It's not fun
>Fighting giant moth boss>Can't damage him with normal balls, have to use charged balls>Fight becomes an insane slog to knock him downI don't know if I just wasn't doing something right or I was severely underleveled but I dropped the game after that.
It really isn't.I kept playing it but had to stop a year ago because of tests, and then I never felt like picking it up back again.
It is though
i really thought I was going to fight in this game and it turned out to be boring puzzle shit
>>739027353I'm gonna be honest, the art style gives this the vibe of being a tumblr tranny game>>739028004>boring puzzle shitI will now play your game
>>739028193The sound designer is literally a mentally ill tranny
>>739027353I had fun. That makes you objectively wrong.
>>739027353It is, until you have to do the temples, and it grinds to a halt so you can trial and error boring puzzles.
i like the aesthetic but i dont like the gameplay
>>739028193There's no actual troonshit but the game is noticeably sexless (especially for a MMO knock-off) and there's a gay couple. Also the puzzle bullshit everyone complains about cannot be understated. There's three fucking puzzle dungeons in a row because the devs are colossal retards.
>>739027353It's amazing, and their next game's even better.
yes essayfriend destroyed the game some years ago
>>739027353>people talk positively about a game on /v/>attention whores mindlessly shit on it not even a week laterThis is why I hate when nigger faggots post good games on this board.
>>739028830>There's three fucking puzzle dungeons in a rowYou think that's bad? Don't ever play a Zelda game.
>>739028004>>739027602>>739027559>>739027353>14 years ago>Still rings true
>>739029068I played the game bitch fuck you, I'll say what I want about it.
>>739028708>like the aesthetics>deliberately generic MMO aesthetic
I liked the combat but all the puzzle shit bored me to fucking tears. Also by the third or so area I had like a billion sidequests and couldn't be arsed
>>739029812This game and Secrets of Grindea both had the same problem where to clear the side quests you had to hit random bushes and shit for 3 hours to get a 1% drop. Which you needed five of.
>>739029567yeah i like that sometimes.
>>739027353Combat is not very interesting, agreed. The puzzles are fun. Thankfully alabaster dawn combat is fun now.
I like the combat and the puzzles.I don't like the shit crafting mechanics, the slew of generic sidequests, and the isometric obstacle courses to collect 1 bear ass or an arbitrarily locked treasure chest that I'll have to come back for later.
>>739027353It would be game of the decade except Rainworld and Brigador exist.What do you think isn't fun about it?You aren't doing the side quests, right?It's an MMO, they're designed to waste your time. You aren't actually doing the "collect ten bear asses" stuff, right? Just play the real content and don't concern yourself with the bs.Combat system and puzzles already make it better than ALTTP>>739028193I genuinely feel bad for you. I almost skipped this game because of the blue haired female protagonist (this was before they gave her a Tumblr nose) and I would've missed out on something absolutely fucking incredible. The demo is shit but the game kicks ass after the demo area with the negress talking to you. If you aren't enjoying it by the forest temple, drop it.
I'm surprised the game's as well-received and successful as it is. Seems like the kind of game that would filter the majority between multiple polarizing design decisions, with a small handful who felt like the game was made literally for them.
>>739030668Lea literally carried the game, I only made it to the end because I wanted her to have her happy ending.
why would they make an MMO where you can't tackle dungeons in a party?
>>739030179>he doesn't do all the time wasting bullshit in MMOs
>>739030179The game's a slog. Every area outstays its welcome three times over, this goes double for the dungeonsWriting is amateurish on a moment to moment basis and underdelivers on both of its core areas: playing an MMO with friends and being a copy of someone else.WORST platforming in any game i've ever played.Menus have the legibility of a game designed for the GBAThe world you spend most of your time interacting with is 'uninspired' on purpose
>>739027353I put this game off for years due to mixed opinions but I finally played it recently and I fucking loved it, so basically I'm never putting stock into reviews ever again.
>>739029567Single player MMO aesthetic is kind of kino
>>739028970i just wish anyone in alabaster dawn was nearly as compelling as lea and anyone else in crosscode
>>739032230Well that's a free space on the bingo card because the cross code cast are all forgettable muppets.
>>739031908This was me with Darkest Dungeon. All the "Pure RNG!" put me off.Finally played it, and as it turns out, everyone was just bad.
>>739032435I'll give you that most of the other characters outside of Lea, Emilie, and Apollo aren't quite as immediately memorable, but I still enjoyed them all.
