. There's an arm for every npc and boss in the game with some others thrown in as well. Alice's Eternal Maze In combination with Blank Pages the Maze offers a new form of randomized (and therefore, endless) content to have fun trying to complete. At it's core, the Maze is a boss rush against random bosses of increasing difficulty on randomized stages. But there's a lot of details beyond that: There are no normal monsters on stages and sacrificing doesn't replenish offerings. There only way to replenish offerings is by using Mushrooms of which a number pop up between floors. Unused mushrooms are carried over between floors, up to the cap of 8. Rare Gnomes can sometimes be found on stages. After killing them you can use their body to either repair broken spells or repair a broken Black Rite. These don't follow you between stages so make sure you use them. Exits appear after every third floor. If you die without exiting you forfeit all rewards and start at the beginning. Exiting ends the run, rewards you based on your progress and the next run begins at floor 1. Every third floor is a special fight that you must win to get to the exit. The next floor after this is always a huge spike in difficulty so think carefully about if you should exit or not. The game lags like crazy when moving between floors. Belzac fucked around with this message at 23:35 on May 15, 2014 |
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 Librom, aka the book with a face that talks down to you, is your only real source of interaction in this game. He has all the missions, all the story, all of your character customization, tons of lore about the world, and all the tutorials. It’s through him that you experience the game and so it helps to get to know your companion.    Missions are given out in a standard MH fashion. You pick the target you want to kill and then are teleported to an area with that monster (usually just past a few weaker monsters). Story missions usually involve you being accompanied by an NPC companion but multiplayer missions can either be tackled with real players or your army of NPC followers you can acquire. Each mission has 3 set drops making it easy to know which mission(s) you should do to.    There is an incredible amount of spells in the game (the demo has 50 spells from 20 types of magic). Much of the fun comes from picking your 6 spells to bring into battle. Spells are not infinite and will be used up as you repeatedly cast them so careful consideration must be used when picking. Spells can also be used to craft other spells or merged to form higher ranks of the same spell. Picking spells that synergize well with each other or with your teammates is the key to doing well. Freezing an opening and then shattering them with lighting will do a ton of damage or do you risk stopping time at the cost of your own health for a chance for your allies to do some serious damage.    Sigils offer increased customization over spells. You’re allowed to equip 5 overall Sigils: 2 to the upper arm, 2 to the lower arm, and 1 to the hand. Sigils offer direct stat increases or increased power to certain types of spells. Most Sigils are broken up into Dark, Divine, Neutral, and Colorless. By tipping your level in certain ways you can get increased benefit from your Sigils and further specialize; creating a build that is uniquely you.    Sorry for mentioning levels without explaining. Like a lot of RPGs there is level ups in this game but they are handled in quite a unique way. Each character has both a Life and Magic level (represented by blue and red). Every time an enemy is killed you can choose to either Save or Sacrifice them. Besides doing a whole host of other things I’ll get into in just a second, this is also your primary way of leveling. Saving your foe will increase your Life Level which increases your defense. Conversely Sacrificing will increase your Magic Level and your offense. Additionally favoring one type of level or balancing the two can cause your arm to transform. Currently in the demo your arm can be Holy IV-I, Balanced, and Devil I-IV. This ties into the Sigils which will activate a bonus effect if you meet the arm requirement. You can level down either side at any time, allowing you to finely tune how much attack or defense you want.     Let’s talk a bit more about Saving/Sacrificing . When a normal, non-boss, monster dies, sacrificing it will replenish a few spell casts, levels up your Magic side, and acquires the enemy’s spirit. Saving a monster heals a bit of your health, levels up your Devil side, and acquires the aura of that monster. Spirits/Auras are used to craft new Seals (this happens automatically as soon as your reach the requirements). For boss monsters everything is pretty much the same except that if you save them you also recruit the human that was used to make the monster. Saving the same NPC multiple times seems to level up their abilities. If another player falls in combat you can also save or sacrifice them but it works very differently than an enemy or boss. Saving a friend gives them a portion of your health so that they can get back into the fight. Sacrificing them casts the spell Gungnir, turning all the bones of your ally into giant spears which erupt from their body and hit enemies for a huge amount of damage. Of course, your comrade dies from this…they die horribly.    