Its an incredible game but not for everyone. I’ve been saying for a while that a game for everyone is a game for no one. These guys picked a specific genre and set out to tell an interesting/artistic story with a very specific vision and IMO they hit a grand slam/it is executed very well. If you bounced off it thats completely fine, not everyone is looking for what this game has to offer. It just happened to really click with me.
11111one11111@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I tried the expedition 33 game but couldnt get into it quick enough so I just refunded it and scooped a bunch of better priced steam sale games. Any one here stick around with the game long enough to convince me why I made an ill-guided choice?
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 day ago
a game for everyone is a game for no one
Not true. Pong is AMAZING!
See, there’s this square dot, and these two paddles…oh, I won’t spoil the plot! Just play it!
elgordino@fedia.io 1 day ago
I picked it up in a sale recently, it’s not normally my type of game but I thought I’d give it a shot. I’m only a couple of hours in and loving it so far.
The story is sucking me in and I’m starting to appreciate the combat, things seem to be unlocking at about the pace I can understand. I’m a little worried it’ll be repetitive but it looks like there’s plenty of opportunity to be creative to keep it interesting.
Definitely my solo game for the longer nights ahead.
Kyle_The_G@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The game wants you to break it. Some of the late game bosses are so over the top you need the broken maelle build just to have a chance. Thats what is fun about it too, you can make the game as hard or easy as you want depending on your strategy and mods.
Dumhuvud@programming.dev 13 hours ago
The game wants you to break it. Some of the late game bosses are so over the top you need the broken maelle build just to have a chance.
Simon? I mean, you could one-shot him in both phases, but I doubt he was designed with that in mind. There are videos on YouTube where people beat him legitimately (as in, don’t skip the entire fight by not letting him do a single turn), after all.
Myself, I resorted to doing the entire third act, side-activities included, the easy way, but that’s because I’m bad at dodging and parrying and not patient enough to retry the same fights over and over again.
oyfrog@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It depends on how much you like QTE gameplay and turn based JRPGs. If neither appeals to you, then the refund was a great idea. If one or the other appeals to you, then I think it’s worth sitting through because both gameplay mechanics are executed well enough and the narrative is good. If both appeal to you then you’ve missed out in getting a refund.
I really enjoyed this game. The gameplay is intuitive, but challenging; the narrative is engaging; the soundtrack is incredible.
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
That’s an accurate description. The game itself tries to present the highest difficulty as “real-time mechanics” oriented, but all that really does is make QTEs more punishing. After some frustration, I just swapped back to the normal difficulty and am enjoying the game a lot.
exu@feditown.com 1 day ago
I think I’d want something between normal and hard difficulty. Normal makes most fights trivial when you hit most QTEs, while hard kills you on single QTE fails almost.
I haven’t really enjoyed JRPG combat, so this mix works really well for me
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 1 day ago
What if you like turn based JRPGs but hate QTE? lol
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Your can turn off the QTEs for optimizing attacks which I definitely did. Dodging/parrying I can’t be avoided but if you turn the difficulty to story mode it’s generally pretty trivial.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 23 hours ago
Even on Normal you can just build defensively and use Maelle with Egide to tank through like 99% of the game even without nailing a single parry or dodge. It’s only maybe the optional superboss that might give you trouble.
who@feddit.org 1 day ago
You’re not alone. The visuals are nice, the voice acting is good, and the music is gorgeous, but the gameplay is very repetitive JRPG combat with a minor twist.
As art, I could see it winning awards. As a game, I think others are more deserving.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I don’t blame you at all. It’s styled after the old final fantasy games, meaning very fiddly with a lot of different abilities, and with the added twist of having to dodge stuff fairly precisely which involves a lot of learning. There is a “story” difficulty which makes the game much less punishing, but I still didn’t feel like playing it.
I did watch my girlfriend play though, and soon I was the one telling her to play so I could watch because the story and soundtrack are that fucking amazing. Just watch a playthrough of at least all the major fights and cutscenes and you’ll understand.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The gameplay itself is just “okay”. Turn based JRPG combat with some QTE not much different from Super Mario RPG on the SNES.
I think the attention it has received is based on how well they type together the quality of storytelling, dialogue, art direction, music, and the universal theme that resonates with everyone:
It’s an interactive cinematic experience that has me in emotional shambles multiple times throughout the playthrough.
