@Ralizah The golden sun disc should be stronger than your very first weapon. It's the same class, so the battle style is still the same. And I never really used the ink bullets either, but maybe because I prefer a different weapon class.
I originally played it on Wii, so I was kinda used to the motion controls. But using the control stick on PS4 worked better than I expected. So I don't think the original on PS2 was all that bad.
@Ralizah blasphemer, Platinum/clover can do no wrong!
@JaxonH codename steam was valkyria like, great art style, Nintendo first party, and in between fire emblems..... And bombed miserably, too. FE just hit the right notes at the right time. And i still say if brawl hadn't reintroduced it it would have flopped with Awakening. People were curious.
@NEStalgia Look at Radiant Dawn and Shadow Dragon, those did poorly and had direct Smash representation (Ike and Marth). Awakening came 5 years after Brawl and by the time Smash 4 got Fire Emblem representation announced, Awakening was already a huge success.
@NEStalgia I tend to agree that FE's recent popularity is very much a "right time, right place, right changes" sort of thing, but it really has nothing to do with Smash (outside of Melee generating enough interest to start localizing the series on GBA in the first place).
I tried Viewtiful Joe recently and didn't care for it (similar aesthetic to Okami, but it doesn't work as well for me; also hate the repetitive combat and utterly inane plot). Don't really like Bayonetta, either. Platinum has more misses than hits for me.
Currently Playing: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond (NS2); Corpse Factory (PC)
Speaking of Okami, I've just cleared the 20 hour mark, completing the Imperial Palace dungeon to clear the poison mist.
Interestingly enough, I find myself preferring to use the analog stick for brush strokes, even though I've mostly played handheld. Anyhow, I currently have 10 ink bottles (it says that's the max number) and 9 of the health points (whatever they're called). I haven't upgraded the celestial pouch (which I haven't even needed to use yet), and I've upgraded my wallet once.
Currently Playing:
Switch - Blade Strangers
PS4 - Kingdom Hearts III, Tetris Effect (VR)
@EvilLucario If it means anything, I think I'll enjoy Nier: Automata when I get to it later this year. I like pop-existentialism, plots that can only happen in video games, science-fiction, and soulful OSTs, all of which I've heard are descriptive of this particular game.
It's funny, because, having never even heard of Nier before this sequel, I wasn't particularly excited for it.
Open question about Okami HD: what's the point of changing equipment? I don't see a strength stat anywhere, and the only difference between my first weapon and the one I got for clearing the first dungeon seems to be the ability to use ink bullets (which seem pretty useless so far).
@NEStalgia The only other platform I could see a multi-system owner preferring to play VC4 on is PC, given it supposedly runs at 60fps. Which doesn't really impact the gameplay at all, given its strategic character, but it does look a bit nicer.
@Therad I disagree. I know a lot of people who bought it to support SEGA (and Japanese, more broadly) releases on PC. Besides, it's not like it's the sort of strategy game PC gamers are used to. It's very much a console game in design.
Granted, I still think the low-ish price was the biggest factor at play.
But I guess we'll see. If VC4 sells better on Steam than on other platforms, you might have a point. But I don't think it will.
Why? Sega has been present on steam for a long time.
I also don't think "supporting a company" would account for almost a million units sold.
1. Half the people who made strategy games don't even make traditional strategy games anymore, of course one of the last big name releases would be huge on PC
2. Fire Emblem I feel like was mostly screwed after the initial NA released game. Sacred Stones was like a year after DS on the GBA, Path of Radiance was a late GCN game (I'm not convinced anyone but me actually bought a GCN game after early 2005), and Radiant Dawn was a poorly marketed hardcore game on a casual console (I BARELY KNEW IT EXISTED AND I HAD NINTENDO POWER THE YEAR IT CAME OUT). Though I feel like the latter half of the 2000s was just bad for blatantly Japanese games in general...
@kkslider5552000 I disagree that valkyria is a big release on PC. The PC platform is far superior to consoles when it comes to strategy thanks to mouse and keyboard.
While some of the old guard have disappeared (looking at you EA), some are still big while others have filled the void of those that disappeared. Valkyrias one million sold is far less than what total war sold for example, another franchise published by Sega.
@Anti-Matter I guess so. I don't know. If you Google a time and timezone, it will tell you what time it is in your time zone. Anyway, it's in about two hours from now.
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