What am I in for?
the game is really low budget, there is sprite recolor everywhere and a lot of recycling with enviroment and stuff and the battle system is a little junky
however the soundtrack by Yoko shimomura is amazing and the game plot (where you jump between two completly different storylines in an attempt to stop a war from fucking everything) is original and engaging, i especialy liked the protagonist who gets shit done and talk about political stuff instead of whining about the horror of war and going "KILLING IS BAD" (there are a lot of alternative bad ending and in one of them he even decide to join the villain and murder the shit out of his allies in order to end the war quicker) at time it even reminded me of suikoden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihMX8fYPjM4&list=PL58349C680ADECBCC&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICvr93Bz1S4&list=PL58349C680ADECBCC&index=8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LJvSy4VouU&index=16&list=PL58349C680ADECBCC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzVM5y8U7Z8&list=PL58349C680ADECBCC&index=17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9j_VihwmkE&list=PL58349C680ADECBCC&index=19
The first thing I noticed was how low budget it is. The animations are mostly terrible, but the artistry is good and the music is good. The combat is overrated as fuck on this board; it's okay and then falls into mediocre. The game builds you into being able to control the 3x3 arena, and then it gives you fights against comparably tougher enemies and throws in that you're unable to move them, making everything you've learned up to that point moot.
Pretty ok game, not bad for the $15 i spent.
Capable protagonist
Good music
Ok gameplay
Timetravel shenanigans
>Looking for a spy in a sidequest
>Turns out it's my midget healer's childhood friend/potential waifu
>Do what I consider the right thing and turn her in
>Tell little buddy it's for the best, he seemingly agrees begrudgingly
>SUDDENLY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzVM5y8U7Z8&list=PL58349C680ADECBCC&index=17 STARTS PLAYING
>pic related happens
>How can my little satyr be this cute?And yandere AF
>>330428038
I also liked the protagonist for the same reason. He's effective, efficient, and obviously skilled without being a mary sue edgelord. One of the genuinely enjoyable JRPG protags in a sea of garbage.
>>330431517
>>330427132
Reloading saves is an actual game mechanic.
>>330427132
Memes for the memelord that plays meme games, your meme majesty
>>330427132
Stop reading the thread and play the game. If you like good chracters, story and music then just play it. You will only get parts of the game spoiled by reading the thread.
>>330428038
>no red locus
>no an easrnest desire of grey
>no mechanical kingdom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j37_JS1cQQI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sCm__GcOPk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I82d6NBRFjA
>>330427132
The best protagonist ever made in the history of games.
>>330427132
>Great story.
>Good music. Gets repetitive though.
>Good-ish gameplay but easy to become overpowered as fuck like with Aht or get your shit kicked in like with FUCKING SPIDERS
>Story is looooooooooong but sort of medium length for a JRPG.
>Protagonist is the best character ever
>Story hits you with potent and unexpected feels
Only large downside is how bad ends are handled with 'well, here are two options. Both are good-ish but one will fuck you over and make you historia back. Better pick the other option :^)'
That shit happens WAAAAAAAAY too much. Yet it's not as if it carries any consequence. You just lose like 1-2 minutes of your time getting back to where you were.
>>330431178
> His fucking girlfriend literally tries to commit genocide
> Turn her in
>"YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DO TO SPIES REEEEEEEEE"
God i hated this faggot. Like he would ever be capable of killing Stocke or any of the other characters. Lamest party memeber in the entire game. Even Aht could 1v1 him
So what was the optimal team in this game? I always used Stocke, Aht, and Raynie (Raynie for pushing and G-fire spam) but is there a better team? I never really used Eruca, Rosch, Gafka, or that furry midget so Iunno.
>>330427132
A story that shits the bed halfway through.
And has the dumbest fucking twists.
But Stocke is worth it and Lyon is an absolute bro
>this is STILL in my backlog
Goddamnit
Yoko Shimomura
>>330432384
>Shits the BedThe part where it turns out you're some unsent from FFX-tier faggotry?
>>330427132
It's nowhere near as non-linear as it might look at first.
Still a very good game. A top tier JRPG.
>>330431672
Why the fuck can a random teenage satyr slut create a pocket dimension/timeline?
>>330431178
I want to fuck Marco.
>>330427132
It's a nice JRPG, low-budget but with decent gameplay and time travel shenanigans. I liked it a lot, just get out of here and play it.
This game quite possiblity has the dumb villain in video games.
>World is already turning to sand
>Wants to end the cycle of death and rebirth
>Wants end dependence on the white and black books
>O NOES HE'S THE BAD GUY BECAUSE MUH DADDY
>Gives Stocke the fucking white book for no reason
>Even though the world already ends up in sand
WTF is this shit!? And don't even get me started on some of the shitty party members Stocke gets like that one money guy. I mean, he literally adds nothing to the story and at the end of he says some real retarded shit like "bro you going away". And man, Stocke is the most hypocrital moralfag I ran into worse than Adol from Ys.
>haha guiz let's find a way to stop the spread without anyone dying
>hurhur I'll kill myself even though it's only a temperory solution to the problem
>durrrrrrrr "real ending" I'll kill myself because it's beautiful falling right into the very thing that the bad guy was against and wanted to stop in the first place.
Fuck this game.
>>330432172
I find collecting the bad ends very enjoyable. Especially the ones where its your comrades that fuck you over.
>>330431924
But that's not Yuri from Shadow Hearts
>>330434730
This is probably my most favorite of all the bad endings.
http://youtu.be/rszy_w5YoQE
