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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: MCD on September 10, 2013, 04:52:56 AM

Title: Child of Light
Post by: MCD on September 10, 2013, 04:52:56 AM
Xbox 360, Wii U, PS3, PC, Xbox One and PS4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVfyPk34wQ8

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There are no random encounters in Child of Light; rather, you see every enemy within the environment and, upon touching them, are thrust into battle. Child of Light's battle system is a variant of the Active Time Battle system employed in the Final Fantasy series. At the bottom of the screen, a bar shows how long it will take for enemy actions (and those of your own) to initiate; casting big spells or employing special moves will increase or decrease your attack timing, so planning is paramount.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: etiolate on September 10, 2013, 05:43:25 AM
"child, touch yourself in bed"

Did I hear that right?
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: hampster on September 10, 2013, 09:43:05 AM
:lawd This looks so good. Hopefully the battle system isn't too simple / boring
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 10, 2013, 10:06:55 AM
"child, touch yourself in bed"

Did I hear that right?

"Tuck", although I did have to listen to it three times. :lol
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Huff on September 10, 2013, 10:34:43 AM
Both this and that WWI game look good. Hope they don't play like ass
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: hampster on November 12, 2013, 12:17:12 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkljZTI2ryA
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on November 12, 2013, 12:30:07 PM
Grandia battle system :noah
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: hampster on April 14, 2014, 03:49:21 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I33_a9vYM9Q

Lady of Light :omg
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 14, 2014, 03:59:14 PM
ima buy this with the quickness. i am starving for something to play on the one.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 14, 2014, 04:47:23 PM
The Wii U version will be the most whimsical, tho.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on April 14, 2014, 04:54:44 PM
ima buy this with the quickness. i am starving for something to play on the one.
please stream it! it looks like a gorgeous game that I probably wouldn't have any fun playing
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 14, 2014, 04:58:52 PM
You better watch it, then.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on April 14, 2014, 05:31:05 PM
:-[ I will!
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Beezy on April 15, 2014, 05:25:30 AM
Grandia battle system :noah
:'(

bought
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: tiesto on April 15, 2014, 09:01:30 PM
Gonna wait for the rev.... ahh who am I kidding, I'll probably pick this up day one. Grandia battle system FTW!
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 15, 2014, 09:16:13 PM
You can watch me play it when I stream it on my Xbox One (tm)
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 25, 2014, 01:13:46 PM
New info:

The game has multiple party members, and they can be swapped like FFX

Unlike FFX however, you dont need to swap them in to get XP. Everyone gets it regardless.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 28, 2014, 12:25:29 PM
Reviews are out now - some good, some bad. Most people suggest playing on Hard difficulty, as the game is generally babby's first RPG.

Still buying it, you can watch me play when I stream it if you're interested.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Mupepe on April 28, 2014, 01:08:32 PM
how much is this bad boy?  I'm getting it no matter what but I'd like to be able to spend by Xbucks on it  :-[
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 28, 2014, 01:24:13 PM
$15 - but I swear I read $20

So assume $20
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 28, 2014, 03:02:49 PM
It $15 on Steam
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Mupepe on April 28, 2014, 03:10:57 PM
$15 - $20 isn't bad at all.  I'm definitely down just for the battle system
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 29, 2014, 01:33:16 PM
This is out already on PS4, and probably other platforms. ONE version isnt until midnight or so.

It is $15 confirmed. Thankfully I still have $16.xx on my account.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Mupepe on April 29, 2014, 01:50:47 PM
Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssss.  Gonna blow my xbucks on this.  I assume it's not available for preloading on X1?
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 29, 2014, 01:51:35 PM
ONE doesnt support pre-loading, no
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Beezy on April 29, 2014, 02:44:17 PM
Smh, I thought this would be on Steam today. Would've been perfect since I have the day off.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Mupepe on April 29, 2014, 03:42:21 PM
ONE doesnt support pre-loading, no
super gay.  oh well.  I'll just buy it tomorrow morning before I head to work
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: chronovore on April 30, 2014, 04:28:44 AM
I want in on this, it's so pretty. This engine is mad crazy.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 30, 2014, 07:50:53 AM
Downloading it right now - gonna play immediately after work

