What's the Anon Babbleerdict?

GOTC

God, Maelle. That was kind of insensitive.

french foids have no tolerance for cowardice

feet/10

This post hurts my fuckin soul, bait or not

Story takes a bit of a dip after act 1 honestly, but all around solid game.
Soundtrack is phenomenal, easily the best part of the game.

No endgame content or challenge modes

OP said people who didn't play shouldn't bother posting. By doing so you've just embarrassed yourself. Was it worth it?

Solid 7.5/10

Even if you're a turn-based lover that's sick of tranime tropes, it's still a movie game. Not worth $49.99.

considering it's the weekend I doubt it's bait and just pure retardation

Solid game. There's some crazy autismos who want to use the game as an excuse to go full pol about japan and square. If you don't like the concept, don't bother.

Taste check. What's your other contenders for YD and C as well as your favorite closely related game.

Post favorite feet.

Eh, there are some crazy fuckers who were pretending that IGN matters that took 4 straight threads to bump limit. Whether it's bait, autismos or insane motherfuckers doesn't matter.

I don't know. I'll tell you when it's on sale for $20. I don't buy any vidya for more than $20.

spoiler

that's literally half of Anon Babble or more about almost any game released in the past 5 years

Solid 8/10. Best game I've played that came out in the last few years.
Says a lot about the state of the industry.

absolute steal for $40

solid 8.69.4356/10.5

How dare they make an easily digestible game that has surface level writing and could be finished in a weekend?

It's like TLOU1 all over again. Every thread is just anons arguing about could they make a cure or not, now it's were they real or not?

By the hype this game is getting, it sounds like it's on par with Chrono Cross, Xenogears and Vagrant Story.

Great game. Has some minor flaws but all in all a solid 8-9/10. I just wish you could swap party members out in battle.

Elbows too pointy. Solid 2/10.

the build-up to the final fight with Canvas!Renoir

instrumental as he stands there, readying himself for the fight and giving Verso a small grin

smash cut to fight transition right as the vocals kick in

Man, there's a lot people can say about the game, but god DAMN the music direction is fucking top notch. I remember reading the composer was a borderline literally who nobody they grabbed. That true or was someone just pulling my leg?

why does maelle's game make Anon Babble so mad

Every thread is just anons arguing about could they make a cure or not, now it's were they real or not?

This argument was always dumb if you have half a brain. Unironically.

This but unironically. You know the game is good when it kills your motivation to play anything else.

Loved it. There's no doubt it's GOTY, but it's probably the best RPG (J or otherwise) in a decade.

You technically can, you just need to have a party wipe first. Or get forcibly removed from the Canvas.

I remember reading the composer was a borderline literally who nobody they grabbed. That true or was someone just pulling my leg?

Yes the composer is just some rando the Director found on an obscure gaming forum. He had never composed for a video game before

I'll puppeteer this man to play for me forever after he begged in tears for me to let him die

this is a good ending

More like P5R
DOES RAPE BUILD CHARACTER

Will physical copies ever get restocked?

That's wild. I hope he gets more work after this.

NOOOO GOD CAN'T JUST ERASE ME JUST BECAUSE HE WANTS TO END IT ALL

I hope none of you are christian because you will all end up in heaven

Why don't you just pirate and then buy at 20 if it's good enough?

Of course you idiot.

They have white hair like fucking anime characters kek

Real people have white hair too, anon.

sex/10

Give me one good reason why this character needed to be barefoot

Too low a rating.
Also she could stand to have 1 more button undone. Just sayin'.

DOES RAPE BUILD CHARACTER

I haven't played any Persona games, but yes it does. After disguising myself and raping my step-daughter, she no longer goes out partying and now focuses more on studying. Her grades have improved tremendously.

youtube.com/watch?v=chRKchGeodo
maelle total victory

Last time I played an rpg that felt truly great and not just great because critics and weebs said so was FFX. This felt like that. And I've liked some of the recent rpgs like DQXI and XVI, but none of them had the same weight that the greats did when the credits rolled. 33 felt like a substantial journey with characters worth caring about. It was also fun. I'm glad I played it and honestly it's killed my motivation to play other shit because the surrounding vidya just doesn't compare.

not watching your retarded video aifag

good game, id like to see more

They have white hair like fucking anime characters

Dude, 70% of the game is an edgy chuunibyou protagonist exploring dungeons and places with his harem, his yandere imouto, and his two dogs.
Literally the French version of Japanese wish fulfillment.

I can give you at least 2 reasons

She is just at home in her clean mansion, she maybe likes the feeling of the cool floor on her feet

My dick

she's undercover as lune

Love me some Clea lads.

come on, shoot your load inside me I haven't got all day

I need to deal with the writer's guild already

Um.. Asmongold is still playing this game!? I thought he hated it.. w-w-what's going on anti-shill bros.. I thought this game was shit..?

Bare naked muscles will save the world!

freckle breast is love, freckle breast is life

great game im trying hard to put down but I can't
i must get the baguette weapon for everyone..

alright bros, give some idea on fun challenge run, the game is too piss easy. need it to be more challenging

[XYZ] Broke Me!!!

Not even gonna click on that shit.

Would be a 10/10 game if it ended at the Paintress. Extremely great visuals, music, characterisation, gameplay, even facial expressions.
But I just don't care about the Dessendres nearly as much as the plight of the expeditions. Dropped it down to a 9 or so for me.