But don’t worry, death isn’t the end. Players who are sacrificed or die for other reasons will continue to exist in Ghost Mode. Ghosts act like spectators for the rest of the mission. They can see health bars and damage numbers, information that is hidden from living players. In this way ghosts can relay important information back to the other players. In addition they can subtly help out their friendly by either touching them or the enemy which will either boost power or lower defense respectively. Ghosts’ power isn’t unlimited though and they’ll have to recharge frequently in between casts.     Let’s talk about drops and scoring. Unlike other MH type games, SS focuses heavily on style and rewards you for completing missions based on your score. Score is increased by a whole host of things such as making good use of counter attacks, hitting and breaking off boss weak points, exploiting elemental weaknesses, and following up on attacks. In addition you are rewarded for being sacrificed, so even though you died you can still get a good score. There is a set of 3 predefined drops for every mission. As your score increases you’ll earn 2 of the first drop, then 2 of the second drop, and eventually 1 of the last drop. In addition to these set drops there is also a random drop you get for either being sacrificed or using your Black Rite.   Black Rites is the type of magic where you sacrifice your own well-being in order to get off an extremely powerful spell. These can be considered something like limit breaks as in order to cast one you’ll have to take a large amount of damage. So far two forbidden magics have been revealed (and only the first one is usable in the demo): Infernus and Excalibur. Infernus ignites your entire body in flames, causing a huge area of effect attack that does a high amount of damage. The trade-off is that after you’re done exploding your body is severely burned, causing you to take extra damage from enemy attacks. Excalibur is a little more extreme. The sorcerer pulls out their own spine and internal organs and forges them into a sword. After the attack ends, the sorcerer dies.    The final thing I wanted to talk about here is Mind’s Eye. During missions you can activate this mode which allows you to see things in a different light. Magical things are highlighted allowing you to find spell recharges, aura/spirit fragments, and temporary spells in the environment. You can also use this to see break off points on the bosses.  
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 The world of SS is an alternate version of our own. Taking some time during an anachronistic Roman reign of most of Europe the Roman Empire has been renamed Romalus and oppresses the previous rulers of Europe, the Druid. Druids are the magic users in this world and though they were defeated by Romalus they still make up a sizable portion of the population and magical side effects of the battles of the war can still be felt.    Faced with monster attacks and rogue sorcerers the Romalus government has formed a group of clandestine magicians called Avalon. Being the only official way to outwardly practice magic and live a better life than would other wised be allowed to a Druid, many have flocked to join this organization. As such the entrance exam has been rumored to be extremely difficult.     The player takes assassination contracts from Avalon through Librom and is sent to various magical fields, relics of the war. It’s in these places that monsters and corrupted people tend to gather. I feel this is a good time to mention how crazy and amazing the art style for this game is. One of the tag lines for the game is “True Fantasy” which describes the teams’ decision to take common fantasy tropes (such as the Gungnir and Excalibur already mentioned) and re-envision what those things would manifest as in this world. More examples of this can be seen in the monster and level design which is named after well-known concepts but is displayed in a fresh new perspective.     The music for this game is composed by Yasunori Mitsuda, composer of such games as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Xenogears, and Xenoblade Chronicles. He's kind of a legend as far as video game composers go. He's being assisted by a man named Wataru Hokoyama who is handling the orchestral arrangements. Belzac fucked around with this message at 20:58 on Mar 3, 2014 |
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Aphrodite posted:I wonder if you can still be Gungnired after using Excalibur, or if the game recognizes you have no bones left. I think this is the case. It's possible to die for good in other ways than being sacrificed. If an Orc eats your corpse while you wait for a friend to get to you then you're in ghost mode. I'm thinking there might be certain boss attacks that might kill you for good too.
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Epsilon Plus posted:How's the aesthetic customization in this game? I liked collecting different armors in Monster Hunter, even if I ended up not using them. Even if there's none I will probably leap all over this poo poo when it comes out because turning your own spine into a sword is pretty much the most metal thing. A cool aspect of this game is that you can freely edit your character's name, sex, outfit, voice, and physical appearance at any time (for a cost of some tears, which are the game's currency).  There is what looks like to be a ton of outfits available in the full game (there's only 3 in the demo). I'm not sure on the unlocking mechanic but if I had to guess I'd say it might be tied into saving NPCs after boss fights. These characters are dressed in outfits that look like players can acquire. 