HYPE

twitch.tv/frostitution
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Mupepe on April 30, 2014, 01:17:55 PM
I bought it before I left for work this morning so I'll play when I get home :hyper
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 30, 2014, 06:05:19 PM
About to start, if you're interested in watching me~
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: magus on April 30, 2014, 07:34:25 PM
i'm curious about this game because it's a turn based rpg but i honestly don't believe that the software house that farts assassin creed every year can do a good turn based rpg and i have an hard time taking impression from the internet because it looks artsy as fuck and the internet love anything that "SHOW WHAT THE MEDIUM CAN TRULY DO!"
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 30, 2014, 07:36:30 PM
I think it's awesome so far. Music is great.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on April 30, 2014, 07:53:25 PM
Awesome battle music. I posted this and it made it that much more epic.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on April 30, 2014, 08:44:04 PM
y'all should really go watch demi play this right now, he'll charm the pants off you with his uninterrupted silence and top-tier gameplay
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: brob on April 30, 2014, 08:48:12 PM
alternatively: look at this picture (http://i.imgur.com/9XVtA6B.jpg) with demi and his lovely OST playing in the background
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Mupepe on April 30, 2014, 11:51:33 PM
We'll I only got to play for an hour or so. I finished chapter 2 but damn this game is pretty good. The art and music are top notch and eh battle system is great. It's not too active so I don't feel stressed trying to control the flow of battle but it's not too slow so I don't go into autopilot with just pressing A over and over. It's perfectly engaging and is flexible enough to feel like strategizing is actually necessary. Definitely worth 15 bucks
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: FatalT on May 01, 2014, 12:23:22 AM
y'all should really go watch demi play this right now, he'll charm the pants off you with his uninterrupted silence and top-tier gameplay

He's not doing shit. Oh wait there he goes. He was just sitting in a battle for like 15 minutes straight. I'm thinking about starting up the PC version I downloaded now. I didn't know this was an RPG like this.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on May 01, 2014, 12:52:47 AM
I was eating, you little cool young dude.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: a slime appears on May 01, 2014, 08:35:47 AM
y'all should really go watch demi play this right now, he'll charm the pants off you with his uninterrupted silence and top-tier gameplay

He's not doing shit. Oh wait there he goes. He was just sitting in a battle for like 15 minutes straight. I'm thinking about starting up the PC version I downloaded now. I didn't know this was an RPG like this.

:rofl

If you're going to be so goddamn quiet in a stream demi at least bring me on for color commentary.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on May 01, 2014, 09:11:25 AM
This isnt a game that doesnt deserve my interruptions - the music is so good. I'm listening to it on my iPod at work right now.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on May 01, 2014, 01:08:45 PM
what part of uninterrupted silence did you guys not understand? he's trying to respect the ARTISTRY OF CŒUR DE PIRATE'S FLAWLESS COMPOSITION, FUCKERS. You don't get high-class gaming snobbery like this anywhere else on Twitch
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on May 01, 2014, 01:24:03 PM
Every one of you are now banned from my stream. Find your quality elsewhere.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: hampster on May 01, 2014, 05:01:36 PM
There are a couple games I look up on twitch just to listen to, like Valdis Story, and avoid hearing people talk. It would be simpler to just track down the soundtrack but sometimes all the battle noises add something. Osu is another game where as soon as someone talks I switch streams
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on May 01, 2014, 05:06:31 PM
i'm gonna stream it today when i get home from work and yall can fuck off. how bout that.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Bebpo on May 01, 2014, 05:50:58 PM
Like magus, interested in how this turns out.  Western takes on jrpgs have a pretty iffy track record.  Mainly interested in:

-Battle system depth, quality
-Sub-system character growth systems depth, variability
-Story

Also, as an aside, why do all non-Japanese rpgs have to be "baby first rpg?" even popular wrpgs that are big like Bioware stuff is "hit X and sit back and watch your characters win".  I mean I'm asking this rhetorically because I understand that any game trying to sell to the mass AAA mainstream audience will make it super easy regardless of the genre to appease the most players, but it's still a bit lame.  Like even the indie Zeboyd Games rpgs I tried like Penny Arcade Ep3 and Cthulu are super no-difficulty easy.

I feel like the one one making challenging rpgs are the Japanese and maybe the Pillars of Eternity will be challenging.  I like having to think of strategy to beat scenarios.   
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on May 01, 2014, 05:53:03 PM
it seems like as hard as they tried, this is still a really Ubisoft-y game. Everything you list there isn't gonna be any better/memorable than other games in the genre, especially the story (which appears to be offensively bad as opposed to forgettable/good). The pretty seems to be the only selling point.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on May 02, 2014, 01:55:00 AM
this game is ...