My backlog. A game I'm interested going on sale for $20 or less is a signal for me to pause my backlog for a change of pace.

tfw assmongoloid is actually pretty decent at parrying

$45 game full of content

consistent good quality except for the beginning of the epilogue

fun to explore with a world map and lots of optional stuff to find

most of Anon Babble doesn't deserve this game. they're too hung up on their personal delusions to accept it for what it is.

Fine, take it out already. I'll tug on it for 3 minutes, If you're not finished by then I'm leaving. I've not the time to be dawdling about.

Best turn based RPG since FFX

fuck off e-celeb advertiser

Alicia/Maelle is okay enslaving a kid to paint forever to satisfy her need

Alicia/Maelle is okay enslaving the one person that wanted to die and force to play piano forever

becoming like her mother when she gone full retarded

Imagine saying this is the good ending.

most of Anon Babble doesn't deserve this game. they're too hung up on their personal delusions to accept it for what it is

its even more basic and pathetic than that
the average zoomoid on this board is sub-90 IQ, they barely classify as human
the fact the game's title has more than 3 syllables in it has already put them off from ever trying it

Okay, but how do I fit this into my culture war nonsense so I can be mad? That's why I actually play videogames, I don't want to like them, I want to complain about them.

tr00ns despise it because no pronouns or black party members

Only Americans wear shoes in their own homes.

It's shit.

This. If this is your first story-heavy, character-driven RPG and you typically only play games with a realistic-looking western artstyle, you'll probably think it's game changing.

I have no doubt it will win GOTY, but it's a very JRPG plot with JRPG gameplay with a western coat of paint

How can a braless shirt radiate so much power?

Gustave DLC yes or no?

Wow I almost want to like this game because these evil "people" are so vile I want them to be more miserable. Too bad I hate misery porn stories and refuse to play games where the main character is killed for any reason.

If a game doesn't have paragraph long critique posts on Anon Babble yet, it means everyone's still in the honeymoon phase.

It makes tendies and weebs seethe and therefore is kino

This game's ending will have people discussing it for years and years to come. I hope they don't pussy out and make a DLC with a golden ending or something.

You call me an idiot. It hurts :(

my main grief is only on act 3, they sorta drop the balls there, otherwise its great game

It's solved already, the only people still coping are the ones who chose the wrong ending and are coping because they can't accept they missed the message of the game. 'Genocide', 'artificial life', 'real or not' are copes never considered by the game outside of a single dialogue in an optional endgame dungeon.

enslaving

verso is psychotic manipulative lying cunt, im so glad he suffer

Honestly, a pretty solid 8–9. It's probably the only good westoid' game since it takes inspiration from JRPGs instead of westoid garbage like Baldur's Gate, cinematic action slop like God of War, or indie roguelike #012301023.
It’s a Japanese game with a Western paint over it, unlike ASS CREED which is Western garbage with Japanese paint

you would never be a woman

How can you acknowledge that the game is an excellent piece of work while simultaenously lamenting the lack of diversity? Doesn't that prove that diversity is utterly fucking meaningless and these internet karens should just leave developers the fuck alone so we get more games like it?

y culture war nonsense so I can be mad?

Did you know that a good amount of japs refund the game when the first city they enter is populated 50% of *moroccans*. They didn't stick around to find out that the moroccans stop appearing after D-Day landing or returning to the city

defeat (painted)clea so that she is erased

(real)clea is likely far too busy elsewhere, hunting writers, than to sense simon's situation inside the canvas and to care enough to give him a pep-talk from outside

"clea" still speaks to simon after simon receives pushback

I imagined that it could have been (painted)Clea from the flying manor. But this all but confirms that it's genuinely just Renoir messing with his head doesn't it?

Why would I give a fuck what japanese people do? They can't even make good games in genres named after them.

He isn't actually unhappy because he isn't real.

Siding with a magical AI

LMAO

bros, alicia's is suffering enough. let her be maelle, so the she could be happy for the rest of her life

get bounced on, faggots

Uninterested footjobs from Clea

No, it means she was at his side all along. His true mentor.

beat it

realized i forgot to have monoco in the party

can do it again in the endless tower

No. The escapism will stop now.

10/10 remind me my times with valkirye profile, chrono series and breath of fire.

fun boss, i laugh so hard when he open his legs and just explode

beyond based

Verdict: I love Lune.

oh yeah?

Lune supremacy

wife/10

yeah escapism by suicide will stop now.

Basically the same opinion, its good but i never understood everyone losing their mind over it.

love her smile bros...

Imagine having yellow fever when Clea exists.

Sex

for zoomers, its the first time theyve seen a good game
for boomers, its the first time in ages anything good got released

i am so sick of the nonstop praise for this game

It's because the West finally made a good RPG that isn't garbage, by copying the Japanese. That alone is a miracle and proves that games aren't beyond saving.

youtube.com/watch?v=cwfXDgNupM0

I fucking love the soundtrack so much bros, it's unreal.

7/10 garbage.

There is a reason why this game is getting botted so hard.

For zoomers, it's the first time haven't seen a story that's completely mediocre. E33's story isn't great but it shits hard on stuff like The Last of Us, which they thought it was high literature before.

it's okay you'll be able to play it soon

gotta love shitters who can't parry lmao

I don't like Maelle's ending. But I just can't betray Lune like this.
I wonder if there'll be DLC with an ending that'll do her justice without also resulting in Maelle going mad.