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Thanks for all the compliments guys. I made this cause I know Sony of America is gonna drop the ball on promoting this and I've never had so much fun with a demo in my life.Speedball posted:Wait, the currency is tears? You even keep them in a cool little vial. You gain tears by beating missions and then going back to talk to Librom. This will cause your character to wipe some tears out of his eye. The amount you wipe away increases every time you complete a mission so you don't constantly need to go back and talk to him, only make a stop when you need some. Currently tears are used to repair spells that you've destroyed through overuse, repair your forbidden magic after you've used it once, and character customization. Emalde posted:"This is the case" being that you -can- or -can't- be Gungir'd after? This is a very important detail as my decision to ever use Excalibur hinges entirely upon it. I'm assuming you can't get Gungnired. I have no proof of this but that's just my guess. McDragon posted:Is it one of those games where outfits are just cosmetic, or are there stats involved with them? Purely cosmetic. Zelder posted:The fact that you can explode downed allies into a whirlwind of bones and spears is going to open up a whole new category of griefing, the likes of which the internet has never seen. Actually there is many benefits to being sacrificed. You get 100 free points, you do a ton of damage to the boss which means you're likely to kill him faster which nets you more points, and you get a randomized drop for taking one for the team. They've gone out of their way to make the experience a net positive one rather than a negative. Lekon posted:Has there been any firm date given on a US release? I keep seeing March, but that's the same time that the JP release is scheduled. Lack of an English demo is making me wary. There are some March dates floating around (13th and 31st) but I am highly skeptical. The English site hasn't been updated in 5 months and there's been absolutely no word for Sony or Comcept on the progress. If Sony doesn't go all out marketing this then they're fools. I'll see about taking some pictures of my arm at various levels. Captain Walker posted:Who's publishing? All signs point to Sony themselves publishing the game. It's made in partnership between Sony of Japan studio, Marvelous AQL, and Comcept.
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Aphrodite posted:How does the body part sacrificing gimmick work anyway? Do you get your parts back after that particular mission is done, or what? As much as I would like the post above this to be correct it instead works a little weirder. Assuming it doesn't kill you like Excalibur then the downside of the Forbidden Magic will continue to take effect forever until you repair the magic with tears. Forbidden Magics cost a lot to repair (comparatively) so if you constantly use them you might find yourself without an eye and severely burned for a while.
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SalaguyX is working on a content post right now showing the arm transforming. Should look pretty good.Aphrodite posted:Can you do that mid-mission, or is that an in between thing? Unfortunately at least with Salamander you can't use it more than once per mission. I breaks on use and you can only repair in between missions. Though it is possible that there are Forbidden Magics that might be able to be cast multiple times before breaking. Thievery posted:Equally important question - Can I say gently caress it and just fire my allies fingers at people against their will? There is a strange version of friendly fire in this game. You can't do damage to your allies but power spells will knock them around. In particular if someone is using the Discarded Solder's Fire Rock they will roll all over you but not do any damage. Ibram Gaunt posted:Dumb question regarding getting the demo: I know you need a separate memory card to format or whatever to use the Japanese vita shop, but can you download it via PS3 and just download it to your memory card that way or do you have to do this memory card format dance to run it Unfortunately Sony has done every in their power to make region swapping as tedious and unfun as possible. Apps are given a license per user and can not be transferred with the Content Manager App (CMA) to a memory card that is registered to a different user. Even a demo. Anthrovore posted:Great OP. This game looks so god drat amazing. The aesthetics are absolutely incredible, the spells look diverse and fun and the mechanics seem really unique. The only thing that worries me is that I seem to recall someone in the general Vita thread mentioning that the only way to get rewards from the boss fights is to beat them in a very specific and technical way, which would seem to limit your options somewhat. Anyone with the demo able to refute this? This is only half true. The score system can seem restrictive at times but is pretty easy to navigate once you learn it. More than anything, playing quickly and without getting hit is your easy ticket to tons of points (100 points each). Other big point items are using your Forbidden Magic, Getting Sacrificed, and Sacrificing an Ally (100 points each). For all of these it really doesn't matter what you use as only the fast speed requirement is somewhat reliant on keeping you spells well leveled and making good use of counters. If anything the score system might encourage you to use spells you're not used to using but does in no way force you. Plus the highest point rewards can be acquired in other ways. Belzac fucked around with this message at 00:28 on Jan 22, 2013 |
