Is this shit worth it, or it's just fanservice with poor gameplay?
>>342728570
Both.
>>342728570
What do you think senpai?
>>342728751
>>342728875
It's shit, then.
I remember /v/ shilling this really hard when it came out as the savior of metroidvania.
>>342729383
It has plenty of fanservice, but its a lot of fun to play.
>>342728570
I like it, boss fights are 10/10
Its actually a pretty good game. Give it a pirate if you are on the fence about it.
I only played it for an hour, level design was really bad, everything is flat and boxy, story is obnoxious and pacing is off, so I dropped it. The only somewhat decent thing was battle system, even then it's not very responsive and feels more like some flash game. Other metroidvanias were fun from start to finish. I'm pretty sure this game is just a weeb bait.
Don't let the pandering designs fool you, the game is really good.
>>342728570
it's fun to play if you like megaman style bullet hells.
>>342730270
This, find out for yourself if it's worth it or not. You can already see the mixed opinions here.
>>342728570
It's shit, like all anime games.
'graphics' are terrible, but it has fun combat once you get past the first couple bosses
It's legitimately fantastic. Boss fights are intense and complex, the world is large and fun to explore, and the gameplay gradually introduces more difficulty and mechanics at a steady pace.
It's also fanservicey as fuck and has some of the most cringe-worthy kawaii uguu~ non-dialogue ever produced in any media, of which there is way more than there needs to be. 10/10 I loved it.
>>342730519
>megaman style bullet hells
That's not a thing
>>342730615
simply epic /b/ro
What do you fucking think man? It's a weeb game.
Name 1 (One) good game with anime artstyle.
vita release when
>>342728570
>Is this shit worth it, or it's just fanservice with poor gameplay?
People keep asking this...
The gameplay is good. Fanservice ultimately has little value and importance in this. Even though steam reviews are usually shit, most of the ones you find at the top there now are accurate for Rabi-Ribi.
>>342728570
It's pretty good in terms of gameplay and cute art.
Bosses are the highlight of the game. A bit like 2hu in their bullet patterns. Challenging and fair, imo.
>mfwAlarune and Succubus
>>342730876
Guilty Gear?
King of Fighters?
Street Fighter?
>>342730876
Etrian Odyssey
>>342730876
Ace Attorney, and probably a shit-ton of other Japanese games out there.
Anime art-style =/= Otaku pandering
>>342730876
Name 1 (One) Drakeposter who ever accomplished anything in life.
>>342731486
Me I'm a millionaire and I have real anime wives.
Irisu is completely unfair
Discuss
It's good if you have really low expectations and dismiss it as moe fanservice garbage. It's meh if you were expecting something on par with Super Metroid or Symphony of the Night.
Bosses are legit but I feel like they have too much health.
>>342731130
KoF and SF aren't really anime, they had anime elements to some characters but the artstyle was generally more realistic than not, especially in the early titles
>>342731016Succubus was a great fight.Especially phase 2
>>342728570
I think it's a pretty fantastic game. I can see why people might not like it (weeb, fanservice, mediocre level design, shit story but why would you play it for that), but its strong points are really quite strong (boss fights [which you'll be doing most of the time], non-linear progression, replay value, is brutally difficult on higher settings or things like 0% runs). The soundtrack is also quite good.
You should pirate it and form your own opinion. I pirated it when it came out and eventually bought it, and I was pretty neutral on the moe/fanservice elements of it so that wasn't the reason why.
>>342732819
>soundtrack is also quite good
don't lie.
>>342732937
I liked it.
>>342732819
Exactly this, only thing that anon got kinda wrong is the soundtrack. It has contributions by multiple people and has a wildly inconsistent quality because of it. That said, some tracks are really good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOsA-I-lHgw
>>342733025
i didn't.
>>342732597
SF Alpha/Zero was pretty anime as fuck in their designs, though.
Hell, the idea that some kawaii-desu-ne japanese school girl who idolizes a world warrior and goes on to street fight herself is anime as well. Same goes for the shinobi school-girl (especially in 5) and that one blonde rich girl being able to go toe to toe with big burly muscle wrestlers.
I'll give you that the designs were more realistic in their early incarnations, but recent iterations of the games have a stronger anime influence in their art. Being a product of japan, though, i'm not surprised.
