Literally find a flaw

Can't buy multiples of an item in one go

have to buy them all one at a time

There. Found you a dumbass flaw.

Why didn't you like about them? I liked how they were retarded and full of toxic masculinity.

The combat

They are basically Nier Automata rip offs

As far as JRPG mascot characters go, they're great. Much better than moogles and nopons desu.

The music stops if the battle goes on too long
no mini map

The music stops if the battle goes on too long

that's deliberate and a good thing

wait really?

The lip syncing is bad. But that's pretty much it honestly.

Yes. To give some momemtum and not bore the player during combat. Usually they would kind of stop before the second phase in boss fights.

Everything

The lip syncing is terrible I agree. I don't know how they fucked it up this bad because isn't this shit automatic in UE?
The problem is they recorded the mocap using french actors saying english lines. So the lip movement is not natively english.

LOL now this is bait

no mini map

LITERALLY the only flaw.

its yet another moviegame, identical to any other modern, regressive, dumbe down, PS5 moviegame slop, but this one is especially pretentious & gay

>poorly optimised (like all UE5 games)

Is it? I'm playing on a 2060 super toaster and had no problems

The entirety of the act 3 structure and story. It's so obvious the devs didn't know what to do with the last act of the game so they just made you go straight to the last mission. If you had done stuff like Alicia's axon, the relationship quests, the Eternal Tower, or even Simon before going to the final location then you would just think "wtf why do I care about any member of this family?"

A minimap would be retarded.
A fog of war map would be much cooler.

Generic UI

turn based combat without a positioning element.

its just a basic rpg made to look pretty using Unreal Engine 5, using Shadowshart's voice actor and the RPG audience was so starved for a good rpg we gobbled the COE33 cock whole and raw and swallowed some

it's not great but it's not ubisoft level of shit

Rating based on flaws is a shit system and the way retards do it.

What does this game achieve? Tetris is flawless yet i will not give it a a higher score over an ambitious game that tries to do something like Morrowind

I wish there was more. I really liked the characters and the gameplay itself is fun.

Can't have a map for a place you've never been to

moviegame

All the cutscenes add up to around 4 hours on yt. The game's 60 hours long and has superbosses.

You could draw one.

i want zero cutscenes. black bars interrupting gameplay = alt-F4

You are responding to a filipino who didn't play the game.

I actually hope they don't touch the setting again. It would be nice if there were more character interactions but the game's world is explored to a level where saying anything more would ruin it.

Same problem with JRPGs. You get to a point where you're running the same combat script for hours on end until you get to boss fights.

go play excel or some shit faggot

gameplay
ending doesnt seem to care about painted people

It ended too soon i only got 60h out of it also this

You protected her smile, right Anon Babble?

Nopons are genuinely terrible and Xenoblade would've been better off without them. Moogles range from endearing to awful, I especially hated them in FF Type-0.

Nopons are genuinely terrible and Xenoblade would've been better off without them

based

wanting to sit through fruity cutscenes and dialogues is whats gay. why dont you
watch netflix instead?

better than moogles

lol no I'm not even a final trantisy fan but gesterals are a low tier mascot. There really wasn't a good mascot in e33 nothing that standsout and would sell well to people as a plush/ merch FF has shit like moogles cactaur chocobos and tonberry that all do really well in those departments. No one is buying gestral merch

Game really doesn’t explain how the side dungeons work. Once you access Esquie’s flight abilities there are a bunch of dungeons that you’ll be too underleveled for so you might as well just go and finish the story instead. They don’t explain either how you should tackle the dungeons so it’s all just guess and chose.

With that being said, I’m glad I finished Maelle’s sidestory after I finished the game given what I learned about her from the ending.

My flaws

Balancing is all over the place, you can outpace things very quickly and easily by doing just a little side content but everything hits like a truck until you level up some more anyway

No builds to save and switch between, instead have to scroll through all the pictos and luminas many times

Every pick up coming in one at a time despite the battle screen showing what you got anyway

Can't buy multiples of items

Combat gets old towards the end due to the rigid nature of it

In essence you're meant to do enough to get super OP and wreck everything with ease otherwise things drag out more and more

No photo mode/model viewer so I can worship Lune's feet

No builds to save and switch between, instead have to scroll through all the pictos and luminas many times

this, it's a fucking core

It's a good story and that's why I wished there was more. It's fine that there isn't, but the story never dragged on too long or overstayed its welcome.
If they do something longer in a different setting I am all for it. They proved that they can write decent characters

only 60h

trannies love this game

They're there for those who need to farm I guess. A shame because some of them are cool and the act 3 side content is more or less intended for post-game, which is baffling.

It's been two weeks since release and there's barely any porn

Expert needs to be harder. I was steamrolling bosses starting with the act 2. Nothing modders can't fix, just increase boss HP.
I also wish the final boss would get empowered if you did all side content just to have something to use MLGS on.

You mean trannies like Farquaad hate this game, right?

there are literally naked modes

she looks like her anus would stink like soft cheese if you spread her open

lmaooo

oh shit a bogeyman, you’re still are still a tranny and this game is trannyslop

trannies and faggots hate beautiful girls

like poetry

you’re still are still

generic gook is le beautiful

this how you know women are shilling this slop

60fps was the standard a decade ago. we're in 2025 now.

*forgot to mention I love sucking cocks

I actually like the fact you can oneshot everything in the game if you build your party for it
Things I consider flaws tho:

Movement can be awkward at times

Grandis are underutilized compared to Gestrals and Esquie

Management is tedious as you can't purchase items or assign lumina in bulks or make loadouts

Lune and Sciel get sidelined during Act III

tranny esl sperg programming activated

2 dam ez

Not for the best girl.