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Pierson posted:The soundtrack is great too, even in just the demo. The fight against your trainer has a real Dark Souls vibe to it. The music in Soul Sacrifice is indeed extremely awesome and there’s a reason for that. Yasunori Mitsuda is something of a video game composer legend. Let’s list of some games this guy has worked on: Chrono Trigger Xenogears Chrono Cross Shadow Hearts Xenosaga Xenoblade Chronicles And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Unfortunately there isn’t much in the way of rips of this game’s soundtrack yet but it’s pretty amazing stuff, here’s the only two I could find. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NGpTb4cVJg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uObRVSXcPxA Fortunately thought there is a bit of him talking about the music for the press. The first one is from the initial announcement of the game and the second was produced by Sony. Warning: the translators for the announcement are really bad and awkward. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kiQyBgKAUQs http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=MgHgDv9C92I Right now SalsaguyX and I are working to rip the sound tracks off the game. We’ll throw them up as we finish.
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Sorry for the double post but we actually finished uploading the rest of the major music tracks from the game. I've compiled them into a playlist with the previous 2 so you can hear the great BGMs anytime you want (assuming Sony doesn't come calling). http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1vEAMDMglvtLeVDpdtCT5D_Henjs4Zo3
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Source NA: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/01/29/soul-sacrifice-out-april-30th-box-art-pre-order-extras-revealed/ Source EU: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2013/01/29/soul-sacrifice-release-date-and-pre-order-extras-revealed/ Release date has been announced for North America and Europe! April 30th/May 1st is the day that we can finally get our hands on Soul Sacrifice. I hope they're still working on getting the demo released in these regions but at least we have these dates. Some other bits of info in the post: Here is the official NA box art. It's a cropped version of the image you see when you load the game up. It's also rad.   In addition to the release date and box art we've got some information about pre-purchase goodies. These are apparently only available at retailers but the guy with the information didn't seem really all that sure on that. These are the two costumes you get.    In addition to the costumes you get 3 bonus spells at the start of the game. These don't seem really unique or anything, just a nice bonus. Oh and you get the Japanese voice overs. Apparently they're going to charge extra for these if you don't pre-order so if this is something that is important to you then make sure you pre-order. Finally here's a nice trailer I hadn't seen before that was included in the EU news post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFc4qyY6Jig Belzac fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jan 30, 2013 |
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Let’s look at some spells in this game in greater detail. Giant’s Bones is the subject of today’s look. By offering up these bones as sacrifice you can transform your arm into that of a giant’s. Giant’s Bones are a very basic close combat magic with a ton of power but slow wind up. The arm also has a fair bit of stretchiness to it, allowing you to hit enemies both far away from you and in a wide arc, but generally not both at once. It has a standard three hit combo as well as a tremendous charge up attack that can easily stun and knock back even bosses with a direct hit but takes considerable skill and timing to get off. Like with all charge up attacks, the remaining duration of the spell is canceled after the attack ends.      Let’s look at its stats: Attack: 55 (Level 0) Elements: All elements (stone can only be obtained from fields temporarily in the demo) Uses: 4-7 (Rank 0-3) Range: Short Range Its 55 attack makes it the strongest melee spell available in the demo even though it’s still only level 0 (compared to the other melee spells which are level 1). Builds seeking to take advantage of the Giant’s Bone should equip the Fighting Seal to their Forearm (+10 to Arm attacks, +5 additional if Devil Arm I). The Arm has a long attack animation so players using it should time their attacks so they won’t have worry about dodging or sudden position changes from the boss. Line up that power attack and knock the boss down for some showy results.  
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Cross posting from the Vita thread, Policenaut found this trailer for SS from the Playstation 2012 awards. There's some neat never before monster designs in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uDlwqCxNnM Edit: While I was at it I added a couple more trailers to the original post. Belzac fucked around with this message at 06:23 on Feb 5, 2013 |
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Adding another trailer found by Policenaut. Once again shows off a ton of new monsters (seriously, how many are in this game) as well a ton of crazy looking spells. There's even some that look very co-op focused. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRbQ86r8rE8 Added to the OP as well.