>>342732937
Soundtrack was decent, but nothing to rave over. Boss Battle #1 was the most memorable for me, imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHeAY-JYS80
>>342731697
Wrong, Irisu is fine. Post-post game is where things got a bit too much.
I still haven't beat Ashuri.
>>342728570
Its good.
>>342728570
It's seriously GOTY
I'm gonna double when the vita version is released
Story is probably a 1/10 at best. It's on par with the worst VNs out there. Level design and themes are generic and boring as fuck
It's alright but nothing special. I would recommend pirating so that the devs don't get a penny
>>342728570
surprisingly good. I would recommend it
>>342733159
From the whole OST I think about 5 tracks are really good and the rest is forgetable.
It's better viewed as a bullethell than a metroidvania. In that regard it's pretty great, and that's what most of your time in the game well be spent doing. The rest of the game is serviceable enough sand the story but who gives a fuck.
The opinions here are varied so maybe just pirate it and form your own.
>>342730748
>That's not a thing
Mega Mari.
>>342734065
The story itself is not very interesting but it is not offensively bad, either. The dialogues, though, are some of the worst shit I have ever seen. I didnt know it was possible to reach such a dense concentration of "kawaii uguuu" bullshit and its not even a jap game.
>>342733823
what the flying fuck.
I remember every track from start to finish like the back of my hand and I haven't heard them since february.
>>342732937
fuck you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1QoVEhYrpE
>25% off
>>342734420
This is the best track, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20vu6NddR34
>>342728570
It's a lot of fun and if it's going for under $10 right now it's worth buying.
The gameplay by itself is great. The fanservice is just icing on the top
It's an alright game, worth spending some of your life on. Lots of ship teasing and stuff like neptunia if you're into that.
I only have $17 left. Which Metroidvanias should I get?
>>342734559
https://youtu.be/vQO_b5GIrRQ
>>342735519
Momodora is the only good game there.
>>342732937
There's a few that are good, but those feel more or less samey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRYBzHtcBtA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6INr0Wc_Ek
>>342732597
>anime elements
This doesn't exist
Anything stylized drawn by japan is anime, no exception.
>>342735519
Bunny must die. If you can handle the akward controls that is.
I loved it.
>>342735689
worst taste
>no porn of this game
Why?
>>342728570
>>342735519
Rabi-Ribi is getting an enhanced version for the PlayStation family (PS4 and Vita Cross-Buy Only). If you own either, wait for that version, as it will be released later this year around October, if I remember correctly. Otherwise, I'd wait for the holiday sales regardless.
This game is legit GOTY for me, Mainly because of the fun as heck boss fights.
Some people might get turned off by the fanservice and shitty cliche animesque dialogue but that didn't bother me really.
Sound track is also really good, especiallty kotris boss theme and pandoras.
>>342728570
Really good metroidvania.
Just buy it.
>>342736342
Enhanced how? Better graphics or more content?
>>342736342
It's literally just a port. No "enhancements"
>>342736342
Did they give say if there'd be sony only content?
>>342736392
Also one of my favourite games this year.
Whats fanservicey other than the outfits?
>>342736342
>enhanced
No it's the same
It might still be worth to get it for vita though, just to have it portable.
>>342736939
Theres like 2 scenes and a bit of pandering in the dialogue, Nothing that breaks the flow of the gameplay too much.
>>342735519
Add a dollar and get Fortune Summoners + Rabi Ribi.
If you can't do that, Momodora + Fortune Summoners.
>>342736939
a couple of scenes in the game. Nothing even close to nudity though
>>342736523
>>342736560
>>342736562
>>342737014
http://www.hardcoregamer.com/2016/06/13/e3-2016-bullet-hell-platformer-rabi-ribi-coming-to-ps4-and-vita/212058/
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2016/06/13/playstation-e3-2016-press-conference-recap/
>This enhanced version goes deep into the rabbit hole and will feature all new music, all previous content from the PC version along with brand new, exciting gameplay content!
>>342737113
Aw god damn it. Then I will wait for the PS4 version then.
>>342737113
>goes deep into the rabbit hole
>girl is a rabbit
>deep into the rabbit hole
>>342737113
eh, all the more reasons to double dip then
>>342736939
The shit at the end of the game with Irisu
Some of the dialogue
The art
It's really not that in your face imo. It's fucking tame compared to some other weeb shit.
