is astlibra revision any good? it's on sale rn
>>747411315Yes, very good.Give your money to KeizoPlay his masterpiece
>>747411315pirated it since lol @ putting your game on steam, the platform designed to kill PC gamingis funif you seriously still use steam, seek help.
>>747411315>game gets praised on /v/>I try it>It's dogshitEvery single time
i tried it an wasn't impressed. only so many things you can do with a sidescroller. only gets jerked off for its story but they'll deny that and say the gameplay is the breadwinner somehow
>>747411784>frognigger>terrible tastes and takesEvery single time
>>747411315It's exceptional, but not for everyone. If you like sidescrollers and old JRPGs it's a fun time.
It's up there with Black Souls 2 in what i call the 'sometimes /v/ is very right about things being amazing' list
>>747411315Depends. How obsessed about graphics are you? Are you able to just enjoy a good story or are you going to be bitching about the sprites the whole game through? If you're a skindeep fag give it a pass.
someone post the sneakers pic (the game is good)
>>747411315It's probably the best game ever made.
>>747411315>it's on saleIt isn't.
i liked it a lot. if you like game games it's worth trying.
>>747411315Is this closer to stuff like salt and sanctuary/holloy knight aka metroidvanias with soul-like elements (you die you return to the bonfire equivalent)Or is this more like muramasa and Sekuna of rice and ruin (beat'em ups with sprawling maps and some RPG elements)?
>>747411315I liked what I played but bounced off it because of how much missable stuff there is that doesn't really have any hints and my autism flared upthat's one old JRPG cliche I wish they had stayed away from
>Developer: KEIZO>https://youtube.com/shorts/U4wDyFUemlY>https://youtu.be/x8HHIJDtDuo>fleeing from a horde of demons attacking his hometown>4chan userbase zombie'dOh japan!!! Sometimes I wonder if you are feeding me or trying to catch some new Pokémon!>it is good?I am feel so horny!!!
WHERE ARE YOU GOINGYes I know those are not the actual lyrics
>>747413205It's Ys.
>>747413839Ohthat's disappointingnever liked Ys
I pirated it and then bought it when it wasn't discounted because it's that good. I'm about to finish the swamp in the postscript. Fuckin' BOARDS, man.
RAIN
>>747414321Based.
>>747411992
>>747413351Nothing is missable as far as I know except maybe certain dialogue events.
>>747413351The game sometimes stops you from leaving an area because story beats prevent you from leaving. But eventually the path reopens.
>>747414519
is this game fun on keyboard? my dualshock 3 has trouble connecting to my pc lately
>>747411315It's good
Where's Anulis
https://youtu.be/xLfFHNkn37I?si=z-U3oZxj2fyQggQE
>>747411315Why did the dumb nigger dev remove the demo from steam?
Probably the most addicting 100% ever made. There isnt a single second of this game that felt tedious, grinding enemies in every area until youre ripping through oneshotting everything is so satisfying, the story is fantastic and the OST is perfect.I really love the game feel, its so responsive and the hitstop/freeze that happens when you attack is so kino
>>747413059switch
>>747411315It is an acquired taste, but it is legitimately one of the best video game experiences out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbDphFU3hsY&list=RDGbDphFU3hsYWhen the 346th plot twist hits but you don't give a fuck
>>747413549>wintering edo fox intensifies
>>747416385bro forgot the backtracking in stage 2, 3 and 4(?)
Amazing game.Wish I could suck on Astraea's fat tits for all eternity
>>747416448Good shit.For me it's the moment you leave the apartment and see the future city.Those rooms immediately afterwards were fucking brutal on Impossible.https://youtu.be/jB3GrmCooek?si=2QIvDWJ0UF_uro6s
>>747413205THink of SotN but there's little to no exploration.Anot>>747413998Ys 3 in particularIt's very similar in spirit to a falcom game at least. That you tell you enough to see if you still want to give it a try.
>>747417159>THink of SotN but there's little to no exploration.That sounds cool, tell me about the difficulty on a scale from SOTN to rabi-ribi
>>747417290If you pick the hardest difficulty you gotta iframe basically everything, it's quite challenging.
>>747417290Depends on the difficulty you play on. It varies from a fun stress free adventure with lovable characters to a (lore accurate) PTSD inducing battle of wills which tests your resolve because every enemy could potentially murder you, and there's a LOT of them.
>>747417290Not quite as hard as rabi-ribi, gets intense later in the game.
>>747417614>>747417739>>747417790Does not playing on the hardest difficulty lock you out of any content?