If you’re dead inside like me and desperate to feel anything, it’ll do it for you :>
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Hands down, my favorite rpg in years. It has also been one of the super rare games that I kept playing past the end of the main story just so I could stay in the world a bit longer. It will also be one of the only games I’ve bought after playing it on Game Pass too.
kinther@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Like you I could not get into it, but I gave it the old college try. Got about eight hours in and can’t get a refund now.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 day ago
For me, I found it to be a beautiful work of art and a heartbreaking story about family.
It’s not a mass appeal title that absolutely everyone will love though. The game is not particularly easy and it takes time to develop the story.
Every time you get to the end of an act in Expedition 33 there is so much emotion. If you aren’t following the story, don’t get emotionally attached to the games you play and the stories of the characters, and aren’t patient enough to enjoy it then obviously it won’t be for you. That’s ok. It’s all art. They all mean different things to each one of us.
I’m confident we’ll get another hades, another silksong, another death stranding. I’m sure they’re all the very best representation of their iterative releases and worthy of the highest of praises too. I don’t even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.
I don’t know if i’ll ever be as impressed by another title as I did by expedition 33. Baldur’s Gate 3 amazed me in other ways a couple years ago and it’s a huge feat. Before that for me it was Elden Ring, amazing for other reasons.
I haven’t started kingdom come deliverance 2 yet, and I never played the first one, so I don’t want to say too much. All of the impressions i’ve heard sound like it is very deserving though. My assumption is that this and Exp33 have been the two GOTY contenders, but we’ll see.
moakley@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I don’t even know how donkey kong got in the list though, maybe they are being manipulated to include a nintendo title in some way.
It’s one of the best reviewed games this year, it’s in a classic but underrepresented genre, and it’s the flagship title of the fastest selling console of all time. Maybe you’re just a little disconnected on this one?
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Ah cool, so it’s better than say either of the Zelda games? since multiple releases this year seem to be on that tier.
I know it has high reviews but I am always doubtful it’s more of a hype review especially when people are desperate to justify their $500 hardware+game bundle purchase on top of their $70 20-hour game
moakley@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I don’t understand why you’re mentioning Zelda? There was one Zelda game this year, released a couple weeks ago, but it’s actually a Warriors game.
I’m sure Bananza is getting a boost from the Switch 2 hype, just like E33 is getting a boost because of its indie roots. None of this happens in a vacuum. But the hype wouldn’t do anything if either of these were bad games.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Donkey Kong inclusion was definitely Nintendo fan tax 🤭
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 day ago
I kind of figure death stranding too. It at least has sounded like it deserves to be up there even though it basically just fits in to the “ps5 exclusive” slot.
Blue Prince sounds like it’s the Myst of this generation too, but that kind of game just doesn’t draw appeal in modern times. Everything i’ve heard about it points to it being a game that way more people should probably try, but they just haven’t. Puzzle games rarely get mass appeal.
mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I think Blue prince would have made more sense than another installment of Donkey Kong 🤷♂️
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It’s a quite enjoyable game, though some elements grew old towards the end. The visual design and music is also amazing. Unfortunately they dropped the ball on the ending a little, and it is very likely that this is the result of a flubbed rewrite, as there are certain hints within the game that imply very strongly that at least at some point things were clearly meant to be more complicated. The version of the ending we got has a very clear message as to what the writers intended to be the right choice.
moakley@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I had a similar experience. I’d honestly prefer boring turn based combat to the ridiculous QTEs in the game.
The story was extremely well-told. Great voice acting and production value. But the actual plot didn’t hook me. It just seemed so arbitrary. I don’t know if there’s some big reveal or anything that makes it make sense.
I only played it on Game Pass, so luckily I’m not out any money. I would have given it another chance eventually, but the Game Pass price hike made me cancel.
ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I don’t know if there’s some big reveal or anything that makes it make sense.
Ummm… I can’t give any spoilers here but…
Screen_Shatter@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nah, if it didnt hook you in the beginning nothing would happen later to change that. Good story, acting, visuals, but combat gets repetitive and needed something more to shake it up.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You didn’t really offer any insight as to why you moved on…
Carighan@piefed.world 2 hours ago
Assuming you play on PC I'd near-universally recommend it. This is because if the dodging/parrying mechanics do annoy you, your only option is to change to Easy, which also reduces enemy damage by a ton and makes the game boringly simply. Mods allow you to have the slightly more lenient timings of Easy but the HP/damage numbers of Normal, which for me personally was a nice combination as I got frustrated parrying the later bosses.