allright so... like with atelier i've tought that if i tried the first game and i didn't enjoy it much i should be a sport and try the last one (it worked with atelier ayesha,man ayesha was so awesome) so i went and tried neptunia v (which would be the third one) hoping it would be better and....
this is bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad bad
this is so bad word can't describe it,this is so bad that i want to go kick in the nuts whoever said "you should have played at least the sequel" when i played the first one (was it powerslave?) this is so bad that the milding 6 review for once feels insulting the other way around,and the problem is i want to like it because i find the premise hilarious and i want to play a game where character cracks joke and act like silly-hats,but the game just sucks so much and just won't let me like it,i think this screenshot sums up pretty nicely
it's a joke,about the game recycling content
oh and the level at which the game recycle content is a-ma-zi-ng,not only the game reuse art assets but it reuses dungeon layout... let me repeat this,this game re-use dungeon layout,some recycled enemies aren't even pallette swap and differs only because they have a different name and pumped up stats (which is hilarious the first time you die because you fight something that looked like a junk enemy but had amazing stat instead) this is even more amazing when you consider that (apparently) this is all recycled from the previous game
there are quest,some of them require drops which obviously don't always drop,some of them requires stuff that drop from enemies that appear only if you deal with a bullshit sub-system where you send scout to explore which is completly random,and some of them (thankful not the one that requires you to find the rare enemies) are mandatory to continue with the plot,that's right,you can't continue with the plot until you kill enough enemies so that you get 3 of random junk in what has to be a clear terrorist attempt at you trying to squeeze any enjoyement out of this
the bosses are another bag of awfull too,all of them hits as hard as truck and often one shots your party member to the point more often than not most boss fight ends with one character dying and resurrecting,one character doing the resurrecting and two actualy doing any sort of attacking,they also have huge health bar and to top it off,some of them also regenerate health,your only hope reside in your limit bar like attack which in turns deal so much damage that it shaves 50% of the boss health in a single swoop oh and the DLC,did i mention that there are DLC weapon in this game and that they are more powerfull than any weapon you can find by actualy playing the game? it's exactly like that
penny-arcade strip with the credit card sword only it's real
the reference and jokes are amusing and the reason i want to like this game,for example there is a whole chapter dedicated to retaking nintendo land after the rise of the playstation,one of the character is a little mouse thing called "pirachu" in what has to be the greatest portmanteau ever,another one is called anonydeath and basicaly act like your stereotypical 4chan user oh and the final boss?
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it turns out to be an enraged fallen out of grace atari
but even this is ruined by the character going on and on and on and on and on,character never feel like shutting up,there are like cutscenes lasting 3-4 minutes about nothing,most of them also happen right before a boss fight so if you fuck up you are then forced to go trough the cutscene again,you can fastforward cutscene but even then it takes like 1 minute of cardboard cutout going in and out of the scene
back in the ps2 day in the name of playing jrpg,i played some pretty good turd (with the most notable one being tales of legendia and a close one being stella deus) but this game beats them all,this is the worst rpg i've ever had the displeasure to play,this game badness is so bad it should be told on campfire stories,this should be like the new virtual hydlide,no amount of "told ya","what were you expecting" and "lol,loli's" could have prepared me for this
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