The Ultimate ⑨ 最近的评测

Game is fun.

Not having any available weapons to deal with large fish or leviathans camping around your base is stupid though. Fire the person who thought that was a good idea.

Atelier Yumia was pretty good. The game did feel lacking in several areas such as the alchemy mechanic being so simplified and streamlined that it was more of a chore than a core mechanic and the combat having little to no impact due to enemies dying very quickly even on high difficulties and posing no threat due to the dodge mechanic. The story itself was a bit drawn out in places, but good overall and party member side stories could have been fleshed out a little more. A major gripe I had is the resource icons everywhere with no option to turn them off.

I would like to see a more traditional synthesis system in the next game with the usual item traits, but overall I think the series is in a good direction with this release.

I have a high end pc and have virtually zero issues, so I can't comment on performance.

The gameplay is good, but the content is very lacking and everything is achievable in fewer than 100 hours. Capcom has been leaning heavily on the GAAS model since World released, so you're better off waiting until next year or even 2 years from now when the expansion is out and a number of title updates have dropped. I'm certainly considering it myself for all future titles in the series.

The story kind of sucks, there's little variety in the endgame, hunters are too overpowered again and hunts are over almost as soon as they begin, the new weapon/armor skill system is interesting but also restrictive, there's zero reason to memorize maps or item locations because of the birds, and your cat will have an IV drip in your arm to heal you at literally any given moment.

You can be a crab.

It's fun. I wish you could dance. The game needs emotes.

I spent $60 so that I could help spread democracy and freedom and here I am 2 months later watching Sony try to take that away from other Helldivers.

Sony becoming another American corpo was a mistake and now we're all paying for it. With this I think it's safe to say I won't be buying any games involving Sony on Steam in the future. I was looking forward to buying and playing Ghost of Tsushima a 2nd time, but not anymore.

Edit: Sony backpedaled on 5/5/2024. Major order completed.

Slimy Capcom mtx practices and optimization stuff aside, the game itself is pretty fun and looks incredible on high settings.

The downside is that I just got Dragonsplague and the pawn in my party that had it nuked all of the capital city and every important essential quest npc. It's not even a fun experience like a dragon appears and you have to fight it and some npcs may die. They just get nuked by a cutscene that only activates after you sleep at home or an inn, so it's irreversible unless you have infinite wakestones lol. The best part is that you can't delete your save file or make a new game lmao. 0/10 mechanic.

Edit: I've since 100% the game after my initial review and I've come back to update it to reflect on some things that bothered me.

The game itself is very pretty and combat is fun and enjoyable, however this game has many caveats that take away from the experience.

Enemy density is extremely high
Steamrolling through enemies is a piece of cake most of the time to the pint that this might as well be considered a musou game. Enemies will spawn around you and join the fray as you're fighting and as far as I can tell this is potentially limitless. Normally you can run by enemies in situations like this, but if you find yourself doing an escort quest, riding an ox cart, get raided after camping at night or decide to help someone on the side of the road, there's a chance you'll be fighting for a while.
(If you are doing a escort quest just grab the npc and run with them. It's way faster. I promise.)

The story is incredibly short
The story is maybe about 10 hours long if you just do the primary quests back to back. It's full of plot holes, some things make zero sense when you think about them, and many things felt unfinished or aren't explored upon in any sense.
(Why does the Watcher use Jedi mind tricks to force Ambrosius to give us the empowered blade when we use that blade to mess everything up and then whine at us after we used it? Bit of an oversight.)

Gear is extremely linear
There are no super rare armor pieces that you can get exclusively from enemies. Almost every armor piece can be bought in shops and only a few are hidden around the world. Gear pieces are also vocation locked unless you play warfarer, and because of this progression looks incredibly linear once you reach BIS gear. If there were multiple sets of endgame armor for vocation it would improve the experience substantially as every pawn you see at the endgame are all wearing the same sets.

All in all, just buy DD:DA on sale for 5 bucks instead. The graphics are a bit dated, but you can fix that with mods if you really want to.

Now this is what I call an overall disappointment. Atelier Gacha titles barely last 2 years, if even one year before shutting down, and some stupid executive's decision to make the next main series title into a gacha game is only going to cause damage to an already niche series. For a struggling series that's slowly been improving and seeing some recent growth, this title was a monumental waste of resources.

I'm going to preface this by saying that I love Kingdom as a series and I'm currently working on the final two achievements I need to complete it, but this game is by far my least favorite of them all. My only real gripes would be the length of game being very short, the lack of multiplayer, that towers cost virtually nothing and act as walls while also not requiring any units to be stationed and that kids just make money from nothing by unlocking a station for 3 coins. The 80s theme is kind of neat and the art and mini movies are wonderful, but personally I wish Raw fury had spent another year developing a fully fleshed out game rather than a pamphlet's worth of gameplay.

Also the main character being bi-racial in a well off family (His dad owns a brick phone. Those things cost a literal fortune), with a group of minority kids who are all camp counselors in the 1980s in middle-America is kind of way too on the nose for forced diversity. It's not really a bad thing, but it's just extremely hard to envision for the location and time period.

Some of the bosses in this game are straight up unfair and unbalanced, but this is the RPG I've wanted since I was a kid.

As much as I love Monster Hunter as whole, I can't recommend this game due to the presence of MTX littering the store page. he game just released and there are currently $200 worth of MTX already present. Every previous title apart from World was not blighted by MTX and offered multitudes of items and equipment that required to player to do challenging and fun event quests for. To see Capcom turning around on a once beloved pet project and turning it into a cash cow severely disappoints me.