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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim is $29.99 on PSN
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The game plays out mostly like a VN in that the story is told by controlling one of the characters and interacting with NPCs or the environment. It's mechanically very simple in that sense, and most of the game is played in this mode.
If you don't like Vanillaware's games for their mechanics, there is a sizable SRPG-style combat portion of this game, but the main draw is the story portion. You can turn down the difficulty of the combat portions to just breeze through if you don't want to deal with them.
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EU: Sony treating us like 2nd class peasants??
Sony: Always has been
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Saw all of the positive buzz and picked this up last year. I played for quite a few hours and dropped it. I just don't think the story is quite as good as what was being made out.
I was going in fully expecting Disco Elysium levels of story prowess the writing all just felt a bit disappointing with a lot of the usual tropes intact. Probably my own high expectations are at fault rather than the game. Everyone just kept saying how there was mind blowing twists and it just felt like a normal interweaving
story to me.
I was going in fully expecting Disco Elysium levels of story prowess the writing all just felt a bit disappointing with a lot of the usual tropes intact. Probably my own high expectations are at fault rather than the game. Everyone just kept saying how there was mind blowing twists and it just felt like a normal interweaving
time travel
As far as the combat difficulty goes, I've managed to S rank every mission without really thinking while playing, and have never had a unit go down either. Just use the units that can summon sentry turrets and spam away :D
Odin Sphere is one of my favorite games of all time, so I get that I'm totally biased. Also I really loved GrimGrimoire. Anyway, I don't mean to come across as the Vanillaware defense force because they are pretty niche. I do love all of their games though.
The hell is a brogamer? If you can't understand why playing as kids is off-putting for some, I don't know what to tell you.
I've been playing Yakuza Like A Dragon and 13 Sentinels concurrently on the weekend. 1 night is Yakuza, the other night is 13 Sentinels. I just finished Yakuza last weekend, so I'll be finishing 13 Sentinels in a few days.
They should've put Odin Sphere on sale, too. š”
Oh gosh, Dragon's Crown is more like the old Capcom D&D games redesigned with tons of grinding. Sorry you were misled! :(
I loved Yakuza and I'm done with most of the side stuff too. I've been meaning to buy 13 Sentinels since launch but been busy with work and school. I hope it's good!
I bought this game full price on Christmas Day.
Normally a sale like this popping up later would make me angry.
But since 13 Sentinels has, without hyperbole, become one of my favourite games ever made, I think it deserves every cent it can make.
At $29.99? That's an absolute steal folks. Please play this game.
Normally a sale like this popping up later would make me angry.
But since 13 Sentinels has, without hyperbole, become one of my favourite games ever made, I think it deserves every cent it can make.
At $29.99? That's an absolute steal folks. Please play this game.
Mm, not as much of a discount on the EU store. Still quite pricey. Jealous of how this game keeps going for bargain prices in the US.
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I mean, that's cause you didn't get as far as any of the twists.
Can I get a good quick video on what it's about to sell it to me? Everyone says buy but my backlog is infinite.
My GOTY for last year. Great game.
My favourite "Yakuza" after 0. The combat is awesome and the story is amazing.
Also recommend this.
My favourite "Yakuza" after 0. The combat is awesome and the story is amazing.
PROTECC MIWA-CHAN
Seriously, the game is damn good. It didn't quite reach the levels of 999 or Virtue's Last Reward for me, but it's still a solid experience overall. The characters are amazing and the art style is gorgeous.
Seriously, the game is damn good. It didn't quite reach the levels of 999 or Virtue's Last Reward for me, but it's still a solid experience overall. The characters are amazing and the art style is gorgeous.
If you don't like visual novels this game won't change your mind. I bought it due to Eras word of mouth but do not enjoy it. Been forcing myself through it.
I enjoyed it, not as much as maybe other people but I absolutely DETEST walking sim games and found the combat parts of 13S good enough to keep me through finishing the game and platinuming it.
I wouldn't buy it digitally though, its the kind of game you finish in 20-35 hours (top end max for platinum, can't really miss anything) and no reason at all to replay. I bought physical copy, which comes with a nice artbook, for $30 during black friday and sold on ebay for $40. I think physical copies may be a bit harder to find even now so I could see the value going up if they don't reprint it.
I wouldn't buy it digitally though, its the kind of game you finish in 20-35 hours (top end max for platinum, can't really miss anything) and no reason at all to replay. I bought physical copy, which comes with a nice artbook, for $30 during black friday and sold on ebay for $40. I think physical copies may be a bit harder to find even now so I could see the value going up if they don't reprint it.
I sold my launch copy for pretty much break even after getting the Platinum, and I have $90 in my PSN Wallet.
I may end up buying it again to support the game!
I may end up buying it again to support the game!
Can you elaborate? I feel like this is the case with every game from this studio that I've played, unfortunately. I'm curious about 13 Sentinels but am worried I won't like it.
Why on earth where you expecting Disco Elysium story prowess? The story was brilliant in my opinion but it's not really going to compare with a full fledged RPG that was heavy on narration and branching storylines/choices. Seems a bit ridiculous to expect that.
PROTECC MIWA-CHAN
Seriously, the game is damn good. It didn't quite reach the levels of 999 or Virtue's Last Reward for me, but it's still a solid experience overall. The characters are amazing and the art style is gorgeous.
I really liked Miwa
glad we saw more of her at the end
Definitely! Was so happy to see her getting a royal treatment at the end. She's too pure for all the worlds.
Oh my god, same.Was waiting for a discount, thanks OP, it is now bought!
Backlog
I love Disco Elysium. This is not Disco Elysium. None of the characters here are all that deep. This is a fun genre piece delivered in a very unique way.
I'm not usually that into plot-focused stories, but by the end of the prologue 13 Sentinels hooked me because I liked how the scope of the story gradually expanded in unexpected ways, and I was enjoying trying to put the pieces I was seeing together as I was playing. The nonlinear presentation encouraged me to try to build the context as I went around what I was seeing, when it was happening, and how it connected to the events other characters participated in.
What pleasantly surprised me as I continued was that the game manages to continue to raise interesting questions through most of its runtime in a way that kept me off-balance without undermining what I had seen before, and it sticks the landing on tying all those questions together at the end in a way that is both logically and thematically satisfying.
I don't think its mode of storytelling is going to work for everyone, but it worked for me and delivered something that felt very new.
It has an adventure type mode where most of the story plays out via playing through the stories of 13 characters and a second mode that has tower defense like combat.
Over 25 hours in and I think I'm nearing the end.
It's an okay game. No more, no less.
The story is decent and nice to watch unfold I guess, but what's there (in terms of twists and layers) just isn't interesting enough to justify all the time jumps, non-linear story progression, and intertwining stories of each character. The localization is nice, though. But, the writing and story beats are mediocre-to-dissapointing overall.
It's an okay game. No more, no less.
The story is decent and nice to watch unfold I guess, but what's there (in terms of twists and layers) just isn't interesting enough to justify all the time jumps, non-linear story progression, and intertwining stories of each character. The localization is nice, though. But, the writing and story beats are mediocre-to-dissapointing overall.
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