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Post by Uesugi-dono on Dec 26, 2017 12:39:30 GMT
Started playing Psycho-Pass. It's a visual novel,based on the anime. It's story takes place in an authoritarian future, where public sensors scan the mental state of every passing person. Every person's aptitude,psychological condition and stress levels are monitored,and some sort of algorithm is used to determine the potential of someone commiting a crime. It sounds interesting,so I'm looking forward to experiencing it's story. How much was this?
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Dec 26, 2017 12:55:58 GMT
Started playing Psycho-Pass. It's a visual novel,based on the anime. It's story takes place in an authoritarian future, where public sensors scan the mental state of every passing person. Every person's aptitude,psychological condition and stress levels are monitored,and some sort of algorithm is used to determine the potential of someone commiting a crime. It sounds interesting,so I'm looking forward to experiencing it's story. How much was this? 19 AUD on Australian PS Store.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Dec 27, 2017 5:38:14 GMT
I'm really enjoying Psycho Pass. For anyone who enjoys neo noir style cyberpunk,I strongly recommend it.The story makes you care about the characters,and the story uses mysteries that relate to things such as finding a missing lover,crime-related mysteries that make you think carefully about your decisions,because you will really feel the consequences of your decisions later. The 2 main characters in the Psycho Pass visual novel are actually different to the main characters in the Psycho Pass anime. One of them is a female detective,the other is a male enforcer. The story does have influences from Minority Report and Blade Runner.but the scenario writing is better than Minority Report,and the game makes you care about the characters more so than in Minority Report. I don't want to say too much about this game,because I don't want to give away spoilers,but if you can handle a visual novel and like noir cyberpunk,you should give this game a try.
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Dec 27, 2017 12:14:39 GMT
Interesting. I must say I liked what I saw from the anime.
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Post by Katzenbalger on Dec 27, 2017 13:17:11 GMT
I'm really enjoying Psycho Pass. For anyone who enjoys neo noir style cyberpunk,I strongly recommend it.The story makes you care about the characters,and the story uses mysteries that relate to things such as finding a missing lover,crime-related mysteries that make you think carefully about your decisions,because you will really feel the consequences of your decisions later. The 2 main characters in the Psycho Pass visual novel are actually different to the main characters in the Psycho Pass anime. One of them is a female detective,the other is a male enforcer. The story does have influences from Minority Report and Blade Runner.but the scenario writing is better than Minority Report,and the game makes you care about the characters more so than in Minority Report. I don't want to say too much about this game,because I don't want to give away spoilers,but if you can handle a visual novel and like noir cyberpunk,you should give this game a try. Ah, ok. I was actually going to ask how much of a connection there is to the anime series (since i think a few anime versions of visual novels are pretty much 1:1 re-tellings).
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Jan 1, 2018 1:05:59 GMT
Platinumed Psycho-Pass. Great story in many ways. However,I had to do days worth of grinding in it's mini game in order to earn the plat. The mini game is kinda fun,but having to do so much grinding in it wasn't pleasant,especially since I bought the game to play it's visual novel,not it's mini game.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Jan 2, 2018 12:34:35 GMT
Platinumed Steins Gate 0. It's a sequel to the original,and I must say I found it a bit dull. The story focuses more on drama,and is less science-driven than the original. I love the original because it focuses heavily on Quantum physics,while still having a thrilling story,and making you care about the characters. Even though the plat can be earned in 1 hour,it felt like 50 hours because the trophy guides are vague,and 3 different guides show 3 different ways of getting the plat and I kept messing up somewhere,but I somehow got the plat when I was about to give up. Some of the trophy requirements are very annoying and misleading.
