The Backlog Check-in Vol. 113: 2/29/20: Pokemon Myster Dungeon DX Edition
Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:52 pm
Games added: Dreams, Warriors Orochi 4 Ultimate, Bayonetta/Vanquish 10th Anniversary, Blacksad, Journey to the Savage Planet
Last 2 weeks: Finished One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3, played Death End RE;Quest, Two Point Hospital and some more Pokemon Sword online
This week: More Death End and Two Point Hospital. I also picked Borderlands 3 back up today on my lunch break because I'm in the mood to shoot stuff, so I'll pop that in at some point.
Pirate Warriors 3 was fun, one of the better Warriors spin-off games IMO. Plot broke down to nonsense because 1) I'm not very familiar with the anime (I've seen maybe the first 20 episodes) and 2) the game compresses around 660 episodes worth of story into around 25 hours of game.
But it was still a lot of fun. Death End is a blast. The story is presented as a visual novel, which works because of the balance of more gameplay vs story segments and the fact that the story is really interesting - it's basically a horror-themed take on Sword Art Online (person gets trapped in an online game). The battle system has some fun twists, the main one being the ability to knock enemies into each other, the "arena" borders or even other party members for additional damage. It ends up making battles almost feel like billiards. It also borrows a mechanic from the old PS1 RPG Legend of Legaia - you can slot in up to 3 moves in a turn, but certain combinations of 2 moves & leaving the third blank will give you the chance to learn something new (you see a lightbulb when you slot in 2 in the right order that could lead to a new one, but there's a degree of luck as to whether you'll learn it or not).
All-in-all, really fun JRPG with some neat twists.
Phase, I agree with your take on Child of Light btw - I also found it to be pretty generic, and the rhyming gimmick felt really forced to me. I couldn't finish that one either.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon DX comes out Friday. Always down for a *real* Rogue-like.
Last 2 weeks: Finished One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3, played Death End RE;Quest, Two Point Hospital and some more Pokemon Sword online
This week: More Death End and Two Point Hospital. I also picked Borderlands 3 back up today on my lunch break because I'm in the mood to shoot stuff, so I'll pop that in at some point.
Pirate Warriors 3 was fun, one of the better Warriors spin-off games IMO. Plot broke down to nonsense because 1) I'm not very familiar with the anime (I've seen maybe the first 20 episodes) and 2) the game compresses around 660 episodes worth of story into around 25 hours of game.
But it was still a lot of fun. Death End is a blast. The story is presented as a visual novel, which works because of the balance of more gameplay vs story segments and the fact that the story is really interesting - it's basically a horror-themed take on Sword Art Online (person gets trapped in an online game). The battle system has some fun twists, the main one being the ability to knock enemies into each other, the "arena" borders or even other party members for additional damage. It ends up making battles almost feel like billiards. It also borrows a mechanic from the old PS1 RPG Legend of Legaia - you can slot in up to 3 moves in a turn, but certain combinations of 2 moves & leaving the third blank will give you the chance to learn something new (you see a lightbulb when you slot in 2 in the right order that could lead to a new one, but there's a degree of luck as to whether you'll learn it or not). All-in-all, really fun JRPG with some neat twists.
Phase, I agree with your take on Child of Light btw - I also found it to be pretty generic, and the rhyming gimmick felt really forced to me. I couldn't finish that one either.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon DX comes out Friday. Always down for a *real* Rogue-like.