What's the japanese's idea of a more fun turn based system?
Asking for real.

people

midwits

FTFY

SACRE BLEU, PLEASE HAVE MERCY MONSIEUR TETE, AIIIEEEE

Well my guess is soemthing like smt vv where you can autistically build anything

They like the planning and the comfyness of playing video games under that low tables they have.

botted

3 weeks after release

it doesnt work like that, and you know it, tr00n

Puta

I mean that does sound comfy.
I guess no realtime then since it's not comfy? Is that why lost odyssey failed?

Was a solid 9 until this knocked it down to an 8.

Are you a soulless monster?

i should have got this instead of doom

such a fun game, mes ami

LE RIP AND TEAR XD

What, not enough standing for you?

ill drink to that

The fact so many people want story DLC means that was some lost potential in the story.

watched some streams

looked like generic 4 niggas in a row slop with "press X to in" added in

it doesn't mean potential was lost. it means potential was created. moron.

Same. There was a few times where the game decided it knew better and swapped my party, presumably due to story shit, but I didn't notice it during this fight. There's another on in Flying Manor and you can beat it normally instead of parrying 150 times for 10 minutes.

story doesnt pander to low IQ shitters

story must be bad because low IQ shitters didnt get it

Giga-Chad Verso side profile

why?

Worst thing in the entire game. It wasn't even hard since the bounce pattern barely changed, it just took 50 years.

leaving parts out creates potential, it doesn't remove potential from the story it could have been

Retard?

Only stupid people concern themselves with IQ.

renoir should marry clea instead
aline and alicia are fucking idiots

Is Noco also a dog? Monoco mentions he was mentored by Noco so he is older and I think Monoco looks like a puppy in the paintings. In fact, I think he's Monoco the 3rd? so maybe that's MoNOCO the 2nd?

You're being brown right now.

so you sayin' we sum kinda... suicide squad?

yes you see them in the real manor

TRVKE

would you?
i would

what do you mean? i knocked down a point because they killed my lil nigga.

I'll brown your mom

What's the Anon Babbleerdict?

I haven't played it but I read the plot synopsis, and I can definitively conclude that the story is utter shit tier. Judging by the few clips that I watched of the game, gameplay consists of bottom of the barrel tier JRPG slop with some parry windows.

I can't give it a rating but based on what I know it's certainly not worth any asking price. Probably wouldn't even pirate it.

How did she age so nicely? Clea and Alicia are lucky if they inherit that gene, too

Oh okay that's fine then, I thought you were making fun of Monoco for being sad.

Is the free aim mechanic unique to this game or are there other RPGs with it?

He comes back, he just might not remember as much.

harder than any fromsoft bosses

It's just a 90s JRPG with updated and western graphics, with a nonsensical story and some bad plot twists. If it had anime graphics you'd probably never hear of it.

it's not /ourguy/ just some confused gestral

shitposter replying to himself

what causes this autism?

And if I did I'd probably completely ignore it. JRPGs have no redeeming qualities.

When does he come back i thought they just talked about it

Is it actually though?

Able to stay away to strike at the right time, avoiding most strikes

Hits don't one shot you, not all of them anyway

Or.. maybe it is?

Parry every single hit or die.

nonsensical

Giga filtered

Do your relationship quests, anon. It's mandatory for the hardest boss in the game, gives other abilities, and gives nice lore dumps.

fromsoft bosses

hard

can one shot simon with any character

really?

I almost never do side content in games but im too attached to play anything else so i probably will

It's not for everybody. I don't get why people need to comment on everything they see.

french

can one shot simon with any character

fight him like a man

Great, 9/10. My only problem is the balancing, by the time you get to act 3 and unlock the paint power picto you have to gimp yourself to not completely steamroll everything immediately. It isn't even a matter of looking up guides or whatever, you do it easily just by trying to build your character normally. Acts 1 to 2 when you have a max damage limiter is really fun but Act 3 you suddenly go from like 9,999 dmg to 40 million and skipping every fight. When you have to intentionally play worse to rebalance it yourself it's a lot less fun. Imo the max damage per hit should be somewhere from 250k to 500k.

You're missing out on a LOT of story stuff if you don't do all the side quest shit in Act 3. The relationship quests are easy though, since it's just one quest per person and the rest are just cutscenes.

Show me a clip of you one shotting him with Lune.

2/3rds of the game are made irrelevant by the final 1/3rd.

but the life in the c-

No one cares, least of all the game itself.

sovl

Admittedly I found that really off putting as well, but I also don't give a fuck what japs think

By the end of the game I was around level 94-95 for my main three. Is that about where everyone else was? I rarely skipped enemies in zones and I think I cleared every dungeon in the game.

no troons

I don't get why people need to comment on everything they see.

They feel compelled when the product is being showered with 10/10s and everyine hails it as GOTYAY, and it's just an unenjoyable tragic story in which you have no agency and the gameplay is shit.

Why bother asking? We have one opinion and it’s that we like it. If you disagree, you’re a “jeet” with “sour grapes”.

FF13-style hallways

split-second parryshit that’s nearly always wrong

These two alone are disqualifiers, but you eat it up because you’re desperate to appease the zoomer hive mind.

YES SIR! WE LIKE THIS GAME SIR! I HAVE NO CRITICAL OPINIONS SIR!

What the fuck kind of character design is this?

i got different setup, too lazy to record but heres another setup
youtube.com/watch?v=_ciKWLPb0c4

Then maybe it's not as bad as you think? Specially when you haven't even experienced by yourself but is relying on summaries and random clips.

