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Brazillian 3D Artist, i love video games and currently trying to get in the industry.
Brazillian 3D Artist, i love video games and currently trying to get in the industry.
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What a great game! They took every criticism I had of the first game and fixed it, of course, in exchange for having a bit of a weaker story. I even got the platinum, since I really enjoyed it!
Starting with the part of the game that really got old for me on the first game: Gameplay. I feel like they fixed every aspect of it that turned the first one into a slog. Now you have MUCH more to do other than walking straight in a hallway and fighting over and over again. Since the context of the game changed to a non-linear story, the game gives you a lot of different areas to explore, a lot of side content, even monster to capture and develop! Even the equipment progression and the crystalium system got much better, they became even more simple, but much more impactful and fun.
Battles also feels much better, you don't get stuck in a cutscene every time you switch paradigms anymore and the unique skills/utilities of your monsters add a nice layer of variability. Speaking of which, monsters are a new feature of the game where you collect and add 3 of them to your composition, each with their own characteristics and developments. Very fun addition, since your party for the entire game consists of only Noel and Serah.
Talking about the story, it is not bad, but also not great. Everything makes sense, it has good beats and scenes. Caius and Yeul are good characters with understandable motivations and objectives. These two new characters and Noel feel like the real focus of the game, which is okay, although I really wished the first crew, mainly Snow and Sazh, were more impactful or at least showed-up more. I can't help but feel like the story was somewhere between Serviceable and good. But it does serve its purpose and helps you to stay engaged.
Talking about negatives, the version for the PC is TERRIBLY PORTED. Normally, it crashes all the time and its pretty much impossible to play the game. It's absolutely mandatory to download a fix and add it to the game files. A real shame they did such a poor job at porting such a good game to PC.
Besides that, the biggest annoyance in the game is how it expects you to find the fragments with NO GUIDANCE AT ALL. It's actually impossible to try and complete all the game's content without a lot of guides.
Also, the last effective world of the game is just really boring, it's a platforming level that really wants to keep you waiting while standing still, just boring.
The ending was also kinda disappointing, the final boss and cutscenes are really good, until the last rendered one that hits you with a "TO BE CONTINUED..." after 50 hours and 20 more to get the secret ending... which is disappointing as well.
I really do recommend this game and I expect the third one to be even better and give a great ending to the series, let's see!
Starting with the part of the game that really got old for me on the first game: Gameplay. I feel like they fixed every aspect of it that turned the first one into a slog. Now you have MUCH more to do other than walking straight in a hallway and fighting over and over again. Since the context of the game changed to a non-linear story, the game gives you a lot of different areas to explore, a lot of side content, even monster to capture and develop! Even the equipment progression and the crystalium system got much better, they became even more simple, but much more impactful and fun.
Battles also feels much better, you don't get stuck in a cutscene every time you switch paradigms anymore and the unique skills/utilities of your monsters add a nice layer of variability. Speaking of which, monsters are a new feature of the game where you collect and add 3 of them to your composition, each with their own characteristics and developments. Very fun addition, since your party for the entire game consists of only Noel and Serah.
Talking about the story, it is not bad, but also not great. Everything makes sense, it has good beats and scenes. Caius and Yeul are good characters with understandable motivations and objectives. These two new characters and Noel feel like the real focus of the game, which is okay, although I really wished the first crew, mainly Snow and Sazh, were more impactful or at least showed-up more. I can't help but feel like the story was somewhere between Serviceable and good. But it does serve its purpose and helps you to stay engaged.
Talking about negatives, the version for the PC is TERRIBLY PORTED. Normally, it crashes all the time and its pretty much impossible to play the game. It's absolutely mandatory to download a fix and add it to the game files. A real shame they did such a poor job at porting such a good game to PC.
Besides that, the biggest annoyance in the game is how it expects you to find the fragments with NO GUIDANCE AT ALL. It's actually impossible to try and complete all the game's content without a lot of guides.
Also, the last effective world of the game is just really boring, it's a platforming level that really wants to keep you waiting while standing still, just boring.
The ending was also kinda disappointing, the final boss and cutscenes are really good, until the last rendered one that hits you with a "TO BE CONTINUED..." after 50 hours and 20 more to get the secret ending... which is disappointing as well.
I really do recommend this game and I expect the third one to be even better and give a great ending to the series, let's see!
This review contains spoilers
I really wish I could have finished and enjoyed this game all the way through, but sadly, it overstays it's welcome around the 20 Hours mark and becomes an extremely boring slog until you give up, which is a shame since I really loved the story and characters! Gameplay is the real let down.
The game basically consists of walking straight on a big hallway, fighting enemies along the way and watching cutscenes. Really, that's pretty much it. No puzzles, no exploration, no side quests (Until chapter 11, but even them are boring), just these 3 things, And here's the thing, it actually works for the first 20 hours because of the story, the prospect of becoming stronger through Gear and the Crystal System keeps you engaged. However, these two progression systems (Crystal and Gear) end up falling flat because of how they depend on grinding boring battles over and over and over again.
