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Author: jerec
Posted: March 28, 2011 (03:06 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I thought the game was quite playable, probably leaning towards a 7 myself. But yeah, I can't disagree with anything you said here. The story absolutely lacks direction. The fact that the villains only appear once within the first 15 hours of story does not help.
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Author: CoarseDragon
Posted: March 28, 2011 (12:34 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I did have fun playing the game and did not feel the same way as you - entirely. However I will say that some of what you said is true. The puzzles were simple and dungeons were pretty short, while dialog was pretty "windy" at times. The problem is that this is a trend we are seeing in many games. I'll call it the "casual player syndrome". Seems to me most companies are trying to appeal to many more gamers so games are getting more simple in design and play. I recall in the original games there were some puzzles that were kind of head-scratchers but none of those to be seen in this game.
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Author: True
Posted: March 28, 2011 (04:10 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the comments Jerec and Coarse. I appreciate them.
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Author: jerec
Posted: March 28, 2011 (04:48 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I started a review a couple of months ago. I'd planned to finish writing it when I finished the game, but I've been drifting aimlessly on the seas (with random encounters every few seconds) after some big mid-way event, without the slightest idea of where I need to go next.
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Author: honestgamer
Posted: March 29, 2011 (12:48 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
So Princess of Landover is worth skipping, huh?
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Author: CoarseDragon
Posted: March 29, 2011 (11:25 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I understand what you mean True. Although I did play both Golden Sun games, even transferred characters with all those crazy codes, I vaguely remember the games, bits and pieces really. As I played Dark Dawn and started to remember the other games I started looking for new things but as you say there were none, I don't think there were even any new Summons added. I think they did a disservice to the series because that sense of adventure from the original games was missing. Early on there was to much backtracking and sailing around in the ship later in the game was a bit boring. There were good parts though; the beast girl was interesting (except maybe for Slap).
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Author: True
Posted: March 29, 2011 (12:20 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Coarse: Track was also kind of cool. I kind of forgot about that.
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Author: overdrive (Mod)
Posted: March 30, 2011 (11:30 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
True
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Author: CoarseDragon
Posted: March 30, 2011 (11:46 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
The Golden Sun series was not an awesome series to be sure but it did at the time have something no one else had and that was the Djinn and being able to change classes on the fly by switching those Djinn around. Then the next big draw for the series was being able to transfer your characters or different parts of the game to the next game. Those are the things I found good about the game. Although I thought crafting in Dark Sun was lacking the other games as I recall, and I could be wrong, seemed much better.
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Author: True
Posted: March 30, 2011 (07:13 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
O.D.: It was yeah and I think you still should. You're one of the great RPG reviewers and I'm curious about your opinion on it since you weren't the biggest fan of the first two. I think a lot of my hatred stemmed from the fact I was disappointed in what the series had become, so it would be interesting to see another review from a somewhat neutral standpoint.
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Author: asherdeus
Posted: April 05, 2011 (01:27 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
I almost stopped reading this after the Rosie O'Donnell comment.
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Author: jerec
Posted: April 05, 2011 (02:22 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
There's one thing a lot of RPGs are guilty of in dialogue that I wish we could just move past already. It's when a character says something, and then another character basically repeats it word for word, except as a question. Twice as much dialogue to say the one thing.
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Author: joseph_valencia
Posted: April 05, 2011 (08:01 AM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Japanese people apparently do that. It's something localizers should weed out when porting games to Western markets, but they seem to get lazy.
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Author: True
Posted: April 05, 2011 (04:45 PM) Actions: Register for a free user account to post on the forums... |
Thanks for the feedback, Ash. I fixed that capital F debacle but I will have to look at the first two paragraphs and see how I can clean them up when I have more time. I appreciate you pointing that out though.
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