This. Our official opinion is that this game is a 10/10. If you disagree you’re a shill who never played it.

it's okay.

If it had anime graphics you'd probably never hear of it.

Yeah. I've totally never heard of Final Fantasy, Lufia, Breath of Fire, Persona, Azure Dreams, Disgaea, Atelier, Xenoblade, Ar Tonelico, etc, etc
Nope. Never.

by the end of the game your party is:

addict teenager who wants to play dollhouse forever, suicidal lying back-stabbing sociopath, two non-characters, comedic relief that's sadly as deep as a puddle

This is the greatest JRPG of the last two decades?

Well, I know that the story is irredeemable and in a game where there are very few gameplay elements, the only enjoyable part would be the story. So, there is zero chance of me enjoying the game.

The best souls clone came out this year with anime aesthetics and I doubt you've heard about it.

That's not a oneshot, for one. For two, it was implied that using the OP gradient attacks didn't count. For example, Maelle has stendhal, Monoco has the creation void thing, Verso has shooting stars, etc. I don't think Lune has a single move that does damage that caliber.

Dolls Nest? It's more Armored Core than Souls. Even though it's both.
I hope you're not thinking of AI Limit or one of those Chinese shits though. At least Khazan is great.

You gotta love how right when eurovision started the spam went down significantly.

FF13-style hallways

You didnt play the game

They're a bunch of bookworm nerds, what's surprising here

y-you cant use op gradient attacks

it-its doesnt count

kek

They're cute. That black girl looks like a giant nerd. Love it.

I accept your concession because it literally, genuinely, and factually was not a one shot because Verso attacked multiple times each phase. You also didn't post your own shit, but had to rush to Youtube because you're a turbo shitter. I bet you haven't even beat Simon.

clea a beast

I bought this game and was excited to play it. But then I saw a bunch of threads on Anon Babble saying it was a depressing mess. Now all my enthusiasm is gone, and I don't know when it will come back.

holy shit you are retarded

anal sex with sciel

That's just how bad other JRPG's are. Blame them for setting the bar so low, your holiness.

why lune hater is so stupid?

My hand hurts.

he was talking about Expedition 33 btw

How the FUCK is Maelle's ending the BAD end? Painted Verso is a selfish piece of shit that doesn't care for anything other than getting a chance to off himself. Dude already betrayed everyone once and genocided the entire life of the canvas without asking anyone about it. And I'm supposed to believe he's in the right for doing it AGAIN? Maelle literally said it would only stay like this for a while, and then return to the real world, and even after hearing that this piece of shit AGAIN wants to fucking genocide everyone AGAIN for no fucking reason. What the fuck were the writers even thinking? Verso even says himself that she could return any time, but for some reason even after saying that he insists of getting Verso's soul to stop painting and kill everyone once again. Make it make sense.

Concession: accepted. A ONE shot means it's killed in one shot. One, meaning singular. Not after setting up mark by other members who also attack and do a few hundred k of damage. Don't worry little one, if you if you use cheat engine and tweak the parry timing, you might just be able to beat Simon too. Then you can complain about how easy the game was after cheating to beat something nonshitters like myself already achieved.

I can't fucking beat Simon bros... I want to do it right after overleveling in frozen hearts and turning act 2 and 3 into a joke...

what happens if you die on the final fight? you get the other character ending? that would be neat

first fight of the game is Gustave vs Maelle and the battle theme is Our Drafts Unite

final fight of the game is Verso vs Maelle and the battle theme is Our Drafts Collide

holy kvno

people not created equal, some are blockhead some are not, sadly there are more dumb people than smart people

Watch the ending again. He calls her out for lying about being able to control herself and go home eventually. He knows shes gonna lose it like her mother did and her ending proves this with her face

solid 9/10 - one of the best games I've played in a long time

stay mad and gaslight yourself because you just got told
kek

Holy mother of filtered.

Replying to yourself like a faggot nigger isn’t cool anon

What does that have to do with the implication of the good end being shown as the bad one?

He calls her out for lying about being able to control herself

And I should believe Verso over Maelle because....? This motherfucker even says HURRR WE ARE ALL HYPOCRITES DERP, he KNOWS he is the wrong. Maelle is fucking right, he CAN'T decide this for everyone.

Imagine Clea

is it worth going for the 100%?

Because I don't the CCP? Yeah. Consider me filtered.

7/10

It's okay. Lost interest in the story half way through. Felt like the devs ran out of time or something and everything was rushed. Act 3 was garbage. So many of those areas you finally get access to and the majority of them are retarded wastes of time like fighting a mime to get bald. I can't see myself ever playing it a second time. Good game. Not a great one.

i honestly wasn't even trying so i suppose it's pretty easy

And I should believe Verso over Maelle because....?

You can literally see it happen, that's why

everything about a country is reduced to their government

Sad man.

people like you are why games are so boring nowadays

Dolls Nest fags trying to make this game fetch is fucking retarded. No one care about your 3 dollar slop nigger

like fighting a mime to get bald

you have shit taste and act 3 is obviously just meant for clean-up and more exploration before the final boss

It's my fault you can't enjoy yourself?

Good. Play the piano again.

his post comes off as someone who watched a stram

stream not stram lol

I did get disappointed when I get to the mythical glowing island in the sky and it was just a closed casino with one outfit for the party member I didn't use.

bros...

