Post by johnhale on May 3, 2018 7:13:32 GMT -7
Hi,
I've only just started on this, and I already regret having bought it. I admit I got a bit suckered in by uh... yeah. Anyway, I probably should've known better. OTOH, I didn't realize that this was also being released on the Vita. That's usually an auto-no-sell for me.
The game itself is, as has been said in the review, a bunch of short, unskippable cutscenes stitched together, with some amount of gameplay sandwiched in. In fact, "stitched together" is how the game feels as a whole, and I *really* dislike knowing how things end up at the very beginning. Yes, I'm sure it lends a tragic flair to the whole thing, but it's not a kind of storytelling I care for very much (as in, at all).
Also, the backgrounds... Holy Cow, Sega. It's like some suits were sitting at a table and one of them said, "Hey, that whole watercolor thing went over really well! We got lots of good feedback on that part. Let's imitate it in this game, only make it look like ass." You can sense that this same imaginary committee was behind a lot of the ingredients for this game. Hardly any animation, and what you get it pretty poor, stilted and often cringe-worthy script (hopefully the Princess gets better). Baffling clothing choices for the "soldiers" that are part of the "elite unit" run by the angsty male protagonist.
This game is, shall we say, a step down from Valkyria Chronicles, which is superior to this game in every single way possible. Basically, this seems to be a cash-grab to me, and I feel mildly ashamed for falling for it. If you're interested in this game, I recommend checking out several reviews before parting with any of your hard-earned cash.
Oh, and the whole big picture stuff... seems pretty ridiculous to me. I'll play it some more because I want to see if it stays this bad as much as because I want to know what happened, but I'm not feeling very optimistic at the moment.
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Thank you.
I've only just started on this, and I already regret having bought it. I admit I got a bit suckered in by uh... yeah. Anyway, I probably should've known better. OTOH, I didn't realize that this was also being released on the Vita. That's usually an auto-no-sell for me.
The game itself is, as has been said in the review, a bunch of short, unskippable cutscenes stitched together, with some amount of gameplay sandwiched in. In fact, "stitched together" is how the game feels as a whole, and I *really* dislike knowing how things end up at the very beginning. Yes, I'm sure it lends a tragic flair to the whole thing, but it's not a kind of storytelling I care for very much (as in, at all).
Also, the backgrounds... Holy Cow, Sega. It's like some suits were sitting at a table and one of them said, "Hey, that whole watercolor thing went over really well! We got lots of good feedback on that part. Let's imitate it in this game, only make it look like ass." You can sense that this same imaginary committee was behind a lot of the ingredients for this game. Hardly any animation, and what you get it pretty poor, stilted and often cringe-worthy script (hopefully the Princess gets better). Baffling clothing choices for the "soldiers" that are part of the "elite unit" run by the angsty male protagonist.
This game is, shall we say, a step down from Valkyria Chronicles, which is superior to this game in every single way possible. Basically, this seems to be a cash-grab to me, and I feel mildly ashamed for falling for it. If you're interested in this game, I recommend checking out several reviews before parting with any of your hard-earned cash.
Oh, and the whole big picture stuff... seems pretty ridiculous to me. I'll play it some more because I want to see if it stays this bad as much as because I want to know what happened, but I'm not feeling very optimistic at the moment.
For More Details:
Industrial Services Video
Thank you.