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Blaze Dragon posted:I hope it isn't too much time, I have until Tuesday off so it was a great moment to let myself finally play one of these newfangled games (probably going for V, and if I like that, continue with X and T). Mine has now gone through and I've got my codes and preorder and everything done. So hopefully shouldn't be more than 24 hours.
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Endorph posted:Yeah but the Rising has no good moves and is a mildly weird 'samurai's wife' design. It's weird because it's technically suppose to be the superior Gundam to God and Shining, but the show and thus SRW both treat it as much weaker overall, no matter who pilots it. So, I just prefer the Shining, since at least it gets finishers.
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Rain suddenly showing up in the Shining would definitely make me happy. edit: one thing I never got about SRW going all the way back to Impact is why they made the Shining Finger and God Finger animations the same. Isn't the whole idea of the God Finger that he impales them under the ribcage and lifts them up? To me that was always 100x more badass than grabbing their face. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Mar 3, 2019 |
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Light Gun Man posted:Mine has now gone through and I've got my codes and preorder and everything done. So hopefully shouldn't be more than 24 hours. Hopefully not. Mine's still on verifying.
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https://twitter.com/srw_game/status/1102116398787190784 There's no sign of a Gespenst Kick, and 3/4 of the replies to that tweet are asking about it. If it doesn't have it I might have misjudged the SRW team's love of awesome robot things. edit: or the Jet Magnum, so what are we even talking about here?
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Mar 3, 2019 09:25
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Mar 3, 2019 09:32
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ImpAtom posted:If it is like V then it will probably upgrade to get them
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Mar 3, 2019 09:34
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Between this, and no Love Love Tenkyoken, my hype for T is deflating by the day.
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Neo_Crimson posted:Between this, and no Love Love Tenkyoken, my hype for T is deflating by the day.
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Samurai Sanders posted:https://twitter.com/srw_game/status/1102116398787190784 This is the original Gespenst R, which had neither Gespenst Kick nor Jet Magnum. Jet Magnum was from the Alpha 1 Mk. II, and Gespenst Kick/Punch is from Gespenst S, which this thing has clearly never been from the previews. That doesn't mean that the Gespenst S isn't in. Just that this unit isn't the Gespenst S. Kchama fucked around with this message at 11:50 on Mar 3, 2019 |
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Mar 3, 2019 11:48
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Kchama posted:This is the original Gespenst R, which had neither Gespenst Kick nor Jet Magnum. Jet Magnum was from the Alpha 1 Mk. II, and Gespenst Kick/Punch is from Gespenst S, which this thing has clearly never been from the previews. Edit: I guess this is a question about old SRW rather than this game specifically. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Mar 3, 2019 |
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Blaze Dragon posted:Hopefully not. Mine's still on verifying. Huh, OffGamers deliveries taking that long for people is kinda weird, never taken more than a few minutes for me. Maybe I've just ordered when they haven't been busy or something?
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Samurai Sanders posted:What's the thing on it's arm though, if not a Jet Magnum? It's where the unit stores its Plasma Cutters. The Mk. II uses the stored Plasma Cutters for the Jet Magnum attack. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_sH43saK-4 <-- You can see it in action here.
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Is play-asia the only place to get english switch physically? Because it's rather pricy. (90$ before shipping, geezus)
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Cyflan posted:Huh, OffGamers deliveries taking that long for people is kinda weird, never taken more than a few minutes for me. It cancelled my order. I think the problem's on my side though, it keeps rejecting my credit cards, regardless of whether I use Paypal or just pay directly with them. It sucks. And now if I try to pay it doesn't let me pay by credit card or Paypal at all. Great. Blaze Dragon fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Mar 3, 2019 |
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Samurai Sanders posted:https://twitter.com/srw_game/status/1102116398787190784 That's just...so sad. There couldn't be a more iconic attack for the Gespenst than the Kick, or the Jet Magnum...and they give us the Slash Ripper?
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Hunter Noventa posted:That's just...so sad. There couldn't be a more iconic attack for the Gespenst than the Kick, or the Jet Magnum...and they give us the Slash Ripper? What did you expect with the bog standard type R?
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Inferno-sama posted:What did you expect with the bog standard type R? sounds like the solution would be not to use the Type R?
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Mar 3, 2019 16:30
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Blaze Dragon posted:It cancelled my order. I think the problem's on my side though, it keeps rejecting my credit cards, regardless of whether I use Paypal or just pay directly with them. It sucks. That site is probably fringe enough that verification emails might end up in spam.
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Inferno-sama posted:What did you expect with the bog standard type R? It's actually kind of weird, since the Gespenst R, as far as I remember, had no Slash Ripper in the original games. Definitely not in F/F Final. If I remember correctly, the Gespenst Mk. II (both types) had it, with the R having it as its finisher. It's possible we just didn't get the Gespenst Kick/Punch because they were secrets in the original games.
