Is the Carpe Fulgur collection worth it?

[RPG Gamer Man]

It only seems to go to july 22, but one of the games in it is 8 bucks...3 games for 12 bucks is not bad, but how good a rpg are these three? They look like JRPG with girls. Can i have a assestment of the games from a player of them? Thanks in advanced!

[Qelris]

Fortune Summoner was a great game imo. Though, not many people seems to like platformers and some people doesn't like cute characters. It's quite hard at times even on normal. I don't know how difficulty scales, but I'd suggest to start with Normal first. (Also, if it matters, it doesn't have Steam Overlay for some reason)

I can't comment on Recettear and Chantelise as I didn't play much yet. Though, if I were to give an evalution how both, I'd say Recettear is not so bad so far, while Chantelise is quite hard to play(though that's probably because I don't have a controller).

[ZakTheFallen]

I rather liked Recettear, because you get to manage two different kinds of gameplay. Running the shop brings back fond memories of business/tycoon games, but it's really not as complex as some games of that genre.

I like that you also get to control a hero while doing some dungeon crawling, and it brings along the classic RPG aspects of leveling up, collecting loot, and fighting bosses as you delve deeper into the dungeons. The game is fairly long too, with a different few dungeons to run through, and different game modes to try, even New Game+

Overall it's my favorite of the Carpe Fulgur pack. While I did like Chandelise and Fortune Summoners, each has its own appeal. Chandelise was very challenging for me, because killing monsters is practically all you do. Fortune Summoners felt like it had more plot, and a variety of characters to fight with, but is instead a 2D side-view platformer RPG thing. That's not to say that Recettear's combat isn't challenging, actually you can die pretty easily with certain adventurers.

All three games are good, but it depends if you're particularly good at action RPGs and games where timing and reaction time are very important.

[ZakTheFallen]

If we're talking about the issue of being too many female characters, I do admit that in Recettear you actually play a variety of adventurers, with a good mixture of male and female characters to pick from. Actually the first adventurer is a male swordsman. If you're worried about Recettear, then worry not, because Recette (the main character) only runs the shop. In dungeons you control the adventurer you chose for the dungeon.

Is the protaganist of every game a girl? Yes. That's just a theme that Carpe Fulgur keeps for their games.

[bad_at_dota]

Thanks for the review! I came to the hub to look for exactly this.

[RPG Gamer Man]

i got it and it is ok...reminds me of some early NIS games and some GUST games..

[freudxxx]

I say the two games are worth it if you like a good hack-and-slash action RGP either as a side-scroller or a 3D game. I find it strange that Chantelise is a game with a 2D spirits in a 3D environment. The houses and characters are two 2D, but the environment is 3D. This kinda reminds me of the original Doom or Wolvefeinstein (how ever you spell it) where all of the games graphics are spirit-based, even though you played in a 3D environment. Only when the N64 came about did the first polygon games came about, and even those games were still heavily spirit-based in terms of their graphics.

[Rainbow Dash]

it's a lot about gameplay and story quality. chantelise is good and pleasing, recettear is so much more interresting in the story and gameplay than any other game of these days. and so is fortune sumonners but it's more like watching a good anime

imho easygamestation are one of the best game makers ever; as i said the gameplays and stories are good, even great, it's pleasing, sweet, you'll hardly find any bug and they run smoothly. same for makers of fortune summoners. you can feel that you're playing a game and not a stupid fast-made-to-get-money like every other game of these days. even the english translation is good and gives a (of preserves the) soul to the game

they're worth their prices