>>342737104
I want to start a family with Reisen.
>>342735519
Shantae and Valdis Story are fucking fantastic games. I would recommend starting VS on normal though, as fucking up your build can make the end on hard and up nigh impossible.
Environmental Station Alpha is like sub 5 bucks and pretty fantastic, assuming you can stand the super blocky pixels. Music is dope though.
http://store.steampowered.com/app/350070/
>>342734559
>See someone posted this song
>It's not of my upload which I put up the day after the game came out
Okay...
Also this game is actually good, if you like cute girls then it's just icing on the cake.
>>342736939
There is tons in the dialogues/scenes/etc but you can just skip everything without missing out on anything so it doesnt matter.
>>342737104
This looks like the Lucky Star opening or something. Cute!
>>342737540
Valdis story is terrible.
>>342737648
The game is also sold on the "2D Open World Exploration" aspect. Non-linear gameplay, which a choice to just finish the game pretty early. I like the multiple endings the game has.
>>342737540
Damn that game looks a lot like NES metroid games.
>>342737113
>new music
They aren't replacing the old music are they?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sITJuWV3HXg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kcF7E69C6Q
>>342737998
The new music will probably just be for any new levels, zones and maybe new bosses added. Or a choice of switching to a PS4/Vita-exclusive soundtrack option. They did say the game will have all the PC Content. Surely that includes the current soundtrack, right?R-right?
>>342735519
don't get Momodora, last game is probabyl the most disappointing shit ever.
>>342737876
It has a huge emphasis on actually getting good at platforming and using the grappling hook to reach good speed and heights, so it's a bit unique. Still very much a metroid-like but it does its own thing enough to deserve some credit.
>>342737785
Nah, Valdis story is fun. My only real issue with the game is the final boss and the whole dodging mechanic working on a cool down that doesn't reset when you hit an enemy.
>>342728570
Highjacking this thread since I still don't have an answer. Is Sakura Dungeon worth the price?
>>342737785
But it isn't though.
>>342738315
Why is Momodora bad? I played for 2 hours and it didn't seem bad at all.
>>342737785
It's okay. I think the mechanics are solid, but you're kind of harshly punished for not S ranking bosses.
>>342738315
>>342735519
Momodora is alright at best, and incredibly short. Like, easily beatable in a couple of sittings short. I have 6 hours in the game and I 100% uncovered the map.
>>342738587
>Any Winged Cloud title
>Worth any kind of currency.
>>342738682
Because 2 hours in is 80% of the game. It's fun to play and has a fantastic atmosphere, but it's literally a 3 hour long game.
>>342738682
He's wrong or talking about the earlier games. Momodora 3 and Reverie are quite good.
>>342738587
No.
Is the rabbit girl game short too?
>>342739035
It's short and the combat has some noteworthy issues (mostly balance and conveyance issues) but it's still a pretty fun cheap game.
/v/ is full of spergs though. There was this one guy who had a fucking meltdown over the game because he started playing on hard mode and couldn't handle how punishing the game was. He kept ranting about it being retarded that the game had lengthy pausing frames when you attack an enemy.
Don't let the horny weeb fool you, it's shit.
>>342739847
Bunny Must Die or Rabi Ribi? Rabi Ribi is quite long, dunno about BMD.
>>342739847
Bunny Must Die or this one? Because that's a Nope to both.
>Sony gets the best version of Rabi
Not fucking fair. I bought the game first. Is because of me they got enough money to make another port. I should get that new content too.
>>342740281
thanks for the beta testing.
who knows you might get the new content as a paying DLC in a year or two
surprised that there are mixed opinions on this game, im going to assume if you dislike the gameplay you're a baddie.
basically,. the story is nonexistant as is the pandering, its just cute girls. the gameplay is amazing - the boss battles are top tier (which is what you'll be spending most of the game on anyway) and the combat is DmC cuh-razy with the combo meter + switching shots and combos.
level design is okay, nothing special - but the real winner is the non-linearity. played the game alongside 4 other people and we all took different routes and fought bosses out of order.
also has one of the best final boss battles in recent years for me.
pirate it and if you like it support the devs, i think they deserve it
I only played Shantae: Risky's Revenge and it was mediocre and really short. Is Pirates Curse better or more of the same?
