Yep, he destroys multiple cutscenes that involve him or his family. It's a really bad decision to make an MC that is both silent and relevant to the plot. But the other characters are not that great either: Selena is boring except for one cutscene at the end of Chapter 2, Veronica is your annoying brat most of the times, Eric is the "rogue friend" cliché without anything else, Rab is your perverted martial art master cliché, Jade has small plot relevance besides sharing some past moments with MC and no real development... Sylvando and 7 are the best of the bunch, the first hours of Act 2 when both of them have their development arc are the most interesting content in the game IMO.
You're bugging. Sylvando and Veronica are the only characters that stand out in the ENTIRE GAME so far 40 hrs in.
As great as some characters are, the MC ruins multiple emotional scenes by standing there like a statue. He shows zero emotion during emotional scenes, and ruins so many moments.
What is it about silent characters that makes him ruin everything ? I don't need to show someone crying to understand what he feels, I only need context. The context of his life is engaging throughout and shows how much he and his family has gone through and it's emotional for me.
Yea. Sorry. RPGs are predicated on the fact that all the characters are compelling as well as the plot. Your line of thinking may be the very reason this very same company thought is was acceptable to release the silent man.
Like in other Tales of games, the camera follows the 1st player and can be frustrating from time to time, but making good combos with your friends or having competent party members instead of the stupid IA can make the game better. I played through Shymponia with 3 friends (full party) during 90% of my 2nd GC playthrough and it can get really good. The problem is, you need friends that want to see lots of cutscenes and party banter with you, which can be the real problem of coop play with Tales of games.
Lol. Next time I expect a full party of silent characters with little to none expressions, but LOTS of context everywhere. It should be good enough right? Who wants characters that act like human beings, if we can throw lots of context in the games and that's all we need... /s.
Absolutely, it's a good game to play with your GF if both of you are invested in these kind of games and spend lots of hours together (the game is kind of long). IIRC I've played both Shymphonia, Xillia and some segments of Abyss with friends, and it's an interesting experience. It was 2nd runs all of them, as I know that my friends have little patience with long games and only want to fight montsers and superbosses, we skipped most of the cutscenes except in Shymphonia.
I've only played DQ8 and DQ11 but listening and comparing the sound track, DQ11 is abysmal
2 Western RPG's? That's actually a very good comparison
One thing I've noticed, the arguments for DQ11 are all nostalgia based ei "classic combat" I hate this nostalgia argument in regards to DQ's generic plot and shallow combat. Especially since the battles aren't very challenging and nearly coma inducing in DQ
I know that I have been "throwing my takes" at DQ threads, as you may know I played the game, and as a "JRPG player" I found it to be quite bland/boring. Not bad per se, the game is polished and all and looks great, but I can't say more good things about it aside from some good story moments.
Having a silent character is one thing. Having a completely expressionless shell of a character that is just standing there without moving a single muscle of his face ruins multiple cutscenes. Many other JRPGs have done silent protagonists perfectly fine, that's not the problem.
I must've played a different version than you of DQXI. I couldn't have a lore different opinion than you on this. I genuinely cared a lot about every party members other than the admittedly boring and bland (on purpose, sadly) main character.
given that you spend the longest time with them and they dont even tell you any of their motivations as characters, all of them come off super bland. Especially when the pace is so rushed, I dont know if it gets better down the line, but when Im waiting for the characters to actually get fleshed out after 20 hrs of gameplay, something is wrong. The game showed no intention of doing this either, probably one of my least favorite JRPG casts
Different opinions I fear. As I've explained in some other threads, some scenes lacked any "warm" interaction during some critical moments. I was hard for me to care about the characters in the game, aside from some sections at the end of Act II (you know what I mean), I never felt that any of them was that remarkable. I will also say that I don't really care that much about family drama (except Clannad, obviously), so I'm not the target of this game drama moments.
40 hours if you want to see the credits. It took me 50 and I did some optional content here and there, also I talked to each NPC every time the story advanced.
Which is IMO a bad design decision. Even so, I never found the system engaging enough to want more difficult battles. I liked that in normal mode you can basically go from boss to boss and have somewhat challening battles due to being underleveled.