>>739032567Normies suck at turn based games. People actually lost a single cat in mewgenics outside of the forced altar sacrifice before clearing act 3. Unthinkable.
>>739031908Basically my experience with it>>739032435Lea is a great character despite only being able to say like 5 words. >>739030885That entire section in Vermillion Wasteland...
>>739032435they're fun and quirkynone of the alabaster dawn characters are fun or quirky
>>739032705To be fair, the world is inherently a much more dreary place than the setting of CrossCode. I'd like to believe they'll grow on me once more of the game is actually done.
>>739029105the difference is that crosscode requires thought and/or skill for the puzzle dungeons. zelda is baby shit.
>>739029905drops in crosscode are extremely reliable. are you retarded?
>>739027353It got tiresome real quick, both the battles and the puzzles.
>effortlessly beats your completion time in each dungeon Fuck this bitch.
>>739027353I dropped it after the ice dungeon, when I had to take a fucking literal exam to continue playing. Too much talking.
>>739035306Isn't it possible to beat her every time?
>>739035335Yeah, but the cunt cheats.
>>739035335Yea, the time varies for each dungeon (90 minutes for the longest, 30 for the shortest), but generally as long as it doesn't take you over an hour you'll win.
>>739035306I hated this being a thing at all, from a game design stand point at least. It just makes you feel retarded and constantly pressured for taking too long on a puzzle due to misunderstanding some mechanic or trying to solve it in some way that seems barely possible but is actually completely wrong, but if you stop to rethink your approach you risk wasting even more time.
>>739036020there is literally zero consequence for losing. its pure story flair. additionally, ng+ is a thing and you can give yourself the advantage of power and experience to try it again and go faster. you literally have nothing to complain about.
>>739036739it makes you feel dumb which is the opposite of what solving a puzzle should do
>>739036789my first playthrough i honestly didnt even think there was a genuine win/loss timer, and that it was just a scripted rivalry event thing. later when i looked at achievements and saw that there was one for beating her every time that i learned that there is a timer and that you can beat her instead. you're retarded and pathetic for giving a shit instead of just enjoying the puzzle game.
>anons all complaining about the puzzle dungeons>I want a variant of crosscode that is nothing but puzzle dungeonsShame. I fucking hated everything about crosscode that wasn't a dungeon or a boss(that's not the PvP fights).
>>739036972ok, it's still a retarded thing to put in the game in the first place.
>>739037219seethe harder, snailtard. and clean the shit off of your face.
>>739037332ok but that won't make it any less retarded,
>>739037385>2+2=5 because i say it doeslmao you literally do not have an argument
>Set game in MMORPG>Make you the player not able to engage with any of the potentially interesting MMORPG mechanics like different classes or a party system.>Leave all the garbage MMO shit like uninspired quest designs and terrible writing>All the characters are of course. Written terribly as well. Nobody is interesting whatsoever and the MC is just "LMAO AMNESIA". No I do not care for lesbians fuck off>Combat is decent in the start but never really evolves during your entire time playing the game>Paced terribly the more you play. Spend 3 hours doing puzzles back to back to back to back then swap to doing only combat for like an hour straight.If you're LGBTQ and love puzzles then maybe the game is alright but as a straight man who enjoys a healthy mix of puzzle and combat. This game aint it. Also maybe a single character or narrative hook could go a long way. Shits so fucking predictable. No idea why people are obssesed with this slop. It starts decently but just gets worse the longer you play.
So did they chill the fuck out with all the puzzle dogshit in Alabaster Dawn or not
>>739037441>you literally do not have an argumentneither do you, you just said it didn't matter cause it didn't affect you. It's retarded and it will continue to be no matter how many jaks you've saved on your images folder
>>739037494>lesbians?????????
BRO FEEL BAD FOR THE PIXELS BRO DON'T YOU FEEL BAD FOR THE 0S AND 1S
>>739037534the fact is that it doesnt actually affect anything. being a sensitive baby autist (and narcissist at this point too) doesnt make it retarded, it just makes YOU retarded and pathetic, lmao. like you're literally throwing a tantrum over nothing. over something that should never have had a personal effect on you to begin with. no matter how many times you call it retarded, it will never be true, and will ALWAYS be an indictment on yourself.
>>739037697Yes unironically. Lea is so fucking expressive and it works every time.
