Why is nobody playing this great game?
>>339574332
But I am.
Never heard of it.
Child pornography is illegal in my country.
>>339574332
because the abundance of garbage games that rely on anime to sell has seriously made me question myself whenever im about to buy another anime game and considering the dialogue in this game is just cutsey stuff whys there so much dialogue decent game tho when you can ignore main story and not have to read
>>339574537
It's not even a japanese game
>>339574332
do i have to play it every day, anon
Typical Weeb shit.
costs too much
>>339574513
Kek
>>339574332
The theme is garbage
I told some guys it's a great metroidvania
but their first response was
>anime
And that's it.
Because I'm not a loser.
>>339574537
Couldn't agree more. Game is pretty fun when you're not reading the dialogue.
>>339574332
Because they're fuckin casuals and can't play difficult games.
>>339574932
Maybe they should use a decent artstyle and not rely on the crutch of fapbait to push copies then. All anime tells me is the dev has no confidence in the other aspects of their product.
>>339575147
Maybe you should stop being so brainwashed by western games journalism
>>339574332
What exactly is so great about it?
>>339575147
I'm pretty sure the style has lost as many sales as much as it has gained. Everyone I have talked to said they were surprised at that game's quality regardless of the artstyle.
>>339575240
Animé and bosses that shoot more projectiles than necessary, so it looks impressive and I can tell people to git gud when they make fun of me for liking animé.
>>339575240
Well it's basically a metroidvania crossed with some aspects of bullet hell. There's a pretty big non-linear world to explore and the boss fights are a lot of fun, featuring many difficult patterns. There's a lot of customization in terms of your difficulty options. There are even some achievements for clearing certain conditions in an unusual order or beating the game outright without picking up any items. This latter feature adds a lot to the replayability of the game.
Overall, it's solid in every respect as a metroidvania. If the game has one weakness it's that the plot is kind of incoherent. It's not that the localization is bad; there aren't any blatant grammar or spelling errors. The larger issue is that the story itself is just kind of hard to follow with plot points being presented in a vague and off hand kind of way.
Regardless of the "fap bait" art, the game actually is pretty well designed and sometimes surprisingly so. It's one of those actually good indie games like Cave Story (imo).
>>339574332
It hasn't been on a decent sale yet
>>339575729
There was a Steam "anime" sale not too long ago where I got it for just above 10 bucks I think. It wasn't too bad.
But yeah, I guess wait for an inevitable summer sale.
Also I hear they are rewriting the story and adding a new game+.
>>339576330
>Also I hear they are rewriting the story and adding a new game+.
From where? Someone on the steam forum made this baseless claim too.
>>339574332
I don't give my money to Sekai Project.
>>339574932
Your friends have shit taste
>>339576564
From http://rabidb.com/rabi/news/, the guy works for CreSpirit.
https://steamcommunity.com/id/Alex_SSZ/
I'm going to play it next.
I had to neglect it for a while to play Salt & Sanctuary through to completion just so I can call it out on being a shit game.
Now tell me, does Rabi Ribi at least have some fucking difficulty to it? I'm tired of playing games that are mindlessly easy.
>>339577141
The boss fights are pretty nasty on the higher difficulties.
It's not bad even on Normal.
>>339577141
It can get pretty difficult. And if that's not enough, you could always handicap yourself by not picking up powerups.
>>339576998
Neat. Thanks.
Buy it for me and I'll play it.
>>339577141
Yes. yes it does. Matter of fact, its got a pretty steep difficulty curve. You can get through a good amount of earlier bosses with some simple tactics (doesn't matter what order you fight in, the curve is determined by level which is determined by how many bosses are fought), but by the end you need to get used to switching out ribbons different spells on the fly, cycling through them, while at the same time attacking with erina.
By the end, keeping your score at an A or above is almost mandatory to beat a boss in any reasonable amount of time, which means constantly switching shots with ribbon and doing everything you can not to get hit with erina.
>>339574537
I agree. Also the abundance of garbage games that rely on graphics to sell has seriously made me question myself whenever I'm about to buy another game with graphics.
>>339575147
Have you considered that maybe they like this artstyle?
