It’s all just so unrelentingly French. If I have to watch that man wiggle his head Frenchly one more time I’m not letting him dodge or parry for the rest of the game.
It’s so weird seeing a game that plays like Persona but has the graphical fidelity of a modern game.
The world and dialogue feel like Assassin’s Creed, then you go into turn based fights with parrying. It’s jarring to see.
But you can tell it has come from developers stuck in the Ubisoft mines finally making the sort of game they want to play after all those years churning out map based slop
I dunno. France is terrible but the French are always a little based. They just need to overthrow their government or whatever. Like, tell me a courcican guy day drinking wine at a cafe isn’t better than any capitalist bullshit the anglosphere invented.
You rember those pictures of French firemen using firebending on cops?
Playing this game has been eye opening for me. Is this what people normal people feel like when they play Shin Megami Tensei or Yakuza or something?
Because all the French stuff is everywhere and everyone keeps saying little French phrases I have to look up. And the player is just expected to understand and roll with it. Now I kinda get when a normal person is like “what the fuck is a senpai” or “what’s a golden week.” Stuff I always took for granted because I’m a weird obsessive about Japan. But I know jack shit about France except they eat snails and frogs and their president married a pedophile
The game fucking rules though
Probably, I remember Digital Devil Saga being an absolute ballache as a teen because most of the abilities have Japanese names and I had to work out what each element was called and what the prefixes and suffixes meant.
The game lets you beat up mimes that give you cosmetics that are over the top French, including a baguette that attaches to your back. The devs get how French they are it’s fun
I’ve met the french, they always think they get how french they are and then go and do something even more french 5 minutes later.
The French are so french that when I volunteered to help staff a camp in France, the last two days of “prep” I was put through before the kids arrived consisted of drinking and smoking on the bank of the seine late into the night, getting a lunchtime train to the puy region, then drinking rosé, eating charcuterie, and sharing stories with some of the local organisers all afternoon and evening. This was considered appropriate because it was to be a dry, nonsmoking camp, so we’d only be allowed to have the charcuterie for the next 3 weeks.
Honestly I’m enjoying it. Between the music and the story I can put up with the bullshit dark souls esque dodge-parry mechanic.
I think we really need more games similar to this from around the world. I want to culturally osmosis swear words from every country on earth. A different swear word for every occasion!
The bullshit dark souls-esque dodge-parry mechanic was actually one of the things that interested me - not because I particularly like either dark souls or dodging and parry, just because it does something to mix up the standard turn based formula. It’s like Shadow Hearts adding a ring mini game to combat or Lost Odyssey’s QTE’s, it just adds a little bit more active engagement to the combat.
This is true. At least to me it makes it seem like we’re edging closer to the gamer singularity where all genres blur together elements and incorporate elements from everything and lose all the distinctive aspects that define them…
Wait a minute am I a game genre racist?
“RPG elements” were a mistake
Hard disagree
nah they just made RPGs worse and shooters worse.
Oh wait I misread that initial statement.
Hard agree.
'fraid so, time to head to c/selfcrit
Seriously though, there’s only so many base mechanics, genres, stories etc to go around, so they are going to blur together as they get combined in different ways, but that doesn’t make the gestalts created from them a problem in themselves. The actual problem is the profit motive driving bland combinations with mass appeal - the PS2 era was a golden age for it, but you do still see developers combining them in interesting ways that improve the experience rather than just watering down both parts.
I wouldn’t have bought it if it were merely a turn based RPG. Mastering dodges and parries means I get to do more cool shit on my turn and off my turn and spend less time worrying about healing
Does this game have a good soundtrack?
It’s amazing though I hope someone translates it all
I’ve been enjoying this guy’s covers fwiw : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx4SqOUnah0
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The mime fights are hard as fuck. I skipped them. No baguette for me.
I think it is novel because of how French it is if nothing else. No other culture could have created this game.
Esquie might be the most French character ever created.
Yeah, it is overwhelmingly French. On the other hand, battling with mimes just feels like the right way to handle things.
More games should let you beat up mimes.
After putting down so many JRPGs because they had too much of the J, an FRPG sounds nice. If only I could find a physical copy that wasn’t from a scalper.
I’ve gotten into so many stupid arguments with people about the newer (especially) Final Fantasy games being JRPGs over the years. XVI was agonizing, I couldn’t play more than an hour of XIII, and the only newer one I’ve been able to tolerate is XII. It sucks, because I loved VI and IX.
Someone called it a J’RPG and I can’t stop thinking about it
Did you play any of the Bravely Default games? They’re arguably more Final Fantasy than the most recent Final Fantasy games.
I haven’t and should.
Dim dim dam dada dim dim da dada dim da lilam
Dim dim dam dada dim dim da dada dam di didam
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It is very French. I am also a firm believer of if you don’t jive with “the new hot thing” you shouldn’t force it on yourself. However, and this may be my ignorance to French story telling (they fell of after Chrétien de Troyes), but I cannot think of another story like it that deals with the themes it does.
That’s about all I can say, and I am sorry for word salad, coffee still kicking in
Honestly it crashed about 30 seconds after I gained control and started fiddling with steam controller settings, so I can’t comment on anything more than the opening cinematic, but the other guy said you get to beat up a mime so I can probably tolerate the frenchness.
It cools down the Frenchness a bit as you get further in. Characters still say shit like “Mon ami” and putain and merde but whatever
Swearing in french is like saying “heck” or “dang”, it doesn’t count