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Post by endorbr on Jan 2, 2018 14:57:17 GMT
Platinumed Steins Gate 0. It's a sequel to the original,and I must say I found it a bit dull. The story focuses more on drama,and is less science-driven than the original. I love the original because it focuses heavily on Quantum physics,while still having a thrilling story,and making you care about the characters. Even though the plat can be earned in 1 hour,it felt like 50 hours because the trophy guides are vague,and 3 different guides show 3 different ways of getting the plat and I kept messing up somewhere,but I somehow got the plat when I was about to give up. Some of the trophy requirements are very annoying and misleading. A platinum that you can get in one hour.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Jan 3, 2018 4:59:55 GMT
Platinumed Steins Gate 0. It's a sequel to the original,and I must say I found it a bit dull. The story focuses more on drama,and is less science-driven than the original. I love the original because it focuses heavily on Quantum physics,while still having a thrilling story,and making you care about the characters. Even though the plat can be earned in 1 hour,it felt like 50 hours because the trophy guides are vague,and 3 different guides show 3 different ways of getting the plat and I kept messing up somewhere,but I somehow got the plat when I was about to give up. Some of the trophy requirements are very annoying and misleading. A platinum that you can get in one hour. There's visual novels you plat in less than 10 minutes,because you don't need to make any decisions,and you just skip the text
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Post by Uesugi-dono on Jan 7, 2018 9:12:19 GMT
A platinum that you can get in one hour. There's visual novels you plat in less than 10 minutes,because you don't need to make any decisions,and you just skip the text Hardly seems like a Plat, although Plat doesn't necessarily mean "super difficult." Just ask Telltale.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Feb 24, 2018 13:42:08 GMT
New purchase I've heard good things about this one, some people say it's their favorite Tales game, or has the best romance in a Tales game. It kinda slipped under my radar since most JRPG fans I know tend to talk about other Tales games a lot more. Anyways,I'll let you guys know what I think about it after I've played it for a bit.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Feb 25, 2018 11:55:55 GMT
I'm a few hours into Tales of Hearts R,and here's what I think of it so far. The story is intriguing and different. Warring worlds using monsters to attack each other,and these monsters either kills people, or inflicts them with a disease that messes with their feelings and emotions. You play as a character who can enter a person's body and cure them of the disease. Thousands of years later, people from the warring worlds are using people's bodies as hosts to continue their fight against each other. It's too early to judge the characters,but the girl characters are cute and funny,and I like how Kohaku likes to beat up male characters who annoy her. The battle system is pretty much what you'd expect from a Tales game. I like how the story presentation shows anime scenes at regular intervals to make it feel like the game is part-game,part-anime. The artstyle for the world and towns isn't the best, it's environments seem watered down because the towns are small and don't have much detail, but this is probably because the game was made for a portable console,it was originally released for the DS in Japan, but got a western release for Vita. Still enjoying the game, it does have some difficulty spikes.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Feb 26, 2018 12:21:01 GMT
I'm really enjoying Tales of Hearts R. It's got a nice blend of old school JRPG,while feeling modern enough so it's not dated. Earlier,I mentioned how the towns were too small for my liking, well I've encountered some bigger towns,and now I think about it,I like it when JRPGs have towns that are not too big, and ones that are not too up to scale and detailed, because when I played Tales of Zestiria, the huge buildings didn't look as charming as the quaint buildings in older JRPGs, and I became bored doing errands around the huge city-like towns. Same goes for when I played White Knight Chronicles.
Tales of Hearts allow you to stop off at towns, interact with townsfolk, see some nice sights such as buildings by the seaside, then it has you be on your merry way and progresses with the story continuously . There's still sidequests to do, and a world map to explore if you want to break up the pace.
The story is interesting because it's different, the concept of using monsters as weapons to possess people,or the act of inhabiting someone else's body for the sake of accomplishing your own agendas if a breath of fresh air.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Feb 27, 2018 3:26:24 GMT
In Tales of Hearts R, there's a town built on top of a beautiful blue lake(that's not far from the seaside)named Shoalhaven. Shoalhaven's residents believe in a God that's a blue whale with wings. I must say, I like it when each town has their own culture in RPGs.
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Post by TidusandYuna1983 on Mar 4, 2018 8:59:04 GMT
I can say Tales of Hearts R is the most fun JRPG I've played in years. It's story keeps getting better and better,and it's original. It's hard to explain what makes it's story original without giving away spoilers, but i'll say it uses concepts including fantasy,Sci Fi,a story that takes place over thousands of years in a creative way. Nothing has felt cliche, unlike what we see in other JRPGs when they bring time travel or parallel worlds into the story when they run out of ideas. A good story still needs likable characters,and Tales of Hearts has just that. It has romance,and most importantly the romance has chemistry,because you see the guy and girl's feelings for each other develop over time, and a series of funny and heartwarming interactions between them. What I like about Tales of Hearts is it tries to be a JRPG. Not a WRPG/JRPG hybrid which Final Fantasy has become. As I mentioned in a previous blog, I like how it's towns are shown from not too up close to you, so you can see a big part of the town, and the towns have charming,peaceful music. The game still presents a unique culture within it's world, because the people in the world worship a whale God, hence many of the towns are built next to the sea, or over bodies of water, and it gives the towns a relaxing atmosphere. The game also has you near the seaside and travelling on ships frequently, so you can feel the aquatic theme the game is trying to give, which I like. Since the western release of this game only came to Vita, this game was never going to get much commercial exposure, which is a shame, because I think this game is much better than the more well known Tales. In fact. Hearts is my 2nd favorite Tales game so far ,only behind Tales of Symphonia Dawn of A New World, and that could change depending on how Hearts ends. I've played most of Tales games including Abyss,Vesperia,Symphonia 1 and 2, Graces ,Xillia and Zestiria, and I can say Hearts has the freshest and most original story out of all of these games.
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