At a first glance, the weapon/accessory upgrade system seems kinda interesting. You collect monster drops to stack a multiplier on your gear, to then use scrap parts to add a big amount to XP to it and level it up. However, the balance around it felt very weird to me, battles rarely dropped any items and when they do, it was only about 1 to 2 items, since battles don't reward money, you can't even buy more materials, in addition to battles rewarding crystal points to level your skill tree, it feels like the game really wants you to keep doing repetitive battles for a long time to be able to feel like you are progressing, which makes sense I guess, since the game doesn't offer any other thing to do. I also felt like I was completely locked in a singular weapon upon leveling it up, making any other weapon you find being just a way to get a small amount of money. Maybe there was something I missed, but I don't think so.
I stopped playing in the middle of chapter 11, once you get to Gran Pulse, the place where you actually have side quests and not just a hallway to keep walking forward... at least that's what i though, Gran Pulse ended up being just a singular large area leading to even more hallways with semi-bosses to fight and complete the quests, I just could not do it anymore.
The story really is the only thing that make you want to keep playing, but since the gameplay just becomes extremely boring, watching the rest of it online was the best decision to me. I really wished I could have experienced it to the end, such a beautiful story.
The game basically consists of walking straight on a big hallway, fighting enemies along the way and watching cutscenes. Really, that's pretty much it. No puzzles, no exploration, no side quests (Until chapter 11, but even them are boring), just these 3 things, And here's the thing, it actually works for the first 20 hours because of the story, the prospect of becoming stronger through Gear and the Crystal System keeps you engaged. However, these two progression systems (Crystal and Gear) end up falling flat because of how they depend on grinding boring battles over and over and over again.
At a first glance, the weapon/accessory upgrade system seems kinda interesting. You collect monster drops to stack a multiplier on your gear, to then use scrap parts to add a big amount to XP to it and level it up. However, the balance around it felt very weird to me, battles rarely dropped any items and when they do, it was only about 1 to 2 items, since battles don't reward money, you can't even buy more materials, in addition to battles rewarding crystal points to level your skill tree, it feels like the game really wants you to keep doing repetitive battles for a long time to be able to feel like you are progressing, which makes sense I guess, since the game doesn't offer any other thing to do. I also felt like I was completely locked in a singular weapon upon leveling it up, making any other weapon you find being just a way to get a small amount of money. Maybe there was something I missed, but I don't think so.
I stopped playing in the middle of chapter 11, once you get to Gran Pulse, the place where you actually have side quests and not just a hallway to keep walking forward... at least that's what i though, Gran Pulse ended up being just a singular large area leading to even more hallways with semi-bosses to fight and complete the quests, I just could not do it anymore.
The story really is the only thing that make you want to keep playing, but since the gameplay just becomes extremely boring, watching the rest of it online was the best decision to me. I really wished I could have experienced it to the end, such a beautiful story.
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Persona 3: FES is my favorite game of all time, just the first announcement of this remake made me tear up and scream like a little kid. It makes me so happy to say that it was incredibly worth it, that it provided me an amazing experience and made me cry even harder than my first time with this story.
Graphics, gameplay, story and presentation are all top-notch to me, considering I am extremely biased. But I do believe that anyone who likes turn-based RPGs, persona fan or not, would agree as well.
The new features such as Shift, Linked Episodes, Monad Passages and more, all felt really good and fitting to make the gameplay loop more modern and fun. The new contributions to the story, even though there are not THAT many, really helped with some of the shortcomings of the original game. Specially with Strega, their motivations and reasoning.
I could honestly go on and on about how much I love this game and how important it is to me, but due to my huge bias and laziness, I'm just going to mention some of my personal criticism to the game.
One disappointment I had was the lost opportunity they had to make Ikutsuki's plot twist feel less out of nowhere, but they pretty much gave him nothing, not even a mention of his son, family or anything at all. He only got a small tint of a clue as to why he did what he did, through a singular line in a monad reward text... kinda lame.
Not launching with The Answer Story is also a shame, though I feel like it's understandable, since it feels like the community tends to not like it very much. However, I do think they are going to add it later and charge for it, which is kinda scummy. Just like on-release DLCs and the ever present looming possibility of a relaunch with extra content and no-way to get it without buying the full game again, also scummy.
In conclusion, just play the game! It's fantastic!!
Graphics, gameplay, story and presentation are all top-notch to me, considering I am extremely biased. But I do believe that anyone who likes turn-based RPGs, persona fan or not, would agree as well.
The new features such as Shift, Linked Episodes, Monad Passages and more, all felt really good and fitting to make the gameplay loop more modern and fun. The new contributions to the story, even though there are not THAT many, really helped with some of the shortcomings of the original game. Specially with Strega, their motivations and reasoning.
I could honestly go on and on about how much I love this game and how important it is to me, but due to my huge bias and laziness, I'm just going to mention some of my personal criticism to the game.
One disappointment I had was the lost opportunity they had to make Ikutsuki's plot twist feel less out of nowhere, but they pretty much gave him nothing, not even a mention of his son, family or anything at all. He only got a small tint of a clue as to why he did what he did, through a singular line in a monad reward text... kinda lame.
Not launching with The Answer Story is also a shame, though I feel like it's understandable, since it feels like the community tends to not like it very much. However, I do think they are going to add it later and charge for it, which is kinda scummy. Just like on-release DLCs and the ever present looming possibility of a relaunch with extra content and no-way to get it without buying the full game again, also scummy.
In conclusion, just play the game! It's fantastic!!