Yeah, I just hope I can still grab the physical version for the normal price by then as I assume it has a quite limited print-run too.
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Yeah, I just hope I can still grab the physical version for the normal price by then as I assume it has a quite limited print-run too.
I'm barely past the prologue, but since I did all the available destruction missions first I decided to continue Shu Amiguchi's story.
Just when I think I'm beginning to grasp the timeline, *bam* here comes 2168. I would have missed the event, too, but I accidentally hit square and saw 4 branching paths from the start of Amiguchi's route and decided to replay his story instead of moving on to Miura's. I wonder how early the androids come up in other paths. My mind is spinning with possibilities right now. This game is great.
Since the spoiler thread is very slow moving, was I the only one that didn't understand that Tamao Kurabe was the 15th real human until the end? (Significant-ish spoiler)
Given how often this individual appear in the story in various forms, I couldn't think of anyone else that it could have been.
Holy shit that "War of the World" inspired piece is worth almost two grand?!
Yeah that seems pretty steep, but look at this cool behind-the-scenes pic for it.
And timelapse video:
Really like the promotional art for it. You can spot a lot of references and hints to if you completed it too.
I have a question about something pretty late in the game, so only open this if you are really far into the story or have beat it:
Am I correct in assuming that 'Project Ark' (I don't know what this is yet!) and the colonies are two different things? Because they both have 'Sectors'. The 'Sector' entry in analysis is super confusing to me right now (just got it). But maybe I'm not supposed to know the answer yet?
Yeah you're probably not supposed to fully grasp the nature of those two things yet. They are different things though.
Ah, thanks. I can work with that :-)
Right, I'll just keep playing then!
My bad! You guys were right!
I just finished the game. What a ride. This certainly became one of my top games this gen.
I don't think I've ever been this disheartened over the disparity between a game's quality and its sales/mindshare within the gaming community. It's criminal, and I feel helpless. Everyone needs to be playing 13 Sentinels.
I feel like something like a PS Plus month or a re-release on Switch (which I don't see happening) would be the only thing to bring it mainstream appeal at this appoint.
Barely any marketing + niche appeal + Late generation release isn't a recipe for success, yeah. To be honest, I really hope Vanillaware's entire back catalogue gets ported to modern consoles or made more accessible in some way. This is my first Vanillaware game and I am definitely down for playing more of their games, even if they are completely different from 13 Sentinels.
Earlier this year when I first beat it, I talked about the game in depth with someone that beat it around the same time as me. The understanding that we came out with is that "it's definitely not going to click for everyone, but if it clicks, it clicks hard", and looking at this thread (and spoilers thread), it seems to be true.
Well, maybe it can get into top 20 for Era's GOTY list, and be rediscovered in a few years as "PS4's hidden gem" or something.
Pick up Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir or Dragon's Crown Pro. Can't go wrong with either, but I say start with Odin Sphere if you want something with a meatier story to complement the action.
Yeah, this couldn't have sold well even by Atlus standards. At best, I think they can hope for word of mouth to aid sales in the long run just like in Japan. Regardless, it ultimately sold more than it needed to in Japan so Vanillaware should be fine. It's really Atlus/SEGA here that's going to lose money on the international release.
Most visual novel style games are pretty hard to replay once you have played it once. Unless you can somehow purge your memory of playing it once you know the mystery I do not know if you can really enjoy it as much as the first time.
Yeah but that's still a problem because it'll make it harder for us to see high-quality localizations of Vanillaware's work in the future. I just really hope this game has legs internationally due to word-of-mouth.
Yes. Although it was several months apart for me, and I played through the second time alone and with the English dub, which helped make things feel different. I also bounced around a lot more in the story, rather than just going straight through one character till I hit a block, which is what I did the first time.
Don't think we've seen any but unsure how frequently Atlus releases sale numbers. I personally don't think this will do that well.
Even in the best of scenarios, this game would be a hard sell.
The best thing it has going for it is critical acclaim, but unfortunately because people only look at the numbers, a 85/86 isn't going to catch anyone's attention.
The best thing it has going for it is critical acclaim, but unfortunately because people only look at the numbers, a 85/86 isn't going to catch anyone's attention.
I'm a big Vanillaware fan and I honestly had no idea what to expect until I read through some previews a week or so before release. It's a big change from their previous games, but I think it's easily their best game to date.
Haha, that fucking level took me four tries to S-rank. I struggled on a number of stages, to be honest, but besides the very last one this was the toughest for me at the time.
One of these things is not like the others
Theres a shitzillion enemies!
And I probably had the wrong setup, BUT THERES SO MANY ENEMIES!
This is probably why they went with this Atari space invader design.
So that they can do this lol
Who?
I'm actually interested in this game, I loved Odin Sphere, Muramasa and Dragon's Crown... but this year hasn't been so great on a financial sense, so I don't think I can spend much on games by year-end. I've just been playing backlog games instead, but I look forward to playing this game sometime. Hopefully it sells decently enough.
I hope you're in a better financial situation in the future.
Thanks a lot... I hope 2021 brings better things for my family. We didn't get hit hard like a lot of families we hear on the news hit hardest by the epidemic, but we definitely had to use our savings to stay afloat so far...
I've been trying my best not to spoil anything for 13 Sentinels since I loved the stories in Odin Sphere...
I love games, but this is definitely a time to prioritize family first... =\
I hope you're doing well, too
I was hoping Gigguk or another big anituber would speak of the game and give it a little more attention, but i dont think that outside of promotional game content he ever does anything outside of anime.
The 'biggest' streamer I could find out there playing this game is Woolie lol.
I imagine most anitubers would be playing Genshin Impact
I feel like if any anituber was going to talk about this it would've been mother's basement, but while I think he might've tweeted something about it at one point I can't find anything so I might be misremembering