It was a busy week, didn’t play anything for significant amount of time. Maybe an hour or so for both Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition and Dragon Age: The Veilguard
What about all of you? What have you been playing?
It was a busy week, didn’t play anything for significant amount of time. Maybe an hour or so for both Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition and Dragon Age: The Veilguard
What about all of you? What have you been playing?
Finished Trails Through Daybreak II!
JRPGs usually end with an epic struggle and tons of battles, but this game does something different for its final chapter - you solve a few cases, enjoy bonding moments with your party, then go through a short dungeon with only two boss battles to close the last unsolved mystery in the game.
It’s very subdued for a finale but I loved it. The last battle was particularly awesome, and the ending had some good emotional moments bringing closure to events from Daybreak 1.
Final battle spoilers
I complained a lot about this game’s poor usage of the time travel gimmick, but the way you jump through time mid-battle to the an earlier confrontation with Grendel Zolga, then jump again for a quick rematch with some of Daybreak 1’s bosses was really cool.
The boss being able to “break” the turn-based battle system and force you into action combat for a short time was also a neat touch, it gives it a strong sense of power as this is something no enemy did before.
Overall, I’ll stick by what I said last week - this one goes on the lower tier of games in this series, but I still had a ton of fun. As a final note, Trails Beyond the Horizon just got announced today, so we’re finally catching up to the japanese releases!
Playing Tevi!
Rabi-Ribi was an incredibly pleasant surprise, so I decided to play this “spiritual sucessor” from the same developer.
They clearly had a much bigger budget with this one. Visuals and animations are much more detailed, there’s a proper story, plenty of fully-voiced segments including famous japanese VAs, and a more in-depth and customizable combat system.
It’s more linear than Rabi-Ribi, but the same applies to pretty much every game in this genre. 😅 The only real complain I have so far is the relatively low number of saving points, I tend to play these games in short bursts and sometimes I have to keep going for longer thay I’d like before I find a proper place to stop.
Thank you for being so good about using spoiler tags! I saw the words final battle and quickly scrolled away until I remembered whose comment I was reading. Truth be told, I think I’m past having time for an RPG like Trails, but I might watch someone stream it one day.
Probably applies to me as well (my backlog is getting absurd), but I simply can’t resist certain series. 😆
This year is going to be rough on my free time, we’re getting 3 Trails games (Daybreak 2, Horizon, Sky FC Remake), a Xenoblade and an Atelier.
I need to get back to Trails game. Was playing the Trails in the Sky SC, when got stuck on the boss, and they announced the remakes, so just dropped those. Maybe I should start with Trails from Zero. Since they are available on console, would be easier to play them.
The main issue with playing these games out of order is that you get some spoilers from previous arcs. As an example, there’s a character storyline from the Sky trilogy that is finished in Zero.
But if you’re OK with that I’d say “go for it”. I played the games up to CS3 out of order (Sky 1/2 -> CS 1/2/3 -> Sky 3 -> Zero/Azure) and I don’t think it hurt my enjoyment of the series.
Just keep in mind that the later games in CS storyline (3/4/Reverie) ramp up the connections to Zero/Azure, which is why I paused after CS3 to go back and catch up on the older games.
That’s the main reason I haven’t played them yet. I really loved the first one, but my ability (or maybe willingness) to play older games is going down. I guess I should wait for the remake.