10 Reasons Why You Should Buy La Pucelle Ragnarok, AKA Notable Differences Between La Pucelle Tactics and La Pucelle Ragnarok

[Linka]

Hey so, La Pucelle Ragnarok has finally released on Steam. I wanted to make a post as someone who imported and played Ragnarok on PSP. So here's a few choice changes that I hope will motivate you to purchase the game, available now!

1) Scene skip! The original PS2 release of La Pucelle did not have the ability to skip cutscenes. You had to live with the sequences as they went, adding in a lot of time to the game. Now you can skip past things when you need to, which is great for replays!
2) Battle scene skip! You had to watch every battle play out, whether you liked it or not. This also helps speed up the game massively, leading into the next feature.
3) Re-Action through Purification! A major feature added to La Pucelle Ragnarok, this meant that anyone who successfully did a purification (in which a chain started) and anyone in that chain's path would get another action that turn, allowing you to take multiple actions per turn!
4) New dialogue! Some enemies will trigger off dialogue from the characters (Namely Prier, Culotte, and Alouette), talking about the monsters and what impressions they leave. These lines are all voiced!
5) DLC characters! You can get Rosenqueen Branch Shop Owner Ellie, Hero Prinny, Rozalin, and Cornet as playable characters! They're even included without paying or downloading anything on the PC and Switch versions!
6) Legacy characters! You can also unlock Laharl, Etna, and Flonne much later in the game! They have their own little cutscenes related to them, as well.
7) A new story mode! In classic tradition of NIS strategy game rereleases, La Pucelle Ragnarok includes the Overlord Prier Mode storyline, positing the question: "What if Prier became a Demon Lord?" The result may surprise you!
8) New Game Plus! Shockingly, the original release of La Pucelle Tactics on the PS2 (in America) did not include a New Game Plus option to carry over your levels. You had to make sure you had a save squared away if you wanted to dig into the Dark World part of the game, which was much more high-level content that one might find familiar from other NIS titles. The European release (and later releases of La Pucelle on PS2 in Japan) had New Game Plus included in order to help build up levels.
9) You Can Use All Characters! After finishing both the main storyline and Overlord Prier Mode, you can use all story characters permanently in future playthroughs right from the very start! Go wild, dood!
10) New Combo Attacks! Characters in La Pucelle Ragnarok can team up and do special combo skills to devastating effect! They all have their own animations that play out, so check them all out!

There's more things where that came from, including other QoL features like quick travel in towns, but La Pucelle Ragnarok is a title I've been extremely excited to see get localized. I think it's maybe the number one title I've always been a little miffed about never coming over to here, despite being 80% in English already! So getting to have this chance now, I hope everyone plays it and enjoys the adventures of Prier and the rest of La Pucelle!

[Kindra]

these are awesome changes, looking forward to 3 and 4 alot, and espically 8

[Melodia]

I! Too! Can! Use! Exclamation! Points!

That said, Cornet you say...

[Streamliner]

DLC and legacy characters? Why. This is a game that didn't need that ♥♥♥♥.

[Kindra]

just because a game doesn't 'need' them, doesn't mean they can't be fun or appreciated, and if you don't like them you're not required to use them. I actually enjoy how these game series crossover their characters for flavor and fun. if you've played this and disgaea you know the game is lighthearted fun and humorous, not a dead serious game, so adding an extra bit of optional fun is a good thing in my opinion.

[Streamliner]

Originally posted by Kindra:

just because a game doesn't 'need' them, doesn't mean they can't be fun or appreciated, and if you don't like them you're not required to use them. I actually enjoy how these game series crossover their characters for flavor and fun. if you've played this and disgaea you know the game is lighthearted fun and humorous, not a dead serious game, so adding an extra bit of optional fun is a good thing in my opinion.

I have played all of them. I just dislike it when these things are introduced backwards. I found the DLC involved with games such as Disgaea 1 and Disgaea 2 to be poor additions. They always came off as cheap. But it's just my opinion, I really hope that they are completely avoidable just playing through the game. La Pucelle is my favourite of the series and there are tonnes of QOL that I can't wait to try out, just for me personally, having played tactics over a couple dozen times since it's PAL release, I will notice any poorly added stuff and it will be a shame if that is the case.

[Melodia]

Originally posted by Streamliner:

DLC and legacy characters? Why. This is a game that didn't need that ♥♥♥♥.

Pretty much all NIS re-releases have them.

[Linka]

Originally posted by Streamliner:

Originally posted by Kindra:

just because a game doesn't 'need' them, doesn't mean they can't be fun or appreciated, and if you don't like them you're not required to use them. I actually enjoy how these game series crossover their characters for flavor and fun. if you've played this and disgaea you know the game is lighthearted fun and humorous, not a dead serious game, so adding an extra bit of optional fun is a good thing in my opinion.

