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Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Encore | Review Thread
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I like the modern personas, the GBA fire emblem & three houses and Ike from smash bros but dislike jpop and anime in general, would this be good try?
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Depends on what you mean by dislike. If you can tolerate it then maybe if not then no way. It is very jpop and "anime".
I think if you like modern persona games then you will enjoy the gameplay. It's got a chapter structure instead of a Calendar system so there's no time management to worry about. It's got very good turn based combat. You learn skills from weapons you craft (like Final Fantasy Tactics) that help your teammates chain combos together when you exploit an enemy's weakness.
The idol setting isn't too bad, although there are a few very tropey characters that you might not enjoy, but the playable characters are mostly pretty good imo. Side stories are mostly goofy and focus on preparing your teammates for various performances (often you take them with you to a dungeon to destroy certain enemies) and this is how you unlock various special moves. Otherwise they tie the idol stuff to dungeon mechanics in reasonably clever ways.
The Fire Emblem characters are mostly from Awakening & the first game, so you might not know many of them.
I think most people will be able to look past the idol stuff for the fun gameplay & RPG mechanics, but may be worth waiting for an eshop deal if you're still on the fence.
Hm, I think I'll wait and hope a friend gets the physical version and try that then. Cheers.
Wish it had a dub.
Wish it had a dub.
Not really into
I'm guessing so.
- Stuff that is "anime af"
- Jpop idols
- Cheesy song scenes in Jrpgs
- The "power of friendships." And similar played out Jrpg tropes.
- SMT (played and enjoyed smt iv)
- FE
- Good Jrpgs with strong battle systems.
I'm guessing so.
Because the only character with the "Idol" trope is Tsubasa. Kiria fits more into the Diva trope, Touma the super sentai/hero kids show actor, Mamori the child TV show star, Yashiro the male superstar (I guess he's closest to the male equivalent of an idol), and Eleanora the aspiring actress. Tsubasa does play a huge role but that's not the only thing the game is about. And the Fire Emblem song was only a "meme" to those who were disappointed on what the crossover actually was or did not like the game (which you clearly don't) whether they played it or not. Personally, I found that moment pretty epic but still in a tropey light hearted "power of good" sort of way.
Full portable play and skippable Session animations will make this game shine. I enjoyed it on the Wii U but towards the end of the game I found battles really tedious because every attack would kick off six unskippable animations.
Excited to give this game another go. Didn't get far the first time around, but I think I'll enjoy playing it more on the Switch.
Just need to decide between physical and digital. Digital makes more sense since I have two Switches, but 720p docked is disappointing so I'll likely run through most of it on my Lite.
Just need to decide between physical and digital. Digital makes more sense since I have two Switches, but 720p docked is disappointing so I'll likely run through most of it on my Lite.
People will say, skip it (battle system is goat, though). But maybe give it a try. I too was all of the above in your "not into"-list. At least i thought so. But #FE has a really charming, unintrusive way to navigate around the most tropey stuff. It did everything i thought would be too tropey (especially "The power of friendship") way better than it had every right to. It did it in appropriate amounts and with seriousness as well as some little winks and humour. I grew really attached to several characters.
There are 1 or 2 music cutscenes that can be too cheesy, but that amounts to nothing more than the amount of cringeworthy scenes in every other JRPG. Other songs are great.
And the battle system as well as the upgrade system and is soooo good.
Aside from the extra content that adds a good 2-3 hours of gameplay, the biggest takeaway from the Switch port is faster load times; 2-3x faster if you look at Gamexplain's video. Honestly, the almost instantaneous transition from field to battle is enough to get me to buy it a 2nd time.
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Exactly. People are talking about "idols" and "idol culture" as if it's like iM@s or Love Live, or else AKB48, or something. When most of them only sing as a side thing at most and even then it's a solo song or duet. It's about an entertainment agency.
Like I do think wanting it to say something about more general toxic fan culture and how agencies cruelly enforce that stuff is valid? But... it's also not really about that specific kind of "idol".
also that moment is hilariously amazing and I'm happy I dodged being spoiled pre-release, it rules
12:00am Midnight your timezone.
Nintendo 1st party games are always 12:00am midnight of release :)
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Ooh, that Polygon review is an interesting one. I was definitely more experienced with RPGs in general than them, but I feel I was a more casual player of them until around the time this came out on Wii U and it was one of the first of me playing them more actively. So it's neat to hear that it's similarly satisfying/intuitive for a more outright newcomer to the genre.
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Split if I should get this or not
I only play docked so it being 720p is a big turn off for me. On the other hand it sounds like has improved loading times and you can skip animations?
I could alternatively play it via CEMU at 4k and play the game for much cheaper
idk what to do
I only play docked so it being 720p is a big turn off for me. On the other hand it sounds like has improved loading times and you can skip animations?
I could alternatively play it via CEMU at 4k and play the game for much cheaper
idk what to do
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they haven't reviewed it (yet)
gamespot gave the original an 8, IGN a 7.6
So that video of this game having much faster load times on switch, is that through cart, digital or internal memory?
I would assume digital since I think most reviewers nowadays just receive codes for the product, though whether it's on internal memory or SD card is anyone's guess. I'm playing it on cart though, and the load times feel similarly snappy... definitely still a big improvement over the Wii U version.
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49 hours (63 hours completionist)
Plus the extra content for the Switch.
I refuse to play this game simply because there's no English dub. Come on, this is a first party published Nintendo product. I get not doing it for the Wii U version, it was always going to sell peanuts, but why even bother with a Switch deluxe version if you're still not dubbing it? Even NIS and XSeed manage to get a dub in most of their obscure JRPGs that come out over here, and this is Nintendo cheaping out on a product closely related to one of their biggest franchises. No thanks.
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Game is pretty solid, but im skipping a good 90% of the cutscenes. I don't remember if the wiiu version had the quick follow up toggle, but holy hell is that nice.
Also i would buy a $20 dlc pack that simply turned off the notifications that you have texts / made people text you less. Its every fucking 30 seconds.
I also recommend turning the voice volume wayyy down. Everyones chirping on follow up attacks is grating as hell.
Edit: just finished. Boy, this game is wasted potential. Solid battle system and potentially concept, but they execute that concept so brazenly awful. 95% of the game is jpop filler episodes and the final act is just a paint by numbers jrpg ending cliche.
Also i would buy a $20 dlc pack that simply turned off the notifications that you have texts / made people text you less. Its every fucking 30 seconds.
I also recommend turning the voice volume wayyy down. Everyones chirping on follow up attacks is grating as hell.
Edit: just finished. Boy, this game is wasted potential. Solid battle system and potentially concept, but they execute that concept so brazenly awful. 95% of the game is jpop filler episodes and the final act is just a paint by numbers jrpg ending cliche.
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Highest difficulty is very fun and challenging. Savage encounters are no joke.