>>739037730it's still retarded
>>739037502To an insulting degree, I'd say. I'll never forgive brainlets or reflexlets for bitching endlessly about having to think and react in a video game.
>>739028619>The sound designerAm I supposed to care? Sound designer could be the blackest nigger kike getting raped by satan and it wouldn't make a fucking difference to me.
thank you for proving my point. i accept your concession.
>>739028619>Someone unrelated to any aspect of writing is a trannyRight.
>>739037917>reflexletspuzzles are fine. needing to drill in temporary muscle memory like a speedtranny is gay.
>>739032705The one thing that bothers me about AD is how bland of a concept it is compared to Cross Code. CC has the meta aspect of being a game set within a game world with the characters being aware of and commenting on the generic game world stuff. Meanwhile AD just feels like that generic game world where the characters are the NPCs from CC's game. The whole demo I was waiting for the shoe to drop and to see what the trick to the setting was going to be but it never happened.
>>739038068I'm sorry but I did enjoy this. I never opted to do pause buffering though. I simply failed the puzzle as many times as it took to learn the flow of it.
>>739037917>>739038068its far less "reflex" as it is trial and error for seeing what the next step is and then doing it all over again to add 1 or 2 more steps, and then recognize what the next step is and add that into the routine. but you're right, it is speedtranny shit.
>>739038068this is some of the worst shit I've ever seen and anyone who enjoys it is 100% a balding troon
>>739027353I tried to push through a lot of red flags until eventually I decided the game wasn't fun enough for me to ignore everything I don't like in it. It often seems to be a twin stick shooter, but the controls are fucked up and the weapon sucks. It relies on a parry, but you can parry at the right time but you didn't point the thumbstick in the right direction, so it didn't work. You have a small pittance of moves, even if you try to specifically "equip" the most fun ones, and most of those rely on a resource that you're bled dry of constantly. This was weird to play because I would see things I liked, then try to use them and the game still wasn't very fun to play.
>>739038068we used to laugh at casuals like you on /v/
>>739038269Projection.
>>739038269Why?
>>739038271>it relies on a parryI played through the whole game without ever parrying once. Dodging was also a thing you could do.
>>739038429Not rely on it like Sekiro where combat turns into parrying enough to finish the boss. You can use i-frame dodges or just get hit and heal back any damage taken. The parry is very good though, nullifying damage and sometimes stunning the enemy. It's fun to see an attack right about to hit you, but you turn the tables completely in your favor. It's very possible to just not bother, like you did by dodging everything, and there's RPG builds specific to making the parry good.
op is a faggot stuck in one of the dungeons i bet LOL[spoiler[i also was stuck on some dungeons as well, i understand[/spoiler]
>>739028970I'm not a fan of how it's putting a focus on her being socially awkward,Bitch, you're out there saving the world which is a hundred times more important, and you're even doing it in monster-infested wastes away from everyone so it's not even relevant.Don't interrupt it so I can see a flashback of how one time you tried to talk to someone and it was hard :(
>>739039948Ctrl+s, baka
>>739039948I'm not gonna lie, I enjoyed this game but the back to back gauntlet of 3 dungeons fucked me up.
>>739040109I fear there is simply no world where they were able to surpass Lea as a protagonist, unfortunately.
>>739040205why would he want to save his post
>>739040109>Character development bad! Be full character now!"Meathead.>>739040481Calling Lea a character is a bit generous.In the 10 hours I spent playing Alabaster, Lea would still just be saying her name by that point.
>>739040887Lea as a character is simply more than just her words. We're past the point in history where people could pick up on things like gestures or expressions and infer information from that. We must now outright say everything directly to the camera so there is no room for ambiguity or interpretation. Perfectly in line with AD's extreme dumbing down of puzzles to boot, I feel.
Im doing the late game shit before finishing the game and i would say i manly enjoyed it but its not the best game ever or anything.Lea carries it a lot, they use it really well for only having 7 words. A lot of the puzzles are interesting, the kind that make you wonder wtf are you supposed to do but once they "click" you can't believe how long it took you.Wish the dungeons had a bit more combat to break the chain-puzzling.I only started playing it cause people were shilling their latest game which im actually curious about now but its probably a long while away still.Thanks for reading my blogThreesome sex with Emilie & Lea
>>739041151I also wish there was a bit more combat to break up the puzzles. Sometimes the back to back puzzling got a little mentally exhausting and I'd have to simply take a break and come back later. I still liked it but there's only so much puzzling I can do in one sitting. All that said, I'm still gonna grab the DLC at some point. Probably when it goes on sale again since I literally just missed its most recent sale.
