PS4 version has no date. I wonder if some limited disc print will be made. Could be successful.
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Banner of the Maid - SRPG masterpiece
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I mostly just saw "good level design with varied objectives" and "might be like Disgaea?", but the latter can't be quite right because I'm sure there's no throwing people onto stacks of other people or million-plus damage attacks, right?
As for the latter, you're totally right and I did miss that, my bad.
Listen, I can only eat so much crow in one thread, and the person above corrected me on something else I got wrong already.
(You're also totally right, I did not know that was a title/nickname she had!)
That's bloody disingenuous and rude, and you should apologize to that member. Especially considering:
...Yeah.
lmao, if it was just the right 4 I'd have no issues but the 3 on the left takes it straight to noooooope territory.
Exactly. And it's not like they didn't have some good inspiration in Rose of Versailles for making female military officers look amazing and attractive.
Same again here. I like the concept of taking notes from a less-well-used-in-games style of period dress and letting the peninsular war inform an SRPG, as opposed to general medieval stuff, but bolting on the same unimaginative, bog-standard templated sexualisation of half the cast (who in places look very young) means I'll skip it. Completely unnecessary.
Barbie anatomy is actually true to life. We are incapable of wearing anything else.
Real talk, all the noble men should be wearing heels.
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At that point there was only the torso design so saying someone wearing a skirt was "sexed up" seemed oddly puritanical. Perhaps the poster had already seen the full art, perhaps they hadnt. It certainly wasn't disingenuous on my behalf. Was it mistaken in retrospect, sure, as I owned up to. I was wrong, I admitted it, I don't feel the need to apologise but thank you for the suggestion, unless that was a moderator instruction? I'm unsure if this forum has mods use distinct formatting for that.
Assuming you quoted me with my obvious disdain for the garbage art with this response intentionally?
And the word maid implies that there are also... maids? :)
Very mature.
No one's stopping you from liking your anime titty game but no need to mock me with it.
Unless your definition for "anime porn" is very broad I'm not sure what you're talking about. The big franchises, Fire Emblem, Final Fantasy Tactics, Disagea, etc. are nothing close to the character designs in this. The more popular recent indie entries, Fell Seal, Wargroove, etc. likewise are nothing close. In fact the only thing similar I can think of is Eiyuu Senki, which is more visual novel than SRPG.
The character designs appeal to me, but let me show you what doesn't.
This is just an example. ALL of the text is like this. It actually hurts my head to read. I put in for a refund just now. Not supporting translations with quality this low.
This is just an example. ALL of the text is like this. It actually hurts my head to read. I put in for a refund just now. Not supporting translations with quality this low.
The character designs appeal to me, but let me show you what doesn't.
This is just an example. ALL of the text is like this. It actually hurts my head to read. I put in for a refund just now. Not supporting translations with quality this low.
Unfortunately this is the norm for Chinese RPGs. They've only recently started coming over here thanks to Steam and because of that they don't have the decades history of translation standards Japanese games do. They probably just get somebody on the team with a high school level understanding of English to translate.
It is better than nothing imo but it certainly makes it hard to recommend these games. Even the ones that don't have ridiculous sexualised designs.
I exaggerated, but Fire Emblem is now part dating sim. Disgaea might not be nearly as bad, heck not even bad, but far from "grounded". FFT was my first SRPG, there are no games like that anymore. You're right that recent western titles have been good. I did exaggerate, I apologize :P I just wish we had more stuff like FFT and Tactics Ogre, something more serious and grounded.
Fire Emblem Conquest literally ends with the main character running head first into Camilla's beasts (in 1st person) and falling to the ground after bouncing off them. At that point, the camera spends entirely too long zooming right into her cleavage, to the point where the entire screen is covered by breasts. Which is made even worse by the whole incest thing Camilla constantly has going on with the main character.
I'm not sure if I'd call it porn, but it's still complete garbage.
The character designs appeal to me, but let me show you what doesn't.
This is just an example. ALL of the text is like this. It actually hurts my head to read. I put in for a refund just now. Not supporting translations with quality this low.
No shit i actually skipped most of the text because of this at least the gameplay is top notch.
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You might want to specify which Fire Emblem, because Nowi, Tharja and Camilla exists. In fact, in terms of fan service crap, I've gotten more from some Fire Emblem like Awakening and Fates than Banner of Maid, which as I said doesn't actually feature any perverted content apart from some of the character art themselves. So let's not act like Fire Emblem has been completely innocent just because their latest entry was doing better in this regard.
But about this game, yeah it's that kinda game. Tough game to sell to the peeps here and I can understand where they're coming from, but Xenoblade 2 also has a lot of fans and that game feature even more ridiculous female designs. Era truly has diverse users.