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Still don't know if I'm going PS4 or Switch yet; at the very least, my boss did let me know that "i've checked the gently caress out on this Friday and I've brought my switch to work" can fly to some degree, so I would like to be having Domon merc people at work. But besides playasia, are there any other reliable options for getting a physical Switch release to the US?
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DrManiac posted:How long does standard speed delivery take for a playasia pre-order? You're looking at 2 to 3 weeks at the least. And unless you're there to sign for it, you'll likely have to go to the post office with a slip, rather than just coming home to it in your mailbox.
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DrManiac posted:How long does standard speed delivery take for a playasia pre-order? EMS usually has it to me on the US east coast in 3 or 4 days. SAL takes several weeks and the discount usually isn’t worth the wait unless you’re ordering a literal ton of stuff.
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I started Fantasy Maiden Wars Scarlet (E? Kou? The first one, I do not really know what is going on with the naming convention). I am not completely familiar with Touhou so I only expected a fun SRW alike. What I didn't expect was something genuinely good. Only a couple of minor gripes: - No indicator of how much an attack costs on the attack screen so you may end up blowing half your MP on a counterattack on a mook with less than 500 HP left. - Oh god stop with the shrine maiden armpit fixation. Unlucky7 fucked around with this message at 05:03 on Mar 4, 2019 |
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Unlucky7 posted:I started Fantasy Maiden Wars Scarlet (E? Kou? The first one, I do not really know what is going on with the naming convention). I am not completely familiar with Touhou so I only expected a fun SRW alike. What I didn't expect was something genuinely good. Only a couple of minor gripes:
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Unlucky7 posted:I started Fantasy Maiden Wars Scarlet (E? Kou? The first one, I do not really know what is going on with the naming convention). I am not completely familiar with Touhou so I only expected a fun SRW alike. What I didn't expect was something genuinely good. Only a couple of minor gripes: From what I remember of FMW: Scarlet, your counterattack defaults to the strongest attack you can use, so you'll have to get used to manually going into the menu and picking a more appropriate one. I remember it's not as awful in practice as it is in theory, since a lot of your units' finishers have a lot less range compared to the average enemy's attack, but yeah it's an annoying extra bit of attention to put into the game. It's a good game! Not sure what the state of translation patches is, though. But yeah, miko armpit is unfortunately a stupid Touhou meme. Hopefully the quality and quantity of SRW references will outweigh it. If you listen closely, a lot of characters' battle themes are references to SRW tracks! I think Alice's theme is a reference to Marionette Messiah, appropriately enough, and all the tracks are as good as you'd expect from a Touhou fangame.
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lightrook posted:From what I remember of FMW: Scarlet, your counterattack defaults to the strongest attack you can use, so you'll have to get used to manually going into the menu and picking a more appropriate one. I remember it's not as awful in practice as it is in theory, since a lot of your units' finishers have a lot less range compared to the average enemy's attack, but yeah it's an annoying extra bit of attention to put into the game. It's a good game! Not sure what the state of translation patches is, though. The current translation patches are here. https://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?topic=21389.0 The patches for the second and third game are complete but with caveats that they mention in their respective readmes. Specifically, the Gensokyo Chronicle, in battle dialogue, some menus, chapter titles, and objectives are not translated in the second game and I think it is more or less the same in the third.
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All four FMW soundtracks are in my top ten game soundtracks ever. 1 is comparatively the weakest one I think but that's not saying much.
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Extremely timely to the topic but while SRW AP was likely intended towards the more challenging side of things (no reason to implement a Fixed Seed to prevent save scumming otherwise... although they bungled the implementation), I believe it's been stated that they accidentally overshot. I still think the difficulty's been overstated and I am kind of wondering if the average SRW community gameplay experiences with tactical RPGs is enclosed to just the SRW games. There's definitely a lot of things to say about the difficulty in these games though that I guess I won't go into. On the Gespenst issue, I don't think the Slash Ripper is going to be the only added weapon and that's just the thing they're teasing - I assume they're not going to play all their cards right on the table.
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It's hard to compare SRW A Portable to other SRPGs directly due to SRW's unique implementation in the SRPG realm, but I personally take issue with any SRPG where certain characters are complete dead ends (Jagens in Fire Emblem, any Gundam character without Strike in A Portable). The same goes for dead-end upgradable units with no refund option. I don't like any game where you can just pigeonhole yourself into being physically incapable of progressing past a given difficulty spike due to lack of foresight or outside knowledge. I give SRW games from Alpha onward a pass in this regard not because they avoid having straight-up terrible choices, but because they're forgiving enough that they're winnable without upgrades, so you aren't overly punished for poor resource allotments. A Portable is the outlier here because you don't get that leeway in that game.