Lack of changes in the world after each act, especially in Act 3.

that obvious when you started defending this slop sis lmao

I'm only hitting 60 fps on my 7900xt, and that's after reducing the graphical settings to high. I also often see slowdowns, especially around level transitions.

same filename

same fucking image hash

"b-bogeyman"

Go suck STD cocks, Farquaad

Can you bang Maelle's pussy raw or at least romance her? If you can't, that's about the only flaw so far I've played 2 hours.
Little redhead bitch is so incredibly hot, the protagonist should have made babies to her when Sophia turned the idea down.

don’t care, trannyslop is still bad you are are hagwoman, normalfaggot, or a tranny if you defend this slop

that character design looks like dogshit. 2D games with pixelated graphics have better aesthetics

709114000 (You)

doesn't deny it

And there you have it, folks

*slurp slurp*

Killing the only white guy that was also the only good character to push a group of non-whites and women.

This
looks like absolute shit

it's mediocre.

Bad level design

UI stolen from Persona

Enemy design stolen from soulslop

Art Style is ugly default UE5 realism

Generic combat with excessive QTEs

Character designs are forgettable

the audience for this are bots, indians, and normalfags (women and redditors)

kill the white guy

immediately replace him with another white guy

anon still has a schizophrenic meltdown over it

womanslop is always bad simple as

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It's fine for the price point I can do more runs any time but I won't deny the fact that it felt short maybe it's just because I enjoyed it so much or maybe it's just short by jrpg standards idk

Small amount of party members & some barely even exist as far as the story cutscenes like Monoco.
Act 3 story & reveal feels extremely rushed even if it has a lot of side content
And I say this as someone who loves the game.

MUH WHITE GUY MUH WHITE

get new material shill

I mean yeah, that's what we should be getting. I want rpgs like the good ones we used to get, looking the best possible with UE5 graphics.
Expedition 33 fulfills such a basic but needed void : a nice simple rpg that looks amazing.
Baldurs Gate 3 had the AAA graphics but fuck that combat system
Now if Pokémon, Digimon, Dragon ball or Shin Megami Tensei could also release a turn based AAA graphics videogame I could literally die happy, but they won't any time soon so this new IP takes the crown for the time being, lack of competition

>immediately replace him with another white guy

Obvious jew half-breed and voiced by that faggot Ben Starr. The game was only good when you were playing as Gustav.

not painting herself a huge pair of boobs

no wonder she's the black sheep of the Dessandre family, Clea literally painted her fake self himbo husband into a gigachad

I actually like the fact you can oneshot everything in the game if you build your party for it

It's only fun in the first JRPG you do it in. I had a lot of fun breaking shit with Hans Machine Gun in BS2, but I have zero tolerance for it in this game, especially since you can miss out on seeing enemy attack animations and even entire boss phases.
I installed the 99999 damage mod and even that seems insufficient, as I completely obliterated the boss in the Reacher in one turn. I think I'll change the damage cap to 999999, but also install the 10x/20x enemy HP mod.

Get some help, Farquaad.

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If you word some of those a different way, you're admitting it uses the good parts of other games, which yeah it's why it's so good.
Slick UI and kino enemy design.

the damage cap existing cripples glass cannon builds prior to beating the paintress

animations in general can be wonky and unpolished

the story falls off a cliff shortly after being introduced to Verso

severe lack of quality of life (no overworld fast travel, retry fight button, no form of minimaps, etc)

parrying being reliant on animations and sound cues are not always consistent from enemy to enemy, sometimes sound cues line up with the animations and other times they dont leading to a lot of frustration with the game if you're getting one shotted

camp dialogue is oftentimes cringe

lip syncing is very off sometimes

having to use a pictos in battle 3 times to unlock it for everyone is a pointless requirement and just serves to annoy you when you have to switch them out and then switch what you already had back in after learning the pictos

there are a lot of corridor walking simulator areas that could've been made smaller and shorter

enemy designs get reused and repurposed over and over

nice brush meets nice bush

I don't know who that is. And your FOTM slop is still shit lol

hes not wrong

Since the last thread died I couldn't reply.

Sciel is the second 3rd worst woman in the game. Only behind Alicia and Aline. Aline is the fucking worst person in the entire game.

Sciel is not empathetic. She literally says she would kill the entire party if it meant getting her dead husband cock back.

She cannot form any relationship because all she thinks about is her dead husband cock and the baby she killed for being suicidal.

Best girl ranks:

1. Golgra, pragmatic but kind
2. Clea, pragmatic and based

End of Act 1
End of Act 2
All of Act 3
The rest was good tho

Player's power curve is way too exponential
No other complaints

severe lack of quality of life (no overworld fast travel, retry fight button, no form of minimaps, etc)

all of these are modernslop cancer except for the retry button

I feel like the shills just make these themselves so they can shut down criticism

the thing about copies, is that it's always worse than the original. This game is a perfect example

Anyone unironically calling this game ugly is a nigger who's obsessed with the shitty looking stuck in 2008 anime unity tier games like persoyna and trails. You have 0 taste sorry the game isn't anime enough for you I'll ask the devs go add some HRT and child porn to the next one

no overworld fast travel, no form of minimaps

I like these ones. No fast travel makes the game feel like more of an adventure, though it probably should've been added somewhere halfway through Act 3's optional content.
No minimap forces you to pay attention to your surroundings instead of looking at the minimap. I also hate detective vision in Bamham games for this exact reason, it hides the well-designed environment from the player.

