Hello everyone. Hope everyone had a good week and weekend. I got my PC set up again after moving so I’ve been back on the Balatro grind, and also continued to dabble in Rome Total War: Barbarian invasion.
Hello everyone. Hope everyone had a good week and weekend. I got my PC set up again after moving so I’ve been back on the Balatro grind, and also continued to dabble in Rome Total War: Barbarian invasion.
Just started Persona 3 Reload. As a longtime fan of the series, I do find it a little strange. Everything is laid out exactly as it was when this game came out on the PS2, but it’s all shiny and high rez. They didn’t take the opportunity to redesign much at all, so you see stuff like the interior of the dorms that feels very much like a 2000s era video game building interior where the ceiling is unrealistically high on each floor because they didn’t know how to program a camera back then, but again, super modern textures and lighting on top of that. It reminds me a little of those YouTube videos by like beginner game devs who import a bunch of Nintendo assets into Unreal engine and label it like 4K realistic Mario or something. Thankfully the UI sells the authentic experience.
But boy, did they overhaul the main dungeon and combat. That shit is smooth as hell and just as engaging as Persona 5. Can’t say I’m a huge fan of the new vocalist so far. She just doesn’t give the battle theme the swag it used to. Something about the way she over-pronounces “baby, baby” bugs me, I guess lol.
That’s exactly how I felt when I played P3R, as someone who last beat it back in… 2014. They kept it the same but perfected the visuals, improved the QoL dramatically and had a lot of unnecessary fat trimmed, particularly from the dungeon crawling aspect.
The rework of Mass Destruction seems to be polarizing but I absolutely fw It’s Going Down Now (I just wish it played at a 50% chance instead of every time you get the battle advantage).