>>342740585
It's longer but still mediocre.
so who's buying the real best deal of this sale?
>>342740740
>RPG maker
>Made by a westerner
Nah
>>342740585
it's a better game
Rabi-Ribi is some good shit, OP. I just bought it last week and have finished the prologue. The boss fights are absolutely great. Already had 4 bosses in the prologue which was nice.-
>>342740740
>Hiragana
Let me know when they release a game that lets you learn 2000 kanji in a non-tedious way.
>>342740585
Pirate's Curse is definitely better.
Fun platformer with backtracking.
It tries to be a metroidvania but it forces you to go along its little path with cutscenes not allowing you to enter areas they didn't block off. So yeah, platformer with backtracking.
>>342740740
What >>342741042 said.
>>342730404
>battle system is unresponsive
Are you retarded?
>>342735519
Momodora is short, Shantae is cut-up shit, Lords of Shadow is garbage fucking really man, Strider is mediocre, Valdis Story is bad with awful level design and what should have been passive upgrades as equippable skills along with missables in a metroidvania, Fortune Summoners is endlessly frustrating because of indistinct environments and no map and enemies fight by reading your inputs and countering accordingly.
>>342742382
I remember the controls in Fortune Summoners being awfully stiff as well, like, worse than Bunny Must Die.
>>342741305
Do you have braindamage? It's non-linearity is one of it's best features. After the first boss, you can go through the game and fight any boss in any order. Hell, the game actively encourages you to take interesting routes through the game as achievements. There are ways to get into any area that is "blocked off", as the game has a very enjoyable 0% run.
While the game does have flaws, such as the boring area design (generic fire area, generic grass area, generic underwater area), saying the game forces you to go along a single path is downright stupid.
Real talk, it's a pretty fucking good game.
>>342742918
>neo/v/ collage
>>342742918
Is Chantellise good?
>>342730876Chrono Trigger
>>342739035
I haven't played 3 but Reverie has severe design issues. The biggest problem is arrows completely destroy the game's difficulty. The first area has enemies with shields that you have to get behind to attack, but this mechanic is literally never used again and you can just spam your infinite range arrows down any corridor to kill anything in a straight line. Then the fire arrows break the game even more by letting you stunlock every enemy in the game.
>>342742382
So there are no good metroidvanias on steam?
>>342742648
The main problem in that regard is that Arche plays like a fighting game character, so inputting all her basic attacks just to take down simple enemies is a needlessly difficult process.
>>342743061
It's pretty fun. You use your fairy to combine elements to do crazy shit. It's a short game, but some of the boss battles can be pretty difficult until you learn what they do, and that should get you maybe a couple extra hours of playtime. The art style of the game kind of reminds me of something on the PS1.
>>342743061
It's the weakest Carpe Fulgar game on steam imo. It's really similar to Fortune Summoners and Fortune Summoners was definitely the better of the two, but if you want more of it's style than why not.
>>342743061
Not him, but thought it was okay. Very awkward game to get used to, but handles decently enough once it clicks. Deffo not as good as Fortune Summoners or Recettear, but still okay.
>>342743289
Rabi-Ribi is good.
Momodora is pretty good but does suffer from how short it is (I got 100% in 4 hours).
Shadow Complex is a bit longer but also short and has some questionable gameplay elements regarding background layers and auto-aiming but is also decent, though also has a single missable.
I've heard a lot of praise for Ori from people I know but haven't gotten to it myself yet.
Castle in the Darkness has pretty poor art and is rather on the linear side for much of the game but is pretty good when it opens up.
Aquaria is old by this point but it's probably the best Steam has to offer, it has good gameplay utilising the underwater elements and the game world is massive, with great aesthetics and music. The biggest problem Aquaria has is a cliffhanger ending that'll never get resolved because the creators split up.
As an aside, it greatly bothers me how many games tagged as Metroidvanias on Steam are not even remotely Metroidvanias.
>>342736105
Because you didn't look very hard.
>>342730876
Rabi-Ribi
>>342728570
Fun bosses, other than that it's pretty much garbage.
You can't die when adventuring because of the infinite lifesteal, and you don't even 'explore' in a metroidvania-sense when the map literally pinpoints the place you have to go to next.
tldr honestly it's pretty shit. even the art isn't good
Who hits people with a hammer?