>>747417290It can get pretty hard.
>>747417825Not at all. It's there just for the masochist to chew on, or for bragging rights. It's actually, unapologetically difficult with no cheese strats, but doesn't lock any content behind it.
>>747411315it's a nonstop kino rollercoaster that flips between polish and QUALITYi'm glad to have played it
>>747417825I don't think so, but I forgot which difficulty I played on. I remember getting pissed off at the arena. No, that's not the achievement for starting the game. Welcome to die.
The second to last difficulty is just fine
>>747411315Kino of the highest order. I ain't fucking around, play it.
>>747411846The gameplay is great too yes.
>>747411315The story had me completely disinterested. It's like a hyper-emotional sob story type without anything actually happening or being revealed at all. It's one of those "omg you don't discover whats happening until the final act, omg so deep!" type jrpgs. Not an honest way to tell a story, especially when you are time-travelling the fuck all over the place. I'd say this is a game for people that worship Steins Gate and other shitty anime like that.
Absolute kino.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAw7s9j4aWo&list=RDhAw7s9j4aWo&start_radio=1
>>747418089Unironically filtered
>>747418089This is like the only good amazing /spoiler] time travel story I've interacted with. I know nothing about Steins Gate.
I only used buff and summon abilities when I got them, never any other
>>747418089bro you play astlibra for the gameplay
>>747417940The highest difficulty is great. I found myself swapping builds all the time to complete the arena chapters and the superbosses as soon as they became available.
>>747417940>>747418009Thanks anons, i like the challenge but my hands are physically fucked so i can't be doing those anymore.I'll grab a copy and the DLCWhen it goes on sale, because OP is a lying faggot.
>/v/ shills a game>look inside>troonshitEvery time
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>>747419227Astlibra is one of the most heterosexual games in existence to the point of almost being a detriment to some story beats because it's too blatantly horny.
>>747419116You mean you'll pay money to rent a copy
>>747419227>troonshitWhat the fuck are you talking about?
>>747419347Incredible ragebait anon, i'm thrilled to engage with you further on it
>>747419462I just want correct terms usedPersonally, I pirated it and rate it 10/10 because fuck any cunt who thinks it's okay to use steam
>>747419436Probably a tranny, mad that this game doesn't cater to them by portraying male female relationships as desirable and trying to steer others away from it. There's nothing yuri or tranny in this game.
>>747411315Literally the best game made in the last 20 years.
>>747419116Achually it's 10% off right now if you are getting the game + dlc. The dlc is truly completely optional btw.
>>747419227>troonAnon, the term is tranny.Go back to your discord and get help before trying again
>>747411315>is astlibra revision any goodIt's an aggressively okay game that /v/ exaggerates the shit out of just because it was made by one guy. Cave Story was also made by one guy, but it wasn't made up of 95% stock assets and music.
>>747419580Hahaha you are correct anon, such great arguments, you are truly one of the good ones.
>>747419851I am not exaggerating at all, I love this game. I don't give a fuck how many devs did or didn't work on a game, I just want a good game. And this is a great game. Already got all my friends to play it too, they loved it.
>>747411315Its very chuuni and shonenlike. The story keeps on giving and doubling down on Jrpgs and shounen troupes. At thebstart it seems like the usual A japenese harem moe shit but it slowly ramps up and when you realisr it you are fighting gods, mechas and dodging meteors
>>747413205Not quite like the ones you mentioned, more like sidescrolling Ys
>>747411315yep
>>747416357but its still there?
>>747417940>with no cheese stratsThere are builds that have 100% uptime on summons which give permanent I frames
>>747419116Good news is you can lower difficulty whenever so if you are getting giga filtered from "holy fuck my hands hurt" itus like me you can. Just no bringing it back up
>>747416357>>747420401I definitely would not recommend playing it though. It's schizophrenic nonsense and actually kind of turned me off before playing the real game.
>>747421154he can play the demo, but convolutedly he shouldn't play the 'demo' mode of the demo (or the main game). i was also put off because I tried the demo mode, not realising that you can just start a new game as normal for the proper 'demo' portion. it's kind of obscene that the demo only makes sense once you've beaten the game
>>747419851Cave Story and Astlibra are two of my favorite games but it's apples and oranges to compare them. The 'stock everything' aesthetic is necessary because Astlibra is 60-100 hours of adventuring and the only part I'd say is truly bad is the environment art. Characters, common enemies, and most bosses draw from a very limited number of asset packs so they have pretty similar styles. The music picks were pretty great, too, real shame most of the royalty free music isn't for sale anymore
>>747421438It's been so long, I forgot what it was. OK, so the "demo mode" is the crazy disjointed remix. It makes sense after I beat the game...? Shit, I guess I need to mess with it again then.
