Absolutely well deserved. Only other plot I've enjoyed loads this year is Yakuza 7, not sure which of the two I'd say is my favourite (as both are so darn good).
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13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim |OT| Yoko Taro and Masahiro Sakurai Recommend
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It is a long shot. I just have a feeling it is going to Last of Us because more people have played that. But 13 Sentinels is such a better story even with all the borrowed Sci-Fi tropes
If it wins it would make me so damn happy and i need it during these times.
Just voted for it! Would be incredible if it won! Going to be a uphill climb though, being such a niche game up against these juggernauts :(
Honestly im kind of shocked it got nominated. I erally doubdet the jury even knew it existed haha. Also in comparison to previous years lot of more high profil JP titles like fire emblem and xenoblade 2 ost werent event nominated, so that only adds to the surprise.
Well deserved. I am not yet finished with the game, but I am pretty far along and have to say the hype about it and the accolades it won in Japan were absolutely justified.
Like Nier Automata this will be a game that will stay with me for a long time after finishing it.
Just finished the game and got the platinum trophy. Hands down my game of the year and it deserves at minimum best narrative.
Glad to see so many praising it and I hope it leads to more exposure.
Glad to see so many praising it and I hope it leads to more exposure.
Finished this up tonight. Awesome game, GOTY for me I think. I do have a couple small questions:
1. What ended up happening to Kengo Ogata? Other than knowing that Gouto was going to try and stop him, it's not clear as to his ultimate fate.
2. I noticed at the end of Juro's story two boxes on his story chart changed from question marks to "Memory Correction", did I miss something there? Everything is at 100% so I'm a little confused.
2. I noticed at the end of Juro's story two boxes on his story chart changed from question marks to "Memory Correction", did I miss something there? Everything is at 100% so I'm a little confused.
I don't recall the details of the first one, but for the second:
I'm pretty sure that's just the name they gave for the "dead ends" of that section. If you stayed too long in one place without progress, Juro's memories would get tampered with so he'd forget the stuff he learned (and you'd cycle back to the beginning of the section).
Finished the game and platinum'd it last night on PS5, I played about 30% on PS4 and the rest on PS5 and honestly didn't notice a huge difference other than no slowdowns in the combat section and the game loading super fast.
I really enjoyed it, I honestly can't remember a single characters name or tell you what the story really was other than weird comparison to some movies but it was very enjoyable and hope it sells well.
The game is $30 this week at best buy, gamestop, and probably a few other places so it makes for a great xmas gift for any friends who are into JRPGs.
I really enjoyed it, I honestly can't remember a single characters name or tell you what the story really was other than weird comparison to some movies but it was very enjoyable and hope it sells well.
The game is $30 this week at best buy, gamestop, and probably a few other places so it makes for a great xmas gift for any friends who are into JRPGs.
Just finished it and was somewhat disappointed in how it wraps up.
I thought it was ok and I want Vanillaware to continue pursuing their vision. I just felt that the story here goes around it's butt to get to it's elbow.
It was obvious from maybe 40% on that the sectors were places, not times, and that thus was all in a ship meant to reseed humanity on a new planet...and for all twists and turns, that's basically all there was to it.
4 chihiros, 3 izumis, 2 idas, relocating characters between sectors at birth, etc. was all really superfluous in the end.
A particularly bad example of this is Ryoko's whole storyline. She spent her time trying to reverse the effects of DD-426 and failed. But Okino actually fixed this via Miura because of reasons, so whatever.
And the game relied heavily on selective ignorance to create drama. 2188 Chihiro knows all there is to know about this project...except that the current loop may be the last due to the age of the facility. What characters knew and didn't know felt arbitrary.
All that mattered was that the seed of humanity needed to fix the program so they could "wake up". The intrigue that led up to that often didn't contribute to that story.
4 chihiros, 3 izumis, 2 idas, relocating characters between sectors at birth, etc. was all really superfluous in the end.
A particularly bad example of this is Ryoko's whole storyline. She spent her time trying to reverse the effects of DD-426 and failed. But Okino actually fixed this via Miura because of reasons, so whatever.
And the game relied heavily on selective ignorance to create drama. 2188 Chihiro knows all there is to know about this project...except that the current loop may be the last due to the age of the facility. What characters knew and didn't know felt arbitrary.
All that mattered was that the seed of humanity needed to fix the program so they could "wake up". The intrigue that led up to that often didn't contribute to that story.
I thought it was ok and I want Vanillaware to continue pursuing their vision. I just felt that the story here goes around it's butt to get to it's elbow.
Grabbed my $30 copy from GameStop along with a $20 used copy of Bayonetta 2 Switch. Awww yeah.
I hope we see an influx of new players having their minds blown after these Black Friday sales.
So I did as much as I could in the rememberance section and now I have to go back to destruction mode, which I haven't touched since the tutorial. So just as a quick question, did it matter if I play on casual, normal, or hard? Will I miss anything? And what are some quick tips to make sure I S rank everything. Wanna go for 100%.
Game is amazing btw. Definitely have sat up straight, jaw dropped at some of these revelations. And I'm only 15 hours in....
Game is amazing btw. Definitely have sat up straight, jaw dropped at some of these revelations. And I'm only 15 hours in....
Just use casual. You can unlock everything that way (platinumed it) and it's very easy to get through. I got an S rank on every mission on my first try.