Lip syncing is really bad
It's really blurry for some reason
The levels are very linear (I'm only still in Act 1 so maybe this is different later)
Possible skill issue on my part, but some of the parry timings seem weird and a bit inconsistent based on the animation. I've heard you should actually use the audio cue instead, so I'll try that next time I play, but even if that's true I think the timings should be a bit more obvious from the visuals

the damage cap existing cripples glass cannon builds prior to beating the paintress

severe lack of quality of life (no overworld fast travel, retry fight button, no form of minimaps, etc)

parrying being reliant on animations and sound cues are not always consistent from enemy to enemy, sometimes sound cues line up with the animations and other times they dont leading to a lot of frustration with the game if you're getting one shotted

These are good things.

it's fine but the colors and world feel so "drab" and "dull" to me. Like it's trying way too hard to be "mature" and afraid to take risks with its world/characters. Which is disappointing since you can tell how much love went into the design of everything. I'm still in Act 1.

you can’t call it s-slop because some literal who is le schizo

schizo website bitch

On another note, does anyone know where can I download the Universal UE5 Unlocker? Cunt author keeps it paywalled behind Patreon but years ago I found a site that had all its engine unlockers for free. You inject it into the game and it gives you freecam for screenshots, moving during a cutscene and the like
patreon.com/posts/83234146

Nexus won't allow. Where else?

poorly optimised (like all UE5 games)

It's actually running well on my rog ally compared to other UE5 games released within the past year. I'm sure optimization can be better but the devs did a good job with it running on low-end hardware.

it's fine but the colors and world feel so "drab" and "dull" to me.

Are you fucking insane?

camp dialogue is oftentimes cringe

You're cringe

it’s fucking ugly though, and filled with niggers

check the general

the colors and world feel so "drab" and "dull" t

what

kemono.su/patreon/user/37343853/post/83234146

cannot save equipment/skill presets

pc version has no last gen gamepad support, a small mod was required to force the game to show correct button prompts for my ps4 controller

bikini outfits aren't hot

Final story location and boss are way too easy, the lumina/picto menu interface is a bit clunky, most characters are semi balanced but Maelle is way too busted.

you didn't even play the game
there's no black characters at all past the prologue

Overworld battles are all over the place level-wise. There's no indicators for when a zone/fight is piss easy or if you'll get one shot after missing one parry while dealing 5 damage per attack.

slight criticism

YOU CANT HECKING SAY THAT

seek help

Yeah if I ever replay this game I'll do Reacher and Lumiere without Painted Power, it's weird you receive it after beating the Paintress and not Renoir because you can completely steamroll very important locations. At least Clea's Manor and Renoir's Drafts are better suited to handle late-game builds (although I was still able to oneshot Simon)

The only black character dies in the second cutscene you shiteating retard.

You know, I was reading this idiot's shitposts for the last couple of days and thought "man he kinda types like Farquaad but I have no proof to say anything about it". Can't say I'm surprised.
I hope he soon ends his worthless existence.

What you're saying is completely at odds with reality you dumb motherfucker. Have you looked at the game at all?

the art direction is legitimately ugly and you have bad taste. Mixing realistic looking characters with shitty Persona 5 UI and overdone UE5 particle effects looks like a complete mess. Not too mention all the forced "cinematic" camera angles and excessive motion blur

no form of minimaps

ahh yes when I go back to the gestral village after a long time away I do like to talk to every single gestral to find the one that sold that thing I wanted but couldn't afford. hmmm... if only a minimap was present that could show me the merchants in the area so I don't have to talk to every single gestral again. this is just one example

i can kind of agree with that helping game feel like an adventure but holy shit going anywhere was a slog before unlocking the ability to fly. kinda just encourages you to pretty much beat the game before exploring otherwise you end up wasting a lot of time

color me surprised when the game where you can avoid every bit of damage by practicing and memorizing the enemies' attacks PUNISHES the player for going full damage. the game literally implicitly incentivizes going full damage because why build HP or defense when you can just parry everything? so for them to design the game like that and then require a pictos to uncap your damage is just retarded. it should've just been a toggle in the settings menu or something. I built full attack now let me fucking one shot everything

YOU ARE ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY CHUD

looks like shit

Cope

Why are you in this thread then you enormous cocksucking faggot? The question concerns those who played the game.

post real gameplay, shill

there definitely is since the only overworld enemies that do that are giga sized, and the areas that have tough enemies have a literal DANGER sign

the devs did a good job with it running on low-end hardware.

That's a good thing, the devs should focus on exactly that first and foremost - getting things running on low-end hardware. I'm just used to seeing 144 FPS everywhere, whereas here I had to lower graphical settings to even hit 60.

Report him for trolling and move on. Farquaad is a lonely miserable faggot and he always does this shit with new rpgs

I don't need to play a game to have an opinion on it.

it looks terrible. The environments and character designs are all extremely dull and forgettable. Then they slap blue and purple everywhere which makes it look like other modern slop

I call game shit because it is
get seething trannies and hags going schizo
it’s funny

7/10 game with nice combat.

$49.99

color me surprised when the game where you can avoid every bit of damage by practicing and memorizing the enemies' attacks PUNISHES the player for going full damage.

Maelle hitting 9999 every hit already trivializes every boss up through act 2, if they didn't have the damage limit it would be even worse.

the game literally implicitly

Half-literate twitternigger.

going full damage because why build HP or defense when you can just parry everything?

Because some people aren't good at parrying and are better off building defensively, and some weapons scale off defense or HP. It's a fucking roleplaying game and actually succeeds at giving you multiple ways to play the game and build your characters which is something JRPGs have been lacking for a long time.