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Hokuto posted:It's hard to compare SRW A Portable to other SRPGs directly due to SRW's unique implementation in the SRPG realm, but I personally take issue with any SRPG where certain characters are complete dead ends (Jagens in Fire Emblem, any Gundam character without Strike in A Portable). The same goes for dead-end upgradable units with no refund option. I don't like any game where you can just pigeonhole yourself into being physically incapable of progressing past a given difficulty spike due to lack of foresight or outside knowledge. I give SRW games from Alpha onward a pass in this regard not because they avoid having straight-up terrible choices, but because they're forgiving enough that they're winnable without upgrades, so you aren't overly punished for poor resource allotments. A Portable is the outlier here because you don't get that leeway in that game. My favorite feature in Coffin of the end actually took this into consideration and actually allowed you to refund and redistribute PP at any time which allowed you to experiment with all sorts of crazy combinations you normally wouldn't mess around with. In fact the other awesome feature in the game is when you get a character to a certain level you are allowed to pick any spirit command you want to fill in their final command. edit: the game still turns into the usual winkysoft slog at the end but the features made it much more enjoyable than the previous attempts.
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Hokuto posted:It's hard to compare SRW A Portable to other SRPGs directly due to SRW's unique implementation in the SRPG realm, but I personally take issue with any SRPG where certain characters are complete dead ends (Jagens in Fire Emblem, any Gundam character without Strike in A Portable).... A Portable is the outlier here because you don't get that leeway in that game. On to AP, as someone who has beaten it multiple times without NG+ bonuses before the general meta composition emerged, it is nowhere near that unforgiving as far as unit deployment choices go - the actual resource allocation trap is actually more likely to be sinking money into acquiring FUBs rather than weapons as most of them are not worth the investment, but in theory there's no way the game will ever become "unwinnable" because the Game Over Trick exists. (A response to that statement would likely be "Oh but I don't want to be forced to grind to win the game" so I will state that I'm only stating that fact as a theoretical out and it's entirely optional with high level play.) The post-Alpha SRW games do not "punish poor resource allocation" only in so far that most of them are so undertuned that it doesn't really matter what you upgrade for anyone not playing on Ex-Hard or doing challenge runs, which I don't think is really commendable for a game that purports to be a SRPG. As is, most of the entertainment factor of modern SRW is non-gameplay based - the writing and the animations. (I feel I might be focusing a little too much on "difficulty" in this post when it comes to the topic of game design because it is not really my belief that every SRPG has to be Thracia 776 of ball busting. I think my final takeaway would be that modern SRW generally low difficulty is mostly a band-aid on heavily flawed design decisions that has been made or forced upon its creators due to circumstances and that there are many SRPGs that have fun gameplay despite low difficulty unlike SRW, but that would probably require a whole post on its own and "fun" is subjective)
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Davzz posted:The post-Alpha SRW games do not "punish poor resource allocation" only in so far that most of them are so undertuned that it doesn't really matter what you upgrade for anyone not playing on Ex-Hard or doing challenge runs, which I don't think is really commendable for a game that purports to be a SRPG. As is, most of the entertainment factor of modern SRW is non-gameplay based - the writing and the animations. I get what you're saying and generally agree with it. The status quo as it is has been growing stagnant and buckling under the weight of its holdovers. Having a cool story and art and animations makes up for it in large part, but not in whole. As an aside, the extreme example of this is probably Sakura Wars. When I was showing the games to some friends, Kanos made a remark that I wasn't really able to refute—That the battles in Sakura Wars were largely just pointless time filler and window dressing, and the game could prop itself up perfectly fine as a straight-up visual novel without them. Obviously that doesn't apply to SRW because the whole point of SRW is both getting your toys and being able to mash them against each other, but it's something I've been thinking more about lately. I'm not sure what my ideal is, there. Maybe Valkyria Chronicles.
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Hokuto posted:That the battles in Sakura Wars were largely just pointless time filler and window dressing, and the game could prop itself up perfectly fine as a straight-up visual novel without them.
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Davzz posted:Extremely timely to the topic but while SRW AP was likely intended towards the more challenging side of things (no reason to implement a Fixed Seed to prevent save scumming otherwise... although they bungled the implementation), I believe it's been stated that they accidentally overshot. It's been a long time since I played A Portable, and I have gotten better at the series in general since I did play it, but the thing I remember the most was that although the game was more challenging than W there was a massive difficulty spike in the last 3 missions. I squeezed through the second last mission by chipping away at the boss and then got to the final mission which just slammed me. A dozen miniboss Geshpents only to build morale from and a 10 turn time limit to beat Zweizergain was more than I could handle. I did start abusing the game over trick for a while but it grew tiring and I put the game down and never picked it back up.
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