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It's all just so unrelentingly French. If I have to watch that man wiggle his head Frenchly one more time I'm not letting him dodge or parry for the rest of the game.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Playing this game has been eye opening for me. Is this what people normal people feel like when they play Shin Megami Tensei or Yakuza or something?

Because all the French stuff is everywhere and everyone keeps saying little French phrases I have to look up. And the player is just expected to understand and roll with it. Now I kinda get when a normal person is like "what the fuck is a senpai" or "what's a golden week." Stuff I always took for granted because I'm a weird obsessive about Japan. But I know jack shit about France except they eat snails and frogs and their president married a pedophile

The game fucking rules though

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Probably, I remember Digital Devil Saga being an absolute ballache as a teen because most of the abilities have Japanese names and I had to work out what each element was called and what the prefixes and suffixes meant.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The game lets you beat up mimes that give you cosmetics that are over the top French, including a baguette that attaches to your back. The devs get how French they are it’s fun

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've met the french, they always think they get how french they are and then go and do something even more french 5 minutes later.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The French are so french that when I volunteered to help staff a camp in France, the last two days of "prep" I was put through before the kids arrived consisted of drinking and smoking on the bank of the seine late into the night, getting a lunchtime train to the puy region, then drinking rosé, eating charcuterie, and sharing stories with some of the local organisers all afternoon and evening. This was considered appropriate because it was to be a dry, nonsmoking camp, so we'd only be allowed to have the charcuterie for the next 3 weeks.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I dunno. France is terrible but the French are always a little based. They just need to overthrow their government or whatever. Like, tell me a courcican guy day drinking wine at a cafe isn't better than any capitalist bullshit the anglosphere invented.

You rember those pictures of French firemen using firebending on cops?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Honestly I'm enjoying it. Between the music and the story I can put up with the bullshit dark souls esque dodge-parry mechanic.

I think we really need more games similar to this from around the world. I want to culturally osmosis swear words from every country on earth. A different swear word for every occasion!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The bullshit dark souls-esque dodge-parry mechanic was actually one of the things that interested me - not because I particularly like either dark souls or dodging and parry, just because it does something to mix up the standard turn based formula. It's like Shadow Hearts adding a ring mini game to combat or Lost Odyssey's QTE's, it just adds a little bit more active engagement to the combat.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This is true. At least to me it makes it seem like we're edging closer to the gamer singularity where all genres blur together elements and incorporate elements from everything and lose all the distinctive aspects that define them...

Wait a minute am I a game genre racist?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

'fraid so, time to head to c/selfcrit

Seriously though, there's only so many base mechanics, genres, stories etc to go around, so they are going to blur together as they get combined in different ways, but that doesn't make the gestalts created from them a problem in themselves. The actual problem is the profit motive driving bland combinations with mass appeal - the PS2 era was a golden age for it, but you do still see developers combining them in interesting ways that improve the experience rather than just watering down both parts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"RPG elements" were a mistake

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

nah they just made RPGs worse and shooters worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Oh wait I misread that initial statement.

Hard agree.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't have bought it if it were merely a turn based RPG. Mastering dodges and parries means I get to do more cool shit on my turn and off my turn and spend less time worrying about healing

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah, it is overwhelmingly French. On the other hand, battling with mimes just feels like the right way to handle things.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

More games should let you beat up mimes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is very French. I am also a firm believer of if you don't jive with "the new hot thing" you shouldn't force it on yourself. However, and this may be my ignorance to French story telling (they fell of after Chrétien de Troyes), but I cannot think of another story like it that deals with the themes it does.

That's about all I can say, and I am sorry for word salad, coffee still kicking in

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly it crashed about 30 seconds after I gained control and started fiddling with steam controller settings, so I can't comment on anything more than the opening cinematic, but the other guy said you get to beat up a mime so I can probably tolerate the frenchness.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It cools down the Frenchness a bit as you get further in. Characters still say shit like "Mon ami" and putain and merde but whatever

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Swearing in french is like saying "heck" or "dang", it doesn't count

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

After putting down so many JRPGs because they had too much of the J, an FRPG sounds nice. If only I could find a physical copy that wasn't from a scalper.

I've gotten into so many stupid arguments with people about the newer (especially) Final Fantasy games being JRPGs over the years. XVI was agonizing, I couldn't play more than an hour of XIII, and the only newer one I've been able to tolerate is XII. It sucks, because I loved VI and IX.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Someone called it a J'RPG and I can't stop thinking about it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Did you play any of the Bravely Default games? They're arguably more Final Fantasy than the most recent Final Fantasy games.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I haven't and should.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

The mime fights are hard as fuck. I skipped them. No baguette for me.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think it is novel because of how French it is if nothing else. No other culture could have created this game.

Esquie might be the most French character ever created.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It's so weird seeing a game that plays like Persona but has the graphical fidelity of a modern game.

The world and dialogue feel like Assassin's Creed, then you go into turn based fights with parrying. It's jarring to see.

But you can tell it has come from developers stuck in the Ubisoft mines finally making the sort of game they want to play after all those years churning out map based slop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Dim dim dam dada dim dim da dada dim da lilam

Dim dim dam dada dim dim da dada dam di didam

🔥 🗣️

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Does this game have a good soundtrack?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It’s amazing though I hope someone translates it all