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Grand Knights History (PSP, Vanillaware) - Famitsu preview is up
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thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Curious what kingdom everyone is going to pick. Because this looks like it's going to be pretty network heavy, we'll likely end up fighting each other at least once if we play enough.
I'm really tempted to join Union, the kingdom of Knights, but Logress (The Ancient Kingdom) has a nice look to it.
Anyone joining the Magic Kingdom of Avalon?
I'm really tempted to join Union, the kingdom of Knights, but Logress (The Ancient Kingdom) has a nice look to it.
Anyone joining the Magic Kingdom of Avalon?
Ghost_Protocol
Member
MoogPaul said:
I'm starting to, and lol at all dismissive "No, I like nice art" responses. Grow up people, you know what he means.
thetrin said:
It would be nice if it does! I'm not usually to interested in online features of games, but I am with this one.
Dunan said:
There are tons of PSP games I would love to translate, but people willing to help work on the programming aspect for PSP seem to be few. I take it it's difficult? :/ Ah well.
Ken said:
Mine is still preparing from Play-Asia, I hope it will ship soon... I've usually had such good luck with them shipping early. Possibly this time it was because of payment problems.
Pinko Marx
Banned
HNNNG WANT THIS GAME SO BAD. Localize it plaz.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
Mine is still set as preparing as well. I'm sure it'll ship on time.Lissar said:
Sorry I'm replying a bit late, but I think it's hard to tell. There hasn't been more than a few minutes of gameplay shown so far. My guess is that since you have to assign abilities to your characters, you won't have a set list of abilities like in SRW.InsertNameHere said:
Even if you never learn Japanese, learning katakana can get you very very far in games.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
I'm really curious if the crux of the game will be kingdom warfare. It seems really bent on conquering land, rather than furthering an RPG storyline, i'm secretly hoping it's just conquering, and light on story (like a JRPG Risk :O)
I'm kind of tossing around the idea of buying this on the way home today. The art style and music are both appealing, but the lack of overall news, gameplay videos, and impressions is a bit worrying. I don't really have any other games on my radar this month other than the Clash of Heroes DLC that may or may not be coming to XBLA - so I might be able to fork out the 5000 yen.
I may be able to throw out some basic translation work. (Oh lordy, I had to go and open my mouth.) Menus and stuff needed to play the game would probably take little time. I definitely don't have the time to do dialogue, story, and misc. text. Heck, I'm not even sure I'll have enough time to play the game.
I'll be playing as Avalon.
On a side note, there are about 8 reviews on Amazon.jp right now - 6 reviews at 5 stars, 1 review at 3 stars, and 1 review at 1 star. It's hard to put any trust into the 5 star reviews though since a lot of companies like to go in and pad their reviews by getting their staff to post stuff.
The 1-star review said that he enjoyed the character animation / visuals were up to par with VanillaWare's other works and that he enjoyed the standard turn-based combat system. However, he was not a fan of how the game played out. You'd start out by picking up quest and then move your piece along a board-game like grid. This would lead to some sort of combat situation that you'd prevail in before having to move your piece back to wherever you departed from to collect your reward. He called the approach, "uninteresting" and had been hoping that there'd be more cities, dungeons, or other places to explore like you'd find in your more traditional RPGs.
Sounds like the game simply didn't fit in with his expectations.
The 3-star review said that your normal fights were filled with super weak enemies and that "skipping" or relying on "autobattle" to power through them was a pain in the ass. Then when you finally do reach a mid-boss like the Golem, you're so used to the normal, weaker encounters that you often get your ass handed to you. What's more is that even if you manage to defeat said mid-boss, you're often forced to fight through a second boss right after the first often leading to defeat. He complained that the game felt like "work" and that you were often repeating the same tasks over and over. He also had harsh words for the story saying it felt like it was just "tacked on." He did praise the visuals though.
The 5 star reviews praised the game's tempo, it's easy-to-understand combat system, the amount of character customization, and the graphics. It was described by one reviewer as falling right in the middle of a RPG and simulation game.
I may be able to throw out some basic translation work. (Oh lordy, I had to go and open my mouth.) Menus and stuff needed to play the game would probably take little time. I definitely don't have the time to do dialogue, story, and misc. text. Heck, I'm not even sure I'll have enough time to play the game.
