Wizardry Variants

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Wizardry Variants

Savoring the risk with Doctor

Fuck goblins btw
Disgusting little things are way too powerful

Etrian Odyssey

Making sure Lana never regains her self-esteem and will to live

t. gobbed

So did anyone figured it out how to change alignment yet?

Yekaterina's smile is powerful.

it sure is

Is the helm of malice worth it? Also why are there 3 versions

Probably not
There's multiple copies for strengthening

You'll probably want it whenever there is a dungeon floor or boss with instant kill skills.
Not required, but surely it'll help a lot.

Someone brought it to mauso and said it did jack shit to stop instakills which has been my experience with other "tolerance" gear
Who knows

you can either use them all in a single helmet, or keep 3 for whatever masochistic dungeon they'll throw at us at some point in the future.

i just conquered goblin goon cave

Good job!
Subjugate the gobbos.

just cleared the true final boss of waterways

it was very kino and I overall liked the 2nd dungeon as much as the first one
b6f until the arena was kind of a slog but it was very neat once you started looping

good job, anon
I'm still at my first loop but I'm really enjoying the dungeon so far

So unifying weapons unlocks their enchantments, but then you have to enhance them to +5 for example to unlock the first tier? Am I fucking understanding this?!! Reply if correct.

knowing how these games go, I fully expect that in the future more discoveries will turn out that VIT was actually very important all along, and you bricked yourself by following early impressions from people too used to gachaslop. And then suddenly DEX will be important, or another stat, and on and on.

its just 5~10 points of stats
you will never be bricked unless you put them all into speed which is a dogshit stat to completely invest into

I just put all points into a characters highest starting stat.

My theory is that VIT plays a part in how fast the revive circle goes when reviving a character. Or maybe it’s Luck.

all japanese comments in the wiki I read lately state that speed it's actually the way to go lmao. I trust their autism way more than the one from this site

This game has the story and character interactions I wish Dark Souls had.

I kinda liked this game but I'm terminally allergic to English dubs in anime games. Let me know when they let you have Japanese voices along with the English text.

Surely speed only affects turn order speed. What do the Japanese know

What lvl are and what lvl is your gear?

I have to beat the mimic on bf5 first dungeon and it's too much of a dmg sponge

In the year that ZZZ and (slop like) Wuwa released, this is the gacha game of the year, quite easily. Even with all the bugs and bricks, even with not being able to pick the JP audio, this game triumphs thanks to it's gameplay and mood. It's influence will be felt in the DRPG genre for decades.

Wuwa and ZZZ are the best action games of the year though.

Its influence will be felt in the DRPG genre for decades

What do you base that on

I was expecting it to crash and burn like WizOn but looks like they hit on something pretty nice
A shame bugfixing has delayed the schedule, really curious to see next banner

I was lvl45, upgraded weapons to +10 and armor to +5

mimic hp sponge

You can kill the mimic in 3 hits even at lvl30, try defending

What level were you?

I can’t believe the goblins raped my whole squad. Why did the devs implement this?

Based on having never played Etrian Odyssey

get first turn to rape and lock down enemies

vs

do 10 more damage if you dont get killed by enemies who get first turn

gee i wonder which i'd pick

I actually think that’s a good point to bring up, because most people here who are praising the game, myself included, aren’t super familiar with the subgenre.

The game is doing something right, but it’s gonna take a few more months for the essays here to come about.

lads when is this coming to pc

t. goblin who is about to get katino'd permanently

Once they fix all the bugs

I think Nexus was kinda underwhelming, so 3

most people here who are praising the game, myself included, aren’t super familiar with the subgenre.

That's been very obvious to the rest of us.

enemy is faster than you

gg speedlet

never said that. i put all bonus points on speed and it was the right choice

I wonder wheres the guy who keeps posting the obligatory nigger in every gacha thread lmao. I rarely saw him in wizardry thread.

December, on steam

I usually hate anime artstyles in games but for some reason this really appeals to me. I think its the lighting. The lighting looks very.... western MMO-ish

What? You DO know that Etrian is the most popular game of the genre for several years now? It's mainstream. Literally anyone talking about DRPG's either know it or have played it.

Knowing the genre, fairly obviously having played Etrian games AND past Wizardry games, Might&Magic, Megatens, etc, etc; it's because one has played ALL of these games that they can say this is among the best ones, straight up to the top. It's being praised this way not only by veterans in this site, but by japanese publications were they treat gacha gaming as actual gaming unlike the western sphere.
The ones saying that Etrian is in any way shape or form better than Daphne right now? Aren't playing it or are in straight up denial. There an abysm of quality in the way the represent the fights and your teammates compared to Etrian games, and YES, that IS important, and the whole reason why it has elevated the genre. The whole reason why, at this point? It has sold more than any Etrian game in the past. In just 2 weeks it made >5 million dollars, and all that money will go into making the game even better, even bigger, even more feature rich, with more classes, races, music, dungeons and gameplay. This last part is why the gacha model was the best thing it could happen to this game and genre; it'll be x100 times more updated than if it was standalone.

Based on having never played Etrian Odyssey

Don't pretend like it wouldn't be rad as hell if EO:Next takes after Daphne a bunch in terms of presentation or even party relations.