>>339577484
Sent. ;)
this is best grill
>>339577508
By the end I actually found it was easier to keep my score high because you get more attacks and have quicker charge times/more mp for ribbon. I think it's actually tougher early on, especially on like hard mode.
I'm kind of scrubby so I'm just playing through on normal right now. I did do a few things on hard though and got that one achievement where you go after lilith first.
>>339574332
>generic weeb loli game #67
oh I dunno maybe it's a niche genre or something
>>339574332
Bought the game on release but still haven't played it because other metroidvanias like Momodora came out at the same time.
Maybe its time to start
>>339578137
Thanks, babe. Wanna bang?
>>339574332
No matter how tight the gameplay may be, if I'm gonna have to look at that for the entire game I'd rather play something else.
>>339578323
Only if you're a loli.
>>339578193
It gets easier to do, yes, but it also becomes increasingly mandatory. Without that damage boost, bosses can take an insane amount of time, and the longer it takes, the more likely you are to take a hit.
>>339578397
Well I don't blame you for that. Sometimes certain art styles can be really offputting. It is a fun game though for people who don't mind or enjoy the art style, as I do.
>>339578250
Yeah I'm in the reverse boat. I bought Momodora and this but haven't gotten to Momodora yet.
>>339578207
>loli
There's not really too many of those.
>>339574332
>Why is nobody playing this great game?
It may be a solid metroidvania game with excellent boss fights, but games don't get popular simply by being good. The most important thing is marketing and this game has had none of it. Sure, there are some threads made by people who play it, but that's nothing compared to the games promoted by viral marketing and outside of /v/ it's even more obscure.
>>339574332
I am, im in the post-game, even if it is a boss rush in some points shit is amazing.
Noah 4 phases made my shit get pushed in.
>>339579172
>no warp or shortcut to final final boss
>>339579172
Yeah I'm at a similar point as you. I'm at the final chapter. The boss rush stuff was kind of annoying at times, but at least you get some health back after each fight.
The most annoying part about the Noah fight for me was the second part. Ugh...that shit was so frustrating.
>>339578207
There are about 2 lolis in the game, and both of them are side characters.
>>339579310
Cocoa Bombs and super carrot totally wreck Noah 2
>yfw this starts playing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1QoVEhYrpE
>>339577573
Text Adventure renaissance revival when.
>>339579440
Gives off a very touhou feel, and that pumps me up something fierce.
>>339579378
I'm retarded and didn't realize you could even buy cocoa bombs around the time i fought her. I realize you can talk to her in town to get them now. I did abuse super carrot though. I still found that fight pretty annoying. Ironically, the part 3 was much easier imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHeAY-JYS80&list=PLCib2muzTsdJMC9HvhpM7n_HG_DNHlhPh&index=4
Every time i hear this + the cute looking boss fights makes me happy.
>>339578561
>Sometimes certain art styles can be really offputting
only time this has happened for me is Binding of Isaac. I don't know how people can even stand to play that horrible looking game
>>339579728
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v6-gy9IP4k
>0:36
>Vanilla does the attack where she starts floating
This will be forever engraved in my memory.
>>339579906
>vanilla
Fucking kill me. First boss i roadblocked on.
>>339579906
this one's my favorite. It makes me laugh, especially since it plays while fighting those silly cats.
>>339574476
this
>>339580017
She's actually a bit tough, especially in that small arena.
Chocolate on the other hand is possibly the easiest boss in the game (well other than Ribbon).
>>339580239
Ribbons more of a tutorial more than anything. not really a boss.
But yeah, chocola is much easier to handle.
>>339580239
>>339580280
>don't pick up hammer
>walk up to Ribbon
>she explodes
>>339580374
>You can get to lilith before anyone else
>You can finish the game with only ribbon
>You can fucking sequence break the game
>There is an achievemente for completing the game with base health.
>>339580510
>there's an achievement for sequence breaking the game in just about any way
>the creators took player ingenuity into account and actually reward it
Thats some cool shit.
>>339580565
>There is an achievement for finding secret techs
These taiwan guys are okay in my book.
I am but I'm terrible so each boss takes me like 5+ tries. It's fun though.
