Expedition 33

yes because their dialogue reminds me of people with down syndrome.

Cool, thanks. I'll check it out.

I like their toxic masculinity

They're very French.

Monoco is the only one I cared about. They're too stupid otherwise

Golgra best girl

Golgra hard carries.

they are retarded and that's a good thing

how are they french?

I don't like them. They remind me too much like the minions and I already want to punch those assholes everytime I see or hear one.

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actually they're french canadians

Starting a fight buddy eh?

Some of their dialogue is funny to me

yeah they're cool

Are you upgrading all weapons or why do you need that?

anti-coomer skirt tail protection

sigh
seen it a lot in vidya

So all the jrpg, etc talk aside is it a fun game? I know nothing about this game. What does it do differently from other rpgs, how does it stand out or what does it excel at?

Mechanically it's Mario RPG with more polish. It flows very smoothly and if you know what you're doing the menus fly by and it feels nice. The presentation is top notch, especially the boss fights. There's a ton of build variety, each of the two dozen or so weapons per character are all different builds with their passives and stat scalings, and you can get really autistic with the pictos set ups. Also has the best blue mage ever. I could take or leave the story but I fucking love this game.

It's insanely fun. Legit the most fun I've had with a game all year outside of Ultrakill.

yes it's very fun

What does it do differently from other rpgs

Depending on how much you enjoy being punished by a game, the parry system on expert can be brutal and WILL get you kill if you fucked up. Which I can understand not liking, however the flipside is that you get a huge thrill and mood boost when you pull off a counter attack or beat a really hard boss. I also think the balance of the game is really good (until near the end of Act 2, then it becomes laughably easy if you even half try but alas).

I've had points in bossfights where I literally started sweating trying to parry a long combo to not lose the fight.

Each individual component is nothing special, some elements are undercooked even but the game is way better than the sum of its parts because everything comes together in service of the themes and story. It stands out because it's a realistic game that looks big budget, but draws from "outdated" game design such as turn based combat, world maps, uses the blueprint of classic JRPGs like FFX. On its own E33 is not that outstanding but given the year of release and context in which it was made it's a miracle it exists and turned out as good as it did because so many things could have gone wrong.

Also the girls are cute, the game doesn't have any modern day politics whatsoever, it doesn't have modern day marvel writing, it doesn't have "millennial writing", characters know when to shut up instead of constantly yapping at you, the game respects the players intelligence, it doesn't hold your hand and doesn't feel the need to overexplain everything, it trusts that you will piece together the information provided to you organically, it has hard but fun minigames whose sole purpose is to unlock swimsuits for the girls. Basically it's very reminiscent of games made in the 90s and 2000s.

Also if you put every character in a swimsuit the final boss wears one too.

I want to have sex with Golgra

Took me a moment to realize you weren't talking about Renoir.

it has hard but fun minigames

Not when Volleyball exists.
Also you should point out that it's a crisp 30-40 hours if you only care about the main story but has a lot of side content you can fuck around with as the game goes on and a fairly large number of post game areas and general bonus bosses to test your skills early on with.

He was? Also the same for the baguette outfit.

I was.

Where should i go in Act 3? I have flying, i have all the map unlocked, everywhere are 100lvl mobs. what to do? i kinda need to kill some superbosse, that stand in some different locations, i think. And there are like, 20 new locations, that was unreachable, although most of them are 1 screen with boss, or even without boss.

Wait really? Huh. Find out something new everyday.
Head to the endless tower and do the first few missions. After that go to Frozen Heart. You can also do Dark Shore if you think you can parry the enemies there since they give you upgrade material and TONS of exp but they'll probably one shot you if you fuck up (they're easy to parry though once you get the hang of it)

The level scaling is retarded here, go to camp and talk to all the companions for level appropriate shit, everything else is intended to be done after you beat the game and you'll be overleveled for the ending if you do it, if that upsets you.

I didn't think I would because their designs are kind of bland and I thought they'd be dumb in a way I wouldn't appreciate.
But they won me over pretty quickly. I love these silly little bastards.

I also thought the true nature of the gestrals that you learn of in the late game was neat too.

Trust me on this do all side content first, when you go to Lumiere remove the damage cap remover picto. There's a LOT of lore and VERY important side content that should be mandatory before Lumiere.

Mechanically it's Mario RPG with more polish

You mean less polish.
QTE pompts don't even line up with the special attack animation you're doing. and the fact you need the stupid 'A' prompts instead of just intuiting when to press 'A' from the animations means the animations and interactivity were badly designed.

QTE pompts don't even line up with the special attack animation you're doing

The only time I was ever confused about when to block was against a super boss.

Love them. They remind me of the machines from nier. Funny little guys

I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT BLOCKING.
I'm talking about skills. the button prompts to increase the power of the move popup on screen and don't line up with your swings or the impact of your attack or anything. low quality tacked on QTEs.
doing a combo should have timed inputs that sync with the animation like an action game. not arbitrarily timed QTE popups that don't feel like you're doing anything.

I'm talking about skills. the button prompts to increase the power of the move popup on screen

Oh. A literal non-issue. Also if it really annoys you there's an option to disable that part of it

it has hard but fun minigames whose sole purpose is to unlock swimsuits for the girls.

the only swimsuit I managed to unlock is for Monoco

Lmao

Love these dumb fucking retards. They make me laugh every time. Same with Esquie. They're particularly amusing because I'm playing in French (I don't speak it at all) and the VAs fucking nail the dopey dumbass voice. I love the idea of a society built on being stupid assholes that beat each other up all day.

I assumed english and french used the same voices for them

I wouldn't know, since I've only heard the French. When there's continuous lines of dialogue, like with Noco, there's for sure French, though. And Esquie obviously has different French and English. And his French voice acting is hilarious.

In English the gestrals also speak French

Good, that was the correct decision for them to make. If they tried to dub English they would just be replacing the perfect voiceover with an inferior copy.