Some general tips:
- Check the bonus objectives. A lot of missions require one or two specific strike team members.
- Switch your team members often. Make sure you don't get them all exhausted at once.
- Level up stuff as sentry guns, interceptors and long range missiles as fast as possible. Spamming sentry guns can win a battle in seconds.
- Also level up the score and chip multipliers. This will gain you additional bonuses and make it easier and faster to level up.
- You can replay any mission anytime if you missed a bonus objective.
But it really is very easy when playing on casual.
Still in the early game, but I'm enjoying it a lot so far.
I need to know what the fuck is going on with this cat lol. Everything else in the game is pretty scifi, but Fluffy is throwing a wrench in my expectations, even if I suspect it will eventually have a "scifi" explanation.
I just started this; 4 hours and while the art is great and general vibe is interesting, so far the story doesn't really get me? Is that expected early on? I've only completed the prologue and a few chapters for certain characters after that. It's interesting but pretty full of anime tropes at the beginning, I'm assuming it gets so much praise because the story takes off.
keeping up with the 13 character plot threads is a little intimidating. Also, I love tower defense games but the combat visuals are very confusing. I need to look a primer on the combat because I'm like 10+ battles in and I barely know what I'm actually doing. The pixel style visuals make the map and action on it kinda confusing for me idk
keeping up with the 13 character plot threads is a little intimidating. Also, I love tower defense games but the combat visuals are very confusing. I need to look a primer on the combat because I'm like 10+ battles in and I barely know what I'm actually doing. The pixel style visuals make the map and action on it kinda confusing for me idk
The game is around ~30 hours so you're pretty early on. As you get to know the expanding cast and their interactions with each other I think it will start hitting more. The game's lock out system will stop it from completely overwhelming you.
The battles are generally pretty simple. Just protect the core and try to be offensive if you feel like it.
I'm about 70% through and can confirm the story goes (interesting) places.
So 6hrs and 27m into the game and the gameplay is pretty darn great, I can't get enough of it. Story sofar has got my interest, tho I just want to do more battles rn.
Finished earlier and I liked it. The game part was fun, I enjoyed the music alot especially during the battles, voice acting and the backgrounds/ sentinel work was brilliant. The story was a bit hit and miss, seemed like a mega mix of established sci fi stories that sort of fit together at some points. The conclusion was well done though,
I'm interested in the extra stage unlocks at the end of the game while trying some more of the later stages on intense could be on the cards at some point. So yeah it was good and i would like to see more in a similar approach between story and gameplay in the future but i just preferred Odin Sphere a lot more and hope Vanillaware revisit something like that before hand.
the ending and characters being able to revisit the simulation and meet up with everyone was a good ending and that Ogata, Wajima reunion at the creadits gave me a good laugh.
I just started the game(7 hours in) and I am confused, when I'm seeing the "flowchart" and there are no "Keys" above some of the the ??? blocks, do I just move on to something else?
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Honestly that's a part that I don't get yet, I haven't done any battles so far and try to exhaust the stories of the characters before I do that but some story-bits really have me clueless as to how to get to a certain branch.
Yes, it's more linear than you think.
If the keyword isn't revealed for a particular block it means you can't access that 'route' yet. Just do another path, you'll probably unlock it later.
It's so good, right?!
I hope we get more new impressions like these after the Black Friday sales. It brings me such joy to see more people enjoying this gem.
Circle button to dash and X to confirm in this game feels so horribly counter-intuitive that I had to swap them around in the PS4's Button Assignment after a few hours of play. Hopefully they don't introduce specific contextual functions for these buttons later on beyond dash, confirm, and cancel that'll fuck me up.
Just beat the 13 sentinels. Took about 25 hours. Truly a great game, and easily one of my top 3 video game stories.
Nice.
Though, i have to say. I loved the slowdown (esp when i had it spammed by several characters. LMAO) that happens when you use Missile Rain. Made it feel more epic. LOL.
I think I understand where you're coming from, since we're experiencing the battles through some kind of in-universe strategic UI kinda that could be seen as that systems can't handle the scales of the battles thus making them more grand yeah :P
Hell yeah, new Miyuki Inaba song with the arrange album. I'm totally cool with Miyuki Inaba becoming a standalone artist to be honest hahaha
Ummm. Not for any of those reasons. I just think it's cool.
Excellent breakdown of what was discussed and announced on the Anniversary stream.
www.dualshockers.com
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim 1st Anniversary Stream Summary: Seiyuu Comments, Character Popularity Poll, Figures, New Manga, Remix OST Album With New Miyuki Inaba Song
Announcements and everything that happened on the 1st anniversary stream of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, newest masterpiece by Vanillaware.
www.dualshockers.com
lol, I had the same early reaction. Kamatami! There's a few other choices that got a similar reaction but overall nah, it's thankfully not, and most of the smaller details tie into the larger mystery.
Excellent breakdown of what was discussed and announced on the Anniversary stream.
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim 1st Anniversary Stream Summary: Seiyuu Comments, Character Popularity Poll, Figures, New Manga, Remix OST Album With New Miyuki Inaba Song
Announcements and everything that happened on the 1st anniversary stream of 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim, newest masterpiece by Vanillaware.
Those prints look absolutely AMAZING. Definitely want to get all of them if possible.
EDIT: Also the live concert was super cool.