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Fairy Bloom Freesia (PC/Steam) - Possibly the best beat 'em up of 2012
- Thread starter Seraphis Cain
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I think we should start calling things like this "opinions", but I'll take you up on it. In FPS at least you have to aim, not just mash buttons and hit every monster on screen even if your eyes are closed. The game is also extremely short if anyone is wondering (I finished it with 111 minutes played). I have no idea why anyone would want to replay it since those were some of the most repetitive minutes of my life.
"Head clickers"
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Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
Supporting Doujin Action games
Gotta make more than STGs eventually
game is pretty fun to boot
Gotta make more than STGs eventually
game is pretty fun to boot
I just dislike taking something that's well-made, and distilling it to such simple terms. (Oh, and if it needs be said, my comment was sarcastic about FPS, lol). Just seems like a disservice. The game has a rather well developed combat engine, and using a term that basically says "Forget all that, just mashing on the buttons! THE RESULTS ARE THE SAME EITHER WAY!" just seems kinda shallow.
You really can't close your eyes and play this game, especially after the enemies start shooting projectiles, though. And if one is trying to play the game to it's fullest (getting the best juggles, keeping vortexes from being damaged, avoiding damage, etc), you really have to stay on your toes, and react to things swiftly. Projectile speeds, cancel timing, and the strict linking of special attacks to mostly airborne movement, all work together to give them game a nice rhythm.
As far as playing again.. well, unlockable modes and difficulties sound like a good thing! Truthfully, though, I often have more fun with games like this, than many more complex, more "developed" games. The somewhat scripted, impersonal experience of shooters leaves something to be desired, to me, compared to an always-personally-in-action fist-fighting game.
Yet I can still easily see why a person could find such an experience endlessly fun and exciting, because I myself have times when I'm looking for different responses from games. A "Boom *quiet... CaTHUNK!* Headshot!" can be just as satisfying as "Jump Fierce, crouch x2 MP Link, MK link xx qcf x2 Fierce!"
Yup, perfect! It's not like anyone AIMS anywhere else in those games, and even if they do, the enemies aren't generally animated / scripted in ways that respond to it properly! (My biggest Pet Peeve with most shooters...)
Yup, truly. As much as people speak ill of Beat-em-ups and Sidescrolling action, they seem to be among the hardest things for independent developers to make. So whenever I see one being made, I take interest... much more if the game is actually well-developed under the hood. That's not the easiest thing to get right in games, and as many times as I've seen big companiest make pacing or attack box problems that leave on thinking "How could they think THIS is a good idea!?!", it's really impressive when small studios get the nuanced details right.
John Rabbit
Banned
(nearly) blind bought. looks fun, few hours of fun for $4? sure.
chixdiggit
Member
Instantly turned off by the cute little Japanese girl noises that are on constant blast. Can you disable her voice?
R
Retro_
Unconfirmed Member
Yep. ALOT of work goes into to designing a good combat engine, and as a fan fighting and action combat games my wallet is always open to supporting successful attempts. Especially from independent studios/Doujin Circles like Edelweiss here with Freesia.
I just wish I had more time to play it.
Eh, this really isn't "un" arcadey, though; earning moves in this game is more akin to Battle Circuit's special move purchasing, in that you already have decent abilities before starting.
I understand how you feel, but in this day and age, I'm less agitated about the existance of lite RPG elements, and more agitated by poorly implimented ones. Freesia hands it's large movelist well.
Double Dragon Neon? Fist Puncher if it makes it out in a few hours? Abobo's Adventure? *shrug*
No idea, I never look for voice down stuff. I can say her voice isn't really annoying or overdone though; It's more like playing an SNES game, where the sounds were just used to show the character was alive, rather than constantly trying to prove how cute the character is with overly obnoxious sounds.
Yup, much agreed. With all the indie games that can't get things like jumping, button press timing, double-taps, or enemy hitstun / feedback right, it really makes the games that nail all these elements stand out strongly.
As far as time issues, at least it's stage design style makes it so it's easy to get a few minutes in every once in a while; I like this about it's arena-like design.
This is one thing I used to love about the early XBLA games; they only lasted long enough to tell their stories in the week-span between Wednesday releases, but they had gameplay and additional modes that made them worth revisiting, if you liked them enough. Freesia ultimately fits perfectly into that kind of space, and I'm quite happy for it.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
Hm? I've used both my Saitek PC gamepad and a DualShock 3 set to emulate a 360 pad for this.
What do you mean? I played the game with a controller just fine.
I tried the demo, and even after selecting aspect ratios, those were the only resolutions available. I had to play it in a letterboxed 1280 x 720.
Also, are all the levels just one-screen arenas?
Yup...
QisTopTier
XisBannedTier
Reminds me of Elsword
It's really clearly not built with arcade design principles in mind. This is a game in which you pound out tons of obscenely long combos and juggle through lots of copies of the same enemy from infinite retry point to infinite retry point, resting to upgrade your character and save your progress. It's a 2D action game and all, but in no universe would I call this an arcade game.
The main character feels good to control and the aesthetics are nice, but the demo suggests that it's not a game I'll get into.
FrostuTheNinja
Member
And this looks right up my alley.
Thanks Seraphis!
Thanks Seraphis!
While I understand what you're saying, It does have element of an arcadey nature, though. Short Stages, a Linear focus, and gameplay as the star all are arcade-born traits. Infinite retry points are also really no different than "insert coin to continue", either. Add on a high-score mechanic, and it'd be pretty similiar in style to a more robust, combo-focused Snow Brothers, Booble Bobble, or Neo Geo's Nightmare in the Dark, really.
(Oh, and LoL at "lots of copies of the same enemies" not being an arcade trait... really? XD)
I actually have given a few thoughts to how a longer, more horizontal-stage version of this would be very Dust-like. The aerial focus also ocassioanlly has me wanting to see Freesia pull off an aerial Dust Storm attack, but it never happens!
I actually have given a few thoughts to how a longer, more horizontal-stage version of this would be very Dust-like. The aerial focus also ocassioanlly has me wanting to see Freesia pull off an aerial Dust Storm attack, but it never happens!
Hehe, yeah, I have the same problem playing any 2D action game... my own controls are so ingrained into my head. I'll definitely give this game a try soon, there needs to be more of these.
Thanks for sharing this "curse" with us, haha.
Offtopic, but my brother and I couldn't resist drawing a bit of Dust semi-fanart on the Miiverse, in reply to a picture of Lust (of FMA) I drew... a guy said she was hot, so we had to reply "BUT SHE HAS EVIL KNIFE HANDS! EVIL KNIFE HANDS!"... It just seemed so appropriate! Then an image of Fidget and Dust each were produced... first time I've ever taken a shot at artin' him
Will make sure to post the simple little things next time I do an image dump in the Miiverse Art thread.
onlyindreams
Banned
there is.. it detected my 360 controller without having to do anything special.
HungOverOnATues
Member
I just finished playing the demo of it and it was entirely on a single screen with 2 respawning enemy types. Is the rest of the game like this or is it just because it's a demo / tutorial area?
Metalmurphy
Member
It's like that.