Valve's First Ever Anime Games Sale Begins Now on Steam
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eXceed games are great. I'm familiar with but never actually played Tohuou, but in the Ys games the bosses are bloody tough and it may as well be bullet hell Zelda. There are always patterns to them though. Note though that Ys I & II Chronicles are pretty much straight ports of the 8bit games, and while Ys Origin is very good it's not as good as Oath in Felgenia which isn't in the main list but is also 66% off.inu-kun said:
Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky is more of a traditional JRPG with semi-tactical combat, and is by far my favourite of the bunch. I played it this year and it it's probably found it's way into my top 10 all time JRPG's actually, not quiet the same but closest comparison I would say is Suikoden II. You won't find a single RPG that's put more detail and effort into the background setting & characters of the world. Every town and little village has it's own industry & back story, every NPC is named and have their own little stories going on, which progress each time you advance the main story. This is the first game in a trilogy (they were on the PSP), the second one is almost done and they'll translate the third if the first two sell well enough.
I've played all the agarest games. there are light dating sim elements to it, mostly in the form of getting along with the girls so that you produce a stronger protagonist for the next generation.RandV80 said:
that said, if fanservice isn't your thing, you'll probably wanna pass on it. the game DOES have fairly interesting lore, and takes itself seriously enough to be enjoyable, even for people like me who detest fanservice... buuuut... it's steeped in the stuff, and it's shameless about it. most of it comes in the form of "innocent things that sound wrong", like a scene where a girl tries to fit an entire sausage into her mouth, complete with suggestive dialogue.
so yeah, it panders to the otaku crowd hardcore. >.< a fairly average game otherwise though.
If you're just in it for the strategy game aspect, I'd pass. I played a few hours of the first one and founds that most battles involved doing basically the same thing. Sure, there are a lot of buttons you could press and fancy things you could do, but for like 90% of the battles what you will do is the same pattern that works well enough to take out all of the generic enemies in one or two turns.RandV80 said:
Shame 90% of the games in the "anime sale" are either poor games (Korra) or watered down VN's (quite a few company's have started to do this I've noticed, taking out the 18+ content and then releasing it on steam with a "if you want the lewd stuff buy the full one from our website")
There are the odd gems in there (Love live the Queen, Recettear) and some I haven't played (Hatoful Boyfriend or Hateful Boyfriend, whatever its called) but mostly it's just crap. It's a trend I've noticed for a while now that with steams lax approval policy has come a slew of crappy second rate VN's (though I will admit to enjoying Magical Diary a lot). This isnt to say there aren't terrible VN's outside of steam but steam seems to be a place for them to congregate at the moment
There are the odd gems in there (Love live the Queen, Recettear) and some I haven't played (Hatoful Boyfriend or Hateful Boyfriend, whatever its called) but mostly it's just crap. It's a trend I've noticed for a while now that with steams lax approval policy has come a slew of crappy second rate VN's (though I will admit to enjoying Magical Diary a lot). This isnt to say there aren't terrible VN's outside of steam but steam seems to be a place for them to congregate at the moment
