15 mins into act 1 and have some questions

15 mins into act 1 and have some questions.
Is this what the game is? By that I mean a movie game? I tried to go through all the BS dialogue as quick as I could as I was literally falling asleep, its gotten better as the plot is picking up, but christ it was slow.
The rock dudes are piss easy, playing on expert to, do encounters get much more complex than this, or does it just stick to the most basic pokemon style combat with dodge and parries?
Is there actual interesting build paths you can take, or is it just stat pumping allocation?
Its feels linear af, is there any level design or is it like a walk and talk sony last of us thing?

he fell for it

lmao. hope youre still in your 2 hour window bro.

I paid a dollar on xbox game pass so its fine.

its starts of very linear but opens up later on and you can make different "endgame" builds for every characters so there are a few builds and synergies after you get more party members, skills, pictos and weapons
but its also a story focused rpg so if you dont enjoy the story why even play lol

Level design is mostly linear with branching paths that either dead end or loop back to the main path.
Builds open up once you get more pictos and unlock enough skills that you need to choose which 6 you want to use.

Go play some call of duty anon.

I really like the plot, and the enemy designs, world designs, but the whole talking to each person and them telling you what they had for brunch yesterday is mind numbingly boring, they expect me to care and be interested in these literal who's despite not building up any kind of story tension or conflict between them.

Is this a movie game

No, it's not a movie game by sony's definition, though if you're asking if there's a lot of cutscenes, then there are, but outside the prologue they're never long enough that you start to look at your watch.

do encounters get much more complex

the earlier enemeis telegraph their attacks with huge slow tells so that they're easier to parry. Later enemies become much more tricky, nevermind the chromatic sub bosses spread around that have amped up stats or start raising up shields and hitting you with stat debuffs so you don't gain AP.

build variety

every character has multiple different builds that synergize with other characters, or that work better solo.

level design

levels are FFXII tier, but without the luxury of a mini-map, so you do actually have to poke around and explore. If you lose your bearings gawking at the scenery, you might find yourself going the wrong direction.

It's good, keep playing.

Do the enemies get more varied in there movesets, or is it just slooow attack, and quick attack!
Is there atlelast bosses with complex movesets?

Who gives a shit what you think? Real gamers like it.

its a movie game

well that explains the rave reviews from the journos

6 hours in...is it really just some eternal reoccurrence slop? bout to drop it if it is.

Thanks for the reply. Should I stick with expert diff you think? I've beaten sekiro a few times and play fightan..

I didnt mean to talk shit, its just it gives me the exact same feelings of playing GoW (ps4) and last of us and seems structured the same if not even more movie gamey than them but I just started.

enemies get completely new mechanics you cant parry or dodge and later enemies have extremely annoying movesets because they basically feint their attacks so you fail the parry

No shame in bumping it down to normal if expert becomes a pain. Superbosses will still motherfuck you

Stick to Fortnite

dopamine addicted zoomer can't sit through a little bit of dialogue

many such cases

I started on the hardest difficulty but early on the game is so unforgiving while leading you to two fucking side bosses I had to turn it down to normal to beat them
but the game became too fucking easy to me and after you get the 4th party member I pumped it back to high and its much more enjoyable now
so long story short, either fight through it or start with normal and crank it up later

15 mins into act one

You mean 15 mins into the prologue. You ain't even in act one. You still haven't left Paris. The beginning of the game is all world building. After that 95% of all human interaction ceases and it's 90% combat and exploration with story beats sprinkled in ever so sparingly to keep the plot moving.
If you ass is so impatient that you can't walk around a town to learn why you are even playing the game than your ass isn't built to play anything other than shooters and mobas.

What side bosses? I beat that pink chromatic at level 10 with 3 party members and honestly haven't struggled with a single boss or fight since I started the game on expert i honestly wish the difficulties went higher

Imagine having this low iq

Since it's UE5, expect all sorts of balance mods. I do want all mobs to be in line with chromas, those are perfect.

