Natsuno's plotline runs the gambit of sci-fi. Oh, you though this was a nice little ET plotline? Nope, now its
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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim |OT| Yoko Taro and Masahiro Sakurai Recommend
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Natsuno's plotline runs the gambit of sci-fi. Oh, you though this was a nice little ET plotline? Nope, now its
Finished the game. From the point I was at (63%) until the end of the game, there was not anything all that new or surprising from what I understood so far or what I expected regarding the plot. Not sure what element you're referring to, but from that point on, I didn't experience any plot twists, just a few clarifications to stuff I already knew. A few "oh, I guess this character did that", but no major "wait, this changes everything!" stuff.
At that point, it was already clear that they were in a simulation and there wasn't any time travel happening. The game had already even mentioned people being in pods. I think the only "big" surprise was Kindergarten Chihiro being the original one and the murderer for Ei's story.
Thank you for your answers. I'm not one to turn a game down completely for that sort of thing, but I'm much more likely to try it out if they're doing something a bit more interesting or original. The impressions here have been very positive, so I'll give it a try as soon as I can find it. Thanks again!
OT, but do we really need condescending posts like these? You can say what you want without the attitude.
It wasn't meant to be condescending at all. I was more just trying to enthusiastically convey that there were still plenty of surprises in store. It was meant to be positive and encouraging in tone.
It wears so many of its influences on its sleeves that I believe sci-fi fans can predict plot beats based off of that alone but it's still fun seeing how well they're blended together.
Haven't had a real WTF?! moment yet (8 hours in). Maybe I've watched too much Sci-fi to be surprised lol.
Love it though!
Love it though!
Yeah, that's how I took it! (although I disagree that there were more surprises in store)
imho I think the first couple of hours are like a trainwreck, and after 10 hours you know a lot of stuff, but it's good because you can enjoy properly the rest of the game even with the limited context you have.
He's having fun man, so much of the thread 1 or 2 weeks ago was people posting reactions to their mind being blown constantly. There's so many Shyamalan twists.
I do have to agree. Yeah it gets a bit crazy in terms of the jumps and the narrative arc and I am really enjoying it overall but I wouldn't say I have been particularly surprised/ shocked by anything so far. It is really a sci-fi love letter and I adore the genre so perhaps familiarity softens the shock factor.
For me, some of the most surprising things weren't twists per se, but clarifications and suggestions
Battle portion spoilers:
Battle portion spoilers:
Like how the RTS section is basically one long multi hour battle against thousands if not millions of Kaiju. When Inaba's like "Can you hold on for another 14 hours?" My jaw was on the floor.. the scope of the battle was staggering to me.
IKR? That's what i'm saying.
I'm almost done. But still a good few hours left.
I haven't even unlocked the final fighting area aaargh. I've got a lot to do on story mode, still. But I'm gonna play for a couple a hours today, miss the megatons!
24 hours I've completed my first story (Nenji) and I'm already sad. I wanted more Nenji. Don't tell me I have to feel the sad of reaching the end 12 more times.
I've played half way through of area 3.
If you want megatons. Then wait till you get till Gouto-senpai's story. There's a reason why it's locked till late game. LOL.
Slim to none.
I wish the entire Vanillaware back catalogue would come out on PC.
Past the prologue. Is there a recommended character order? Or is it better to progress characters semi-simultaneously, if possible?
That's a bummer. Would love to give their other games a try too, yeah.
The way the story is structured, it really doesn't matter in which order you go.
You can do what i did. When a particular character's story grabbed me, i'd stick with it till it locked me out.
Dragon's Crown Pro is on the PS4 (as is Odin Sphere leifthrasir) if you want to give them a go.
Do what feels best. I personally would suggest playing a bit more of Juro before Amiguchi, because it makes something a little more obvious if you do it in the other order... But it's not a big deal. I just jumped around and would stick with characters I really enjoyed early on (Kisaragi & Ogata were my early favorites).
Ha, I didn't think about that. Juro was kind of the least interesting character to me so I saved him as much to the end as I could. It seems certain chapters of Juro/Megumi/Amiguchi could've been better gated to prevent some of this. It's really not that big of a deal, though. Even though I knew what was up playing Juro's story it's not like I knew what was actually up, just that something obviously was. I'd actually thought
that Shiba was originating from the same projection of Inaba to Amiguchi. I was thinking they were sent from Universal Control somehow.
So it's not like knowing something is awry always gives it away lol, because something is always going on in this game.
