you know how some jrpgs have like dungeons, and some jrpgs are like dungeon crawlers? this is sort of like the opposite of that.
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SaGa Scarlet Grace Ambitions |OT| So Good It Sells Itself
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you know how some jrpgs have like dungeons, and some jrpgs are like dungeon crawlers? this is sort of like the opposite of that.
Could be any number of things. Lack of faith in it's ability to move at a higher price? The fact that it's a port of a game that came out a few years ago? Hard to say, but rest assured that it is a large and very good game.
I think it's so they don't get shit for selling it cheaper on mobile (which they keep porting SaGa releases to, so it must be doing decently for them).
Is 30 too little or too much? I agree it's too little for what the game is but I wouldn't say no to a good deal.
50+ hours? I think my first playthrough (on Vita), which was also my first SaGa, took me between 70 and 80 hours.
Yup, It's pretty much the same system as in previous titles - higher spark rates with their weapon of choice. Going by their initial equipment seems the safest bet.
So I just watched someone do the first 45 minutes and its basically just battles? Walk around from battle to battle (or set of battles) with very light narrative attached to each?
That's all there is to the game?
That's all there is to the game?
Those games are 4, 5, and 9 years old. Surely they may have improved on the things you've disliked since then?
Not to mention that I loved X, so I'm not really seeing a problem there. They've done consistently solid work in anything I've played with them involved.
Absolutely; Dragalia probably wouldn't have kept my interest for nearly this long if it wasn't punched up like that.
50 hours per character.
It's pretty much that with quests and fine-tuning your party in-between. No towns or dungeons to explore.
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Here's an overview of all playable characters in the game, their stats and their skill levels. Character names are based on the game files, so these may differ from the actual game.
They're both quite different. RS3 is very free-form and allows you to go wherever you want, but you can get lost and become aimless easily.
Scarlet Grace is a bit more focused (depending on the character you pick) but it's also a bit more "brainy", as the battles require more thought process and require to keep a lot of things in mind.
If you come from a FF/DQ/Tales background, they are highly unorthodox anyway and don't have a classic scenario progression, so keep it mind it may not be for everyone's tastes.
Scarlet Grace is a bit more focused (depending on the character you pick) but it's also a bit more "brainy", as the battles require more thought process and require to keep a lot of things in mind.
If you come from a FF/DQ/Tales background, they are highly unorthodox anyway and don't have a classic scenario progression, so keep it mind it may not be for everyone's tastes.
RS3 was and still is discounted on PS4. Think it took some time to apply in some regions.
Only SaGa game I've ever liked is Unlimited SaGa, and no, this isn't a joke post. Will I like this game?
I thought this was only a 20 hours game. Doesn't it get boring after 50 hours clicking through menus and mainly doing battles? Is the story interesting with plot twists?
I'm potentially interested in this one. How are the individual character arcs and interactions? I'm less attached to towns and dungeons if the cast are well-written.
It can be 20 hours if you just try to power through the critical path of a character.... if you even know what the critical path is specifically that is haha.
Don't see why 50 hours of "battles and menus" would be boring though, considering people can easily play 300 hours of Hearthstone without getting bored.
If you can manage to like Unlimited SaGa despite its weirdness, sure. Through I recommend Renowned Explorers as a good game sort of like Unlimited SaGa.
Replays can be way shorter.
You want more of the SaGa series wonderful town and dungeon design?
Larger in scope and longer, and more replayable. It was a full retail release in Japan, and we just get to benefit from it being digital-only and Westerners having narrow views on what makes a good JRPG.
Keep the launch discount for Europe and I will buy my first SaGa game Square.
You are weird. I want to be your friend, but then I'm afraid you'd come and kill me in my sleep.
Anyhow, if you liked U:S, I'd say SG is less weird. It doesn't have the roulette, and I find the world less interesting than U:S. Also, the music is back to Itoken (as it should, but U:S had my favourite Hamauzu themes).
However, while the battles are quite different from U:S, it incorporate a similar idea in that the characters can get really tired while fighting, and you need to alternate them to allow them to recover.
It really depends what you liked in U:S.
Scarlet Grace is far less flawed than U:S, it's still very experimental, quite different... more accomplished than US, I would say. I think Minstrel Song took a bunch of ideas from U:S and modified them to fit its system, and Scarlet Grace did the same with the remaining ideas from U:S.
Also out in Australia and New Zealand for PS4 with a 20 percent discount for PlayStation Plus members.
Woah, they really went above and beyond if that is true. Kind of odd to put that much work into the localization with almost zero promotion of the game.
Tomorrow probably. It's been out in Japan for a while on Steam which likely complicates matters.
It's almost as if they blew their entire budget on the localisation alone.
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I guess that explains the price then. Sorta-kinda like Little Town Hero (I mean the situation, not the game itself). The 20% discount makes it tempting.
I missed the RS3 discount i got it literally 10 minutes before they added it and Nintendo support told me nothing they could do.
They had to refund me the entire game and I had to re-buy it to get the discount applied.
I had the same thing happen on PSN. They just credited the difference to my account without me having to do anything.
Didn't even realize it was on there till I went to buy Days Gone and saw it.
You have never had to play through more than one character in a SaGa game with multiple characters before to enjoy the game so I don't know why this would be any different.
it was full price Vita game so i thinks its less that and more of the fact its an almost 5 year old vita up port
I don't know anything about this series hence why I'm asking.
You just pick one of the characters and play it until the end of their storyline. There's no interaction like Gensô Suikoden 3 or Rudra no Hihô, where the other scenarios happen at the same time as yours: in SG, the other characters you didn't pick will remain where they are, you may meet them or not, but you won't be wondering "what was character X doing while I was doing Y?". Each story is a bit light compared to traditional JRPG, but they're a complete package.
The point about replayability is that it's a very modular game, with a good learning curve, so once you've finished it, you may want to start again with all the knowledge you've gained and try different team compositions or playstyle. And if you do that, you can pick a different character to spice things up. Nothing more.
Odd that the discount is tied to ps+, it wasn't like that for RS3. Doesn''t really matter though, will be getting it regardless.
Anyway, glad they are doing a midnight release. Now to wait a few hours.
Anyway, glad they are doing a midnight release. Now to wait a few hours.