I wish they made the final boss stronger like at least level 75

Game utterly flopped in Japan

So sad

more exploration

Other than Reacher and the flying manor, every area you get in act 3 is one small zone with one thing in it. Even Renoir's drafts is just one small zone then dark souls reference fall to Simon. Fuck off with your exploration.

So many of those areas you finally get access to and the majority of them are retarded wastes of time

What? Most of them that unlock after you get the ability to fly are integral to the story. Did you even play the game? Also, the bald mime is kino.

i'm glad you enjoyed the stream

right but in TLOU it wasn't really about whether the cure was feasible or not it came down to if a man damned the entire human race because he finally found the last bit of humanity he lost in a child that he came to care for, there's layers to it. In E33 the argument is basically if Maelle should continue her escapist fantasy or not, the people of Lumiere being real or not doesnt add enough depth because its all surface level allegories and metaphors. Other than the grief there isn't much study of the human psyche like in TLOU

adhd addled zoomer hands typed this

Has any man been cucked as hard as Gustave was?

Sorry Louis, the game is not perfect.

Japs are soulless bugmen.

Yeah thats why its a 9.9/10. I agree

I have no doubt it will win GOTY

It's up against Monster Hunter Wilds and Nightreign, possibly Silksong and Palworld too. Expedition 33 is in the running but I wouldn't bet anything I couldn't afford to lose.

And the dark gestral arena was just recycled fights and weaker golgra. For a dumb hair.

actual opinion of the game

adhom replies

Hmmm.

Music is the only category it should win.

I'm not alone in wanting to hotglue Golgra am I?

Japs don't enjoy tragic stories, they may be soulless bugmen but they aren't usually masochistic.

Man

Probably not.

Woman

Definitely painted Clea by her real self.

no need to samefag

Why did Verso make Esquie a retard while Monoco is based?

True, the fact that all those video corporations ranging from Capcom, to Sega, to Bandai Namco to Konami to Koei Tecmo bragging about defending Nintendo's abuse of copyright back in January because they all love trying to copyright any game mechanic they can to make sure no one else can use them and the nip public clapped like seals.

It was a bad choice to kill him off.

the romances don't feel as natural with Verso

you're not playing anymore from the perspective of someone discovering everything, you play from the perspective of someone who's hiding things

Verso does his things he needs to do again and again while betraying the party but the game forgives him because he's the protagonist

at the final choice we're robbed from the chance of making a decision from the point of view of someone would personally need to sacrifice himself and his world, thus removing a lot of weight from choosing the good end

His death did put us in the grieving shoes, but the story and the game suffered a lot more for it.

Because you have a suicidal/genocidal freak on the run now that will try to nuke everyone if she leaves. Verso needs to be fucking Gommaged like the rest of his family in order to achieve the TRUE good ending.

Can't really separate them when said government forcibly inserts themselves into any business or individual they so please.

kinda sucked that the majority of rewards or things to buy in this game were cosmetics
no armor or accessories or anything like that

major complaint of mine with the game

Monoco is the shittiest blue mage. Even Khimari is better.

dog smort

Point of clarification: GOTY is a quantity-over-quality thing. To win a game needs to get the most votes, not the highest score from among the people who played it. WAY more people played Monster Hunter, and will probably play Nightreign and Palworld. I'm only guessing that Palworld will get its 1.0 in 2025, but remember whatever your opinion on it was it had over 2 million peak concurrent, Expedition 33 peaked at 144k.

interesting concept, expeditioners fighting against an eldritch horror for generations to save the world

reach act 3

it was all a dream and none of it mattered

the stakes are lowered to whether or not a teenage girl’s Sims save file gets deleted

What a fucking rugpull

If E33 has taught any of us anything it should be how insanely nepotistic vidya is and how good talent is being actively squandered and excluded.. This reminds me about the story of the guy who did the Mechanicus soundtrack, who prior to that did nothing but the most generic fantasy slop imaginable for years. But the moment he got put on a team that actually let him take the reins he put out the best techo-hymnal cyber-catholic soundtrack ever made that basically defines the faction now.

>Game utterly flopped in Japan

It's been the best selling Playstation game since its release.
The numbers reflect more poorly on Playstation than it does the game.

If it were to actually get a Switch2 version, don't be shocked if sales skyrocket.

no it definitely isn't but most of the late-game areas are kino

It wasn't a dream though. Why do people keep saying that?

I personally hope that Palworld gets the win, it's certainly not GOTY quality but it would piss off Nintendo and that alone would make it worth it. Fuck I hate those evil corpos.

replying to lazy bait

do better

I don't think it is bait.

Fair. I don't consider myself qualified to judge a game's music. People seem to like it.

I wanr e33 to win, but based. Fuck jewtendo

Not true. Khimari is very bad

yes it is - the "it was all a dream" poster has posted in several threads today

10k sales

Steam number show barely any japs are buying it either

Fucking chinks are buying it more despite hating turn based games

Sorry man but nips are soulless.

god no what a fucking retarded take

Name 1 game with better narrative that's released this year

Does the game need to literally use the word dream for you to understand the trope?

Maybe he's just persistent?
It's not the trope either

Monoco is actually the first fun blue mage ever

Yes it is.

A twist where it is revealed previous events in the story were just part of a character's dream, hallucination or some other escape from reality, often put at the end to reveal the entirety of the story was some sort of dream.

or some sort of escape from reality

more songs like the ost?