(uninstalls Child of Light, stares into the middle distance)
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on May 02, 2014, 06:19:43 PM
I'm near the end of the game. Streaming now...
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Mupepe on May 02, 2014, 06:29:21 PM
How many chapters are there? 
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: TVC15 on May 02, 2014, 06:35:16 PM
How many chapters are there? 

zzzz
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on May 02, 2014, 07:49:17 PM
10-11

I just beat it. Got 1000. It was aight.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on May 02, 2014, 07:54:00 PM
I watched him beat it. It was :shaq2 music's great tho go download the OST
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Rahxephon91 on May 02, 2014, 10:47:11 PM
So the game was a bunch of empty whimsy?
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on May 03, 2014, 12:10:25 AM
yep. just like every Nintendo game from the past eight years
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: brob on May 03, 2014, 05:28:18 AM
was the last boss a tapeworm dragon or a griffin
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on May 03, 2014, 12:42:13 PM
a mixture of both actually
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on May 03, 2014, 09:01:00 PM
So the game was a bunch of empty whimsy?

empty whimsy. the game was ... flimsical
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: ZephyrFate on May 04, 2014, 08:38:57 PM
One of the most beautiful games I've ever played. Like a 2014 El Shaddai.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on May 04, 2014, 08:48:12 PM
Raban can tell you about the amazing rhyme they had near the end of the game. Doctors will HATE you for it.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on May 04, 2014, 10:21:00 PM
I don't even remember it. I think I have a mental block against that shit, but in the interest of comedy I looked it up. Quality writing right here, folks:
"But of course Aurora smiled
 Before their eyes, astonished (emphasis on SHED)
 To a mirror she led them
 And they stepped through it instead"
What the fuck is that!? Astonished and instead? :trash :trash :trash
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Beezy on May 04, 2014, 11:10:59 PM
Cool lil game. Battle system is good, but I wish it was more Grandia. Up to the 7th chapter.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: ZephyrFate on May 04, 2014, 11:41:11 PM
I don't even remember it. I think I have a mental block against that shit, but in the interest of comedy I looked it up. Quality writing right here, folks:
"But of course Aurora smiled
 Before their eyes, astonished (emphasis on SHED)
 To a mirror she led them
 And they stepped through it instead"
What the fuck is that!? Astonished and instead? :trash :trash :trash
In the vein of Rime of the Ancient Mariner, emphasis would be placed on end syllables to make rhymes work.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Mupepe on May 05, 2014, 03:20:19 PM
The writing is terrible.  Seems par for the course in video games for me.  :yeshrug  Game is fun though.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on May 05, 2014, 03:29:38 PM
I don't even remember it. I think I have a mental block against that shit, but in the interest of comedy I looked it up. Quality writing right here, folks:
"But of course Aurora smiled
 Before their eyes, astonished (emphasis on SHED)
 To a mirror she led them
 And they stepped through it instead"
What the fuck is that!? Astonished and instead? :trash :trash :trash
In the vein of Rime of the Ancient Mariner, emphasis would be placed on end syllables to make rhymes work.

This is probably giving them too much credit.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: ZephyrFate on May 06, 2014, 03:07:55 AM
That was their direct inspiration for the rhyming scheme though
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on May 06, 2014, 11:45:01 AM
That was their direct inspiration for the rhyming scheme though

No, they just suck at rhyming,
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on May 06, 2014, 11:56:47 AM
The game is alright, the writing is terribad, but it looks pretty and the music is great.

Battles become a bit one note after a while, esp. since you probably wont use majority of the characters.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on May 06, 2014, 02:12:27 PM
you could probably do worse for a $15 game. Otoh, you could probably do a whole lot better.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: chronovore on May 07, 2014, 05:33:18 AM
That was their direct inspiration for the rhyming scheme though

No, they just suck at rhyming,

Maybe it's like reading KW Jeter's sequels to Blade Runner and PKD's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, where you can recognize that the person is inspired by their source material, is lovingly attempting to do it service, but utterly face-planting in terms of execution?
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: demi on May 07, 2014, 12:10:05 PM
Here's a trailer for the other game that was announced with Child of Light - Valiant Hearts

Looks pretty good, more puzzle based. I will probably buy it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDzhV712qRQ
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Lucretius on May 11, 2014, 10:37:00 PM
The writing process for this game:

http://youtu.be/DP5-qJSzDUg

Valiant Hearts looks good.  Some nice animated beards there.  Miyazaki-level beard age!
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Beezy on May 11, 2014, 11:19:21 PM
Really liked this game. Beat it earlier today on Hard. If they ever decide to make a sequel, they need to let you use 3-4 party members at once in battle.
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: Raban on May 11, 2014, 11:38:34 PM
it's amazing that you posted a clip of The Princess Bride, luc, cuz I was talking to brob during the stream about how he really needs to see that movie
Title: Re: Child of Light
Post by: magus on May 14, 2014, 04:44:08 PM
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/9187-Child-of-Day-Light-Horror-and-Whimsy