>>747421635Not quoted but iirc it makes sense only really after/while you play the baker girl dlc.
>>747419227I thought so too anon. Then pirated it when I was drunk and man, yes, there is some haremshit but its minimal and takes a backsit
>>747411315yea
>>747411315Easily the best game of the past decade, not that that's a high bar.
>>747420769>100% uptime on summons which give permanent I framesI call bs on that. I dont' remember such build
Astlibra is unironically one of the most fun games ever. Systems on top of systems on top of systems, all feeding into the base gameplay and giving a ridiculous dopamine rush from progression and fighting enemies. Some day someone is going to repurpose its roguelike mode and its game mechanics into standalone entity and earn a fat stack of bucks from it.
>>747415460Yes. It's a 2d game with a very limited precision aiming element, it's vastly superior on keyboard.
>>747421438>It's kind of obscene that the demo only makes sense once you've beaten the gameNo that was the best part because I kept playing the whole game being like "When is the plot from the demo going to kick in" so then at the very end when it finally did it was even more kino
Masterpiece
>>747415460I played the entire game on Keybaord and it was fine
>>747416335this track combined with the background made me stop and be just "man..."
>>747411315It's peak
This game follows the same trope I love about 13 Sentinels which is that the story when you look at it in retrospect is very tropey but the game throws so much shit at you constantly that you never have time to settle on your theory of WTF is actually going on before you have a new piece of evidence to considerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU6s41YQSusLike for instance I was so focused on other aspects of the story that I totally missed the very obvious foreshadowing during the Polin boss that Karon was the Dragon
Be honest how many of you got Shiro killed and didn't even realize there was a way to keep her alive until you did the Golden Ending section of the Epilogue
>>747421154nigga really sloppified someones work like that
>>747426020>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU6s41YQSusahhhhhhh, it's too early for a replay, I don't want to yet!
>>747426170>didn't even realize there was a way to keep her alive until you did the Golden Ending section of the EpilogueI wouldn't know, I immediately replayed the chapter
>>747426358I just assumed that was the only way it was gonna play out so I was locked in. She stays dead for quite awhile
>>747426170I almost did it right by accident by immediately getting her to stay at the beginning but didn't grab her at the end. I immediately replayed the chapter.
Have you guys played anything interesting since Astlibra?I went through Blasphemous 1 and 2 this year. Stellar soundtrack and I feel it executes a lot of the FromSoft story-telling tropes better than FromSoft itself ever did.Plus side-scrollers are more up to my speed than 3D action games to begin with.>>747426020My friends love 13 sentinels, though I went through the first chapter and I wasn't vibing very much with the cast just being different flavors of anime schoolgirl/schoolboy stereotypes. Just a me thing though.
>>747427627There's a B plot in the background that doesn't involve school children if you can wait for the plot lift-off soon after the prologue ends
>>747427714Rape correction
>>747427627Gonna shill Blood in the Panopticon.It's a one man roguelite with a unique artstyle and android ryona. It reminds me a lot of Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum which is another gigakino indie
>>747411315It's good but I didn't finish it because it got very repetitive. A 8/10 for me.
>>747427627Sultan's Game
>>747411315boring + trans MC
>>747427627Nine Sols
>>747418134Kek, this track showed up when I was playing Cosmo Dreamer and it immediately got me locked in.
>>747419227>turns two lesbians straight with the sheer power of his chad energy>has a harem of at least two girls lusting for his dick at all times, arguably 3 to 4>every girl is stacked beyond belief>trannyLet me guess, its because of a nightmare where MC is dreaming of being a girl or nightmare of him getting cucked?>>747427627>Have you guys played anything interesting since Astlibra?If you mean like Astlibra genre wise - no. But Void Stranger has been living rent free in my head for months now after I finished it.
>>747411315One of those games that for some has trannies repeating it's the best ever and changed their life, like Rain World and Outer Wilds.All those games are mid.
>>747426170I managed to not get her killed in my 1st play lol
>>747411570Based pirateCHAD
No halloween niggacore no listen.
>>747411315It's a janky mess with absolutely awful graphics (the backgrounds look like they're just digitised from stock photos he found on google image search).The gameplay is clearly an homage to older falcom games like the xanadu series and ys3 and romancia.The writing is rubbish which is to be expected from an anime game.>>747412060>good storyIf all you consume is anime and manga maybe. If you compare it to real media it's atrocious.
