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by FABIO 03/23/2010, 8:18am PDT |
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Lizard_King wrote:
When an analogy is the entirety of your counterargument, you need a better option. In this case, it's not some minigame or whatever, it's the 1/3 of the game. Balancing your Personas in a game called "Persona". Who'd have thought that? You have three people with you in most fights, all with a different element and potentially different type of attack, in addition to whatever you can bring to bear. That's quite a few windows for experimentation, and requires a comprehensive defense strategy while you feel out the enemy. And, again, I can't emphasize just experimenting with the breeding a bit after you've gotten an advance in an S-link and before you've gotten to a boss. Of course, you could opt to randomly hit buttons while cursing your god for having put you in this terrible bind, but I guess that turns most games into trial and error.
I'm not sure how many more ways I can say it. There was no planning, and "feeling it out" amounted to retries with 10-30 minutes of lost progress. You went into a new area or boss and crossed your fingers that the main character wouldn't get hit with an attack he was weak to, or hit with a status effect and disabled for 3 turns (in a game where enemies can kill you in 1 or 2), or falling down from a failed attack (don't dare ever make a physical attack, DONT YOU DARE), or just plain suffer a critical hit.
Final full moon boss, the hanged man on the bridge. 5 minutes of unskippable cutscenes, 10 minutes throwaway fight, and 5 more minutes of cutscenes before you can fight him again. Has super attack that completely fucks your party unless you have defense against slash attacks, but there is zero indication that it's a slash attack, or even a physical attack at all ("heatwave" is pierce, not fire!). You die and get to redo those 20 minutes before getting to take another blind guess at what fucked you.
How is the "boring delivery bullshit" you must redo in Grand Theft Auto not the exact same thing?
All of which is made very easy by the unlocking of the Monad dungeon, which allows you to do all of your leveling and hunting in high risk/high reward environments once standard dungeons become trivial.
Monad! A place you want to reach in order to level faster, but in order to unlock it you must beat the reaper which requires lots of leveling, to the point where it becomes a snail's pace in the standard dungeon, and this is all after the game gives zero hint as to the mere existence of a secret dungeon.
A secret dungeon mandatory for grinding to beat the main game, which you only find out about after beating what is for all the player knows just an optional side mission for aspies, but it won't appear if you do it the final night when fatigue doesn't apply and you're free to grind all you want. That's even getting into how the reaper himself was more bullshit unintuitive anti-planning.
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Review Request: Shin Megami Tensai series in general by Mischief Maker 03/20/2010, 11:42am PDT 
Hated Devil Survivor, I mean. NT by Mischief Maker 03/20/2010, 11:43am PDT 
Spoony sort of reviewed them in some vlog entries. O_O NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/20/2010, 12:04pm PDT 
Ask Wromg NT by Fortinbras 03/20/2010, 12:05pm PDT 
this review covers everything atlas has ever released by irony 03/20/2010, 12:07pm PDT 
It was just a review in the forum by Worm 03/20/2010, 12:57pm PDT 
Re: It was just a review in the forum by Fortinbras 03/20/2010, 10:50pm PDT 
You will hate them by FABIO 03/20/2010, 3:33pm PDT 
Re: You will hate them by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2010, 3:43pm PDT 
You haven't gotten to the soul-crushing grinding yet by FABIO 03/20/2010, 3:56pm PDT 
I didn't even know people could be bad at RPGs ... stunning. NT by Worm 03/20/2010, 4:03pm PDT 