I did Amiguchi first, so when you start playing through Juro you see that
Shiba exists in Juro's head only since you notice they are repeating the scene where Juro and Amiguchi hang out, but in Juro's side Shiba is there. And when you keep playing Juro you learn that Shiba and Fluffy are both representations of Izumi. Which works since in the english dub they are both voiced by Ben Diskin
Welp, I thought I got the game figured out. Then out of nowhere, Hijiyama's last chapter threw me off completely.
I... don't disagree? Lol I said in the post you quoted I took the same path. Just that until the answers were "revealed", it didn't matter that I knew something was up, because I was still working from too incomplete of a picture to know what it was. Which is the real magic of the game, really.
I'm playing as Megumi first, which I don't know if that's good or bad. Since I haven't seen her and Juro as a couple, she just seems creepy and possessive. The blatant homage to Madoka Magica is amusing, though Fluffy is an asshole from the start.
Yeah, I'm at 40% or so of her story and I haven't warmed up to Meg yet. Like you said, just seems like overly attached (ex-)girlfriend. And it doesn't help that Juro (up until 50% or so where I am) is, for story reasons, pretty boring. So there's no way you can even get an inkling of why she'd behave that way.
So.... there's a fuckton of mystery files.... will i be able to buy them all by playing only one difficulty or what?
2nd time beating the game (localized woo) and was just as great as the first. Probably even better because I got to experience it in English too. What a fantastic ride. I know some others have asked throughout the thread so:
Time: 34 hours. But I tracked my story to battle hours. 24 hours in story, 10 hours in battle and menu-reading.
Platinum is easy peezy. I wont spoil anything due to the nature of the game but once you finish you will at least be at 90% or more and the last 1-3 should be easy pickins. I was at 97% this go around.
Question about Ogata's story, a bit early on?
At the train station he noticed Juro was there around the same time I walked over and saw Iori and Okino. I started talking to them two though and I wasn't able to go back and find Juro. Currently my story is locked until a certain event. Were you able to talk to Juro then?
The Platinum took me about 32 hours doing almost everything on intense, but I didn't do 3-10 S Rank on Intesnse, I had to bump the difficulty down.
Making progress through postgame fights on Intense. #5 and #20 were really great battles, but I think the ups and downs are a bit too inconsistent. The boss waves are hype in general but some fights end all too quickly.
#20 is kind of hilarious. Kill the giant field of yellow boss enemies, or eventually get overrun by sudden waves of like 50 Twintails that launch missiles immediately, or a wave of Guardians swarming your center.
Making progress through postgame fights on Intense. #5 and #20 were really great battles, but I think the ups and downs are a bit too inconsistent. The boss waves are hype in general but some fights end all too quickly.
#20 is kind of hilarious. Kill the giant field of yellow boss enemies, or eventually get overrun by sudden waves of like 50 Twintails that launch missiles immediately, or a wave of Guardians swarming your center.
So I just finished the main story. All that is left is cleanup and reading all of the archives. But I just got to say not only is this easily my GOTY it might even be my game of this generation. I do not know how any videogame can top this story. Before this I thought Nier Automata was the GOAT, but 13 Sentinels truly is the peak to me in terms of storytelling even with all the borrowed tropes. You know you have a great mystery when even some of your guesses of where the plot is going are wrong. Vanillaware has really outdid themselves. Bravo!
I just want to say thanks for this thread and OP. I mostly game on switch nowadays and probably would have missed this game otherwise but it has been really great so far. great remote play game in bed.
So this is my GOTY.
I'm about 75% done with the story and was trying to see if there's PSN avatars and whatnot and I stumbled across something called the "digital archives" that was apparently a paid prologue in the overseas version of this game.
Can I assume that this was the included prologue in the NA release, or are we missing content?
purseowner
I'm about 75% done with the story and was trying to see if there's PSN avatars and whatnot and I stumbled across something called the "digital archives" that was apparently a paid prologue in the overseas version of this game.
Can I assume that this was the included prologue in the NA release, or are we missing content?
purseowner
Area 2 Wave 10 has what feels like a final boss moment with how they do it yet I still have 2/3 of the game to go.
13 Sentinels
Muramasa DLC stories
Odin Sphere
Muramasa
Dragons Crown
I beat DC before all the QOL improvements and patch as well as before Pro even released. Muramasa was my first platinum trophy and one of the most rare since...the requirements were....pretty demanding.
I remember hard mode and fury mode being difficult for different reasons in Muramasa.
Where's my 13 Sentinels fury mode