I love you anon

Persona is söy repellent.

take your meds mr. redditor. Nobody here knows who that person is

There really wasn't a good mascot in e33 nothing that standsout and would sell well to people as a plush/ merch

Unironically, that's a good thing. Most media will try to make their own Pikachu and spam it every chance they get for merch sales, which any cutscene with them feel like an ad. It's almost as bad as when companies realized reaction images can be used for marketing, so half the damned dialog becomes a shameless attempt at becoming a Twitter reaction gif.

Pic related under multiple layers of irony and AIDS.

"pc version has no last gen gamepad support, mod required to get ps4 button prompts"

mfw using a 360 controller and it works fine

tattoos

nah thx m9

jesus christ play some games that aren't fucking persona

j-j-jannnyyyyyy saaaaaavee uuuuusss

you can go back to plebbit or to the designated troon containmet general board for a safespace

Yellowfever vs Hebefever

Bros, is it wrong to have multiple waifus?

Yeah, I've played plenty. Mostly old ones because nu-JRPGs are fucking atrocious at actually giving you options. Dumb fucking normalnigger.

There really wasn't a good mascot in e33 nothing that standsout and would sell well to people as a plush/ merch

You're kidding right

obsessed

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Maybe hot take, I agree with most of what you said but I think having a contingency of a cuter character gives people something to buy if they're not really into posters or vinyls which is pretty much all this game could sell unless you're getting an art book. Some people just really want merch for their games this is a rare one where I'd have easily bought a plush for my gf or something simple like keychains as a collectable if such a mascot existed.

fucking this now watch them call every other rpg shit and defend this normalnigger slop like they’re being paid

UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

Based.

Nyo way I missed this? It's actually kino he's the best party member by a mile I 100%d the game this must be a manor room I missed or something

What did she win?

nyo

ohnononnono slopsissies……

they're not very accurate though, I could easily take on a bourgeon but the guy in the water annihilated me instantly
same with the danger zones, one woodlands area was manageable, while some darkness place absolutely out of reach

ue asset flip, once you notice it, you can't unsee.

NTA but dont you think the game giving players the ability to parry every attack in the game and rewarding the player with a counterattack for parrying every single hit nudges the player towards going full attack and git gud-ing? like yeah there are pictos that have defense and hp and abilities that work around getting hit and such. but it feels like with the way they designed the game at the core, going full attack just makes the most logical sense. hence why the damage cap was baffling to me and just led to a lot of frustration with the game for me. im sure if i played it again without going glass cannon it'd be more enjoyable but i cant be fucked. also,

Maelle hitting 9999 every hit already trivializes every boss up through act 2, if they didn't have the damage limit it would be even worse.

she was like the worst fucking character to use prior to unlocking the damage cap cause her multi hit moves were too expensive in terms of AP or they just dont unlock until later. later on she's OP as fuck with her 200% damage and absurd moves but prior to that she did not seem to even remotely be the best option

It's in Verso's room. Alicia is also holding it during his ending.

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there's no black characters at all past the prologue

you cocksucker didn't play past act 2 lmao

party slop is le good

there it is

-The menus are shit
-The cinematics and the gameplay feel disconnected almost PS1 level cinematics
-The combat system is overloaded as fuck no wonder why they had to cap the damage to 9999 for most of the game
-The parry system makes the game more engaging but also more tedious when you have to fight a boss for 30 minutes
-To make combat more balanced bosses can one shot you and they get 3+ turns before you even get to play
-The story itself is well written but you get to play 2/3 of the game without knowing what the hell is going on
-The character designs are weird, specifically the proportions
-The music works with the game but is forgettable at best, nothing unique
-No minimap, the game sacrificed visibility for ``pretty environments``

Got it, thank you.

dont you think the game giving players the ability to parry every attack in the game and rewarding the player with a counterattack for parrying every single hit nudges the player towards going full attack and git gud-ing?

Sure, but it also makes it hard to do that reliably and gives options for those who can't.

going full attack just makes the most logical sense

Yeah, simply never getting hit in a video game is always the most logical thing but it's not realistic for most people.

but prior to that she did not seem to even remotely be the best option

You can hit damage cap with Piercee right after you get her which is nuts.

-The cinematics and the gameplay feel disconnected almost PS1 level cinematics

good

No u

Why do people need a minimap for such small areas? Do you also need yellow paint to tell you where to go?

and stay there nigger

its the opposite, actually

Made by westerners
Girls aren't wearing miniskirts

I really like how so many of the designs in this game go all in with the crazy French shit.
Sometimes I forget that country has more to offer than the butt of jokes.
His voice acting in Kino in French too.

zoomers were raised playing popamole like nuFF or asscreed

you’re a tranny and you like it

Normalfags struggle reach the end of a strait road without Google maps.

These people were raised on games that had breadcrumb lines guide them to the NPC with the large yellow question mark they need to speak/turn in to

Niggers like you keep parroting this line. Show me where the assets are from do you even know what you're typing show me ONE example where these assets were flipped from a previous source surely you have dozens you can spare just one

Nigga I play RPGMaker games with default assets, I don't care.

mfw just did the renoir fight

it's just...so kino...

If you actually look at real threads on the site you'd see that they love it.

Popular

don’t point that out

the first or second?

objective flaw: the attack "stendhal" is bugged and has a 25x multiplier instead of a 2.5x multipllier. if you find it, the game's challenge dies a sad death.

Same typing style

No capital letters

Truth hurts huh faggot? Kill yourself.

Blacks and gays

the combat is repetitive

Or... the third?

They aren't inherently boring, but esquie and monoco are just too fucking based for the hags to compete
Can't beat the bro energy

bugged

Game devs are bragging about reaching billions of damage with it on twitter. They just genuinely like breaking games in half and big numbers.

The cutest girl died at the beginning.

