So I went at bought a couple of old school J-rpgs to ps3.
First of is Resonance of Fate.
Fast review:
Story:
This game pretty good, but what it lacks like many other review have said is story. One of the reason I like(and remember a lot of rpgs) its because of story or great characters. I have only so far played the game for 40+ so it could happen some bad ass twist or something.
Core game play:
The game is extremely focused on battling. In the game their is a couple of side/extra missions per chapter which all involve ether talk to a person on another level(the game is spread out in levels), the game having random encounters(with pretty high frequency) so battles. Or defeat rebels/machines/dungeon boss/collect items that drops from enemies(in one mission you have to get 5 set of 4 items from mannequin)
Luckily the battles are pretty interesting, environment can be used(most be used) but this post will mostly be about the game mechanic in the battles so more on that soon.
Presentation: I like Steam punk. But this game is 100% steam punk all the time, so its get a little boring when you discover new towns or new dungeons and they all are steam punk theme.
Still its pretty good, the playable characters have a lot of "cool-factor" when they run around doing hand flips while throwing grenades. And many of the enemies have a nice creepy feeling. I for once low the fat mobsters who in a creepy voice screams for money; tip use Japanese sound settings. And I was afraid of the mannequin chapters, man they look creepy, But that probably because I hate mannequins since I watched Crimson Climax as a kid
The user can also change the characters cloths. Their actually is a very big variety and "hard" to unlock all cloths. So this both increase the games expression and discovery factor.
All together for me it lands around a 5-6 actually the game gets extremely tedious and its ridicules hard in some part, the bad kind of hard where I blame the game and not my self. The only real thing saving it is that the user can pay money to retry battles. Otherwise I am sure most people would never come far in this game, personally I of course hate using any kind of "easy mode" so I always replay from the last save point. Or I would like to say that, but this game got so much on my nerves that at some boss battles I have used retry(2 times so far) Because I freaking refused to go through that dungeon again.
User spread review lands on
Users being experience in J-rpgs.
Beginners 1-2(you should not buy this game)
Intermediate 5(very tedious, you better love to tinker and farm staff.)
Expert 7-8(Love old school jrpgs then for some reason you will like this, for me the first 10 times I died, which was at early places I loved it)