Well, what is your reaction to that?You're saying you didn't see the same thing? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2010, 4:40pm PDT 
I didn't, that's for sure by Lizard_King 03/20/2010, 9:10pm PDT 
Mischief Maker would hate it by FABIO 03/21/2010, 12:56am PDT 
Re: Mischief Maker would hate it by Lizard_King 03/21/2010, 8:12am PDT 
Re: Mischief Maker would hate it by FABIO 03/21/2010, 8:28pm PDT 
Re: Mischief Maker would hate it by Lizard_King 03/22/2010, 9:18pm PDT 
Re: Mischief Maker would hate it by FABIO 03/23/2010, 8:18am PDT 
Re: Mischief Maker would hate it by Mischief Maker 03/23/2010, 12:33pm PDT 
thanks jsoh NT by FABIO 03/20/2010, 5:29pm PDT 
What? The bosses are pretty easy. by Worm 03/21/2010, 5:07am PDT 
Re: What? The bosses are pretty easy. by FABIO 03/21/2010, 8:40pm PDT 
re: plot by FABIO 03/21/2010, 8:56pm PDT 
That isn't what I said anyway. :( NT by laudablepuss 03/22/2010, 11:34am PDT 
Oh man two replies, how can I fucking contain myself? by Worm 03/22/2010, 2:00pm PDT 
John was right. You do eat up shit =( NT by FABIO 03/23/2010, 8:20am PDT 
Well it was no Bloodlines ~_~ NT by Worm 03/23/2010, 8:24am PDT 
Re: You haven't gotten to the soul-crushing grinding yet by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2010, 4:38pm PDT 
As to why it's hugely popular... by FABIO 03/20/2010, 3:45pm PDT 
Oh bitch you did not just by Nomura Dau Don 03/20/2010, 4:48pm PDT 
Re: Oh bitch you did not just by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/20/2010, 5:03pm PDT 
Re: Oh bitch you did not just by Nomura Dau Don 03/20/2010, 6:13pm PDT 
In FF6 you learned magic from equipped Espers NT by Nou Doof Dong Ching Chong Wing Wong 03/20/2010, 7:16pm PDT 
I played most of FF12 on autopilot gambits. by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/21/2010, 12:08am PDT 
FF2j and FF5 had job systems. by Worm 03/21/2010, 5:11am PDT 
it counts as a review, and a comic strip about fursona 4 by irony 03/21/2010, 7:33pm PDT 
ha ha, yup by FABIO 03/21/2010, 8:04pm PDT 
DIDDLING YOUR SOUL CLIT by Entropy Stew 03/21/2010, 11:59pm PDT 
It's certainly no Bloodlines, you got that right. NT by Charles Edwards 03/22/2010, 3:07pm PDT 
Now I know how the Cables feel. Shattering sanities with one sentence. NT by FABIO 03/22/2010, 8:16pm PDT 
or getting trolled by an ICJ ator ... same difference, right? NT by Worm 03/22/2010, 8:44pm PDT 
Re: it counts as a review, and a comic strip about fursona 4 by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/21/2010, 11:37pm PDT 
it's already a worse game than gtavc NT by irony 03/22/2010, 4:28am PDT 
Yes, but does it destroy lives like GTAVC? by Jerry Whorebach 03/22/2010, 6:35am PDT 
thanks for your insight fatso NT by nobody 03/22/2010, 10:30am PDT 
When nobody calls you a fatso, that means your diet is working 8) NT by Jerry Whorebach 03/22/2010, 11:03am PDT 
If you ain't fat and we're skinnier than you then we are also skinny. :3 by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/22/2010, 2:32pm PDT 
How? Does falling in water in P4 kill you and delete your save game? NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/22/2010, 9:01am PDT 
p4 doesn't even have water because weeaboos suck at video games NT by irony 03/22/2010, 5:16pm PDT 
In other words, yes. 8) NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/22/2010, 5:24pm PDT 
it wasn't a yes or no question but that's because we have vision the rest of the NT by irony 03/22/2010, 5:27pm PDT 
Well the second part was yes or no, but it also answers the other question. O_O NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/22/2010, 5:59pm PDT 
Well the second part was yes or no, but it also answers the other question. O_O by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/23/2010, 10:36am PDT 
Yeah, but that guy loved the game :( NT by Worm 03/22/2010, 2:02pm PDT 
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