You do lose like two weeks of your life, though, which pretty much guarantees you reset anyway ;)
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I definitely want to give it another go. I have the PSP remake on my Vita at the moment, but something about that first fight always makes me turn it off... I don't know if it's necessarily game mechanics. I do know one time I honestly felt sick while playing, something that I experienced with FFVII as well (those…
I honestly suggested VIII over, say, V which I liked more simply for its visuals and its scope. Even on the PS2 that game was open and beautiful and gave such a sense of exploration that still gives me warm feelings inside to this day. But I do agree about IX - I liked it overall since I had a core group of people to…
The grinding at the beginning got me too the first time through. Fuck that waterfall boss.
I dunno, and they're still on a role. They can make some questionable and downright bonkers decisions sometimes, but man do I love them <3
You do! They're seriously fantastic games. My favorite is probably Meruru since Sterk's arc comes to its conclusion in that (I miss him every moment I play the Dusk series), but if you have Ayesha, that'd probably be the place to start :)
Why it's worth playing: You play as the unnamed hero who finds himself on an adventure to restore the bodies of both his king and his love-interest the princess, who have been turned into a frog-like demon and white horse respectively. Along the way you meet some less-than-reputable characters who help form a ragtag…
I've finally made myself admit that this is my favorite game of all times. Every time I hear any music from it, the feelings inside me are insane. It's also the best point of entry for the SMT series in general since you can set the difficulty and get a hang of the general system before jumping to, say, Nocturne :D
For beginners, I dunno, man. I'm finally in the final dungeon for the true ending, and it's been a slog with those "legendary" chapters as you aptly call them. I'd honestly be afraid it'd turn beginners away. Hell, it almost turned me away, and while I'm not the best gamer in the world, I've definitely seen a few…
It's every so slightly below Wind Waker for me, and that's only because Wind Waker is the one game I've ever beaten, immediately restarted, and beat again. The Thousand-Year Door doesn't suffer from some of the pacing issues in WW though, so I'd probably agree from an objective prospective.
One of my absolute favorite games :D
The only thing I'd add to this is that the difficulty is low as long as you don't go off the beaten path. Some of those optional bosses can be insane and can take years of in-game preparation to accurately equip yourself for battle against them. The alchemy system can also be hard to get your head around; it took me…
They somewhat are. Rorona, Totori, and Meruru respectively are all apart of the Arland Trilogy while Ayesha, Escha & Logy, and the yet-to-be-released Shallie are apart of the Alchemists of Dusk series. Each build upon each other in that they are in the same world and feature some recurring characters; however, most of…
Atelier is one of those series that I feel you have to stumble through the first to actually understand just what the hell you're doing. I love them to death, but for those unfamiliar to the genre, it could potentially frustrate them. At the same token though, I felt like the first time I played through Rorona (the…
Six forms? That sounds absolutely disgusting. I'm probably going to have to shower afterwards just to get all the filth off me. Ugh.
It's very possible! And yeah, you did spell it out a little more. Thanks for that :)
Huh, this is all good to know. I'm kinda happy that they let you switch jobs in the middle of the fight with him. It'll be nice at least for trying out some things while I die about five times before an actual attempt! That tends to happen to me. I love games with jobs, but then for some reason I never actually want…
I actually did say that there is a connection between Strange Journey and the other numbered SMT games :) I haven't played Strange Journey myself, but I know there are a number of similarities between them as you said!