Hes stupid for disliking something marvel tv shows do?
Thats a telltale sign of poor writting for a director, author or whatever else, infodump mundane shit with people you havent grown to care about at the start of the game/show and expect them to care about the color of panties a character wore when she and him first met its fucking dumb.

Why are you talking about games you're making very apparent you've never played?

same OP, same.
had to uninstall it after 15 minutes of „playing“

is there actual interesting build paths you can take, or is it just stat pumping allocation?

Yeah, it depends on what weapon you use and which skills scale best.

Its feels linear af, is there any level design or is it like a walk and talk sony last of us thing?

Its not an open world game, no. You have the overworld and from there you can travel to different hubs.

15 minutes in

Jesus Christ dude, play a couple hours before you start talking

Honestly sick of these niggers all crying that they didn't feel anything for thr start of the game because they didn't have enough time with the characters. Clearly a bunch of illiterate troons who can't understand or empathize because the entirety of their life experience comes from slurping HRT off the floor of their moms basement. If you don't feel the emotional weight from the prologue then you should just drop the game and go outside or better yet end your worthless life.

I tried to go through all the BS dialogue as quick as I could as I was literally falling asleep

Try again with some family guy funny moments in the background, maybe Will help

You never played the game.

If an enemy has a weakness to fire and I use maelle's skill that makes them weak to fire, does that increase the damage or does nothing?

i discover with this game that i have to change my cpu thermal paste,so i put it on hold for now,but so far i hate/loved in equal measure,i love the art direction,combat and music so sfar, but i fucking HATE eu5,it makes every game look generic,even with all the work the studio put in the art direction.

I can le heckin relate to a manufactured processed piece of media, designed for teens!!

You've never had a girlfriend have you neet?

15 minutes in

take you ADHD medication please you dumb zoomer

someone has a different opinion than me

My trans mind cannot comprehend it, so I make absurd rationalizations about said person in my head

Portulent balding millennial discovers what a prologue is.

I enjoy Morrowind, RDR2, and reading fantasy novels, the game is boring grandpa.

infodump

She's gonna die today and they're all sad about it

The big lady over there is the reason why

If that's an infodump I genuinely wonder how much you can actually handle learning in one go.
Did you have to learn your left and your right on two separate days to give you time to comprehend?
Did you learn to piss in the toilet while still shitting your pants?
Do you take fifteen fucking minutes to chew your food because you've got to brace yourself for swallowing?
Here's a lesson.
Load a gun, and then shoot yourself.
You can wait a day between loading the gun and shooting yourself if you need a fucking recouperation period from learning that guns can be loaded and learning guns can shoot.

You fucking braindead ape.

made for teens

game about almost exclusively 30+ year old adults and their struggles

Didn't play the game award strikes again

Go on then, show proof you played the game.

This is easily 10/10 GOTY and among the best RPGs of all time.

Level design is 10/10
Gameplay is 10/10
Characters are 10/10
Story is 10+
Visuals are 12/10
Music is 13/10

Wow, just Wow!

they don't even really infodump at you in the prologue, they just present the world organically and how the characters exist in it (and some combat tutorials)

its funny when these retards dont even know why the game has the number 33 in it

agree but visuals are a 9/10 just because of that god damn bloom

The implied biological age of the characters has nothing to do with the writing and design of the plot you dumb motherfucker, a young teen could and does relate to it as does a kid.
If I played and understood Morrowind as a 12 year old, young kids can definitely relate to this.

Mentioning random games to obtain cool points on the internet doesn't mean you play them, zoom zoom

Young kids can definitely relate to this

You seem to have some very strong opinions on a story you know nothing about after having only played for 15 minutes.

You fucking dumb idiot, I brought those up because those are slow paced games with a lot of exposition and dialogue, stop trolling.
If you honestly cant read in between the lines that much you should kill yourself.

the story is very much not aimed at young kids or teens. Some of them are probably capable of understanding it and enjoying it, but it's not written with them as the target audience.

