>surprisingly well-written male characters for a dev that has, up til now, almost exclusively specialized in women - Fang, the protagonist, is king of the chads and will openly call bitches out multiple times
>game is incredibly well balanced on the "Hard" difficulty, not just boosting enemy stats but also giving every single enemy in the game at least one new ability
>fun and unique story set in an interesting world letting you pick between a "good" path and an "evil" path where both are equally satisfying
>stat growth through gear, levels and over a hundred equippable Furies that all come with special effects
>all the Furies are customizable and you chose what skills they learn by pulling swords out of the satan or fem-jesus
>heavily featured "grow as you play" stat incentive for every character, if you attack a lot you'll get more strength, if you cast a lot you'll get more magic, if you flee a lot you'll get more agility and so on
>completely customizable weapons that allow you to extend basic attacks into combos, puff up physical/magical damage or increase the characters attack-range
>tons of extra content and an infinite array of sidequest that the game keeps track of and allows you to advance in quest-rank
>world shaping that lets you change how dungeons play, to compensate for weaknesses or change enemies within while never being unbalanced (every positive you add comes with a negative)
>combat with emphasis on movement, the enemies big-hitters are usually AOE and so are your so finding out where you should stand and when is imperative
>looks great at 4k and runs at whatever FPS your computer can reach (also has vSync for those who want a cap)
>each characters has a powered-up form that plays this fucking theme: youtube.com
>costs 15 dollars
This might literally be the most underrated JRPG ever made.
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If nothing else, I will admit that the music you posted was better than I expected.
I doubt you can even find the original anymore. Advent Dark Force relied heavily on changing the storyline and quality of life changes. Yes, it's a very underrated game, but you are playing the revised version.
Oh and there's tons of cute girls.
Advent Dark Force is pretty much the definitive edition though. The game really needed that "Hard" difficulty.
I actually own the PS3 physical version of this game somewhere . A friend of mine owns the Limited Edition and he won't sell it to me for pretty much anything.
>Fairy Fencer F thread on Zig Forums
I agree with everything OP says except I like the other transformation theme more.
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If you get the free DLC difficulty that's 1 step above Hard, the game becomes ULTRA BALLS TO THE WALL HARD. Not recommended for the first playthrough. It's still my favorite JRPG this generation.
People will laugh at me for this but Idea Factory is an incredibly based developer. They have yet to make a game worse than a previous game and don't shy away from something like having an explicitly loli ending in their game.
Okay, say you got me interested. Let's prove you're not just a shill and you actually tell me some of the negatives?
this is an official art thread now
Alright:
>there is a stream of water that's animated on the world map, at above 1080p it flickers a little, not a lot but you'll notice it if you pay attention
>I will never stop shilling "Hard" but it implies that you do have some patience, the game is not charitable with save points, there is no "retry" upon defeat and some of the bosses will really rape your asshole apart
>Fang, the protagonist, starts off pretty unlikable and needs time to grow - it's worth it when he does but Idea Factory tends to start you off with someone likable
>even though the animations are short there are quite a lot of them, you can skip them by clicking L2 and I really wish someone told me that earlier
>the "skip text" button is X and that's a sour pill to swallow as I don't remember there being any "log" you can read if you missed anything
Also a little detail I forgot:
>almost the entire game is completely voiced and you can swap between English or Jap at will at any point
>Evil path
I don't remember any evil path. All of the path is just mc doing good things in different way and beating different evil.
Kill, kill, kill?
Did you ever play a Neptunia game? I regret to inform you but quite literally every Idea Factory game plays exactly the same. The battle systems, stats and items are different but map movement, symbol attacks, enemy encounters and the general game flow are pretty much identical across every IF game.
Fairy Fencer F also reuses A LOT of assets from Neptunia. Some enemies are straight up copied from that game, and possibly from other games I have no played.
Also, people die and they are killed. You know the usual JRPG trope about beating an enemy and they always conveniently run away? In FFF the protag defeats cute girl enemies and THEY ARE FUCKING DEAD, YOU KILLED THEM.
If you follow my advice and play at the hardest difficulties, the game will filter you HARD. And it won't wait until halfway through the game to do it, you'llbe stuck within the first 20 minutes. You really gotta understand how using Furies on the Overworld map to change dungeon properties work or else you won't get far.
This system works but sticking swords into the ground in the Overworld map, and it boosts or weakens you/enemies in dungeons. So you might have to spend some time pulling out and putting in swords when you want to move to other dungeons.
Yeah, no. Go away, shovelware shill.
Fang might be the only contender to Ryudo from Grandia 2 as the most based protagonist that has ever been in a JRPG.
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you know i fell for this giant fucking greentext word spooge the last time when it was about nep games and i will not fall for it agan yo nfduckgin doubl nigegr
>In FFF the protag defeats cute girl enemies and THEY ARE FUCKING DEAD, YOU KILLED THEM.
