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Eternal Sonata for PS3 in North America
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Hcoregamer00
The 'H' stands for hentai.
Kagari said:
That's just horrible.
Two is bad enough.
distantmantra
Member
Picked it up during my lunch break today. Nice to see a full color manual, but half of it is in French...
Traumahound
Member
Don't worry Awntawn, some of us that survived ES on the 360 know exactly what you meant.
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
Seiken said:
make it 20, actually
why? because game's slightly but just slightly repetitive. But just slightly
Anasui Kishibe said:
Specially when the enemies at the end are the same that in the first hour, with just a different color palette and more hp. I ended up using the same attack for everything, AAAAAY, AAAAAY, AAAAAY. I still enjoyed the game, took me 23 hours to beat it in 4 days.
Segata Sanshiro
Member
Pre-release, yes. Post-release, you aren't remembering right. You don't have to be a fanboy to recognize mediocre tripe.Seiken said:
I suppose that for a starving man, however, even Chef Boyardee can taste as good as steak.
Played the first hour of this with a friend last week. Gorgeous looking game, that's for sure. Battle system seemed to lack a bit of depth, but not much can be said about that so early in the game. The things I really disliked were the characters and their dialogue. Long-winded conversations that didn't go anywhere. Characters and story are always part of the reason I play an rpg and this game appeared to be lacking in that category
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
Seiken said:
"this" what? the backlash? i can't speak for everyone, but I sure can remember what GAF said about the game a copupla months after its release. I can just say I was already bored five hours in: pathetic character development, ZERO plot twists and bad story, repetitive combat and enemies (look at Accident's post..), long ass dialogue sequences which you can skip, but you wont because you'd feel like missing parts of the incredibly dull story, and you certainly don't want to
it isn't a BAD game, but it's really a mediocre one, a 5.5. in my book.
Visually great though, and Chopin's music is splendid (well no shit)
If that was me then I'm still praising it. It's certainly better than most of the mediocre "next-gen" JRPGs released so far. And, by all accounts, the PS3 version is even better!Seiken said:
No, I don't. Yes, there are some recolored enemies, but by the time you encounter them you have a lot more options and characters to use in the fights. Also, once the battle system levels up a few times it becomes very fast. And if you tire of fighting (which didn't happen to me in this game, unlike the majority of JRPGs) you can just skip most of the battles.Traumahound said:
As far as the story goes, I liked what I saw of it. The direction of the cut scens I thought was exceptional. That's why I was very disappointed with the game. It seemed all of the work went into the graphics and the cut scenes and the gamer was left with a shell for gameplay. I liked the characters also.
FateBreaker
Member
Kagari said:
Beginning is great.
It will come. Give it time. I think it really started going downhill around ch 3-4ish. Then it just goes faster downhill. Then it's unstoppably down hill until the conclusion.
I don't mean to rain on your parade -- I'm glad you enjoy it at 3 hours in -- but, I think a lot of people enjoyed it 3 hours in.
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
what about the Chopin sequences? Dude, I'm all about learning things about great personages and stuff, but god those were slow paced as fuck, and LONG
Gamespot 8.5 :
"A year later, this captivating role-playing game is still gorgeous to look at and fun to play"
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/eternalsonata/review.html
Even though I finished this game on the 360,after i'm done with all the new games coming out till the end of the year,I'm going to rent this for sure on the PS3 down the line.
"A year later, this captivating role-playing game is still gorgeous to look at and fun to play"
http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/rpg/eternalsonata/review.html
Even though I finished this game on the 360,after i'm done with all the new games coming out till the end of the year,I'm going to rent this for sure on the PS3 down the line.
Diablohead
Member
You can skip those scenes since they are just about his life, I watched the first few of them before I realised that and started to skip them, i'm sure you can go back and watch them later on though if you want to learn more.
distantmantra
Member
For anyone who is interested, the game is $54.99 at Fry's this weekend.
distantmantra
Member
h3ro said:
It has Japanese and English audio.
How did that happen..Kasumi1970
my name is Ted
He said it look better on the PlayStation 3 than on the Xbox 360, because the colors seem to pop even more. To me that doesn't sound like better graphic to me. It just sound like he was looking for a reason to make the PS3 sound better. As for the IGN 8.7 to 8.3 have some of you thought the reviewers could be different people, and one person might not have enjoyed the game as much as the next. Enternal Sonata s not a bad game but it not worth a double dip. the game got an 8.5 for both the PS3 and 360Ricker said:
RpgN
Junior Member
Kasumi1970 said:
Looks like someone is in denial and searching for reasons...
I don't think it's a coincidence to see all 3 reviews to have the same view/opinion. While yes there might be different reviewers on the second version, they do have meetings with the team and therefore the past reviewer. Their scores have to be consistent and analyse the new contents added plus how faithful the port is. I don't think a new reviewer is going to ignore all that and doesn't compare the ports.