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nerdz posted:Whoa. Those armor spells look cool. I had to go back to notice they actually change your character model. I'm always constantly amazed every time I see a new spell in a quick cut in one of these trailers. They start this one off by the player throwing what looks like a full sized statue at a monster. There is a certain amount of "palette swapping" but they really go out of their way to make each spell and monster feel cool even if it is just a incremental upgrade.
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Soul Sacrifice got it's first review from Famitsu. It got a 37 (10,9,9,9) which is pretty drat high. They said the single player will take about 25 hours to complete but the online co-op adds hundreds of more hours. They (they being Comcept) also recently announced there will be DLC for SS, both in paid and free varieties. The first DLC should be available shortly after launch and will be a boss pack containing 10 new bosses, for free.
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Soul Sacrifice came out yesterday! In Japan! Game looks amazing and there seems to be a lot of Japanese players on it. You can usually find streams of people playing it here: http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Soul%20Sacrifice Edit: I also am really hoping the English demo comes out soon, the wait is killing me. Belzac fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Mar 8, 2013 |
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ENB (Epic Name Bro, a youtube personality) uploaded a video showing a challenge mission while he talks about what he thinks of the game so far. He talks about some of the concerns he has with the game but overall it's extremely positive. I really need the demo to come out in NA so I can start my fiendish grind. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cg5f30p7cvw
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In the demo there was a disabled option to switch the VO language. I haven't seen any of the streamers (even the english ones) use this option, so I'm guessing it's still disabled until the English release.
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I've given up hope of there being a English demo for this game. The Japanese got a demo just over 2 months before the game dropped and we're now sitting at around 3 weeks and not even a hint of a demo. This is a big shame cause the SS demo is one of the best demos I've ever played. Shame on you SCEA, why do you always do this?
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Frozenfries posted:There will hopefully be some news of the Demo later this week, according to PS EU Blog. I'm so glad they are actually going to release the demo at all. I would have preferred it weeks ago but anything is better than nothing. I'd summed the English VO wouldn't be released until the game comes out in those territories.
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DrManiac posted:Demo Out next tuesday! Yes it is! I believe you can take over all your progress (the demo is the whole first chapter of the game). Plus 10 of each spell you've collected. 10 of each spell is a lot if ranks are separate. I'm still kinda pissed we had to wait this long but at least SCEA isn't completely dropping the ball on this game.
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Anthrovore posted:What's the size of the Japanese demo? I have Tuesday off and waiting for psn to update and then downloading this with my lovely Internet is going to be excruciating. Luckily for all I once tried to foolishly break through Sony's DRM and get the JP demo on my NA account, so I have a backed up copy on my PC. The demo is 1104 MB. I'm not sure if the Vita is like the PS3 but you normally need twice the space of the application in order to download and install anything.
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Apr 15, 2013 05:35
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redreader posted:What is the buzz on this game in Japan? I want to know if it's the new monster hunter or if it was just a promising idea that isn't too great. I want to be excited. I can't say for sure but it got great scores (what doesn't) on release and bumped up the sales of the Vita in Japan to above the 3DS. The western importers who have bought it generally complain that there are cheesy strats that work on some bosses but everything is very positive.
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Apr 15, 2013 18:34
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The Moon Monster posted:The one misgiving I have is that I'm not a huge fan of the "throbbing mounds of twisted flesh" aesthetic. Is it as omnipresent as some of the trailers make it look? It's hard to know what you exactly mean by this but the game is pretty grotesque. Not all of the monsters are that bad (Jack for example is just a flaming stone elemental looking thing) but the game is pretty graphic. At any time you can look away from Librom and look around your prison cell which is full of rotting flesh, human waste, and cockroaches. It's a horribly twisted world but it's still a video game. I never wretched at the sight of anything.