>>747434438>the backgrounds look like they're just digitised from stock photos he found on google image searchAlso foreground objects, yeah. SOVL
>>747434290YEHhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO6Hcsq3nRs
>>747434438>If all you consume is anime and manga maybe.I compare it to "was I entertained" and I absolutely was. I don't need an art snob like you telling me what good storytelling is. Everything you consume is shit too. But for other reasons.
>>747434290>>747434816Absolutely jamming. This track is good by itself but it hits 10x harder when you are hours and hours into your playthrough
symmetric bump
>>747437114
>>747437114Okay anons, big blonde Shiro, or small redhead Shiro?I'm going team small and red of course
it's a masterpiece and i don't even know what i'd want out of a sequel (not that we'd even get one) because the first game does everything i wanted it to do
>>747437419i don't know any redhead named shiro. do you mean sheero?
>>747437898Story from the pov of another floating landmass. Adventure into the unknown land after descending
Where can I download the full soundtrack? Don't say Youtube
>>747438412Motherfuckers don't know how to use yt-dlp these days or what?
>is astlibra revision any good?yes
>>747434438scorsese is not a good director or storyteller btw fyi
>>747438474What part of "don't say Youtube" don't you understandI don't want Google's shitty reencodes with no IDv3 tags
>>747438616True, he's a piece of shit shitalian. Only Jews can be good directors.
>>747437962
>>747437898Better to just make a completely different game imo, not a sequel.
>>747437114fuuuuuuuuuuucckkk
>>747427627minishoot adventure and cairn + been going through a couple metroidvanias. for recent stuff, i just finished iron nest. haven't been able to find a mindfuck complete experience like astlibra just yet
>>747438664Oh, so self retardation then. Got it.
>>747433828wait who are the lesbians
>>747439293The two ladies you bump into a few times who are next up to be sacrificed. You and Kuro take their places.
>>747438664open sound.dxa using ASTLIBRA-tool and it's all there (poorly tagged in moonrunes)
remember to bully shiro and drag her to as many extra bosses as you can
>>747439370oh right i forgot about them. sadly you don't turn them straight anon you're still getting cucked (if a girl is not interested in me she is cucking me)
Astlibra's only issue is that Anulis is the blandest girl in the game despite being MC's waifu
>>747439578I need to do this on my next playthrough.
>>747434438>The gameplay is clearly an homage to older falcom games like the xanadu series and ys3 and romancia.Keizo actually hasn't played those iirc.His biggest inspiration was Debias for the NES.
>>747440183The twists surrounding her make up for it. I do prefer Yandere machine version though
>>747417290Slightly harder than the average Metroidvania if you set the game to hard and refuse to spam healing items, and it gets progressively harder the higher the difficulty setting you select, on the highest difficulty, you are basically expected to play with berserk, which increases your damage a ton but also makes it so you die in one hit.
>>747440183just a result of her true nature + the fact that she doesn't really get any time in the story like the other girls do, for obvious reasons. i think her characterization when you have that "break" was cute though
>>747440315if you actually put some of your level up points into defensive stats you won't die in one hit so you aren't that required to use berserk. It's generally not that hard to run away and heal up if you do take a hit.
>>747434290what the fuck was his problem?
>>747438717Italians are jews with better food. Also his movie Silence was pretty good.
>>747411784DUMB frogposter
>>747440315I honestly think Hard is the sweet spot in terms of difficulty. I just played with a luck build and refused to spam healing items. I could get hit a few times but still needed to play carefully, but at the same time i wasn't forced into Berserk either.
>fist boss of the game>has a fuck metric ton of HP>can easily kill you>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XjheYn2D84Holy fucking kino.
The bosses were scary until i unlocked the rock staff… God that thing fucks
>acquire a new weapon>acquire new armor>use it to max out the levelayup... kino
>fight the snake goddess>get my ass kicked>"haha I get it, this is one of those scripted boss fights you are meant to lose">game overWhat a fucking reality check that boss is, if your build is still shit by then and you haven't learned the game mechanics, that boss will make it clear as day that you won't go any further until you learn how to allocate the stat points correctly, learn to evade with magic, use your shield, and keep the damage up.
