What's the verdict?
5/10.
The combat is the only thing the game has going for it. I guess its better than SO4, but that's not saying much.
Able to move the camera during in-game cutscenes for perverted angles 10/10
Gameplay 7/10
Story 3/10
>>344472552
gameplay is nice, the story is a bit weak and seems a little rushed so far. The art style feels a little bloby and too moe
>>344473020
Sounds like TMS
>>344473051
10/10 booty
>>344474051
you got me. too triggered to even look for a reaction pic
7/10
good combat
cute girls
>>344472552
For the cost of this game, you could pick up Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth and Nights of Azure. Both games are equally boring and have females to ogle.
not a bad game the low score is only because of the missing content and features. What is there is pretty good, the "Dynamic" cutscenes needed more of a budget, FFXV pulls these off right with good facial expressions and camera angles/zooms.
fun/10
5/10 at best. I was on board with the whole good combat bit but now that i'm done with my first Ethereal Queen kill I realize how unpolished even that is. You can't survive against the later maze bosses without endgame equipment and you can't get endgame equipment without beating endgame bosses. It's a shitty Catch 22 that forces the playstyle putting a role on a healer that literally makes you invincible and hiding away in a corner to spam or grinding excessively.
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I plays like SO3, I don't really understand why gamefaqs have been shitpost central for how bad this game is.
But I'm enjoying it, plus the graphics are pretty nice.
>>344475898
People called SO3 bad when it first came out too.
>>344475789
Bullshit, you can craft a good weapon for anyone with out endgame items, and use berseker with deadmans role to make that person hit 9999 attack. Have a healer sit back and heal and you can beat any of the bosses.
>>344473020
SO4 was good though.
>>344476034
they still do
>>344476308
Yeah but it has a lot more positive opinions about it now than it used to.
>>344476043
You only get Oricalcum from Maze 1 bosses(if you are lucky).
You get Moonstone from Gabriel (if you are lucky) or Maze 3 bosses(if you are lucky). You cannot synth these things.
>Deadmans
NO SHIT. That was the literally invincible role I was talking about, you are just putting it on an attacker.
>>344476514
You can hit 9999 attack without even touching the maze.
>>344476775
The point is that you inevitably win with Deadman on due to the sheer fact that it makes said character ignore 3/4s of the games mechanics. Without it the 9999 doesn't mean anything because the rest of the party will run headfirst into things that kill them instantly at worst or 2-3 hits at best and you would be next soon after once all attention is paid to you.
Until you can craft moonstone armor and aug the shit out of them you can't really stand up against Maze 3. And in my run I got only 1 piece of that by the time I finished EQ.
An overcentralizing role like that is bad game design.
>>344477524
There aren't many in depth mechanics in this game, its more an rpg with real time combat than anything.
All you really do is rely on are stats and numbers. You usually prepare these things before a fight.
I think deadman role is intentional all star ocean games always had something that made the players op. But I think the bosses this time around were easier, probably because its hard to balance having 7 characters vs one super boss. pretty meh id say yeah, but I need something to waste time on and this game does it for me.
>all these post about good combat and gameplay
???
combat was very weak to me. You just spam skills to do dmg. No combos whatsoever
>>344478738
What they are talking about is using certain roles to break the game.
Just like synthesizing wires to make great gear halfway through the game.
Didn't like it as much as 4. SO4 atleast had the whole space exploration thing going on and the characters were more fun to play as. Fidel feels lazy compared to Edge
>>344479986
>compared to Edge
your kidding right?
heard that the characters and story were really lacking, which is sad cuz thats why i wanted to get it, like you just cant be fucked to care about them. odin sphere is probably a safer purchase.
>>344480279
Please tell me how unique Fidel is gameplay wise? Because he has no original moveset compared to previous main characters
>>344478738
You mean like every Star Ocean and Tales of game?
>>344479986