I'll be playing as Avalon.
On a side note, there are about 8 reviews on Amazon.jp right now - 6 reviews at 5 stars, 1 review at 3 stars, and 1 review at 1 star. It's hard to put any trust into the 5 star reviews though since a lot of companies like to go in and pad their reviews by getting their staff to post stuff.
The 1-star review said that he enjoyed the character animation / visuals were up to par with VanillaWare's other works and that he enjoyed the standard turn-based combat system. However, he was not a fan of how the game played out. You'd start out by picking up quest and then move your piece along a board-game like grid. This would lead to some sort of combat situation that you'd prevail in before having to move your piece back to wherever you departed from to collect your reward. He called the approach, "uninteresting" and had been hoping that there'd be more cities, dungeons, or other places to explore like you'd find in your more traditional RPGs.
Sounds like the game simply didn't fit in with his expectations.
The 3-star review said that your normal fights were filled with super weak enemies and that "skipping" or relying on "autobattle" to power through them was a pain in the ass. Then when you finally do reach a mid-boss like the Golem, you're so used to the normal, weaker encounters that you often get your ass handed to you. What's more is that even if you manage to defeat said mid-boss, you're often forced to fight through a second boss right after the first often leading to defeat. He complained that the game felt like "work" and that you were often repeating the same tasks over and over. He also had harsh words for the story saying it felt like it was just "tacked on." He did praise the visuals though.
The 5 star reviews praised the game's tempo, it's easy-to-understand combat system, the amount of character customization, and the graphics. It was described by one reviewer as falling right in the middle of a RPG and simulation game.
No I really don't. The last V-Ware game I played was Muramasa, and that was 2009. I can do another at this point. I'm at a loss as to how you can get tired of something that only comes out every two years.Ghost_Protocol said:
The game looks great exactly as it has been shown. If it doesn't appeal to you, don't play it. But the last thing anyone here wants is them listening to you whiners, and changing things fundamentally, or releasing even less games.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Akainu said:
Character creation looks great. Game looks fun. Wish this had higher than a 5% chance of coming out in the States.
sixteen-bit
Member
Maybe we'll get a digital release. Aren't the Sony tablets going to support PSP games? I assume that will extend the life of the platform a little bit.Fine Ham Abounds said:
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
This is what I was expecting from the game. Looking forward to getting my copy tomorrow.KuroNeeko said:
Interesting. From the videos linked above, it looks like attacking and defending don't use any AP. So AP is only for spells and skills. A shared MP bar reminds me a lot of Skies of Arcadia. I'm guessing late game spells will require refraining from every character using abilities in order to stock up on AP.
Also, you earn AP from defeated enemies? That's very cool.
thetrin
Hail, peons, for I have come as ambassador from the great and bountiful Blueberry Butt Explosion
My PA copy should be in today. Fedex shipping says it went from Hong Kong to the town next door in a single day (Which is mad impressive).
I'll make an impressions thread when I start playing.
I'll make an impressions thread when I start playing.
Fine Ham Abounds
Member
Gyoru said:
Oh wow...
Omg heh I just realized I've had your channel bookmarked for a month (watching playthroughs).
Augemitbutter
Member
Gyoru said:
oh yes, this is good.
cj_iwakura
Member
How could anyone get tired of a developer who consistently churn out such beautiful design work?
My god, someone has to localize this. It looks amazing.
My god, someone has to localize this. It looks amazing.
sixteen-bit
Member
Looking forward to it.thetrin said:
KibblesBits
Member
KibblesBits said:
Yeah I just went and watched for a few minutes. It's gorgeous and the music and sound fx are better than I would have expected. I'd love to play it in english some day but I still may consider importing it after this fall's slew of releases calms down somewhat.
MotionBlue
Member
Sooo, its 2012 now. Still no word from Xseed on a release date? The title popped up on Metacritic for this month, but I can't find any sources indicating its release.
Delayed indefinitely.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
These incidents of a lack of people and cash to make this sort of thing happen is worrisome to say the least.
According to some GameFAQs users, this has been confirmed by XSeed via e-mails.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Amazon has it listed for March from XSEED, has a preliminary box art too.
Probably doesn't mean much though.
Probably doesn't mean much though.