At least there was button tapping to power up so there was SOMETHING to do during the forever animations
Oh God, I literally quit the game because the summons were so absurd. I feel I spent more time watching the same animations than I did playing the game.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I was obsessed with that game when it came out. Just played it again, and it’s actually pretty bad. Even without using summons at all, and with emulator fast-forward on most of the time, it’s almost unbearably slow and tedious.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
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Bro you spammed limit breaks in that game, tell your kid self to git gud
FF7 was the unrelenting Summon Fest once you got mimic and w-summon
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I imagine that’s a design consideration.- same with Ultima and other big spells. You get a big payoff after a big wind-up. It’s trying to telegraph that if you want speed you should build your party differently using junctions
fracture@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
game designers be like: NO! REBUILD YOUR PARTY IF YOU DON’T LIKE SUMMON ANIMATIONS! WE WILL NOT PUT A SKIP BUTTON IN!!!
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
honestly I don’t hate it as a decision. there should be rewards for using all the mechanics well
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I forget which game, but it had two different durations of summon/cast. The first time was always the long one, then youd regularly get the short one, youd randomly “crit” and get the long one, which did more damage.