Finally finished Trails beyond the Horizon! I was pretty frustrated with Act 1 (the usual Trails padding) but I still ate so damn well with this game. I got heaping servings of old characters I love, I really like a certain new character, and I’m still thinking the finale chapter is the best Trails chapter to date, wire-to-wire. It was so good.
I just started Tales of Berseria the other night. I don’t really speak Tales of, so a lot of what it does is new to me. Love the skits, don’t love the combat. Rina Sato’s already excellent as Velvet. I’ve bounced of Abyss and Symphonia before; maybe I’ll stick with this one.
The only JRPGs announced that I’m interested in are Persona 4 Revival and the upcoming FF7 conclusion, and both are probably a ways off, so I’ll be combing through previous releases this year, I think. Ys X Proud Nordics will happen eventually for sure.
In other genres, I also played through Signalis last month. I will definitely be picking up Mina the Hollower if it stops getting delayed, and Death Stranding 2 is also likely.
I’m still thinking the finale chapter is the best Trails chapter to date, wire-to-wire. It was so good.
Finished this game yesterday and I agree, that was one hell of an ending. Really looking forward to the next game (whenever it comes).
Going to post a more complete review at the Nintendo community’s weekly discussion thread this friday.
Hoping to finish Trails Beyond the Horizon in another week or two, then go back to Super Robot Wars Y to play the second DLC batch.
After that, not sure. Maybe finally playing Atelier Resleriana? There’s also Fantasian, @Tamlyn@lemmy.zip’s comment above made me remember I haven’t finished and I might give that game another shot.
Haven’t finished anything in Feb, but I did count Fire Emblem: Three Houses as completed. I have done the Black Eagle route, and the DLC, and partial hidden Black Eagle route. Was planning to do all the routes, but don’t want to keep repeating the monastery parts, so I am considering this as completed.
Currently playing Xuan Yuan Sword: Mists Beyond the Mountains, technically it’s Chinese RPG, but it’s the same genre, so I guess it counts. This is a port of the mobile version of a 1999 game, which has some reduced difficulty and levels you up quickly. Game has some old design elements, and difficulty spikes at bosses, but overall it’s a fun game, with an interesting world building. Hope to complete it this month.
Currently replaying Final Fantasy IX,and just got to disc 3. Will finish it in March for sure. One of my all time favourites.
I’m still try to finish all ending in A Hundret Line: Last Defense Academy, but i have already written my thoughts about this. But i need something new so i started Fantasian Neo Dimension. I only played a few hours, but it remind me so much on old Final Fantasy games. I’m sure i will like this game.
I burned out in the later half of Fantasian due to the encounter rate and difficulty spikes, but might pick it up again and see if I can finish it, I wasn’t that far from the end.
At least I had a ton of fun with the first half of the game.
Isn’t this the whole gimmick of the game? You delay the encounter and then fight them all at once, maybe that’s why the encounter rate is high.
Of course, if this is accompanied with a difficulty spike, you won’t be able to do that properly.
Late-game the encounter rate gets so high that you fill your “stash” of enemies incredibly fast.
And since the game also goes incredibly “anti-girinding” in the second half you’re not only fighting tons of enemies but often also getting almost zero XP out of it. That made the game feel like a huge slog to me.
The difficulty spike is different matter though. That’s mostly about the bosses.
That’s a weird design, giving lots of enemies but not giving enough XP. I’ll be pretty turned off by such a game design too.
Yeah, it’s incredibly weird.
There’s a way to “empty” your stash of monsters without battling but it requires you to teleport to a certain place, pay a fee, then teleport back which is very awkward and requires you to be at a checkpoint.