Switch 2 with Japanese dub would be a smart move from Sandfall

It 100% is the trope. Everything that happens in the canvas is meaningless fantasy. And no I don’t care about whether the painted characters are sentient, it’s just not compelling

Like most scores you're attached to it because of the context of the songs playing in the game, not necessarily the actual song or their style so Idk if you could really just pick other songs 'like' the ost and like them off the bat.

Yeah I don't care for fake world stories. I think they are stupid. Like the ending to Little Kings Story pissed me off.

E33is like some mother playing her dead sons minecraft server everyday. It's dumb.

the only person escaping from reality during the game's actual events is aline and she isn't playable

maybe play the fucking game before you spout nonsense

Japanese dubs have become type-casted. They fill roles with the same anime loadout voices.

Renoir 2 was fucking kino

I still pick Maelle because making Verso miserable makes me happy

Based and reality pilled

meaningless fantasy

characters are sentient

These are mutually exclusive

E33is like some mother playing her dead sons minecraft server everyday. It's dumb.

Only if you choose to view it that way. For me it's the story of a world full of life that is cursed to suffer under its callous gods.

retard

the trope

>A twist where it is revealed previous events in the story were just part of a character's dream, hallucination or some other escape from reality,

But it's not a dream. It's not a hallucination. And it is real.

If we proved the existence of god in our world. Would you call yourself fake because someone else created you?
Videogames, as a comparison, might be fiction. And they might not be "reality", but the videogames are still real.

Alicia is too even if involuntary at first. At the end even her Canvas ego is saying goodbye to her.

Their invoice law did this, nip companies don't want to hire new blood anymore, they want safe bets who they they think don't need rehearsing etc. which new seiyuus really needed time for.

It really is.

she only wants to escape reality at the end of the game

woah bro what if we like lived in a simulation: the game

how come they haven't fixed the bug that makes verso not gain perfection when he's on the bench team?

people still falling for the dream bait

this isn't star ocean 3

Everything that happens in the canvas is meaningless fantasy.

It is not, that choice is FORCED upon us by the Painters but especially by fucking Verso the selfish asshole. They fucking tell you there was life PRE Fracture aka before Alicia's mom entered the Canvas. The lives inside there are real, Maelle was just supposed to put things back together again and then leave like he promised her dad. Verso, being the selfish piece of shit he is, decided no, he just wants to die and kill everyone alongside him like Marche. Now Maelle is forced to stick around because this motherfucker will genocide everyone again if she leaves.

implying that zoomer has played or even heard of it

this shit again

You people are autistic. You can only think in logical absolutes and ignore all poetic thematic of stories. I bet you'd lose your shit if I said that beyond the dream escapism, the canvas is also a metaphor for depression.

He doesn't deserve it

you hate to see it

free aim verson is goated

It's basically the same twist as Star Ocean 3. The world is artificial and it's creators want to destroy it but the "characters" are rebelling.

i bet these retards would think Trainspotting was all a dream too

fucking brainlets

If you didn't put Renoir's suit on Verso as soon as you got it, you didn't beat the game. Sorry.

Verso is too powerful if you do that. It makes the game too easy.

I disagree with the notion that the “lives” in the canvas are real.

Maellefag interviewer complaining about Verso's ending

Guillaume, director of the game, tells the Maellefag "You didn't understand Verso"

KEK

the rant starts around 1min 13.
youtube.com/watch?v=i9rBGOMdJCk

can feel

can create

can procreate

Realer than your "life" you basement dwelling retard.

fucking brutal

Sims can procreate too, does that make them real?

I like in this multiple people actually remember it instead of mind wiping everybody who remembers it. Xenoblade 3 soured my when they did this ending because nobody remembers what happening and the consequences of the game is forgotten and had no impact on the overall universe that Xenoblade is in

how do you get this many hours out of it? I am on NG+ and its boring me cause my chars are too strong from the initial playthrough

I'm sorry but it's a dream. The canvas is only important insofar as it resolves the grieving issue of the family. That's what the game wants you to think about. If you chose Maelle you didn't understand, if you chose Verso, you did.

woah bro what If I keep posting about a game I haven't played while misspelling whoa: the game

establish esquie likes speaking in riddles when you first meet him

he never drops dope ass riddles after that

wtf

in that game world yes

then cap your damage back to 9999

Unlike FFTA, Maelle is going to die staying in dreamworld. The people in Canvas will all die once she die, and Renoir/Clea will make sure of it. Not only that, Maelle force the Kid Verso to paint, something he doesn't want, forever. She was saved by Real Verso but that sacrifice is all in vain if Maelle choose the path in her ending.

I mean. I tried it and put it on. It looks real nice. But I ultimately put the flower suit back on afterwards. It's just too good of a costume.
I initially thought it was too gaudy, but after the reveal that he was painted, the White Prince Charming look was just too perfect.

lmao

what compels people to talk about games they haven't played as if they've played them?

1min 13

this isnt correct

GOTD

Proving the point that everything in the Canvas is meaningless

Because you are a fucking retard. The life Pre Fracture means all this shit is real, the Painters are mere gods of that world that came in to fuck with it like the Greek ones used to.

Are you implying we would deserve genocide because Jesus one day felt like he just didn't wanna keep on living so he will take everyone else with him? Fuck that.

Your TV-screen/monitor is the canvas.

playing with maelle or sciel

let me guess you double dmg and instant turn maelle and she 1 shots them, incredible gameplay

He forgot

I still want a song like Renoir 2.
Help me.