It was more the use of the word porn I was questioning, which was an admitted exaggeration on that users behalf. I certainly wouldn't deny Fire Emblem includes a lot more fan service these days, though I don't think it was every entirely free of it. I suppose the confusion might have been that there are actual SRPG porn games, the aforementioned Eiyuu Senki (which had it excised for console and Steam release) and the other popular one whose name escapes me Ranko? Sanko? or something.
I'd suggest giving Fell Seal a go, it really recaptured that FFT vibe for me.
No denying Awakening & Fates were bad about otaku pandering creepiness, but thankfully they're the exceptions rather than the rule for the series—not Three Houses. And it's been two entries without said stuff, Shadows of Valentia was fine as well.
I think I'll pass on this game.
I vaguely remember this. Its got some of the cringiest character designs for objectifying women as I recall. I mean this random screenshot I just grabbed from Google. Why has a military officer got her jacket open with her tits out?
It's painfully bad....
How in the world is that poster mocking you? You were the first one to post the picture, they're reacting to the picture, so they quoted you. Even excluded the rest of your post to make it clear they're simply reacting to the picture.
Are you only allowed to quote people if you agree with every word they say now?
It seemed unessecerry to quote me considering the bit they excluded to rub in my face they're only interested for the tits and the chance of maids. They could have used their own picture or simply said so in a post but no, highlight to me they want it for titties.
If they want the game then that's fine but that quote was wholly unessecerry and if you can't see why I might find that kind of insulting then I don't know what to tell you.
FYI the Switch English version has been submitted and the devs are just waiting. I couldn't get the PC version running (admittedly I did minimal troubleshooting) so I'm gonna have to wait for the Switch port.
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“@cwistofu Hi, the Switch port is already done and waiting for the approval process. There's no exact launch date currently for it, all we can do is wait. BTW, did you check your anti-virus method and see if the game client is blocked or something?”
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nah, harrier in sov is pretty much worse then anything in awakening/fates. Luckily the dlc classes in feth are nothing like that. and tbh, i wouldn't put fire emblem in a healthy place regards character designs asides from Radiant Dawn and to a lesser extent PoR. I would mention feth but Kronya's pretty bad ngl.
And to bring this back to the op, games looks really interesting.
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Harrier is high level paid DLC content in a game that doesn't even need/get to high levels without excessive grinding. I'd wager the percentage of players who've seen, let alone used, harrier is incredibly small.
There's a big difference between that and pornographic major characters like Camilla, sexualized/marriageable children (Nowi, Elise, etc.), ubiquitous thong cavaliers/knights, etc. in my book.
I said earlier, but SoV and Three Houses have ~1-2 such designs total, counting 3H's Kronya and maybe Cornelia, and SoV's harrier class and maybe Nuibaba, and all of those examples have minimal screentime; the games' overall tone is markedly different and more grounded.
There is not. It's like older FE games where you go from one battle to the next, with some optional battles spruced in between
And the word maid implies that there are also... maids? :)
Oh please! As if the sarcastic ":)" in his post didn't give the tone away.
If they really wanted to appeal to both audiences, maybe add an option to have more realistic and less revealing female outfits.
But seriously, miniskirts+thighhighs and the 17th(?) century is so incredibly historically accurate.
Is it actually good? The art is just so bad (in a different way) and I read the story is quite bad.
I have no problem with the art. The story is fine, it's not Matsuno level but it's fine on its own, and the gameplay is on par, perhaps better, than FFTactics.
YessssFYI the Switch English version has been submitted and the devs are just waiting. I couldn't get the PC version running (admittedly I did minimal troubleshooting) so I'm gonna have to wait for the Switch port.
聖女戦旗 on Twitter
“@cwistofu Hi, the Switch port is already done and waiting for the approval process. There's no exact launch date currently for it, all we can do is wait. BTW, did you check your anti-virus method and see if the game client is blocked or something?”
You won't find me disagreeing with giving people such options. I am all for that.
If I ever developed games in this genre, the default costumes and military uniforms would try to be fairly historically accurate and essentially not sexualized as a result.
That good huh? Ok, I'll try it. Is there lots of grinding (I think FFT does not, but TO LUCT does)
Nah, I didn't need to grind, though I did re-do a few battles where I missed some treasures but that's just me being a completist.
Can second recommendation for Fell Seal, played it a couple months back and I think it's the first time in forever I didn't get Indie-RPG-Story-Syndrome vibes from it (albeit it was a little predictable, haha), it didn't have tumblr nose, and the systems and progression are very, VERY familiar to FFTactics.
(disclaimer: I'd play the game in OP too but super strapped for time nowadays)
(disclaimer: I'd play the game in OP too but super strapped for time nowadays)