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Apr 15, 2013 23:17
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I updated the OP with a space for Goon PSN tags for the demo. If people want to jump on the "I'm playing this demo here's my tag" bandwagon early. Also added some more info about the NA and EU demo release. For those who aren't aware of the PSN store updates, there is no set time when this will come out tomorrow. The folks over at SCEA (not sure about EU) have a very vague time frame of when a store update should go up. I generally notice it goes up anywhere from 12 pm to 6 pm (PST). Sometimes if you're a dedicated poopsocker you can get the content a bit earlier by manually searching for the content over and over. If anyone gets the demo early just post that it's up so we can all jump on it. Also, multiplayer is not unlocked from the start. You'll have to play through most if not all of the prologue chapter to the main game to unlock the "Extra" missions. These are the missions that you can do with NPCs or other players.
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Apr 16, 2013 02:05
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SCEA double confirmed that the demo is indeed coming out today and that it'll feature just as much as the Japanese demo did. This includes an exclusive offering, the Spirits’ Heart, that can only be obtained by playing the demo and transferring progress over to the main game. Can't wait. Source is here: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/04/16/soul-sacrifice-demo-out-today-saves-transfer-to-full-game/ Belzac fucked around with this message at 17:41 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Apr 16, 2013 17:28
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redreader posted:It this skills-based like demon's souls/bayonetta or is it rpg-style, where your stats matter more than your reflexes? I know in demons/dark souls and bayonetta, you can grind for better stuff... but actual player skill is the most important thing, unlike (for instance) a traditional JRPG where it's stats-based and tactical thinking. Where does this fall in the spectrum? I would say it's a bit of a combination of both where you can substitute a lack of one by being really good at the other but ultimately you'll need to be strong in both to overcome the hardest challenges. There are "levels" in this game but they only affect 2 stats: damage and life. Then there are the spells themselves which you can build up, getting duplicate copies and combining to make higher ranks. Finally there are seals which are how you focus your character to the playstyle you've chosen. So you leveled neutrally (half life, half damage), got some strong melee spells, and put on seals that improve your melee damage. Hey, that's a nice kitted out character but if you're bad you're probably gonna get stomped by the bosses. Damage is very high in this game, so much so that most people seem to play glass cannons cause the difference from a 1 hit kill to a 2 hit kill are pretty minimal. Just don't get hit and lay on that damage. TLDR: I'd say it's closer to the Souls series than a traditional JRPG but has elements of both. Belzac fucked around with this message at 18:42 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Apr 16, 2013 18:36
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Speaking of glass cannons, there is actually a seal that reduces your life to 1 but gives you crazy damage. The game encourages that high skill type of play but you can play much more conservative (and/or synergistic if you're with a party) and accomplish the same goals. There are many viable strategies. One strategy I've been thinking of is having one character play the all out damage guy with the 1 hp seal and powerful nukes while another plays entirely passively, only getting heals and Sands of Time, which freezes a boss in place at the cost of constantly draining the users health.
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Apr 16, 2013 18:47
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I have a list in the OP but we could also do a shared document. What do you think of this? Example SS Friends List
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Apr 16, 2013 19:12
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I've decided that both are fine solutions. If you want to put your name in the longer list, go for it. I'll take that data and put you in the short list. If you just want to be on the short list I'll toss you on there as normal.
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Apr 16, 2013 19:22
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Ineffiable posted:Put me on both lists. If you can, put down that I play evening times, EST. In the demo there are three healing spells. A direct heal, a heal over time that heals more than the direct heal, and an AoE channeled heal that heals about as much as the HoT but needs the user to stand still for the duration of the spell, but can heal up to 4 times that of the HoT due to it affecting everyone in the area. It's not perfect but you can fill the role of the healer. There are other spells that only work with the cooperation of other players so a support role is perfectly doable if you plan to play with others. Solo you might find yourself in a bit of trouble. Edit: The spread spread sheet is now in the OP and available here. In addition to what I just said about support roles there is also support for having multiple loadouts. I think you can have up to 20 pre-saved spell/seal combos that you can switch to before starting a mission. So don't feel like you can't play support cause you'd gimp your solo character. You can do both. You'll be getting a ton of spells you might not want right now but you can take all the chaff you collect and make off builds with them to try around with. Belzac fucked around with this message at 19:47 on Apr 16, 2013 |
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Apr 16, 2013 19:42
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Ineffiable posted:Sorry for another gameplay related question (at work). Yep answered above but level up is a bit more of a challenge. You can down level yourself and then work your way back up, choosing a different stat but this is potentially expensive (costs tears to level down) and time consuming. Levels tie into seals where for example you might have a seal that does +4 Arm type damage but if you're a Devil Rank 2 arm (from having a certain ration of Magic to Life) then it adds an additional +4. You can still use the seal and get its base value but if you hyper specialize your character, you'll reap greater rewards. I believe any spell can be used by any level/arm type so even if you switch out to a support role though you've built your levels to be all damage you'll probably still do a fairly decent job.