I bounced off EO games several times, it's just so damn boring and I didn't care about the world or characters any of the times.
Enjoying this game and liked TotFL, guess animu png blobbers just don't do it for me. Hell even Llylgamn Saga was aesthetically pleasing enough to finish it.

cool knight

it's general rarity

looks cooler than any legendary fighter

Unifying weapons just limit breaks their maximum enhancement.

actually interesting looking modern game

its goychaslop

Probably in another 7 months.

I didn't even know he existed until I had been playing for a few days
I'll level him up for dispatches at least

It’s some Indonesian guy who spend 14000 on Genshin rolls and got kicked out of his parents house for debit card fraud.

So now he prowls gacha threads.

which one you played, I only played EO4 and 5 and they were really good
4 is consistently good but 5 kinda gets samey at some point

For me it's Clarissa. Because I'm heterosexually biased.

I hope you played EO3. Because it's soulful as hell. And does a really good job with its city, seafaring adventures, and how it ties it all into the dungeon.
Best introduction to EO. And strongest early game hook.

It’s the lighting and the color schemes.

It’s still Japanese, you can compare it to Berserk and Demons Souls and get an eye for the same colours used, but the Daphne team used more of the original Wizardry media as a reference, which means a bit more of that 80s D&D colour theming.

Really an indonesian? I mean, its normal for chink or pinoy to do that but an indonesian? Kek.

the creature/monster design was made by the legendary Katsura Terada, a guy that may as well be a fine artist than just an illustrator. He is so fucking good; look up his work outside this game and kneel at it's splendor.

There an abysm of quality in the way the represent the fights and your teammates compared to Etrian games

It’s weird, because mechanically, Daphne is not much different from say SMT3.
Compared to stuff like Skelter and Etrian though, I’m guessing a large portion of players just won’t touch a game with static sprites on screen.

It’ll be very interesting to see where this game goes. It reminds me a lot of Demon Souls situation, this niche thing that came in the back of older archaic titles (Kings Field) and upped the presentation to such a point for normal consumption, just like Daphne.

This is the Fire Emblem Awakening of DRPGs. Seems popular, and has probably brought in new fans, but its hardly doing anything influential.

Not that anon. But I'd second basically your entire post.
That said, I would like to point to the Curse Wheel mechanic.

While not explicitly novel in itself, it's not as if there aren't plenty of videogames with time travel. Even in-depth time travel.
But I would make the claim that the time travel of the Cursed Wheel actually suits something like a DRPG really well. Yeah sure, there might not be a ton of different dungeons or total floors in Daphne as is. But the Cursed Wheel has been really excellent in maximizing the value of the content that actually exists. Without it feeling particularly bloated or cheap. Or so I'd claim.

Chinks doesn't know how to do atmospheric, wuwa is lameass cringe chink fagtasy shit and ZZZ is just cringe

But the Cursed Wheel has been really excellent in maximizing the value of the content that actually exists

I agree, I would say that its a much better implemented Radiant Historia cause/effect progression even

whats stopping you from having 3 mages backline, anons?

The ghost asked me go try several on some corpses but then they disappeared and I couldn't. Is that what's supposed to happen?

Project Gotham Racing is atmospheric though, WuWa was just a horrendous mistake in general caused by kuro's incessant hoyochasing

Reversal*

need thief for chests. and priest for undead instakill. i did run 2 mages instead of priest for the first 5 floors though.

I'm waiting for the perfect 10 point mage

Goddamn this nigga did all the original stuff for Zelda 1 and 2.

I feel like the Wiz Daphne team pulled out all the exact people they wanted to work on the game, just these real niche artists and audio people.

Disappeared as in bug? Try restarting your client.

Terada did bussin' so it wasn't a real stretch to pick him for this

Idk where they went after she asked me to

the fact that they go as far as destroy your requests timers, your quests themselves, they dare to break anything and everything because it IS time traveling is bold, it's hardcore, it's daring. They don't give a fuck about QoL, this is a Wizardry game, it's an oldschool level of punishment. And this sentiment is everywhere in the game; in the way of the gold value, etc, etc.
Being this way in any modern western game is breaking their bible of videogame design, of the simplication of anything that may bother the player. Here they throw everything out of the window, it's a return to roots. Of pen and paper. Quests won't give you marker, you can't even find quests since so many are hidden, and the requirements to trigger them are obtuse. The billion little systems in the game itself are esoteric, giving it a feel of it all being... WIZARDRY.

Bravo devs.

4gamer.net/games/540/G054095/20240920019/

The legend.

oh it looks cool

gacha game

Nah, I am not going to download this. I am already playing Nikke and I know very well how it ends when you start stacking gachashit

Is this a mixed toilet?

You could download it and try it as if it wasn't a gacha game.

he isn't just "the guy that did Zelda" holy shit, that is such a minuscule point of his career.
but yeah, vidya wise, he has done work that you surely have seen if you love art; like the super famicom cover of Prince of Persia

Why did she ask me to bring people back to life and then that leads nowhere

She wanted to see a cool party trick.

because she's curious
plus that's the good thing to do

has more soul then modern games

you love to see it.

SOUL

Yeah but you’d still rather play Awakening than Sacred Stones.
Sometimes, polish is a big factor.

Is this the mobile game I keep seeing in advertisements?
How did a mobile game catch on on Anon Babble?