I find amusing that there are at least 2 multihour long video essays covering Astlibra but the game is so long and voluminous that after a while both videos had to devolve into cliffnoting the story for the author's own sanity.(Generally once they reach the postscript)
What’s your favorite skill?For me, it’s kirihide
>>747423491You just equipt the first summon and spam it between. On swing and it recharges enough to spam it again immediately. It is incredibly fucking tedious and murders your hands but it is technically infinite iframes
>>747441951That's every fucking video essay. It ALWAYS boils down to just writing a synopsis
>>747441926>fight the first boss>get my ass kicked>"haha I get it, this is one of those scripted boss fights you are meant to lose"...
>>747441075I played the difficulty above what was required for the achievement but used berserk the entire time. The second I unlocked it it felt too good to stop using
>>747442474That was my wake up too. I saw I was beating the fuck out of him and he was taking basically no damage and let him kill me. Then thought "hmm you have to get him to a certain point" then I realized oh fuck I need to kill him.Truly the TTGL of Vidya
>>747442430>>747441951DoshDoshington stands out for doing genuince analysis videos. (This is not related to Astlibra).
Halloween Niggacore
>>747442039Kirihide is a skill that I only started using during the last boss of Gaiden, and looking back now I have no idea how I was even playing the game without it.
> Asset flip:> Asset flip Japan: AAAAAHHHHHHWWWWWYYEEAHHHH!!!
>>747438664if you google astlibra soundtrack you will find a steam discussion thread that has a link to a website called khinsideri can't post the link for some reason fucking 4chan
>>747443820Yeah, they know to make it good, just like with anything else.
> ShartvaniaWeebs will gobble any ol' gook jizz.
>>747444067> Shitgoblin hoovering slopok
>>747443820>Good gameHell yeah>Good game JapanHell yeah
>>747444319They can even make your sister look good;)
>>747444123It is not a metroidvania, the game is 100% linear.
>>747411315played it this year, it's fun
>>747411784>frogpost>shit opinionJust leave /v/ at this point
>buy magicus on play store because it's also from keizo and I'm in for some puzzle and dragon gameplay >You play as a woman Meh
>>747441926Honestly her and Agni (fire demon kino boss) are massive difficulty spikes. Snake goddess though, fuck her stupid earth bullets that explode. Things are hard to spot and react to in time, and the explosion they create is huge and chunks most of your HP.
>>747417290It can be very difficult. But not for the right reasons. It's difficult because the controls/handling are awful.
>>747411315Skip it and play Popful Mail instead.
>>747417290Set the game to hard/difficult and turn off the pause during magic use and its kino
>>747446641the real issue with the earth bullets is that the explosion from when they hit the ground is unguardable so the best you can do is jump and guard at the start of the attack and pray that once you land you don't get chunked by them.
>>747411315Yes, it fucks hard. Give it a go.
>>747412864lol
>>747446668>the controls/handling are awfulFuck no, controls feel really good, you most likely suck at the game.
>>747413205is muramasa good?
>>747445926> Angry his shitty anime game got criticisedWAA
>>747446668post hands
>>747411315it's literally the best game ever made
>>747413205It's Julius mode
>>747449053My hands are shot from advanced arthritis bad enough my doctor has begged me to let him schedule me for surgery. And even I thought it controlled great
>>747439578I had no idea they had unique lines. I beat them all by myself.
>>747450103Most people did but yeah every character has an extra line with the "bonus" bosses
You can tell by all these screenshots that it's a meme game only 4chin plays because>muh erotic>muh incest>muh some troon shitit's a piece of shit game. Try it out, you'll see
>>747450520
>>747411989I like Xanadu Next. Would I like it?
>>747451027They are completely different but probably
>>747411315Just play it, I'm seriousTake the time to learn it, I had a very fun experience playing on Hell difficulty as a longtime gamerThe only warning is that things CAN get a little grindy on that difficulty, or if you want all the weapons(you probably do)
>>747451027probably, very different games though. but they do have the same skill system where you max a weapon/armor's exp to get an ability out of it
>>747451453There's my bro
kinohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU6s41YQSus
>>747452857OP so good they make you watch it 10 times
>>747452943...but you wish there were 50 times more
I haven't played it but a friend of mine raves about it and his taste is generally pretty good.
>>747453951Astlibra is one of the few games I can call a unique experience, it must be lived.
>>747411315gemerald. the volcano chapter was the worst one
>>747454270It was kino because it introduced my wives.
>>747419116He's not lying, I saw it on the eshop earlier.
>>747454327I meant the gameplayStorywise, I think the massacre was the best part
>>747454386Gameplay was fine, if only the fucking boss wasn't so goddamn hard to approach with that retarded fire around it, I swear to god that boss was uncomfortable as fuck to fight.
>>747438412bro there's an entire site dedicated to that
