HONEST THOUGHTS: SAVE YOUR MONEY AND TIME, WATCH THE STORY ONLINE...

[CourtJesterCowboy]

It's wild, because if you asked me a few hours into the game, I would have told you that this is a GOTY 9.5+/10 game and you have to play it and I cannot wait to see how things unfold...

Now I am in Act 3 and finishing things up, and I honestly don't understand what the devs were thinking. They took one of the coolest premises in years, and just completely botched it more and more, until it was unrecognizable and teetering in Shovelware territory.

I'm not being dramatic at all, its actually terrible how far they stray from the initial vision they give you. The way I currently feel about this game is just... almost like its secretly a comedy, because I've been laughing about how badly it crashed and burned. Maybe that's my own mechanism to fight off how bummed I am that I was robbed of what could have been the coolest story in some time.

This is not even touching on the fact that 80% of the game is pushing through the slog just trotting around and doing soul suckingly boring mobile game combat, that there is no mini map, how many invisible walls there are, general clunkiness, voice acting is misaligned, boring party members, etc. I feel robbed of my time.

There are obviously positives. The game has some great world characters, the fact that there is voice acting is amazing, cinematics are tight, a wondrous/interesting world...

All in all, it's a bummer it just doesn't reflect the reviews, nor see the original vision through whatsoever and even being honest about this will surely upset the echochamber.

7.2/10

[Grahor]

Don't worry, 90% of people will never get to Act 3, so they'll never experience any disappointment. 9.5/10, GOT for sure.

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Originally posted by Grahor:

Don't worry, 90% of people will never get to Act 3, so they'll never experience any disappointment. 9.5/10, GOT for sure.

I envy those who stay in ACT 1, cuz it was PEAK

[Grahor]

It sure was. Although I quilte loved gestrals and their city. Pity about the rest of the game.

[Kethanid]

You guys are whooo, let me see that wheeee!!!

[Saelin]

Originally posted by Grahor:

Don't worry, 90% of people will never get to Act 3, so they'll never experience any disappointment. 9.5/10, GOT for sure.

Actually 40% of steam players have beaten the paintress already, it slowly creeps up over time. If we simplify it a lot, we could say that there are more people who have finished Act II than there are who have bought certain other JRPGs.

[PHARA]

My daily dose of 4chan frog.

Game is a masterpiece.

Thanks for your cringe thread.

Losers. LMAO

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Originally posted by PHARA:

My daily dose of 4chan frog.

Game is a masterpiece.

Thanks for your cringe thread.

Losers. LMAO

Look inward... That is crazy projection

[Sunsetter]

Sorry, no clown awards for you.

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Originally posted by Saelin:

Originally posted by Grahor:

Don't worry, 90% of people will never get to Act 3, so they'll never experience any disappointment. 9.5/10, GOT for sure.

Actually 40% of steam players have beaten the paintress already, it slowly creeps up over time. If we simplify it a lot, we could say that there are more people who have finished Act II than there are who have bought certain other JRPGs.

They were joking due to the glazing situation, im sure...

[CourtJesterCowboy]

Originally posted by Grahor:

It sure was. Although I quilte loved gestrals and their city. Pity about the rest of the game.

The Gestrals were great, agreed. They definitely hit some things out of the park.

[Grahor]

Originally posted by Saelin:

Originally posted by Grahor:

Don't worry, 90% of people will never get to Act 3, so they'll never experience any disappointment. 9.5/10, GOT for sure.

Actually 40% of steam players have beaten the paintress already, it slowly creeps up over time. If we simplify it a lot, we could say that there are more people who have finished Act II than there are who have bought certain other JRPGs.

Indeed, you are correct. At the moment, a bit more than 40% got to the Act3, I didn't expect it, but there it is. I have no idea what JRPGs you are talking about, but 40% is quite a success. Developers will, of course, adopt the successfull model en mass and another genre will become unplayable for me. Oh, well, what can you do.

[Ralathar44]

Originally posted by Saelin:

Originally posted by Grahor:

Don't worry, 90% of people will never get to Act 3, so they'll never experience any disappointment. 9.5/10, GOT for sure.

Actually 40% of steam players have beaten the paintress already, it slowly creeps up over time. If we simplify it a lot, we could say that there are more people who have finished Act II than there are who have bought certain other JRPGs.

I'm honestly not surprised because its the easiest JRPG I've ever played. Once you stop pretending defensive stats matter and you go full offense nothing survive past turn 1-2. For all the comments of parrying simon and etc, parrying is effectively an optional mechanic and an optional build. Most builds will scale to the point parrying is not relevant anymore for the main story content AND most of the side content.

So a bunch of people think they are playing a hard game because of all the "git gud" spam out there and then feel really good when they trivialize it and beat everything without effort.

For your average gamer if they get stuck or frustrated they're gonna look things up, get a build from online, and then basically have the game beat itself from there on out. Or they'll just use one of the many powerful common sense builds. Like Auto Death Bomb lol. That's literally just 1+1 and most anyone would be curious to see how good it is and how funny it is.

[Some Rando]

If this combat is from a mobile game, I think it must be a damn good mobile game. (I know, people were saying Infinity Blade was the name iirc.)

Also, I wouldn't say, even if you don't like it, that it's fair to compare it to shovelware, it is still unique enough to be far from that.

But those points aside, and to preface this, I mean no disrespect at all in any of this... But why do people dislike Act 3 so much? I guess I'm just struggling to understand the difference in taste... And also maybe it's because I spoiled the game for myself and so I expected it; but it seems like that's the hook. That's what sets the game apart, gives it it's flavor and uniqueness, at least as far as story goes. I think it would have been a weird story if they ended in Act 2 and never explained Verso's origin.

Edit: I will say they probably handled Sophie poorly.

[Saelin]

A bit more math for fun.

Steam has 95% of 71005 all time reviews. 5% would be 3550.
Assuming, for the sake of argument, that everyone who hasn't gotten to the end of Act II rated the game positively, and ALL of the 3550 negative reviews are within the 40% that beat the Paintress, that's 3550 out of 28402 or 12.5%.

At most, 12.5% didn't like the game because of the end of Act II. Again pretending none of those reviews were from prior to end of Act II, or for any other reasons.

[Saelin]

Originally posted by Some Rando:

If this combat is from a mobile game, I think it must be a damn good mobile game. (I know, people were saying Infinity Blade was the name iirc.)

Also, I wouldn't say, even if you don't like it, that it's fair to compare it to shovelware, it is still unique enough to be far from that.

But those points aside, and to preface this, I mean no disrespect at all in any of this... But why do people dislike Act 3 so much? I guess I'm just struggling to understand the difference in taste... And also maybe it's because I spoiled the game for myself and so I expected it; but it seems like that's the hook. That's what sets the game apart, gives it it's flavor and uniqueness, at least as far as story goes. I think it would have been a weird story if they ended in Act 2 and never explained Verso's origin.

A lot of people are just trolling, so sorry if you were expecting a serious answer from them.