Hello, I'm trying to improve at conveying emotions and in general improve. I learned that with this little project that doing this type of thing is very difficult. Just the way they speak is challenging so I'm trying to do something every week to improve overall.
I'd love some actual constructive criticism please and once again thank you.
**SPOILERS** **Sorry about earlier**
This game is very interesting. A dive on a history lesson and cultural experience with great liberties taken into magic and spiritual lore of groups within the world.
A turn based rpg that uses its social interaction mechanics to determine your effectiveness in combat in a way you feel suits yourself.
I personally enjoyed the story very much. Something I need to play through a few times to full absorb the overall situation but the focus on on an arrogant main character with a lust for power and father issues navigating a sensitive political plot point murder mystery was fun. Many of the choice options where interesting and I loved how depending on how you responded to questions you fell deeper into your habits, cutting off some options and making new ones.
Combat being focused around this same mechanic with the use of Suitors (stands) was very fun. Usually tied to some creature in cultural myth they where always tied to story beats, a few are options that you can lose or get depending on your choice that are remembered made every weird interaction you'd have exciting.
Turn based combat itself felt closer to solving a puzzle for me. you and the enemy shared a gauge referencing time order and depending on your actions would make you move slower or fast than others. being able to interrupt enemies, cause conditions and exploiting them was very satisfying when working with your stand. I personally used them all in different combinations, being able to set up effects and changing your summon to finish off piece's of the enemy puzzle is something I never got bored of. With that being said the final boss was incredibly strong for me after I felt I was breezing through so would highly recommend experimentation.
Now I only had major issues with two area, voice acting ,exploration, multi choice and funny enough combat.
Ok so the voice acting, it was just kind weird sometimes. it wasn't the worst but for minor characters you can tell they simply got random people possibly and more than anything it made me laugh. Everyone else such as the main character i though was wonderful.
Exploration was something I loved and unfortunately though it was also very boring. i dont mind reading....I like it LOL. But it kind sucks when a few of your side quest can lead you to these longer optional quest getting new powers. then the rest of them is just finding the glowing spots. I'm not asking for a lot but it would be nice to have little scenes play out after I collected all the items in a set rather than just saying I got them all. I think thats what makes things like Baldurs Gate 1 really fun is little things leading to interesting situations.
For instance one of the collectable you can find is possibly leading to some hidden resistance group. i'm not looking for an full side story about you getting into fights with them but it would have been nice to see some scene using his powers to show the interaction and mind sets of some of these people. You do unlock alternate outfits doing these and they are nice.
So with multi choice this i feel is connected to my exploration issue. Every time you pick a choice it adds to one of your habits. So I kind of understand why, but I wish I had more opportunities to use this outside of the story. thats where those side quest being more interesting should come in where my Pride or wrath can make how I handle these situations more interesting. To be fair you did use them in the main story a lot, but in between chasing trinket's I felt like the most I really put these to the test was at the end of the game.
Then with combat its pretty simple. I loved it but I feel like something slightly more active would have went over very well. Something in the lines of Grandia but just having the characters pause during choice. I love the idea of some pompous guy in a hat beating up 10 people with guns while they get thrown around and ripped open by something they cant see.
but this is more one of those things where if they d a second game id love to see more of something visually exciting. This game is great and would love to see what they would do with a second installment with the same character or a new one.
thank you for your time and would love to know what more of you think about this if you played it.
I keep finding myself replaying this game every few months or so, typically between waiting to decide whats the new horror game it is I'll be playing and I think It says a lot.
it still scares me, maybe because I'll always suck in the building a safezone stuff but it always keeps it interesting for me. Especially as someone who is a major fan of horror games and movies.
I would have loved to see an evil dead game being something like this. Ether way its always good to see people here enjoying this Gem.
**SPOILERS**
This game is very interesting. A dive on a history lesson and cultural experience with great liberties taken into magic and spiritual lore of groups within the world.
A turn based rpg that uses its social interaction mechanics to determine your effectiveness in combat in a way you feel suits yourself.
I personally enjoyed the story very much. Something I need to play through a few times to full absorb the overall situation but the focus on on an arrogant main character with a lust for power and father issues navigating a sensitive political plot point murder mystery was fun. Many of the choice options where interesting and I loved how depending on how you responded to questions you fell deeper into your habits, cutting off some options and making new ones.
Combat being focused around this same mechanic with the use of Suitors (stands) was very fun. Usually tied to some creature in cultural myth they where always tied to story beats, a few are options that you can lose or get depending on your choice that are remembered made every weird interaction you'd have exciting.
Turn based combat itself felt closer to solving a puzzle for me. you and the enemy shared a gauge referencing time order and depending on your actions would make you move slower or fast than others. being able to interrupt enemies, cause conditions and exploiting them was very satisfying when working with your stand. I personally used them all in different combinations, being able to set up effects and changing your summon to finish off piece's of the enemy puzzle is something I never got bored of. With that being said the final boss was incredibly strong for me after I felt I was breezing through so would highly recommend experimentation.
Now I only had major issues with two area, voice acting ,exploration, multi choice and funny enough combat.
Ok so the voice acting, it was just kind weird sometimes. it wasn't the worst but for minor characters you can tell they simply got random people possibly and more than anything it made me laugh. Everyone else such as the main character i though was wonderful.
Exploration was something I loved and unfortunately though it was also very boring. i dont mind reading....I like it LOL. But it kind sucks when a few of your side quest can lead you to these longer optional quest getting new powers. then the rest of them is just finding the glowing spots. I'm not asking for a lot but it would be nice to have little scenes play out after I collected all the items in a set rather than just saying I got them all. I think thats what makes things like Baldurs Gate 1 really fun is little things leading to interesting situations.
For instance one of the collectable you can find is possibly leading to some hidden resistance group. i'm not looking for an full side story about you getting into fights with them but it would have been nice to see some scene using his powers to show the interaction and mind sets of some of these people. You do unlock alternate outfits doing these and they are nice.
So with multi choice this i feel is connected to my exploration issue. Every time you pick a choice it adds to one of your habits. So I kind of understand why, but I wish I had more opportunities to use this outside of the story. thas where those side quest being more interesting shoudl come in where my Pride or wrath can make how I handle these situations more interesting. To be fair you did use them in the main story a lot, but in between chasing trinket's I felt like the most I really put these to the test was at the end of the game.
Then with combat its pretty simple. I loved it but I feel like something slightly more active would have went over very well. Something in the lines of Grandia but just having the characters pause during choice. I love the idea of some pompous guy in a hat beating up 10 people with guns while they get thrown aroudn and ripped open by something they cant see.
but this is more one of those things where if they d a second game id love to see more of something visually exciting. This game is great and would love to see what they would do with a second installment with the same character or a new one.
thank you for your time and would love to know what more of you think about this if you played it.