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ACES CURE PLANES posted:I just stumbled across this guy entirely by accident and jesus, dude He comes off a bit better in the responses (probably because some of those reviewers that he implied were wrong actually showed up) but those tweets are still weird and defensive. Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 07:39 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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Last Celebration posted:I watched a few minutes to see if there was more insane takes and I’m genuinely confused what this dude likes about SaGa, because his issue with the narrative is like…isn’t that 90% of SaGa games besides Romancing 2? Yeah, its pretty weird. Like buddy its kinda a reoccurring element of the series that character and story often revolve around broad points, its part of the whole stumbling into different tabletop experiences thing.
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Apr 25, 2024 08:19
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I think it's a reasonable criticism to have of the series, but how he didn't notice it in Frontier or Minstrel Song which are far, far more laconic is very odd. The demo for DIVA felt verbose by comparison
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Apr 25, 2024 08:30
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It’s kinda bizarre that he made an entire rear end review about how much he dislikes Emerald Beyond because it’s not an “evolution” of SaGa without a single comparison to Scarlet Grace, which it’s basically just straight up a successor to that addresses a lot of its accessibility issues (easier, more linear) and was even worse about some of the stuff he doesn’t like in EB since you really could just go anywhere in some stories. And also, $50 isn’t exactly cheap, but the lower price point from a AAA company/ is indicative of a budget release
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as a long time saga fan, i don't know a single detail about the series. thus, emerald beyond confuses and disappoints me.
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to experience SaGa is to touch the unknown, and the unknowable
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Apr 25, 2024 09:17
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Who cares about these nerds what character are you starting with!!!!! I went with Ameya 
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Apr 25, 2024 12:13
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I still can't decide, I definitely do not want to continue the demo save. Wouldn't mind doing boring/generic/linear first and then save the "best for last"
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Apr 25, 2024 12:17
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I restarted on Switch so I could play as Diva. I got four world choices at the start instead of being forced into Delta base like in the demo, so I’m currently looking for Pandora’s box in a post-apocalypse desert.
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Apr 25, 2024 12:54
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microfolk posted:Who cares about these nerds what character are you starting with!!!!! I'm going to go Diva Mido Ameya Bonfor Sigunas
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Apr 25, 2024 15:09
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microfolk posted:Who cares about these nerds what character are you starting with!!!!! I went with her too since I'm on switch so I figured I might as well continue from where the demo left off. I dig the world map music for her world so that helps!
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Apr 25, 2024 15:11
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I’ll probably do a fresh start with Diva and not import my demo data; I found the story setup for her quite interesting, I dig the Arbitrarily Scottish Robot thing, and Wednesday is in the party.
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Apr 25, 2024 15:24
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microfolk posted:Who cares about these nerds what character are you starting with!!!!! the cops. im gay.
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Apr 25, 2024 15:34
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SaGa Emerald Beyonds is up on Steam now!
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i'm sagaing
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Bless you Kawazu for releasing the newest SaGa on a national holiday, I've been playing for a while now and I love how familiar it feels while still having so many new mechanics and changes to the old ones to surprise me at every turn. But at the same time why in the poo poo I still haven't sparked a single tech!!!!!!
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microfolk posted:Bless you Kawazu for releasing the newest SaGa on a national holiday, I've been playing for a while now and I love how familiar it feels while still having so many new mechanics and changes to the old ones to surprise me at every turn. Techs are way more likely to spark on Hard or Brutal battles, so if you're doing easy battles you only seem them spark rarely.
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Also from what I recall of the demo, there's limited tech slots again. Is this gonna be like in RS2/3 and Frontier 1 where you want to keep a free tech slot in order to learn things?
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Tequila Bob posted:Also from what I recall of the demo, there's limited tech slots again. Is this gonna be like in RS2/3 and Frontier 1 where you want to keep a free tech slot in order to learn things? Nope! There are limited tech slots but any techs you spark during battle are added as temporary 'bonus' tech slots until the end of the battle.
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ImpAtom posted:Nope! EXCELLENT. I mean, the old way wasn't awful, it was just a bit of a newb trap. This is better.
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Got my preorder key from GMG as expected, though I don't think I'll be able to dive into this until Saturday unfortunately.
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https://www.rpgsite.net/review/15759-saga-emerald-beyond-review RPGSite review is good. Something in particular they brought up really interests me (mild spoilers), that it only took them 6 hours to clear Ameya's story, but in a way where it might have been cut short because of choices they made since it was a cliffhanger ending with no final boss (though of course the series is no stranger to cliffhangers) That's the kind of stuff I was hoping to hear when they talked about how the campaigns will be much shorter than Scarlet Grace but with choices playing a bigger role in how things play out.
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Srice posted:https://www.rpgsite.net/review/15759-saga-emerald-beyond-review With regards to Ameya (minor plot spoilers) The pattern you do for getting cats vs going to other worlds influences things a lot. If you just get all your cats as soon as they appear you'll basically only get to visit a couple of worlds. The best balance genuinely seems to be collecting cats until other plots open up and do those plots, at least until the point where you get a plot choice.
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ImpAtom posted:With regards to Ameya (minor plot spoilers) That's good to know, especially since that's how I was going about it in the demo anyways since that made sense to me.
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My approach was just "get all the cats ASAP" and it sounds like maybe the game doesn't want me to do that. (The NPCs did hint as much.) But I'm still gonna do it.
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That's what replaying stories is for!
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I think I will start with Mido since he feels like the tutorial character, sort of like Urpina. Or at least that is the vibe I get
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I played Siugnas's quest for about an hour and a half. I can confidently say that the guy complaining about the localization has no taste and is dumb. It's been a lot of fun so far.
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Tequila Bob posted:My approach was just "get all the cats ASAP" and it sounds like maybe the game doesn't want me to do that. (The NPCs did hint as much.) But I'm still gonna do it. Whenever I replay her scenario I am definitely gonna see what happens when I only care about collecting cars, I figure going with both extremes will be a good way to see how the scenarios can change!
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buddychrist10 posted:I played Siugnas's quest for about an hour and a half. I can confidently say that the guy complaining about the localization has no taste and is dumb. It's been a lot of fun so far. The localization is really weird, Tsunanori keeps calling complete strangers "Bud" even though they're not actually buddies because they just met
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Is still the case that there's no JP voice selection on console but available on PC?
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the heavy canadian accent is doing a lot of work to make tsunanori more appealing.
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There's definitely the ability to choose Japanese or English audio on PC. Someone else will have to speak for the consoles.
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I was promised a 6 hour jaunt but Diva is still going at 17 hours, I wonder if I broke something inadvertedly re: voice overs I can't find an option for japanese VA on PS5
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From what I remember, you might have to choose it in the title option screen. I don't think you can change in game for whatever reason.
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I took about 7 hours to finish Tsunanori's, but I wonder if some of my choices cut things short? I also didn't do any of the optional battles.
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What's the proportion of voice acted to unvoiced dialog? I'm interested in this but my eyes suck way too much to read a lot of text.
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unattended spaghetti posted:What's the proportion of voice acted to unvoiced dialog? I'm interested in this but my eyes suck way too much to read a lot of text. Most of the dialogue isn’t voiced aside from the intro (and probably the endings) since it’s a budget game and it’s so free-form, sorry.
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No worries it's budget as hell that's pretty much what I expected. Thanks.
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poe meater posted:From what I remember, you might have to choose it in the title option screen. I don't think you can change in game for whatever reason. The title screen does have an exclusive option to it on consoles, but it's just brightness level. Curiously, maybe I'm stupid, but is there really no way to exit to title from inside the game?
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