The “life” Pre Fracture was the doodles of a little boy, who gives a fuck

no. the sims are living being and you're their god basically. just like how renoir and aline are gods of that word. you're free to think they're not real but you'd be wrong. gustave protecting maelle is as real as it gets.

shill game

this

Riveting

I don't like the aesthetic. The city parts look great, but so much of the world is just colourful noise.

Maelle is going to die staying in dreamworld.

She will not. I trusted Maelle right until Verso decided to be a piece of garbage again.

The people in Canvas will all die once she die, and Renoir/Clea will make sure of it.

How is she the evil one in this, when it's all people with God powers making the choices for everyone else? I HIGHLY doubt they will destroy the Canvas if Maelle returns, she will be showing them that the Canvas is not the problem.

She was saved by Real Verso but that sacrifice is all in vain if Maelle choose the path in her ending.

I understand this and I do believe that she needs to return at some point, the real glaring issue here is fucking Painted Verso. By the end of the game he was acting as retarded as Marche or even worse, I legit grew to HATE Painted Verso by the end of Act III. If Maelle leaves, Verso will.make sure he gets to kill everyone because he's that much of a selfish piece of shit.

The solution to all this was in the fucking dialogue of Verso himself, Maelle gets to leave at some point and then return whenever she wanted. Painted Verso wants to deny that choice and everyone else's because WAH WAHHH I DUN WANNA LIVE ANYMORE DERP.

Never played it but hope its successful so that Legend of Dragoon gets attention. Otherwise it looks kinda pretentious.

pretentious

How exactly does it look pretentious?

If Square Enix made this game, put anime designs in it, and called if Final Fantasy, it'd be hailed as one of the greatest Final Fantasies of all time. Why the fuck can't they do this? It's the Final Fantasy people have always wanted.

So did anyone actually bother learning Simon's meme combos aside from Ongbal? Not a troll post, I'm genuinely curious. Phase 1 was very easy, I legit first tried it no hit, but Light Speed and Long Combo in phase 2 are fucking impossible, and it's only going to get more BS in phase 3, so I got tilted and threw together a meme build real quick.

how do you get this many hours out of it?

Not him. But I finished the game earlier and apparently clocked in at 157.
Don't know what to say though in regards to how or why. But a lot of it probably has to do with how much I backtracked and challenged things at the soonest possible opportunity. Like how I beat the Gargant at the frozen heart before even heading towards my first Axon. Or how I backtracked to the very first area of the game and traced back my steps area for area the moment I got Monoco in order to collect feet.
How I then went back to the first area and traced back all my steps again the moment I got the reward for 4 lost gestrals.
How I kept the EXP levels of TeamA the same to the number at all times and went through the trouble to even out the EXP if story somehow forced one to get ahead in EXP. And how I would reload my saves if a party member fell behind in EXP.
How I did the same to keep TeamB even with each other.
Etc, etc.

Keep coping, retard, this dude is right about you. Gustave is more alive than you are. Fucking waste of oxygen.

Painted Verso adventuring with Monoco in the canvas

youtube.com/watch?v=JiUTv7bvfN4

everything in life is meaningless as you die
does that mean we're not real?

Jesus is a bad example. If God decides everyone should die, then everyone should die. if Zeus decides everyone should die, then everyone should be trying their damnedest to kill Zeus. It's basically the difference between monotheistic and polytheistic gods. Mono is the all powerful, all knowing etc etc and whatever He wants is the objective right. Poly is just a bunch of powerful assholes who's only justification is that nobody else can stop them.

Maelle’s ending makes it VERY obvious she is never going to willingly leave the painting retard

The balancing in Act 3 is just awful. If you spend 15 minutes farming at Dark Shores you're going to be overpowered for everything besides some of the superbosses, but if you don't then there's only a couple of places you can go where you can actually do decent damage and not get one shot. And for some reason the level 33 weapon upgrade almost doubles your weapon's attack so then you start one shotting the superbosses too.

Do a parry only run, it's fun.
youtube.com/watch?v=mni0X4LSl0o

"they're not real" is the most room temp IQ approach

Hackmura still has a high position in that company, until he is fired things will not change.

I'm trying to get baguette weapons

Let me guess you think Maelle ending is the correct choice too?

A better question would be: Do I think the characters inside the video games I play aren’t real? Then yeah

If you spend 15 minutes farming at Dark Shores you're going to be overpowered

No shit? Why would you do that? You can break Elden Ring too very easily, it's a feature not a bug. If you're bad at the game, you can farm.

but if you don't then there's only a couple of places you can go where you can actually do decent damage and not get one shot

Just do the party member quests then final dungeon, then Frozen Hearts, then Flying Manor, then Renoir's Drafts, this shit is obvious if you have an attention span.

If God decides everyone should die, then everyone should die.

And we will fight him for it. He doesn't get to decide.

if Zeus decides everyone should die, then everyone should be trying their damnedest to kill Zeus

It's the same thing, one fucking asshole trying to decide the fate of everyone else.

Poly is just a bunch of powerful assholes who's only justification is that nobody else can stop them.

That is literally what is going in the Canvas post Verso's death. Maelle was just supposed to pit everything back in place, but Verso decided to use the vestiges of the power left by another asshole god to be an asshole himself. If he is actually being forced to play the piano then it's the good end, that traitorous piece of shit deserves hell.