>>342740445
>the combat is DmC cuh-razy with the combo meter + switching shots and combos.
>DmC
>m
>>342732819
>boss fights[which you'll be doing most of the time]
nice lie
>non-linear progression
another blatant lie
>replay value
there isn't any
>is brutally difficult on higher settings
..that you have to play the game multiple times to unlock.
Dumping some simple sprites I ripped forThe Rabi-Ribi speedrunning Discord
>>342744449
>Who hits people with a hammer?
>There was a time when moot would have responded with I DO and banned this anon
I miss old 4chan
>>342733683
There's a Vita version coming out?
>>342740585
It's the same shit but this time the game is split into a bunch of tiny maps like in Order of Ecclesia with none of OoE's varied content or combat to prop it up. The bosses also suck compared to RR.
>>342744615
>>342735519
Despite being short, Momodora is fucking fantastic
>>342744643
yes see >>342737113
>>342744615
You wouldnt happen to have cocoa bombs would you?
>>342744643
Yes, it should be released during "winter 2016"
>>342744704
>>342730740
this is accurate
seriously you gotta be talented to be able to write that much nothing. like he was ordered to fill X amount of text boxes with generic anime cute lines and thats what he did. Fucking mind numbing ignore the story.
>>342741305
You're retarded.
>>342742912
>After the first boss
You don't even need to fight Cocoa first, you can break out of order from the get go. There's an achievement for fighting the slutcubus as your first boss.
>>342744808
>>342744767
No, but I can rip those if you want. It would take a while though as I basically redraw them entirely.
>>342744594
nice opinions
only the last thing you said were true
>>342735519
Momodora and/or Shantae.
Valdis is fine too.
boss fights in the game are decent but over hyped weebs just see a bunch of circles on screen and go OMG TOUHOU(because this is as far as the average weeb knows about shmups) completely ignoring the fact that this is a platformer and you just jump over them.
This is all I've done really.
>>342744950
Nah man but if you wanna link me the discord I'd appreciate it
>>342744361
>and you don't even 'explore' in a metroidvania-sense when the map literally pinpoints the place you have to go to next.
It does nothing more than put a marker on the map towards your next location and does nothing to reveal the map itself, which is exactly what Zero Mission did.
You can also ignore those markers entirely and go off to explore the rest of the game world instead, which is more freedom than ZM gave you.
>>342745157http://www.speedrun.com/rabi-ribi/thread/bcn0h
>>342742912
The first time I played I accidentally entered and completed the water area without the water orb.
It was hard, but fair.
>>342744950
You fucked up the shadows below her right eye.
>>342745416
I don't see what you mean, but I'll probably redo all of the sprites I've done eventually since I feel like I could do better somehow.
>>342728570
Did they seriously just rip off Reisen but with a different outfit and eye color for their MC?
>>342745359
Thanks
>>342745584
In the original it's all one colour, you've changed it so some of it is the colour you've used for her face outline and some of it is a different colour you've used for her hair shading.
Why would you even go through such a tedious process instead of just ripping the sprites properly?
>>342745620
Almost every character is a ripoff of some form. Hell even the artbook states that.
Is Erena/Irisu canon, or just something yuri fanboys go on about?
>>342745620
its not like anime girl with blue hair and bunny ears is that complex of a design
>>342745726Because I have no program to do such a thing and it was sad seeing people take low quality jpeg screenshots of the spritesHonestly if you look at both Miru in that cutscene and the final Miru it looks like the cutscene Miru is a different kind of Miru, like some earlier version as when the picture is messed around with some details seem to be missing
>>342745620
The artbook states that Erina is more of a ripoff of a combination of both Samus Aran and another bunnygirl from the Sega Genesis.
Take that as you will.
>>342745887
It's pretty much canon.
>>342744702
>Like OoE but worse
>Mfw I hated OoE
Why does /v/ like Shantae so much again? Guess I will go and replay Portrait again.
>>342747260
>Why does /v/ like Shantae so much again?
Guided by their dicks. The games are really mediocre, I can't think of any other explanation.
>>342747364
gotta stick it the sjws by buying based devs new shantae game btw mighty switch force best game ever because uhhh so thiqq
>>342747716
Are you having a stroke, anon?
>>342744950
this is erina's true form....!!
>>342748980
C-Cute!!
