[Event] The PokeCommunity Game-Along

Hello, overachiever checking in.

I uh. Started Ghost Trick yesterday in the wee hours and finished it this afternoon. This was my third time playing so that's some excuse for how quickly I completed it, but honestly I just got completely hooked and couldn't put it down, as usual.

It was just as good as I remembered and I'm so thrilled I made it my first game of the year. If anyone has played Ace Attorney and hasn't played this, pleeease give it a shot! And if you haven't played AA but like mysteries and puzzles, give it a try! The characters are delightful and so lively in their animations, the writing is intense and so engaging, and the gameplay is phenomenal. I think I'd count it among the few perfect games I've ever played, the only problem being that you have to wait so many years between replays in the hopes that you forget a twist or two, ahaha.
 
Oh, can I join in actually?

I've been...kinda recently working through the FF games since I've always played them but I've never *played* a lot of them. Grew up playing a lot of FF7 onwards but never beat any of them, getting to the last area/boss and just stopping, so ironically the first FF mainline game I beat was like...FF1 a year ago, and FF3 last week. And Lightning Returns before those if that counts.

Point is I'm on a warpath and FFIV, the Complete Collection Anniversary Edition specifically, is next on my list, so I'd love to game along with y'all. ATM I've just gotten to Fabul which is still hella early on.
 
Just finished both Torneko's and Meena and Maya's story! Starting Chapter 5 with the hero (who I gloriously named Taco).

Spoiler: and this happened during my run (sorry for the poor quality + sideways
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Enjoyable game so far but it can be tediously grindy and I'm not sure if I want to replay it. But then again, I'm still only at the first part so I shouldn't judge replayability.
 
@machomuu I've added you to the list. Best of luck~

Also, congrats @Cherrim for being the first to finish! That was fast. xD
 
Dooone! I'm done and devoted way longer to today for it than I should have. And how was it?

Well, I used a guide for the whole thing which isn't really something I'm usually keen on. I did it in the case of 1 and 3 mainly because I wanted to explore most of everything I could so I could have a complete, compact experience, and it was really the same case here. That and because it made the game pace w/ Fast Forward along a lot better which was a lot of fun for me. As far as the pre-7 games go, this one's definitely the best of the ones I've played, and I really have to commend SE for doing such a goddamn fantastic job on the art and music, the effects and small touches unique to this version that you can tell were added even without having played the original, this right here is what every single faithful port for an FF game should be because it takes the original game and updates it without invalidating what it was or making certain archaic design choices for the sake of "faithfulness" when it really just takes away from the experience.

It's a good port.

And as for the game itself, I think of the 3 pre-7s I've beaten I like it the least, which might sound a little odd. Granted, I did like the game- I liked the characters, the music was fantastic, the story was pretty good for what I was expecting. I was having a good time in a pretty similar way as I was with the others but the problem came with the fact that I actually really ended up liking the more open-ended nature of the previous games. In FFIV, for the most part, everything fits right in its place. Things are calculated based and balanced based on who you have in your party at any given time, which is always specific. Part of what I loved about 3 in particular was playing with and creating a party composition that really gelled with me and seeing how as the story went on, the roles shifted and adjusted. There was no "This is best for your character", only "If you have X, you can do Y", "X goes great with Y if Z is in your party", etc etc. It was adaptive, synergistic in a way that wasn't so flat. I'm not saying this as a criticism, I think it's fine, but for me personally it's pretty obvious to me why my favorite FFs are what they are and gameplay and customization pretty much always plays the biggest part in that.

I'm rambling so uh, I kinda steamrolled the game thanks to doing all the side-stuff and just generally being a lot higher leveled than you're meant to be, which didn't really take away from the fun for me. That said the boss was shockingly easy, I wasn't *that* much stronger than where you should be at that point in the game but he didn't survive long, to such a point that when he died I thought there was going to be another form. But all in all I enjoyed it and can't believe that after all these years I've beaten another classic FF, just feels surreal.
 
Updated the first post! Congrats @machomuu for finishing FFIV :3 tbh I didn't think THAT much of it either, at least not compared to V or VI

I am currently on Sequence 7...I may or may not finish this weekend, since I think I'm done with exploring. Diving is not fun and I've just about been everywhere now otherwise.
 
Sensei, I have a question about this:
Dawn said:
Your task will be to play and beat (by which we mean you must finish the main story mode/see the end credits) a game that matches that theme before the end of the month!
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In the case of rhythm games, how can I know that I've beaten the game?
 
saniachan said:
Sensei, I have a question about this:

In the case of rhythm games, how can I know that I've beaten the game?
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That is going to depend on the rhythm game in question. I mean, Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy has a final boss of sorts, for example. A lot of them have main gameplay modes as well. For others that don't, I would say that once you've played through every song (excluding DLC songs) at least once you could count it as completed?
 
Finally got around to making some progress in Code Vein. Had a funny little moment where, because the game fully restores your HP after beating a boss, the boss killed me but the poison depleted the rest of its HP before my death animation completed, so I won despite dying first.

Now onward to the next boss, Stripper Miku.
 
I am done! I can sort of see why a lot of people say Black Flag is the best AC title, but honestly, outside of the exploration - which I LOVED - I can't see what there is to like about it...the narrative is average and is constantly interrupted by Abstergo drivel - they really need to ditch that, because it ruins the immersion in the game's world - and it's definitely showing its age...the Jackdaw is very clunky, and climbing/jumping can be very hit-and-miss. The problem with going back to an old game in a series sometimes is that you immediately notice all the QoL improvements that are absent...it was very obvious with Black Flag. I wasn't expecting it to be as good ad Odyssey, but I was expecting more out of the supposed "best" game in the franchise. I also really didn't like the main sequence objectives...there was a lot of tailing involved. Also, Sequence 6 can just fuck right off - it took me forever to catch that Captain before he escaped! This AFTER a very slow and tedious sailing tailing mission!

...and why why WHY can you not skip the credits? Thirty-eight minutes! I swear they went through the entire staff of every Ubisoft studio. You probably only had to breathe in the office building to get included in the credits. Unskippable credits are already a major pet peeve of mine when it comes to video games - especially where there are cutscenes afterwards, or the game won't register as complete until you've seen them - but for them to take up THAT much time is just plain disgusting, frankly.

But I did love exploring. It took me 40 hours, and most of that time was spent island-hopping, shuffling my crew so they'd sing Leave Her Jonny, Randy Dandy Oh, or Drunken Sailor, and doing surprisingly fun overworld busywork! I got very annoyed and exasperated at times, but I never really seriously considered dropping it. But at the same time...I will play Freedom Cry and Rogue at some point, but it won't be this decade that I replay this probably.
 
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