>>739027353Game was fine, but making a platforming heavy game with that type of perspective was a horrible design choice and ruined the whole experience for me.
>>739027353The fact that they used HTML5 to make a game of this scope is insane. The fact that they're continuing to use it for Alabaster Dawn is even more insane.
>>739027353I knew cross code was shilled tranny shit Glad I ignored the shill threads this shit is already forgotten
>>739044247And yet you bumped it from page 10. Curious.
>>739028970>White haired brown tomboySEXO
>transcode
It seems to me that /v/ calls everything tranny the same way xitter calls everything pedophile. Which is to say it means literally nothing other than "I don't like it"
>>739044309Yeah, Juno's pretty sexo.
This faggot dev has been making games for 25 years and hasn't improved one bit
I played a bit of it and it seems to be a fairly standard brawler. I don't understand how this is 60 hours long or whatever
I just picked it up a few days back and I've been enjoying it. I like platforming like this, reminds of Alundra and Landstalker but with auto jumpPuzzles are everywhere which is okay buy I can see why people wouldn't like it as they tend to be more plentiful than forced combat areasJust opened up the square area so I'm close to the end, just cleaning up quests to get some good gear to dick around in the arena with before beating the game
>>739028970Refunded it, awful state currently. Crosscode was also cheeks, though.
>>739046527It become a problem later when jump puzzle get more complicated and it hard to tell each platform elevation
>>739046619It can be an issue but I just shoot at things to get an idea of what level they are on.
Can I grind in this game? Call me a shitter but the most fun part of JRPGs is doing some comfy grinding and making the next boss twice as easy
>>739046549Great review, Anon. Super specific. I'm sure you played it, especially after not liking their previous work.
>>739046527Ignore the other anon, determining elevation is never much of an issue.
>>739046985yes.
I bought alabaster dawn but I'm gonna try and 100% complete crosscode first before touching it.>>739046985the combat rank system (its kinda like pse burst) makes grinding pretty fun.
>>739046985Every level takes 1k xp and enemies (and quests) give fewer xp the higher level you are.So eventually enemies start giving pitiful xp (down to 1xp).Once you are near the end of the game you can get some items called "zone boosters" which well, boost the level of the enemies on each zone so they are challenging and give xp again but you will end up outleveling those too.So you can grind but its not endless. Levels do make a difference tho, i sort of remember reaching one of the optional end game bosses at like 52 when the quest was marked as 60 and getting my ass kicked then going back when i was 58 and it being noticeably easier.Game is good
>>739027353ehI thought it was neat. But I didn't like gameplay loop. Wasn't for me.
>>739044309Not really a tomboy sadly.
>barely any pornWhy?
>>739038068>pausing
Cross Code would have been a good game if it was three times shorter. No way in hell am I spending tens of hours doing stupid fucking puzzles to progress towards next set of puzzles. Let me out!
>>739050197Yeah that's a common problem with JRPGs and for some reason they decided to do it for this action RPG too
>>739027353The setting is really cool but I've bounced off after a couple of hours every time I've tried to play.
>start dlc>drop it for a bit due to burnout from the base game>can't remember what I was supposed to do when I pick it back up>start clearing side quests>"kill this whac-a-mole enemies while in a car chase" quest>drop the game againI'm hyped for the new game, I may even try out the early access
>>739051549>I'm hyped for the new game, I may even try out the early accessI pirated it and played it trough and will probably end up buying itSupposedly getting more expensive as they get closer to release but buying a game on early access that is about 2 years from release rubs me the wrong way
i'm still waiting for the base game plus dlc bundle to cost less than 10 euros
>>739053931>buying a game on early access that is about 2 years from releaseif you do this, please kys
>>739054014i bought it a lifetime ago but according to picrel the game was as low as 5€ 2 months ago, no way it was over 10 with the dlc
>>739027353It really isn't. Not evel a real rpg but just a puzzle game disguised as an rpg.Tried their newest game - alabaster dawn (early access) and it's unoptimized trash that creeps my gpu exclusively, despite being the same pixel art game with some minor effects.Apparently people say that combat might be better and there are less tedious puzzles but who cares if it's onoptimized and unfinished.They want to test this shit for 2 years but it's crystal clear they'll just forget about it, who needs to finish games when you can profit from EA?Gonna play Unsighted instead,