It's intended

tranny going schizo

It’s getting to ya, huh?

That anon's just a shitposter, but they did use a lot of free assets in the Epic giveaway packs for UE5. The art director talks about in an interview.

“When we started off with Unreal, we used a lot of the free packs that came in monthly,” says Nicholas. “We sometimes reuse some of the stuff and retexture it, remodel it to make it fit our mood and our world. So that really helped in terms of our pipeline. Especially with rocks: you'll find those everywhere.”
-Nicholas Maxson-Francombe, Art Director, Sandfall Interactive

creativebloq.com/3d/video-game-design/using-unreal-engine-5-can-be-a-trap-says-the-dev-behind-clair-obscur-expedition-33

no fucking way it's intended. source? it just instantly obliterates everything in one turn.

Trannies also breathe air, I'm afraid you'll need to ack yourself now

They went the Wukong way somehow. It's less blantant than in Wukong but you can see it in the overworld if you look at trees or rocks.
I guess the compromise to shipping AAA looking games when you're <50 workforce if to focus on original design for things importants (enemy design, weapons, bosses, architecture) and use megascans for generic things like tree, grass or rocks.

nah, I’ll just point how shit the game and writing are again

The devs are FF8fags. The FF with the most breakable system to date.

FF8fag holy shit another reason this game is hot garbage

It's too short. I thought the game was gonna be pretty long when I first looked at the world map and it showed the small first area and a massive amount of undiscoved area, only for it to turn out levels are just spread futher apart the further you get in the story. The Continent is trying to steal the too-much-water title from Hoenn.

brown hands typed these words

Renoir is so powerful when the expedition first meets him that he can apparently kill them all Goku-style, with his speed of light attacks. and yet, somehow he fails. really shitty plot armor when you introduce someone that powerful and just let the party survive.

Start NG+ chud

I built my team around rain of fire and it's kind of steam rolling things in Act 2. Does take a few steps to become OP though, so I guess it's not that broken.

Yes FF8 is only appreciated by white people.

yeah but it should take more EFFORT, shouldn't it? isn't it retarded to give the player a move that just does an obscene amount more damage than anything else for no reason? nothing else that does "extreme" damage is even remotely like it.

While the story is highly enjoyable, it's kind of just an amalgamation of different themes and story beats from different games. You can say the same thing about the combat too.

you didn’t have to tell me that again, I could tell

The relationship scenes feel very shoehorned. I hate how it's just the two characters standing facing each other and crossing and uncrossing their arms while they talk. Seems so stilted compared to the rest of the game's dialogue which has more dynamic body language.

The one in the monolith.
Even just when the music kicked in I knew that fight would be special

In this kind of game I just do everything story related with minimum grinding until postgame. That's how it's intended to play

no it isn’t, it’s considered one of the worst and gayest ones, also huge female fanbase…crazy

It makes up for it with the voices though. In French, at least.

the story is highly enjoyable

is it really? this is the only aspect that interests me and all I read here is that everything is good but the story

France

Yes the theme transition is kino as fuck.
youtu.be/UUVw37UD9Cc?t=165

I guess technically you fight Renoir five times.

It's shit

It looks like the head is just slapped onto a completely unfitting body. Too uncanny. shame.

Main game is only 20 hours

There are some highs and lows but overall it's a well told story with some very interesting lore if you venture a bit

Maelle for postgame stuff
Sciel for everything before that
Simple as

huge female fanbase

That's FF9, FF10 and nuFF (shitbirth and ff16)

the normal character models look like that too. the maelle mod just follows her body proportions

painted renoir summons the family cat in phase 2

absolute cinema

I've 100% it and now I dunno what to fill the void with

copies the Action Commands from the Mario and Luigi series

Everyone treats it like the second coming of Christ

PEAK

why is clea so WEAK? i killed her in one hit with stendhal, and then thought, eh i should do that again without stendhal, but then she died in one turn to fire stacks and burning canvas, so then i went back and took of cheater so she'd at least have a few turns, only for her to do one easily dodged attack and job on turn two.

simon was a fucking BITCH to kill with his goddamn endless combos and shield-stealing and disappearing the party if he gets too low without dying, plus i think he had way more health. these superbosses just do not have parity at all, especially with him being the easier one to find.

The balance is all over the place, once I figured out the Verso AP battery strat, I was just spamming Fleuret Fury with Maelle and Lightning Dance with Lune every turn for the entirety of Act 2, dealing around 50k damage per round, making the story content disgustingly easy. But then I would find some random hobo enemy on the world map, its health bar would barely move and it would one shot me on a single missed dodge.

Just started Act 3, dunno if it's gonna get worse/better. I already know to not use the Stendahl skill though.

Asmongold doesn't like it

Funny to hear that Maelle and Sciel are the OP couple when I never used Sciel except when she was mandatory, and I shelved Maelle the moment Monoco joined. Only ever used either of them again in Simon's third phase.

is this really appropriate attire for a 15-year-old?

this is pristine evidence of its quality

story sucks and most characters are trash

In the middle of a snowy mountain? No, that's silly.

thats a man

he actually does like it
LMFAO

He hasn't even played it yet.

i mean, yeah? it's a modest swimsuit.

this is the country that gave us Cuties

Man who went off the deep end after killing his mother can't handle a story about dealing with the loss of a family member

hmm

kek

Umm she is 32 ackshually

Why should I care what the Night media asset thinks?

she isn't 32, she was just a teenager twice. she still hasn't ever been an adult.

Baldurs Gate 3 had the AAA graphics but fuck that combat system

BG3 has unironically better mechanics. There are no "omg I just broke the game" moments. The challenge is always appropriate.

