>tfw when Mack is the raddest, dick-punching motherfucker out of an entire game full of gangstas
>tfw Mistwalker just wants to make mobile games
>tfw you'll never get that Mack spin-off in which he leads a posse of orphan delinquents on adventures while terrorizing grown-ups and saving the world
what the fuck, video games? It's like we don't even know you anymore
>>319723974
the sister is a 10/10
I really, really wanted this game to pull me in and want to enjoy it, but when I realized the game was getting upstaged by short story interludes, it just didn't happen.
>>319725096
that's because the short stories were actually written by a proper author
but yeah it does suck when the optional dream sequences have far better writing than the actual game
>>319725961
>separate authors
I never knew that, and it explains a lot.
For awhile I kept coming back for more short stories and this guy. eventually there were just other things I wanted to play more and I never got back to it.
>>319723974
HD REMAKE NEVER
PC NEVER
SHORT STORY COLLECTION NEVER
>>319727285
jansen was the realest nigga out
he was the only person I really liked out of the main cast. everyone else just seemed so two dimensional and boring. it's why I didn't really enjoy Lost Odyssey (along with the fairly boring main story as well)
>>319723974
>tfw underlevel the fuck out of the dipshit twins
>get to the floating platforms dungeon
>>319727845
Another thing that killed it for me was the difficulty. I remember the first boss on the mountain being a real challenge, and thinking if the first boss is wrecking me I'm going to have an interesting time facing this game, and never again was it as challenging. I was really hoping it'd break the trend of jrpg's devolving into just selecting "attack" over and over except on boss battles.
>>319728836
Well said. But if they had had voice acting they would probably be as bad.
>>319725096
>>319725961
also translated from japanese by a proper scholar and not fansub tier translators
>>319729123
can't imagine why there'd be a second translation team for the localization, but if so it says a lot about the people involved
>>319729123
>>319729337
>proper scholar
Faint praise.
Jay Rubin is of the best Japanese to English translators in the world.
>>319729337
Kiyoshi Shigematsu is a pretty big goddamn deal. It's like Stephen King writing short stories for your game.
>>319729709
I looked him up and I see what you mean now. He has more credentials than "I really liked anime growing up and joined a fansubbing group, so I studied japanese and got a job with my degree"
xbox tipped over right as i was about to kill this little fucker and it destroyed my disc 4. Never played again. I super enjoyed it although finding all of the seeds was kind of a bitch