I kinda like that. Fuck this "defeated" shit. The fucking opening tutorial of FFF has you escape from prison and upon escape Fang fucking boasts about the amount of people he's murdered to get out.
Fuck this pussy "defeated" shit.
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i dont think theres much official ethel stuff though
yes god forbid someone tries to talk about a video game on Zig Forums
>yo nfduckgin doubl nigegr
did you suffer a stroke or ten?
Is that edited or is that actually official dialog from the game? That's pretty raunchy for an anime game.
Doing The Vile God's work user.
why are they wearing thighhighs in the bath though
>So you might have to spend some time pulling out and putting in swords when you want to move to other dungeons.
I took this screenshot just for you user. Note the text at the bottom-right corner.
Tiara best girl. Eryn was alright but I really liked Tiara. The part where she gets her personality flipped and starts cussing like a sailor was the best hottest thing ever.
I think what I really like the most about these IF games are the GATTAI sequences. I almost never skipped them in FFF and I like watching them in Neptunia too.
The transformation scenes in Death End re;Quest weren't too good but Dragon Star Varnir nailed it too.
this game was alright though, i dont think id pay full price for it but it was definitely worth the 10 or so dollars on sale
Well noticed but I think I never wanted to pull all of them out out. It's been a while but I remember having swords stuck all over the map because they were places I went to often.
I did not Platinum this game because the requirements were ridiculous. I think I gave up halfway but I still loved it.
nearly posted nep official art by accident
The better question is why are they looking scared?
theyre scared water will damage their clothes
I wouldn't wanna pull my sword from any of them too if you know what i mean
that expression isn't "scared' user.
I'm not convinced it'll be that good or even decent.
Like many games people exaggerate the fuck how good a game but I will admit you got me interested to try this game.
I'm sure I'll like the dialogue but that combat looks awfully boring and dungeons for sure look boring to navigate.
I know people like to shit on CH and IF for making and publishing not very good games because of Neptunia and other garbage, they can release some nice games from time to time.
I really enjoyed Mary Skelter and Dragon Star Varnir lately. And Fairy Fencer F also was really fun.
But Dragon Star is the same as Nep gameplay wise wasn't it? So it's still the same shit
If it helps the dungeons are pretty short. Most of the ones I've done (I'm actually playing this game on my PS3 right now) have 1 maybe 2 floors. I'm sure they get longer but so far you can pretty much reach the bottom depths in 5 minutes if you use the dash mechanic and dodge fights.
It's a good game though, probably not as perfect as OP describes it, but good.
Do yourself a favor and not touch the English sub. Not even for a moment out of curiosity. Just don't.
It is beyond me why these type of games get dubbed in the first place.
Mary Skelter art makes me want to play it but ultimately it's just a dungeon crawling game, right? I don't really like those.
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I will admit, it is interesting to see them try a male protagonist though. And I guess the one on the right looks... kinda cute. Is she just a filler character?
Dragon Star Varnir is perhaps the most different playing IF game. The game is all about cute witches flying and fighting on broomsticks, and the battle areas are in 3D air space. You move up, down and sideways.
My favorite part though is the fact they are fighting to remove the curse of their existence. They must eat dragon meat or else they will go insane, but if they eat too much they turn into dragons themselves. If their sanity level goes too high they go batshit insane. You slowly watch this happen over the game.
I actually have BOTH base game and Advent on backlog. As well as Neptunia VII and 4GO.
I don't know if I should start aby of those, cant decide on my own. And I have 44 other games on backlog and that's just on Steam.
Also, had nearly 100 hours in Rebirth 3.
Most ideafactory games have had male protagonists.
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It's hard to think this game was made by the same people who made Neptunia.
Yes and no. It's also a turn based. There is vertically, basically based on the height of how high you fly in order to attack different rows of enemies or attack Bosses Weak Points.
Yes, Mary Skelter is dungeon crawled but I still recommend giving it a go. Besides game isn't very expensive and it will be really cheap on next sale or something.
shes the first party member you get other than the mc
Mary skelter designs are shitty though.
Someone over there is just sticking their ryona and guro fetishes in games, and I, for one, welcome it.
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And this one is my favorite insanity clip. There's something oddly disturbing about cute anime girls having a meal while talking about just ending it all.
I thought all their games are yurishit
Mary Skelter IS very cheap right now on GOG if someone want to play it right now.
Ah yeah, some fucked up shit happens in Death End re;Quest too. My body and mind was not ready for when protag takes a short break and when she comes back the entire party has been slaughtered.
Loli ending was nothing special. It’s just the American pigs pushing their agenda onto everyone else that made it rare.
Good thing Americunt influence is rapidly deteriorating under based Trump. Hopefully they will take social shit like fagbook and gookle to the grave with them.