Whereas halfway through E33 you just stop bothering to dodge/parry because enemies die too quickly and barely deal any damage anyway. And you can do shit like equip the Healing Fire picto (+25% hp restored upon hitting a burning enemy) to basically just straight up facetank everything.

This

Dungeons tell you if they're higher level than you; overworld enemies however do not, which makes for a poor experience of finding out the hard way.
The autosave is wonky. It doesn't seem to ever save in the overworld. When I was going through overworld bosses, after beating 2 and losing to a 3rd one (turned out it was way above my level), I was rolled back so far I had to redo the 2 I had beaten..
The overworld map display is very barren of information. This isn't inherently bad, Elden Ring has that, but see, the key difference is that ER lets you place your own markers on the map so you can keep track of the location of things. A map with no information on which I cannot write the information myself is just bad UX.
The pictos (equipment) system is rough. You cannot upgrade them, you have to hope you'll find the upgrade you need soon, but you're more likely to find an ugrade for some pictos you're never gonna use..
Presumably this is what the "Lumina" system aims to partially address, but that has its own issues; The Luminas get really out of hand during the endgame, as you have so many to keep track of, and it makes any attempt to respec your character pretty annoying.
The weapons system is a bit better than the pictos; you can upgrade the weapons, but you can also randomly find upgrades to weapons for free, and if you had already invested in that weapon, ofc you do not get your investment refunded.. Not all weapons have free upgrades either (or not in areas that you're close to reach), so it's not something you can just patiently wait for

Not shocked to find out the cunt that was always making these threads was a chink shill

N-NO IT I-ISNT

yes it is

You just described an average woman. And yet, they are legal adults

The pictos (equipment) system is rough. You cannot upgrade them

This actually feels odd because the characters say the curator can upgrade your pictos, multiple times. And then the curator leaves and another character takes his place, and the party again says "oh go to this character for the PICTOS upgrades".

I guess this function was removed very late in the development?

the blindingly obvious console loading zones that are the tight hallways between areas, theyre really obvious and really annoying
and maybe getting stuck on random props and pebbles all the time

Literally find a flaw.

Can't PLAP, SEED and BREED Maelle.

She's a comatose and badly disfigured 32 year old womanchild. So pretty much a perfect waifu for the average anon.

act 3
also this, getting caught on random bumps in the map, getting stuck in world geometry, toggle run being canceled after grapple and climbing, and simon.

Even mid game is way too easy.

pottery

End game is too easy unless you purposely gimp yourself

Don't use stendhal. That's it.

the platforming

and simon

what, you don't want to learn those dodge timings? isn't that FUN?

That's FF9

No it's not.

Western Fatlus

found ur flaw, ma'am

It's just a Gael copy, learn his moveset once and then press parry 2/3 times instead of 1 time. The phases don't change much

it was crazy just how much of a rip it was.
which was more blatant, him or the dualliste?

Gustave dies. Hard to find a JRPG protagonist who looks and would act like me but they kill him early on.

because he's a spineless retard character. good riddance

because he's a spineless retard character.

We aren't talking about Verso, we are talking about Gustave.

They're French.

enemy designs get reused and repurposed over and over

he says this with a metaphor image

I haven't seen any WEBM about this game

we are talking about Gustave

the spineless, worthless, retard who cucks out on his mission an hour in to go after his sister's half-daughter? yeah, beyond deserved to bite it. I was actually sad when he didn't kill himself after waking up from the initial assault. he alone is the narrative's greatest flaw - starting the player off controlling such a tremendous faggot.

I'm a retard but I still don't fully understand why aline paints the numbers.

Given what we know everyone but 4 expeditioners were dead already. If they didn't go for Maelle they would wait for literally no one to show up and possibly get killed by nevrons in the meantime.

aline paints the numbers

she doesn't even do that. she just waves her hand over them to make them disappear and appear. the game shits all over itself like 30 minutes in.

Sure but why. I remember something about making room for other things to be painted, is it nevrons?

No minimap in confusing levels
Story is mid, sameslop

Given what we know

at that time in the story, you don't though. you kept playing a shit game past the point where nothing made sense and then the asspull writing needed to correct a glaring plothole. congrats on outing yourself as an admirer of pretentious nonsense.

How are you fags building your characters and what are your weapon preferences? Having trouble with what I want to setup.

many enemies do elemental damage
there is no way to give your characters elemental resistances or weaknesses

i want more but i already did two playthroughs, missing some FFX-style postgame superboss-fiesta.
definitely this. i did default weapons only on my second playthrough, but even capping out at level 15 weapons it doesn't make that much of a difference for the final boss and a lot of the post-game. all the broken stuff is in the picto combinations honestly; it's a bit like unicorn overlord in that you naturally break the game the more you engage with it, and i would have liked for expert to push you harder to compensate for the build choices you have available to you

Why the fuck didn't she wipe his memory or paint a new Verso? What a sadistic little bitch.

JRPG

no japanese dub

could i at least get a compass?

I did monoco as mostly support, maelle a shield absorber/DMG, lune crit electric, sciel and both self-heal/dps

How did Verso and Monoco get so strong without the Lumina Converter?

She is warning the Lumierians about what's going on

Almost all the JOPs I've seen play this have this exact complaint lmao.

Painting a new verso wouldn't feed into her delusions that she somehow was there with her brother.
If she had painted him anew, she knew her cope of "he's real for me" wouldn't work anymore.
Alas, she went to enslave him and make him suffer just so she can watch him exist.
She's just a teenage girl after all - immature, reckless and ultimately selfish. What she did was not rational at all, and fucked up verso beyond comprehension just so that she can feel better about it.

i know you didnt play the game, but the answer is that she doesnt have the power to fully stop the global gommage, so she limits it by age, starting with the oldest

Pure chroma fed courtesy of the Paintress in case of Verso
And Monoco probably got it from the real Verso since he is the family dog.

