Free-To-Play JRPG Caravan Stories Is Coming To Switch

Well that is a nice surprise! Saw a trailer for the PS version and liked what I saw well enough, especially for a free to play. Didn't expect it to release on Switch.

Free 2 Play games are mostly = Loot boxes, In game purchase, Pay 2 Win.
Nah...!

@Anti-Matter thankfully, not ALL of them. But it's very hard to find that 0.01% of all free2play games that are actually good and worthy.

Slightly off topic, but how the hecc does Genshin Impact already have one User Score on Switch?

Last year I remember spotting that ACNH had one User Score several months before its release too. NL really ought to do a better job of policing that crap, because if it becomes rampant enough it makes the User Scores (even more) useless.

@Anti-Matter paradoxical as it sounds, pay-to-win games are only pay-to-win if you pay to win.

In reality, there's nothing to win with money in such games unless you have a condition related to self-esteem and online leaderboards. There's no "beating" a game with continuously expanded content, and most or all "premium" addendum coaxing the money out of you today will be discounts next month and "Holiday/Black Friday/Eleventy zillion players milestone" giveaway next year. All the F2Ps I've played have been time sinks rather than money ones, especially as the default non-donating strategy goes out of its way to motivate your attendance (daily login bonuses and missions, regular events etc) and, perchance, sponsor ad viewership with premium currency or other niceties on offer. There are few reasons to spend money in freemiums... except among the people who may just be too impatient for most freemiums' core gameplay (grind-heavy RPG) in the first place. Such people might as well pay extra to unlock Sephiroth's final boss fight in FFVII from the start.

I really hope this has a UK version. Wanted to play it on PS4 but it was US/ JP only. Looks like a decent FTP game.

@Anti-Matter Sorry, but that's just nonsense. Out of all the free-to-play games I have thus far played on Switch, this is just not true.

Off the top of my hat:
Fortnite is pay for skins
Spellbreak is pay for skins
Asphalt 9 is just getting better cars slightly quicker
Sure, Kirby is paying for better equipment quicker, but sheesh, there's no WINNING in that game anyways, it's super casual.

And you know what, I have spent money on Spellbreak, Kirby and Asphalt 9, because I enjoyed the games and therefore it felt appropriate to send a couple of Euros their way, as a thank you to the developers. The total amount of cash I spent on free to play games doesn't get me a regular game, it's that little.

It baffles me that people can still throw a fit when a game costs nothing except for when you want to buy some consumables, but at the same time happily fork over 60 bucks for a game like Luigi's Mansion, which you can literally finish in a couple of hours, should you be so inclined.

I have to say tho! It looks suprisingly good for a free to play game, better then most games that cost to much.
So yeah will download it.

@nhSnork Please don't compare "unlocking stuffs in freemiun games" to "unlock the final boss battle to skip the game".

With all respect, it's two different worlds. I love to play a game to slowly grind and win with skill my way to a final boss, but I had to stop playing many freemium games as what they lock behind their systems are characters, weapons, abilities and all kind of stuffs you usually unlock with effort, level up and story progression.

I guess I'm still 'impatience' cause I can't stand how long it takes to unlock characters and other things without paying, but when most freemium games requires from the player hours of gameplay time or a lot of money for a slim chance to maybe maybe get one thing (which usually doesn't happen)..it kinda kill the pace for me.

I definitely prefer a regular priced game where I can unlock everything with the right effort and progression pace instead than the freemium time, chance and money sink model, but maybe is just me.

Awful mobile quality game, downloaded on the ps4 and unintsalled a couple hours later

Man if Genshin does make it to the Switch, a lot of players who haven't tried it are in for a treat! I'm having a blast with it on my PS4. The developer, from China, did an amazing job putting it together. I really like the characters--they all have fleshed out back stories complete with missions. They spent 100 million creating it and it shows. Yes it's Free to Play, but there's a huge heart at the center of it.

That's great and all, but where's mah Genshin impact port? If the switch can run Warframe, then it can run impact as well!

Do all JRPG's now use an anime art style?

I'll stick with all the free to play RPGs in my backlog.

I wanted to play genshin impact on my switch so badly and now I kinda don't care about it but I still hope it comes to switch one of these days

@BakaKnight @Daniel36
The Switch escapes the worst of it, but spend time on mobile and I can assure you, pay-to-win absolutely exists.
If your purchases or loot drops give you anything more effective than cosmetics, it's pay to win. Powerful cards, weapons, upgrades, lives, etc - many unscrupulous games let you buy these and get an edge in multiplayer.
Personally, knowing that those horrorshows exist makes it easier for me to enjoy fairer FTP games such as Rocket League. Sure, they're constantly doing their best to tap into my sense of bling envy, but the game itself is 100% skill based, unlike some.

F2P, always online, live service. I played this a little on PS4. It's...an alright mobile game.

@Crono1973 You do realize the J stands for Japanese, right?

@EdwardElric Of course, does that mean it has to have an anime art style because I have to tell ya, it's getting old.

@Crono1973 I mean yeah it is old... Like since Dragon Quest 1, the first JRPG was anime style 34 years ago, followed by just about 95% of Japanese rpgs since. I mean anime is as much a part of the genre as stats and heroes.

Were you expecting a defining part of the genre to just go away after a few decades? Kind of an odd thing to think.