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Apr 16, 2013 19:53
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The Moon Monster posted:Is the demo still not up or do I just suck at navigating PSN? The demo is still not up, SCEA has no set time when their updates go up.
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Apr 16, 2013 22:02
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Emalde posted:Seriously, the game is 2 weeks from loving release why is it taking so long for a demo to be dropped Reminder that the JP demo dropped 2 months before the game was released there.
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Apr 17, 2013 04:12
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HampHamp posted:Do the offerings deplete on a timer, or number of attacks, or number of activations? Glad you're having fun with the demo! Here's answers to your questions: It's the number of activations. For example if you're using a melee spell, it only counts as one use when you summon it. You can then swing with it as much as you like until the timer runs out and it will still only be one use. Certain spells, melee ones specifically, have a charge up move. This will do huge damage, apply a ton of elements, but consume the rest of that activation. Optimally you'd activate, hit with it until it's close to running out, then do the charge move to finish it off. Spells can be combined with the Triangle button on the spell selection screen to increase their rank which usually increases the number of activations. Vulnerability seems to generally be based on a circle of weaknesses. Ice beats fire, lighting beats ice, stone beats lightning, poison beats stone, fire beats poison. Seeing what the bosses is using against you, you can then make an educated guess as what it's weak to. Jack is weak to ice, Harpy is weak to fire, Cerberus is weak to stone. The tears you wipe away from Librom are the game's currency. You use them to repair spells and level down your character so you can respec. The demo has a cap of 100 tears but the full game does not have a cap. Make sure to repair your spells if they break, especially your Forbidden Magic.
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Apr 17, 2013 18:02
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Smornstein posted:So i died to the first "boss" and chose sacrifice does anything different happens if i'd saved the boss? Bosses you save will join your companions and can be brought along with you on co-op missions. It doesn't happen in the demo but I've heard in the full game you can get split paths based on saving or sacrificing.
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Apr 17, 2013 23:28
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Primarily testing show that EU and US can play together. This is wonderful.
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Apr 18, 2013 01:57
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Smornstein posted:Just did my first online match and i figured "if i sacrifice myself that should kill the boss" except i was wrong and i just spent the rest of the match as a ghost is there anyway to come back to life if i sacrifice myself? Nope! But you can see the bosses health and boost players or debuff the boss by touching them on the screen.
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So I played over 20 hours of the JP demo and I can say without a doubt that this demo is harder. Cerberus was a complete chump before but there's a new mechanic which is making it very hard to roll all over him. Diminishing returns on stuns. Previously if a boss was knocked downed/stunned/part broken/whatever he would stay down for a good 30 seconds every time. This made Jack and Cerb easy as hell cause if two of their attacks can be blocked and they'll fall down. But in this demo they only fall down and roll around the first time. The next time they get up quicker, and then all the times after that they barely even fall down. Also they seemed to have tweaked a lot of the moves and boss AI. Cerberus's spear attack used to be able to be blocked with the Ice Shield, that tactic will now practically instant kill you. The final boss of the single player would never roll and didn't have a Quick Move spell so you could just smack on them till they died making it the easiest fight in the game. Harpy's vacuum attack was practically impossible to get caught by, you could just run directly away from it and never get sucked in. But even with all this said, yes Cerb is doable. Even with a full party. We did it last night (even though the last person died after we won but before the fight could end). I'm gonna have to disagree with Emalde for right now. Before you could just burn a boss down in like a minute easy-peasy. But now that everyone is new it's good to have a few Life levels so you can survive a few attacks and heal yourself better. Learn the fight before going 1/19 and just poo poo storming over everything.
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