That doesn't mean it was MADE FOR TEENS like you claimed though.
Also, a hearty fucking lol, lmao even, at you acting like understanding Morrowind was big brained for a twelve-year-old. It's above average, I'm not gonna deny, but only as far as reading at a tenth grade level when you're in year 8 or some shit, nothing special.
Certainly not something to boast about.

Neither was Morrowind, Deus ex, and others but I understood them fine as a kid.

great, but that doesn't mean they were designed to appeal to children in general

I accept your concession zoomie, but watching playthroughs on YouTube doesn't equal you're playing a game

you're playing a jrpg bro im not sure what you expected.

people giving glowing reviews cause they wanted this kind of jrpg back.

Ok? fair point, but at the same time, what about this game would be so hard to grasp and materialize if you were 12 years old?
Its no Laurence of arabia and is definitely at a lower reading level than morrowind,
you niggers are so cringe, if you want a story for adults read a book, holy fuck this is a video game motherfucker.

you're 15 minutes in, you barely even know what the story is

but the whole talking to each person and them telling you what they had for brunch yesterday is mind numbingly boring

That's the very beginning of the game, you ADHD retard. The fact that you think the game is only talking means you have barely played.

Why don't you try playing the video game instead of whining on Anon Babble?

Mutt can't comprehend the Europaryan mind

its a movie game because it has animated cutscenes

Evil painter lady kills people at said age every year, and it seeming to get lower and lower every time.
Thats the gist of it.
I just dont care about every little characters small talk

Despite only making up 13% of the population African Americans make up 56% of the """""""white""""""" American's genetic heritage and academic ability.

Thats the gist of it.

Yes, that's the gist of the first fifteen minutes.

Cunt for someone going on about telling people to read a book, you seem to think the average novel explains the entire plot on the first page.
Maybe you should read a book, because you've no fucking clue how stories work.

that's the premise, not the story. Speaking to the characters and hearing how they react to and interact with that premise builds an emotional connection to the world (or at least it does if you're not autistic) as well as expanding upon unfamiliar concepts organically.

Boring infantile story is to hard for the average person to digest.

Doubtful.

I am begging you to play for more than 15 minutes before you start thinking you have the story completely figured out.

stop replying to him dude, its a troll he didnt even play the game

Should just give up at this point you're embarrassing yourself with how out of the loop you are on this game people played for 15m or watched le favorite streamer play the intro and come here to seethe and dilate because their favorite tranny A slop game flopped

Boring infantile story is to hard for the average person to digest

You can't tell an underage wrote this lmao

Yeah I thought the intro did a good job setting everything up without just vomiting at you the setting and world. FF13 could never

Non-battle menus are like a 3/10 though. The invo so not be that weird to navigate

Game would heavily benefit from a slightly better UI for pictos, also an option to sort by unmastered pictos. Genuinely I'm not sure how I would improve it though it feels like there's simply too much shit

They had fucking art nouveau right there, the UI stylized like that would have been perfect

I'm 15 minutes past the prologue and this RPG is pretty boring

nigga

If you use opencritic instead of metacritic, they actually include helpful reviews that metacritic hides.
There's a bunch of 7/10 reviews for this game on opencritic, and they all talk about the same issues.

Use opencritic in the future and read the lowest reviews - they are always the helpful ones.

telling you what they had for brunch yesterday is mind numbingly boring

That's a problem with modern JRPG's.
People call it "world building" but it's just pointless filler bullshit that pads out the run time.

The Falcom games are really bad at it, and the play time can be literally halved by simply not talking to NPC's and staying focused - you really don't need a 5 minute long lecture about how the magic crystals help power their street lights at night. Any retard with a modicum of intelligence can figure that out.

Yep, and in a game were the developers had any sense they would include shit like that in an audio log or book you can find in a box in a cellar and is optional to read.

it's also not what fucking happens in E33's prologue