Surely just an arrow pointing down would serve better as a warning than whatever pedantic bullshit the writers came up with to justify having a countdown instead of literally anything else.

pictos/lumina character building is kinda braindead with easy choices that are much better than others and no real limits due to the color of lumina you get everywhere and in ng+

too short for a jrpg
the game is too easy at the end if you do all the side content

That's very cryptic, some could take it to dig down or to bow down.

Maelle paints a message on the Monolith in place of numbers

Actually kind of funny, it means Aline could've written a message to Lumiere on it and told them exactly what's going on the whole time

verso = burn stacker with corpeso, aim and basic attacks, and gradient generator. uses his light shit occasionally when something is actually weak to light as opposed to resisting it

lune = typhoon buff and AP battery, dps with lightning dance and the lightning strikes on hit ability. her crit on burn weapon from her dungeon applies two burn stacks basically every time a character does something.

maelle = generic dps with lithellum. i didn't really like using her too much since i think she's a bit too braindead OP

sciel = hybrid support dps with her supporty buff weapon from lumiere. a lot of her role overlapped with lune but with a lot less damage, but her support ability is very strong. dark damage sucks too though. fun to play, but i preferred lune over her.

monoco = almighty mask start weapon, mostly a breaker, pretty flexible but not that great of a buffer. by super endgame he was very strong and can stunlock simon

Barely any porn.

LOL dumb fag. This game should be played with the French dub and subtitles of your choice.

it didn't make Anon Babblebrowns quite as mad as I would've liked. They all got distracted by the GTA 6 trailer and cut their seethe short.

Fr*nch dub

Missing out on Cocks, Serkis and English

Le frog est sur le table.

the minigames
no map except for the overworld
jumping animation

at that time in the story, you don't though.

We already see the dead bodies of rest of the expedition when Gustave was about to kill himself.

I never bought stendhal by sheer luck and I didn’t do relationship level 7 and lvl3 gradients until after simon was the last thing. End game felt perfect to me.

jumping animation

It's the fucking WORST shit I've ever seen

no map except for the overworld

Retards like you are why we get yellow paint everywhere.

If you're taking too long that the music stops that means you're doing it wrong. Much like how that one bouncing boss will kill himself because you took too long just parrying and not doing actual damage.

I had a level 21 weapon, didn't use Maelle, fought a few optional bosses early on in act 2, and didn't fly around and I killed the last boss before he could act on expert. I'm inclined to agree with him.
Killing Sprong at level 35 was peak difficulty and fun and there was nothing equal to that for the rest of the game.

if you are able to clear anything that gives you level 20 pictos or weapons, you are too strong and the final boss gets shit on. i honestly would go so far to say that they should have locked the damage uncap behind the final boss instead of the paintress

yeah, maybe but then you run into the problem of letting the player have the fun toys when the game is over. I would say the game already suffers heavily from that considering the amount of content you do only to have just 1 level and boss waiting for you still

If you can't design a map properly you put a minimap. The frogs can't design it.

Loved the game but the level design was a bit wanting for me. Its all so messy. I get we’re in a broken painting, but there’s so little rhyme or reason to the paths, and in most levels the whole level looks the same so it hard to orientate in your memory where you may have missed something, like those pillars you can destroy. Like, right before lampmaster there’s a section by the ocean that takes you over some towers, and this part isn’t part of the cave. Thats good, its own little memorable section that stands out. But in lots of places the landscape doesn’t change or have distinguishing features at all and it all blends together in my mind.
I think there should have been more outfits too. There’s a lot of duplicates and very few really original ones for each. Same for hair.

Game handling you control over Verso at the camp instead of Maelle was peak retardation.
Literally "Im the MC now" The Last of Us 2 levels of retardation.

no pussy

I feel cheated.

He is unironically the MC, though. As in, by fucking right.

Just need the lv 99 cheevo now...

Nah, Verso's the most important character in the game, as much as he's portrayed as the villain.

Based

What tf are you talking about. Even in maelle’s ending there’s no blacks.

as much as he's portrayed as the villain

Go to sleep Alicia

yeah, idk, i think they messed up with the difficulty they set for lumiere and the final boss. an anon mentioned in another thread that it felt like there should have been more content to do in the rest of the world with renoir trying to stop you instead of just sitting in lumiere, and having real setup and things to do (leading up to the relationship quest dungeons being intended level wise to be done immediately before lumiere) instead of strongly encouraging you to go straight back to lumiere. which you then curbstomp if you are strong enough to do the relationship dungeons.

How long does this game take to beat?

It ended

around 30 if you rush the story, 50-60 with all content.

these people can't be real

dialogue is oftentimes cringe

You can't post a Metaphor picture and say that.

Why are you thinking like a marketing executive? The lack of this shit one reason its so kino. They didn’t make the game to sell merch, they made it to tell an insane story with cool combat.

no sex

it ends

I thank my lucky stars that I decided to check out Lumiere immediately during Act 3 and noticed that enemies were current level with me. I actually got a decently hard final boss that didn't die in two turns, and also hadn't learned that Stendhal is ridiculously busted.

anon learns about homages.

It's such an obvious shoutout to From Soft that you have to be legitimately retarded not to see it for what it is. You go inside an enormous golden tree, through a corridor leading into a drop into infinite darkness called "The Abyss", where a bushy-haired asshole with one arm wields an enormous greatsword and has a second phase where his greatsword glows green. That's ALL of From Softs modern catalogue in one go, and they knew everyone with a brain would catch that.

