Nothing but praise, I love smt 3 nocturne and love this game. I have finished it 4 times the concepts/style are all phenomenal while it develops characters who are endearing and entertaining to be around. The aesthetic is close to being my favorite from this era as it comes from the same style and engine of smt 3 and you even get to fight the demifiend which started one of my fav trends so go play it
Fun, has a good ability learning system called mantras that let you swap out and use different skills whenever you want
Really good music as usual
I have to wait to judge the story because obviously this is a 2 part game, but so far it's pretty good and I have no complaints
Just a very cool game overall
Beat all superbosses (except Demi-Fiend, not doin that shit!)
Oh but fuck this game's encounter rate it's really bad
Really good music as usual
I have to wait to judge the story because obviously this is a 2 part game, but so far it's pretty good and I have no complaints
Just a very cool game overall
Beat all superbosses (except Demi-Fiend, not doin that shit!)
Oh but fuck this game's encounter rate it's really bad
a more player-friendly nocturne if you want to think of it in that way in both gameplay and story a more accessible game even if hmmmm it has some quirks and odd characterizations and this first part does leave a lot to be desired in terms of a satisfactory plot but ofc this basically a part 1 of a game so we will see how that develops going forward.
gameplay wise you are stuck to 5 characters at most so it does make it have a lot less going on progression wise you really just upgrade these characters like a regular RPG no pokeman elements here and that's fine but not my favorite side of smt it does have its upsides though with enough grinding any of these characters can cast any attack/magic you want really ofc you still have to play to the strengths of their stats and type advantages though since you can only choose stat upgrades on level up for the main character which is again normal for the genre
overall a solid jrpg with potential will have to see how the sequels shapes it up though
gameplay wise you are stuck to 5 characters at most so it does make it have a lot less going on progression wise you really just upgrade these characters like a regular RPG no pokeman elements here and that's fine but not my favorite side of smt it does have its upsides though with enough grinding any of these characters can cast any attack/magic you want really ofc you still have to play to the strengths of their stats and type advantages though since you can only choose stat upgrades on level up for the main character which is again normal for the genre
overall a solid jrpg with potential will have to see how the sequels shapes it up though
oh yeah this game was good from what i remember of it. this is based on two playthroughs;
gameplay? gave serph a full strength build, clicked power charge phys skill, laughed at the encounters
went into the final boss, clicked power charge phys all, laughed
went into the superboss, clicked power charge ragnarok, laughed (i didn't actually it was really difficult)
story? yeah it's okay. to not go into too much detail it's simple and that's fine, but this gets fleshed out a lot better in the second game
weirdly enough the extra goodies are very out of the way, i don't typically backtrack too often so i missed out on a lot of things first time through, second time i had to look up a guide for the stuff just so i could say i did it... oops?
gameplay? gave serph a full strength build, clicked power charge phys skill, laughed at the encounters
went into the final boss, clicked power charge phys all, laughed
went into the superboss, clicked power charge ragnarok, laughed (i didn't actually it was really difficult)
story? yeah it's okay. to not go into too much detail it's simple and that's fine, but this gets fleshed out a lot better in the second game
weirdly enough the extra goodies are very out of the way, i don't typically backtrack too often so i missed out on a lot of things first time through, second time i had to look up a guide for the stuff just so i could say i did it... oops?