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SaGa Scarlet Grace coming to PS4/Switch/Steam/iOS/Android in 2018
- Thread starter Aeana
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Steam version definitely makes me expect an English version. I really hope that is true. I really want to play this.
I mean, I think this will definitely be released in English, but....
http://store.steampowered.com/app/521720/Uncharted_Waters/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/628170/Uncharted_Waters_II___II/
You can, just not in Japan since Steam is very small there.
Aren't there some exclusively Chinese subtitled games in Steam?
Lol I posted before seeing yours.
Though most people would think Japan PC market is very small.
Koei Tecmo must be quite desperate to do that. Then again most of their PC port sucks, so maybe they don't even need to spend much to port.
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But like, Koei Tecmo is literally doing it in Japan...
http://store.steampowered.com/bundle/3475/Kou_Shibusawa_Archives_Vol15____Vol15/
How many more must I link?
It's not even just their old retro catalog either. This was just late last year: http://store.steampowered.com/app/628890/Nobunagas_Ambition_Taishi/
You still probably wouldn't know what to expect even if you had played one. They're very different from each other.
I haven't played this yet, but from all SaGa that I've played, RS2 is on the easier side.
I had a hard time with the final boss because I was unprepared and missed out on the Magic Research Facility (got it at the final emperor), I couldn't beat the game at that point.
Plus some bosses are unbalanced like that termite queen.
I dunno but SaGa Frontier 1 was pretty doable, that's the only SaGa game I've actually completed.
looks like i'll be buying this. no Vita sucks but at least they'll add new stuff. don't forget dat physical on PS4.
Huh...
Art style is definitely...different.
I dunno. This might be something I keep on my radar.
Art style is definitely...different.
I dunno. This might be something I keep on my radar.
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Okay but that isn't the game being hard so much as the wrong decisions stacking up against you. So it's hard to really say. You can absolutely screw yourself in Scarlet Grace and get in an unwinnable situation at some point too, sure. Overall I'll say combat is harder than RS2 because it requires more thought, but the difficultly is also less "random" because the player has a lot of control in influencing progress. It's far more tactical, and you have a lot of options. But if you don't know how to use them well, you can make the game increasingly worse as you progress. If you know how to use them well, the game can feel like a breeze at times.
I did this in the PS2 remake of Romancing 1. I made the idiot mistake of playing Gray's storyline and could not get the Mattock item I needed to upgrade his sword to its final form, which meant I couldn't finish his main quest. I missed every single timed event on that playthrough because of all the grinding I did trying to get that stupid item.
Never, ever, ever play as Gray.
Yes!!! :D
Day one on PS4. Maybe Steam too just to show my support. Hoping for a physical release!
I don't think you can lock yourself out of that quest line IRC, it also isn't required. I don't think you can get yourself into an unwinnable situation in Minstrel's Song, unless you pass the point of no return without having a save before that. The grind for that quest is real though, the last ore (Mollock) has seven types not mentioned at all to the player, and type 7 is the rarest of the all.
You're kinda right, I wasn't completely locked out of Gray's questline. But what happened was I spent so much time grinding up that last piece of ore that the Jewel Eater ate the entire continent it lives on before I could go kill it, and all of the other time-sensitive events in the game world ended before I could get to them. As a result, I basically had to just go straight to Saruin and fight him as soon as I finally got the ore piece and maxed out the sword, so I missed the bulk of the game.
I wanted to do another replay as a different character eventually, but I never got around to it.
Traditional grinding is generally a really bad idea in Kawazu games. The more of one thing you keep doing mindlessly, the harder everything else can become. Scarlet Grace actually punishes the player pretty hard if you just go out of your way to keep fighting battles you don't have to. It's pretty anti-brute force progression. Lol.
Yup. Which is why gating Grey's final story quest behind a rare drop item with something like a 1.6% drop rate was insultingly cruel. None of the other heroes in Minstrel Song had that problem - I just had to pick the dumbass whose entire main storyline was about grinding and luck. Womp womp.
I think one or two of the main quest lines were glitchy, but otherwise, no. There's no timing mechanics in Frontier - that's mostly a Romancing thing.
Now, Frontier 2 definitely could fuck you over pretty badly, though.
Frontier 2 fucks you harder than any of the Romancing SaGa imo.
Frontier 2 introduced me to Johan in the mission where he died. And then it skipped the entirety of the second Knights kid's storyline. I don't know how.
I guess that explains why I was thinking it looked like a vita game the whole time. On first impressions, a pass from me. Ugly, combat systems didn't wow me. And there's so much coming out this spring and summer I think it'll be impossible to justify. I'll wait for impressions on the port I guess.
I think the worst way to screw yourself in SaGa Frontier would be to progress the battle counter so high that regular enemies are too strong, but even then you could go to some of the areas that spawn enemies below the battle counter level (plus you'd probably have gained some sort of abilities along the way anyway).
You could also possibly trigger the Rouge fight with Blue without being strong enough to win, but you could always just reload your save then (not to mention you can lose that fight and keep going anyway). There's also the fun part where Lute can get to his final boss within ~15 minutes of starting the game, but again, reload your save or just start over at that point.
I guess you could get trapped in Tanzer without a solid team and be unable to handle the enemies there. I know if I ever want to go to Tanzer on replays I wait until I have a solid team.
You could also possibly trigger the Rouge fight with Blue without being strong enough to win, but you could always just reload your save then (not to mention you can lose that fight and keep going anyway). There's also the fun part where Lute can get to his final boss within ~15 minutes of starting the game, but again, reload your save or just start over at that point.
I guess you could get trapped in Tanzer without a solid team and be unable to handle the enemies there. I know if I ever want to go to Tanzer on replays I wait until I have a solid team.
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A year ago.
https://www.famitsu.com/news/201703/28129840.html
The battles are the star of the game. They are, in fact, the game. It's a very deep and satisfying system; maybe duckroll will bring his explanation over it over from the old place. The game is pretty much made up entirely of a world map and battles, with dialog scenes in between.
Even if you lose the Blue vs. Rouge fight, you'll be using Rouge from there on.
It's a very original RPG with no dungeon or city. Only a worldmap.
You chose between 4 characters who have their own more or less little story + shared events that can slightly change as well a few branching paths here and there modifying the map and what you can/can't do.
It has a glorious and hard battle system, very strategic, challenging.
I was surprised to spend more than 80 hours on it on Vita and wanted to play more but got sucked in by the Switch. Still the interest grew to the point I was considering trying to get my Vita out again but now that's not necessary anymore.
Still it's not a game for everyone I guess, but an extremely interesting and original one.
It looks stunning, but was this the relatively recent Vita SaGa game that people seems to hate online?
Let me quote all the big stuff I have written about Scarlet Grace from just before it was released to now, from the old forum to the new one. It should give you an idea of why I'm so excited for more people to play this game.
The week before it was released:
When I was playing it:
This is my GOTY vote for that year:
When Romancing SaGa 2 was announced earlier this year:
Maybe I'll try to have an open mind and pick this up if it's the right price.
P.S. What would I need to do to not fuck myself over in Frontier 2?
P.S. What would I need to do to not fuck myself over in Frontier 2?
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