eventide11 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 Thinking about dusting off the ol Switch for this. Getting very good reviews across the board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dualhunter Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 I think @Xbob42 posted a review Steam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 I did for about 10 hours. I love the look, the sounds, etc. But I don't love the leveling and combat systems. Enemies are limited, and combat strategy take an aggressive front seat to your stats and skills to the point that its really more about the pattern of attacks and composition of your party than your stats and equipment. Some love that, I do not. I don't like being pushed through the story through XP gating either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 It's on Game Pass if you want to try it on that before you buy it for your Switch. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eventide11 Posted December 16, 2022 Author Share Posted December 16, 2022 2 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: It's on Game Pass if you want to try it on that before you buy it for your Switch. Oh cool, thanks for the heads up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 21 hours ago, eventide11 said: Thinking about dusting off the ol Switch for this. Getting very good reviews across the board Its free on gamepass. Im loving it. Gives me FF6 vibes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eventide11 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 2 hours ago, BloodyHell said: Its free on gamepass. Im loving it. Gives me FF6 vibes. The Switch being portable won out and I caved. Getting HUGE Chrono Trigger vibes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 7 minutes ago, eventide11 said: The Switch being portable won out and I caved. Getting HUGE Chrono Trigger vibes That as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLeon Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Huh, I wasn’t aware of this game at all, but it looks like exactly my jam. This just shot up to the top of my to-play list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 A bit unfortunate that we’ve seen so many 16-bit inspired RPGs that don’t live up to their inspiration. Radiant Historia on DS might be the closest. Got high hopes for this and Sea of Stars. I’ll snag it on sale next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 3 hours ago, crispy4000 said: A bit unfortunate that we’ve seen so many 16-bit inspired RPGs that don’t live up to their inspiration. Radiant Historia on DS might be the closest. Got high hopes for this and Sea of Stars. I’ll snag it on sale next year. Funny, in my "review" (more like a recommendation based on the extremely strong opening) this was exactly what I brought up: so many of these types of games harken back to the SNES JRPGs, but none really hook me like those older games. This one I was totally enraptured right from the start. Only reason I haven't been playing it way more is because I was waiting for my daughter's Winter Break from school, now I've got more free time and less "I have a game open but I'm busy literally all day" time. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eventide11 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 3 hours ago, Xbob42 said: Funny, in my "review" (more like a recommendation based on the extremely strong opening) this was exactly what I brought up: so many of these types of games harken back to the SNES JRPGs, but none really hook me like those older games. This one I was totally enraptured right from the start. Only reason I haven't been playing it way more is because I was waiting for my daughter's Winter Break from school, now I've got more free time and less "I have a game open but I'm busy literally all day" time. Same with me. Hooked almost immediately and got Chrono Trigger feels. Excellent characters and progression so far... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbob42 Posted December 17, 2022 Share Posted December 17, 2022 Game opens with almost a 1 for 1 homage to Chrono Trigger's opening and somehow makes it work and makes it feel effortless. It's wild. Normally I hate homages or references, but you won't miss anything if you didn't play Chrono Trigger and if you did it's a great subversion of expectations. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eventide11 Posted December 17, 2022 Author Share Posted December 17, 2022 1 hour ago, Xbob42 said: Game opens with almost a 1 for 1 homage to Chrono Trigger's opening and somehow makes it work and makes it feel effortless. It's wild. Normally I hate homages or references, but you won't miss anything if you didn't play Chrono Trigger and if you did it's a great subversion of expectations. Absolutely. And I didn't think I could like any more of these indie try hards with their attempts to recapture the glory of the old days. I usually appreciate it for an hour or two then it can't hold my attention anymore. But after Signalis and now this that wall of ice I had for indie attempts at capturing the old days is rapidly melting and I'm coming to the horrifying conclusion I may have a MONUMENTAL backlog to visit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Game seems interesting. I saw it on sale, but scrolled passed it, thinking it was just another Kemco Rpg-Maker-made game that they seem to crank out all the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 God I love this game. Like seriously, this may make my top 5 games this year. Im completely in love. I’m 20 hours in, and I have stopped playing everything else. I went to play a game of 40k today at a friends, and I had to pull myself away to get my models together and get out the door. I always want to find out what’s coming next. It just feels special. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phaseknox Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 3 hours ago, Derek said: Game seems interesting. I saw it on sale, but scrolled passed it, thinking it was just another Kemco Rpg-Maker-made game that they seem to crank out all the time. I’m a sucker for those, I own just about every one currently available for PS4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crispy4000 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 On 12/17/2022 at 5:40 PM, eventide11 said: Absolutely. And I didn't think I could like any more of these indie try hards with their attempts to recapture the glory of the old days. I usually appreciate it for an hour or two then it can't hold my attention anymore. But after Signalis and now this that wall of ice I had for indie attempts at capturing the old days is rapidly melting and I'm coming to the horrifying conclusion I may have a MONUMENTAL backlog to visit That wall shattered for me with Hollow Knight. But I’ve always been open to indies getting there eventually. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eventide11 Posted December 19, 2022 Author Share Posted December 19, 2022 11 hours ago, Phaseknox said: I’m a sucker for those, I own just about every one currently available for PS4. That's what I thought going into this one but I quickly realized the production and quality is so far above those that it was a very very pleasant surprise 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 My friend gave it a shot. He’s red/green color blind, and can’t see a lot of the ladders/pathways built into the surfaces, so that sucks. im absolutely loving the game, start to finish. Or start to wherever I am right now. This is quickly climbing my best of the year list. It’s definitely up there with SE greats like Chrono Trigger. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodyHell Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Chained Echoes for PC Reviews - Metacritic WWW.METACRITIC.COM Chained Echoes for PC game reviews & Metacritic score: Take up your sword, channel your magic or board your Mech. Chained Echoes is a 16-bit SNES style RPG set in a fantasy... currently a 91 on metacritic, 88 user score with some of the usual “lol gamepass 0/10 herp derp” reviews mixed in. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legend Posted December 28, 2022 Share Posted December 28, 2022 Well, my game is basically broken at this point and I can't recommend it with this very bad gameplay design. Up until now I'd been enjoying it, fights were getting hard but doable as long as you worked at it. But now I've reached a point in the game where they split your party and make it impossible to backtrack. I've pushed forward a bunch and now am just getting utterly clowned by two regular enemies. Can't beat them for the life of me. They hit all characters hard and I barely do any damage to them. At this point in the game you cannot change your party make up, because you only have access to three characters. I figure I must be missing something about how to fight them, so I look up some video walkthroughs online at that fight. In all the videos, the players in the walkthrough are doing *vastly* more damage than I am, like 3x more or something. There's no strategy, they just crush them with basic attacks. And it's not as though I hadn't upgraded the weapons I have. So all I can figure is somehow I missed finding better weapons somewhere in the world that have all of sudden made it impossible to progress. I'd backtrack, except it's impossible to backtrack at this part of the game. I'd have to load an old enough save hours ago because of how the story funneled things and maybe find weapon pick ups I missed. I'm not doing that and am not going to play a game where you lose hours of progress because you missed something that's gated you from progressing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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