>>339580510
It doesn't help that the dev keeps adding more achievements either. For fucks sake half of the current achievements were added after the game released.
I'll have to get around to finishing BEX mode and a 0% run sometime, but probably only after the updates stop being so common and the game design stabilizes.
>>339580565
The dev added most of those after he noticed people breaking the game. So it's not exactly true that he designed the game to take player ingenuity into account. He's still a pretty cool guy for interacting with the community, but you're giving him a bit too much credit.
>>339580890
Fair enough, but its still pretty cool.
>>339580510
Only one I've done is the lilith one on hard mode, though I'm tempted to do a playthrough on casual to get the others, particularly 0% items.
Even if the dev didn't intend these sequence breaking things, in the current build of the game it kinda feels like all of that shit was intended. It feels like the game is just really well designed in terms of the map layout and the way you can access some things by using secret techs.
![sample-66716306e27a7d3c68d791d6f23e5962[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/clNHotf.jpg "sample-66716306e27a7d3c68d791d6f23e5962[1].jpg")
Which Rabi would you Ribi?
>>339581172
>Seana on the floor.jpg
>>339574537
Considering that completely incoherent run-on travesty you just posted, you could definitely benefit from more reading.
>>339581172
Probably vanilla, just because of how much of a dope she is. She's just funny and cute.
>>339581172
Lilith, Erina, red haired Kotori, Alraune and Pandora. Maybe Ashuri and Rita. Lilith is my favorite.
>>339574537
because the abundance of garbage games that rely on cinema to sell has seriously made me question myself whenever im about to buy another cinematic game and considering the dialogue in this game is just edgy stuff whys there so much dialogue decent game tho when you can ignore main story and not have to watch cinematics
Because I didn't cry on prom night
I did and it's the best Mezetroidvania I ever played
Glad to know pretentious retards will never play it.
>>339582312
Dude, your point got across. his point was to fucking enunciate properly so it takes about 2 minutes less to understand. Periods, comma's, anything.
And if you are talking rabi-ribi, how is most of it edgy? Like, there's a couple depressing parts, but most of it is really lighthearted.
>>339574332
Best game of the year, best game in a long as time. Definitely in my top 15 of all time.
It's a shame it'll never get recognition for how fucking awesome it is.
https://youtu.be/MBcilVXR19I
https://youtu.be/2Kw4WQxmMro
>TFW game by a first-time Taiwanese indie studio is better than just about every triple A game released in a decade>TFW I'll always be called a shill despite being dead fucking serious
>>339582603
Nah, the guys who have played it understand. I have never heard anyone thats actually played it talk bad of it, at all.
>>339582751
I've never experienced a bigger gulf between my expectations about a game and my enjoyment of it. It really amazed me.
>>339582603
I admire your enthusiasm for the game. Having put in about 40 hours myself, I also think it's a really great title. I agree with the other guy as well. I think most people who have played this game would understand why it's acclaimed. As I said before, I think the main flaw would be the plot, which thankfully they are working on. I guess another issue I have with the game is it starts out slow. I'm not a fan of the beginning of the game as it's kind of boring even if it does set up the plot. I generally prefer it more when games just immediately thrust you into the action. Thankfully, it doesn't take long before Rabi-Ribi gets to the good shit.
>>339583005
I agree its nice that some games just throw you in, but sometimes its nice to take it easy to start with.
That ones really a matter of personal preference.
>>339583005
Presently my gripes with the game are the long sequences of tedious crap in the three or so chapters. Like the hall of memories, the forgotten cave, and the cyberspace/library areas.
>>339582603
Something i appreciate about the soundtrack, is that on its own its perfectly calm. But when you get into the thick of it, it sounds much more hectic than it actually is.
The human brain is an interesting organ.
>>339583379
last three*
>>339583379
Cyberspace i found interesting, if a bit tedious, and keke bunny was a fun fight.
>>339583554
wait, that was a different area entirely, nevermind.
>>339583554
What made me laugh the most about keke bunny is how toward the end of it you started getting attacked by blog posts. Plurkwood was hilarious in general.
>>339583849
Keke bunny was great. Plurkwood was, but having to go through half of it each time you die is a pain in the ass.