The protag switch was badly done but it makes sense in retrospect.

there's only one succulent hebe

>>poorly optimised (like all UE5 games)

Works fine on my machine. Stop being poor.

She cannot have sex with me.

This

You fucked up the camp sequences

Balance curve is wack, there either should have been a second damage cap or just even out the curve where you aren't doing 9999 before the end of act 1.
Lack of signposts in stages, I don't need a minimap just better visual descriptive of "main path" and "side path".
The entire Lumina/Picto menu, even with sorting its a pain in the ass. Bare minimum, we needed loadouts.

I also wish we got some FFX character swapping, instead of bringing out the B squad

You don't need stendall, virtuose stance + burning canvas + damage pictos do more than enough damage with a decent burn stack. I used Medalum myself.

The combat system is overloaded as fuck

you have to fight a boss for 30 minutes

Which is it? Too easy to kill or too slow to kill bosses?

bosses can one shot you and they get 3+ turns before you even get to play

I never got one shot. If they’re getting 3 turns you haven’t equipped and speed pictos. Skill issue.
Bah, most of your post is garbage.

bad music

Fuck off

no minimap

Fucking zoomer

Renoir Draft's merchant, just rematch him over and over again and one shot him with Maelle. Don't make my mistake and waste your time with Dark Shores.

you can fuck either of the hags but you should tell the widow no way fag if you're a good guy

I hate how there isn't a checklist to know if you've been to this cave already or not or if you've missing this one specific picto in the secret path in the cave.

I feel like its a get out of jail free card for 12 year olds and women. Or, a repeated playthough and you just want to blitz everything. Glad I personally missed this ability first run at any rate.

it was all fake

nothing mattered except the resolution of Alicia's family

I hate these endings so much.

Pic related never sits on my face

How did these guys manage to absolutely nail their first game so well, lads?

because it wasn't their first game, they were ubisoft grunts before and realized that they could do so much better without the retards at the top ruining their work

I used Medalum myself.

You and everyone, even people not leaning into burning shit. Starting off in Virtuous stance is stupidly good.

You got filtered.

because it wasn't their first game

What prior game was made by Sandfall Interactive?

all I read here is that everything is good but the story

You’re reading troll posts. Shockingly good story.

Dodge/parry system and QTEs

i have to beat metaphor and this game...

Never seen teens do gymnastics?

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Never seen teens do gymnastics?

.

to be fair most of the devs are junior devs. They found the writer off of reddit who applied to be a voice actor and the composer was from Soundcloud who was just a music teacher before this. The only one with experience was the director who came from ubisoft.

UE5 slop.

that captcha

s-she's fast!

Why? It was written in english first. A couple of french guys on here say it isn’t even very good in french.

doesn't matter. The devs themselves have lots of experience making AAA games

Which is it? Too easy to kill or too slow to kill bosses?

you realize something can be both too easy and too long right? aka it's BORING

I used Medalum myself.

I beat the tournament with gustav, not maelle.

None of it was fake.

act 3 needed another damage cap e.g. 999K

Whats your problem? Teens wear tight leotards for public display in tons of events. Its normal.

-awful power scaling in third act, feels unfinished
-3deep5you ending
-either too hard or too easy, generally poor balance

also im legit confused if the world was real or not
if it was, then painters are no less than actual gods, if not, then most sequences seem to only exist for the player, and make zero fucking sense plot wise

everything does soooo much damage it takes 30 minutes to kill anything!

Ok

Some parts of the ui are kinda shitty (skill/pictos/lumina selection is kinda retarded)
When Gustave died, they shouldn't have injected Veso into the party immediately. It would've been more impactful to see the three girls grieve together and have to play as just the three of them for a while

im legit confused if the world was real or not

You shouldn’t be.

Their paintings are fully independent alternate dimensions. So yes they are effectively gods to those worlds.

also:
- remove cheater picto, can keep the other one with 50% dmg penalty
- add interruptible turn like steeled strike for other op moves like elemental genesis, stendahl, gommage
- add more very tricky precise QTEs for op moves mentioned above and have it fail if even one is missed
- or have it succeed 25% of the time with maybe some picto raising it to 33% or 50%

The DEI stink
Had to put it down when I saw the amount of niggers in game. Hard pass. Gotta admit the gameplay is a bit refreshing for a JRPG poser. Good thing it's 2025 and I can get my gaming fix elsewhere without the DEI stink.

if so, then they all seem like twats, even maelle cant control herself to not fuck with people

There's one (1) nigger and he dies a half hour into the game.

make me able to save manually in different save slots like come on.
what if i wanna practice fighting a boss

a lot of them are junior devs

Yeah, and they leveraged that experience to secure funding. So? Kepler isn't a big publisher, it's more like a developer co-op where they pool funds to publish other indie games, so that means E33 falls under the title of indie, unlike Dave the Diver.

turn based games are bad

3deep5you ending

Why are so many people getting filtered by the ending?

It's a turn based video game.

tranny dev design

That's part of its charm. You can break the game in so many ways and it's fun.
youtube.com/watch?v=9n5v2fY8-yI

Is there any reason at all not to use the Cheater pictos at all time?

There's one (1) nigger

Lucien was a homie, fuck you.

Cheater

Painted Power

Energy Master

mandatory, at all times

same, i had to beat golgra in a deul to get medalum

This

i love oneshotting everything and having no-challenge

fuck off

Ugly boring level design with no reactivity and nothing to do or find

Energy Master

Don't think I have found this one yet.
What does it do?

But enough about Elden Ring.

It's what you get for beating the dragon

correction, +1 to ap earned

late game balance