I have played all of them. I just dislike it when these things are introduced backwards. I found the DLC involved with games such as Disgaea 1 and Disgaea 2 to be poor additions. They always came off as cheap. But it's just my opinion, I really hope that they are completely avoidable just playing through the game. La Pucelle is my favourite of the series and there are tonnes of QOL that I can't wait to try out, just for me personally, having played tactics over a couple dozen times since it's PAL release, I will notice any poorly added stuff and it will be a shame if that is the case.

I can tell you at least that any additional characters are completely optional and should be able to be easily avoided if you don't want them.

[Streamliner]

Originally posted by Linka:

Originally posted by Streamliner:

I have played all of them. I just dislike it when these things are introduced backwards. I found the DLC involved with games such as Disgaea 1 and Disgaea 2 to be poor additions. They always came off as cheap. But it's just my opinion, I really hope that they are completely avoidable just playing through the game. La Pucelle is my favourite of the series and there are tonnes of QOL that I can't wait to try out, just for me personally, having played tactics over a couple dozen times since it's PAL release, I will notice any poorly added stuff and it will be a shame if that is the case.

I can tell you at least that any additional characters are completely optional and should be able to be easily avoided if you don't want them.

Sweet thanks, btw, did they fix the organising system for the party? In the PAL PS2 version, it had generic organising rather than manual.

[NOVA]

On the point of number 7: How do you open up the alternate Dark Saint storyline?

[Linka]

Originally posted by NOVA:

On the point of number 7: How do you open up the alternate Dark Saint storyline?

Either by beating the game on normal mode, or you can use the regular NIS Code (Which is, on a PS Controller: Highlight New Game, and press Triangle, Square, Circle, Triangle, Square, Circle, X/on Switch it's X, Y, B, X, Y, B, A-- you'll hear Prier do a voice clip if you do it right so work from there for other controllers. It's basically top-left-right.)

Originally posted by Streamliner:

Originally posted by Linka:

I can tell you at least that any additional characters are completely optional and should be able to be easily avoided if you don't want them.

Sweet thanks, btw, did they fix the organising system for the party? In the PAL PS2 version, it had generic organising rather than manual.

Yes, you can manually organize the party via insert/swap methods. It still includes the other auto-sorting methods, too.

[Chaika Trabant]

Is the game censored?
Also does the point 9 means that you can have both Priere and Overlord Priere at the same time?

[Streamliner]

Originally posted by Linka:

Originally posted by NOVA:

On the point of number 7: How do you open up the alternate Dark Saint storyline?

Either by beating the game on normal mode, or you can use the regular NIS Code (Which is, on a PS Controller: Highlight New Game, and press Triangle, Square, Circle, Triangle, Square, Circle, X/on Switch it's X, Y, B, X, Y, B, A-- you'll hear Prier do a voice clip if you do it right so work from there for other controllers. It's basically top-left-right.)

Originally posted by Streamliner:

Sweet thanks, btw, did they fix the organising system for the party? In the PAL PS2 version, it had generic organising rather than manual.

Yes, you can manually organize the party via insert/swap methods. It still includes the other auto-sorting methods, too.

Sweet, this always annoyed me, as in my LPT games, I only ever used 3 ~ 5 characters tops and it was difficult to get them ordered well. Still gonna wait for a few more patches before I play the steam version, but honestly, this combined with scene and battle skipping is just amazing. However, I am annoyed they fixed the change direction bug. It was crucial to making stupidly amazing mass miracles in the cave...

[Linka]

Originally posted by Chaika Trabant:

Is the game censored?
Also does the point 9 means that you can have both Priere and Overlord Priere at the same time?

The game is uncensored compared to the original PS2 release, so far in my experience. Crosses are intact. Croix smokes. There's blood. All the fun stuff.

The nature of the second question is a bit of a bit of a spoiler, but the answer is: it's treated like Eclair, for those who know what I mean.

[Streamliner]

Originally posted by Linka:

Originally posted by Chaika Trabant:

Is the game censored?
Also does the point 9 means that you can have both Priere and Overlord Priere at the same time?

The game is uncensored compared to the original PS2 release, so far in my experience. Crosses are intact. Croix smokes. There's blood. All the fun stuff.

The nature of the second question is a bit of a bit of a spoiler, but the answer is: it's treated like Eclair, for those who know what I mean.

In one sense it makes sense, though I did prefer the original concept of that path.

[Chaika Trabant]

Originally posted by Linka:

Originally posted by Chaika Trabant:

Is the game censored?
Also does the point 9 means that you can have both Priere and Overlord Priere at the same time?

The game is uncensored compared to the original PS2 release, so far in my experience. Crosses are intact. Croix smokes. There's blood. All the fun stuff.

The nature of the second question is a bit of a bit of a spoiler, but the answer is: it's treated like Eclair, for those who know what I mean.

Thank you for the answer.