I enjoyed the tactical turn based combat, which can get pretty damn challenging towards the end. The characters all fight differently, and are fun to play. The story was good enough to keep me going from combat encounter to combat encounter (the main reason I was playing). There's a haremy vibe that I could have done without, but you can actually avoid most of that by spending time with other characters (which builds up their loyalty rather than affection). You can also shut down any interest from the other NPCs if you want. The Final Fantasy Tactics approach to combat made it all worth it for me.Has anyone else played Stella Glow? It's part of my backlog but I've been hesitant to start it because of some of the lewdness. Outside of that, heard the actual gameplay was solid. Curious to hear impressions.
How accurate are those hours? I mean what if you paused the game and left them there, would that count?
It's a great SRPG. There really isn't much lewdness at all, don't know where you heard that. Maybe with some of the character designs but there aren't any fanservice images or CGs or anything like that, and the dialogue is relatively tame when it comes to those sorts of things. I mean the tuning is a little...suggestive but you only ever see sillhoettes of characters. I would recommend it.
Steps: 55,783
Play Time: 347
1. Pokemon Moon - 84 hours
2. Stella Glow - 71 hours
3. Fire Emblem Fates - 59 hours
4. Bravely Second - 47 hours
5. Monster Hunter Generations - 29 hours
About the same total hours as I played in 2015. My steps are from going to and from work and traveling through airports.
I enjoyed the tactical turn based combat, which can get pretty damn challenging towards the end. The characters all fight differently, and are fun to play. The story was good enough to keep me going from combat encounter to combat encounter (the main reason I was playing). There's a haremy vibe that I could have done without, but you can actually avoid most of that by spending time with other characters (which builds up their loyalty rather than affection). You can also shut down any interest from the other NPCs if you want. The Final Fantasy Tactics approach to combat made it all worth it for me.
I didn't even know about the Activity Log until now. Well, here's what I got.
It really is a very useful, userfriendly, and forward thinking application. Should be mandatory in all new hardware unless Nintendo has some kind of patent on it?
Top five for this year
Dragon Quest vii - 92:32
Pokemon Sun - 71:44
Bravely Default - 68:50
Yokai Watch - 45:15
Fantasy Life - 43:09
Pretty awesome year, even if my usage was a little down. The top 4 were my first runs at those games, and I just haven't tired of Fantasy Life. Sad to see Animal Crossing fall out of the top five but my partner got all the new vehicle cards etc so I'll just in at some point no doubt.
Strange to think with Switch coming the use of the 3ds might drop dramatically next year, I kind of hope some software keeps coming out on it. Yokai Watch 2 next year will very definitely get a purchase at least, and maybe the Pikmin game.
Aside from Dragon Quest VIII, I'm really hoping we get localisations of Monster Hunter Stories and Etrian Odyssey V, that'll round the 3DS off nicely for me. Also Blaster Master Zero has me interested, loved those games back on the day. Mercenary Saga 3 looks like it should be out soon too.
I was especially glad to have liked RF4 as much as I hyped it, not something which happens that much.
Out of interest, have you played story of seasons/if so how did it compare? I really wanted to like story of seasons but I struggled with the pacing of the game. Does Rune Factory get into things a bit faster?
Nope, it's in my wishlist but I'm trying to figure out if Stardew Valley on Steam could be enough for me in the next years as for farming games.
About RF4, it's designed to be played in many different ways. For example, if you do not like farming, it can be pretty much avoided. As for the pacing, the sense of progress is quite there and goes parallel with the story/dungeon crawler part (so it can be fastened if you want it).
Overall it's preferrable to the average Harvest Moon imho, but I like them too, so it's difficult to say if it could work for you.
Has anyone else played Stella Glow? It's part of my backlog but I've been hesitant to start it because of some of the lewdness. Outside of that, heard the actual gameplay was solid. Curious to hear impressions.
Out of interest, have you played story of seasons/if so how did it compare? I really wanted to like story of seasons but I struggled with the pacing of the game. Does Rune Factory get into things a bit faster?
It's fantastic -- the best surprise of last year for me. And despite that it looks like a pervy game for weebs, it's really not. Awesome game. Great SRPG gameplay, surprisingly good story, and an excellent soundtrack. I actually enjoyed it way more than Fire Emblem Fates.
That's surprising because Fire Emblem, at least Conquest anyway, has some very solid gameplay. Sure it has some weak spots here and there but to place Stella Glow above Fire Emblem is high praise.
What are some of the things you didn't like about Fire Emblem?