Because Verso made it that way with his selfish actions. What do you think will happen once Maelle returns? Verso is going to go ahead and try to kill everyone again. Listen to the fucking dialogues, Maelle really planned on going back, Verso decided that's not the case and that somehow translates to everyone deserving to die.

I was enjoying the game up until act 1 and the story went down the shitter post act 2 after the world building and lore was thrown out the window in favor of some lame ass family melodrama. Maybe I just need a higher iq to appreciate what the game was trying to tell with its story but at this point I'm just checked out. It's a shame.

One thing no one can deny: the Dessendre family has great genes

The only ones I have sympathy for are the Lumerians and painted Verso. A little for Alicia too.

Aline and Renoir are like ancient Greek Gods who fucked an entire world beyond repair because they couldn't deal with grief, and previously created other canvas worlds for their own pleasure (presumably).

I sided with Verso, but there's not much positivity to take away at the end. A lot of sentient people were made to suffer for a century, and their reward was to vanish out of existence anyway. Aline and Renoir should be put in front of a court for crimes against humanity, and put in a box for life. Seeing them smile together at the end was maddening. I don't think they considered any of their creations worthy of being considered sapient.

I wonder if it was just the Dessendre family that could paint? Or did they create the idea of painting? Were the Writers against them because they were acting like petty Gods over countless painted worlds, and wanted to stop them? If so, Clea can be put in the box too.

So did anyone actually bother learning Simon's meme combos

I did. Or well. I had almost mastered phase3. Then I decided on a change of strategy that gave me so much Gradient that I could not just do Verso's Gradient3 like I was doing before in order to deal damage and make sure that he wouldn't get deleted the moment he fell. And somehow still have enough Gradient for Maelle to get enough Gradient for Gradient3 on her turn too.
Little did I know that Gommage would obliterate Simon.

Afterwards I strongly considered reloading my previous save and simply not use Gommage. But eventually I decided that I could just NG+ later instead and refight Simon then.

it's your average 6/10

I don't think it is, it IS. The original proposed ending from Maelle to Renoir was the perfect ending, Painted Verso changed that outcome by being an asshole with too much power to leave alone.

For me? It's Verso/Monoco/Sciel

She will not. I trusted Maelle right until Verso decided to be a piece of garbage again.

She inherit her mother's and father retardness and will never leave the painting. She outright lied to her father that she will leave, which she won't.

How is she the evil one in this, when it's all people with God powers making the choices for everyone else? I HIGHLY doubt they will destroy the Canvas if Maelle returns, she will be showing them that the Canvas is not the problem.

The solution to all this was in the fucking dialogue of Verso himself, Maelle gets to leave at some point and then return whenever she wanted. Painted Verso wants to deny that choice and everyone else's because WAH WAHHH I DUN WANNA LIVE ANYMORE DERP.

Renoir made it clear that as long as it contain Verso's soul, it need to be destroy. Its the reason his wife was there for over +60 years. Its the reason the entire mess started. With Alicia being dead, it just another reason to destroy it. And if Renoir isn't going to do it, you sure as hell know Clea will.

I legit grew to HATE Painted Verso by the end of Act III. If Maelle leaves, Verso will.make sure he gets to kill everyone because he's that much of a selfish piece of shit.

This is a (you) issue.

If you spend 15 minutes farming at Dark Shores

People did this?
The chromatic petank should be faster for power levelling anyway.

9/10 when I first played it. 7/10 now that I've finished and the honeymood period is over. It's a great game but it has quite a few issues, especially with balancing.

Nah, the family drama shit was lame. The last fight in the game being a girl rebelling against her daddy was fucking stupid. Aline coming into the portrait to help just made me facepalm.

So how are you actually supposed to parry Light Speed? The first hit is easy, just parry shortly after his grunt, but then what? There's no animation or sound cues.

(presumably)

What do you mean by presumably? Renoir literally tells you he and Aline have built countless worlds and pushed the boundaries of creativity and art.

Are Maelle fags really this dumb? Verso was trying to erase HIS OWN canvas to save the soul of his sister so she could live life in reality, instead of wasting away in toonland

Maellenigs need to be GASSED.

I fucking hate how aline is portrayed as some kind of saint by the end when EVERYTHING WAS HER FAULT.

idk, looks arty gay or something, like something some reddit youtuber would spend 40 minutes shilling. Is it good?

Just memorize it. 90% of the animations are designed to trick you anyway.

and she got away with it all

She wasnt though, only maelle saw it that way

The fastest farm is fighting the merchant at Renoir's Drafts with a Maelle one shot build but using Phantom Strike instead of Stendhal. She gets 2450000 EXP, everyone else gets half of that. You also get free upgrade materials, recoats and lumina each time. The fight takes like 6 sec, then going through the menus takes another 4, it's very fast.

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Jesuschrist. You're moron.

She inherit her mother's and father retardness and will never leave the painting

She doesn't. She promised Renoir she would return.

She outright lied to her father

Who decided that? Painted Verso?

Renoir made it clear that as long as it contain Verso's soul, it need to be destroy.

Renoir gave up on that notion once he decided to trust Maelle.

Its the reason his wife was there for over +60 years.

Alicia is not her mother.

you sure as hell know Clea will

It's 3 vs 1 at that point.

This is a (you) issue.

Sure thing Marche apologist.

Were the Writers against them because they were acting like petty Gods over countless painted worlds, and wanted to stop them?

Most likely the Writers act like petty gods themselves with their own worlds. Except it's worlds created through words instead of with paint.