I like Cthulhu Saves the World should I save Christmas?

[Magic Spazm]

I noticed this game existed when a dandy little coupon showed up in my inventory.

[DAZ]

Played it four an hour and I couldn´t find a reason to not like the game. It´s all there: The humor, the good music, improved graphics, etc...

[Magic Spazm]

Originally posted by DAZ:

Played it four an hour and I couldn´t find a reason to not like the game. It´s all there: The humor, the good music, improved graphics, etc...

Is Cthulhu there?

[Andrew R]

No, but Spawn is.

[baudsp]

Originally posted by Magic Spazm:

Originally posted by DAZ:

Played it four an hour and I couldn´t find a reason to not like the game. It´s all there: The humor, the good music, improved graphics, etc...

Is Cthulhu there?

The same version that saved the world. It negates some of his character development, but if you liked Cthulhu saves the world, you should like this one.

[Haglitm]

It's not bad. It's just really short. You can probably beat it in about 2 or 3 days if you played it in 2 hour sessions each time. I can only recommend it for now because buying this gives you Cosmic Star Heroine as well. If it weren't for that, I couldn't recommend it with the price tag. It's too short and doesn't have enough replayability to make it worth it.

Originally posted by baudsp:

Originally posted by Magic Spazm:

Is Cthulhu there?

The same version that saved the world. It negates some of his character development, but if you liked Cthulhu saves the world, you should like this one.

I took it as a story that was for fun more than staying with the continuity.

[Halfshell]

Originally posted by Haglitm:

If it weren't for that, I couldn't recommend it with the price tag. It's too short and doesn't have enough replayability to make it worth it. I took it as a story that was for fun more than staying with the continuity.

Tbf it has more replayability than Cthulhu Saves the World. Getting different gear would change your strategy and seeing new events is icing on the top.

[RedMage848]

Unfortunately, it's an easy 100% achievement too so there's not much replay on that aspect either. I enjoyed the game but I was 'over' the game by the final area. As short as the game is, I think it over stayed it's welcome by 1 area.

[Haglitm]

Originally posted by Halfshell cat:

Originally posted by Haglitm:

If it weren't for that, I couldn't recommend it with the price tag. It's too short and doesn't have enough replayability to make it worth it. I took it as a story that was for fun more than staying with the continuity.

Tbf it has more replayability than Cthulhu Saves the World. Getting different gear would change your strategy and seeing new events is icing on the top.

Not really. CStW has different types of gear in a very similar manner for some of the characters like Umi, where certain weapons offer different things such as poison + 50% or Fire added to attack. There's also the different builds you can go with as well. Just going through the game with a caster Cthulhu versus going through with a physical one makes for a different approach for each battle and that's not even going into the fact that there are several different types of builds that you can go through besides just caster versus physical. For finding different gear, the strategy could change, but not too much because of the insane abilities and their random nature, which means that you better get used to using all of them potentially (I kind of like that feature).

The events are a cool idea, I'll give it that much, but I honestly don't think it adds that much replayability, because aside from knowing that certain weapons and accessories are for certain people, there's no way to know what they do until you have them for the most part which means most of the events are uninformed decisions. Nor would you actually know what events lead to other potential weapons. It also encourages focusing on one set of events instead of spreading them around, as events that exist early on and aren't taken will pretty much always be a bad decision from then on.

I'll end by saying this: even though my review was negative, it's only because Steam has an all or nothing approach. I actually enjoy the game (and I plan to finish it later as I'm almost done). It's just without Cosmic Star Heroine, the game is totally not worth it. as getting CSH right now is $5.99 and normally $14.99 while this game is $8.99 and normally $9.99. Which means that right now, you're basically getting THIS for ... $3.00. While I haven't played CSH, I have played most other titles from Zeboyd Games, and they have delivered consistently solid games, I'd trust them to at least pull off an average game, so I'm not worried on that front.

It's just it has to be known. It's not worth as much as it is.

[Halfshell]

Originally posted by Haglitm:

Originally posted by Halfshell cat:

Tbf it has more replayability than Cthulhu Saves the World. Getting different gear would change your strategy and seeing new events is icing on the top.

The events are a cool idea, I'll give it that much, but I honestly don't think it adds that much replayability, because aside from knowing that certain weapons and accessories are for certain people, there's no way to know what they do until you have them for the most part which means most of the events are uninformed decisions. Nor would you actually know what events lead to other potential weapons. It also encourages focusing on one set of events instead of spreading them around, as events that exist early on and aren't taken will pretty much always be a bad decision from then on.

Originally posted by Haglitm:

It also encourages focusing on one set of events

This is what I meant. You focus entirely on 2 event chains and next time you take events you didn't take the first time. Thus ending up with much different equipment. I didn't mean to make it sound like CStW has no replayability, but with this at least you are seeing new text. I tend to dislike seeing the same text everytime.

Originally posted by Haglitm:

While I haven't played CSH

Cosmic Star Heroine is easily their best game imho. Don't get me wrong, I love On the Rainslick Precipice of Darkness' combat system, I feel like they really nailed the turn speed and control effects in that game compared to the rest of their games. But CSH has just so many great characters. Every single character has an interesting playstyle, even the more simple characters can build for strange builds with later abilities/ gear. They even tuned it so any party combination can clear hardest. That game is worth at least 3 playthroughs.

As for your review/ opinion on price, it doesn't really matter to me but I'll say this: Everyone's value for money point is different. Some will get their value out of this from the writing, others from meme value (the Baba jokes were great) and some will like it just because its using Zeboyd's battle system. How much value you get out of it is very subjective imho.

Edit: Although I will point out that enemies do scale overtime. Just at a slower rate than previous games.

[Haglitm]

Yeah, I get where you're going with that, but in the end of the day, it doesn't make nearly as much of a difference as the builds from the previous games.

For CSH, I'm probably going to play it afterwards, as like I said before, I think that they make good games. I just think this one is too pricey considering how jam packed the other games were beforehand. Like I said, I blame Steam for not having a neutral review more than anything else. And my review is positive aside from the price.

[Chad "The King" ThunderCuck]

Originally posted by Haglitm:

It's not bad. It's just really short. You can probably beat it in about 2 or 3 days if you played it in 2 hour sessions each time. I can only recommend it for now because buying this gives you Cosmic Star Heroine as well. If it weren't for that, I couldn't recommend it with the price tag. It's too short and doesn't have enough replayability to make it worth it.

Originally posted by baudsp:

The same version that saved the world. It negates some of his character development, but if you liked Cthulhu saves the world, you should like this one.

I took it as a story that was for fun more than staying with the continuity.

seeing as the main character specifically mentions the previous game multiple times, i found that quite difficult to do, and quite unfavorable.