Tactical Turn-Based RPG 'Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2' Marches Onto Switch This May

I still need to buy and play the first one >.<

Finally! I've been waiting for this info. One of the most underappreciated gems of the past few years

Physical of the first one too please! or a collection. I’d buy that due to all the praise the first one gets.

Seconding the ask for a physical edition, always need more weirdly dark anime RPGs

Absolutely adore the style of this one, gives me big Danganronpa vibes. Might check this one out at some point! (even if I feel like you'd get some concerned looks from passerbys if they saw you playing it XD)

This actually looks interesting.

Unfortunately I detest furrys so I wont be going anywhere near this game.

The first Fuga is easily one of the best RPGs of the recent years, so I was already hyped when the devs sailed forth despite underwhelming sales but all these juicy details raise the stakes even higher. Launching a day before TotK may seem like a suicide mission, but personally, I know which of them I'm much more likely to buy first.

@Type_Trubbish Are we back in 2008? Why would you "detest" furries? I think they're weird and cringe, but "detesting" them based solely on that is pathetic, and makes me think there's some projection/insecurity issues at play here.

@GuyProsciutto So you won't consider any media with objectively good art talent just because it features an aesthetic choice you judge for unrelated reasons?

Any tactical RPG gets a serious look from me, but that trailer with the amateurish announcer sounding bored out of her mind and the overly dramatic presentation combined with the Flash/mobile game style were not points in its favor. I don't mind anthropomorphic characters as long as they aren't sexualized (see the comments above), so as long as the game plays well, reviews well, and wouldn't make me ashamed to play in front of other people, I'll give it a fair shot.

The anthrophromic animals aren't sexualized enough. Big turn off.

@HotGoomba It was pretty clear you don't hate furries before you edited your comment, for going after someone who doesn't care for furries.

Times must be a 'changin when the people who AREN'T into racy animals are the ones accused of being edgy Internet dwelling deviants.

@burninmylight I think most people stopped making fun of furries after they got the hots for FNAF characters and started saying "I'm not a furry, but..."
But maybe also because hating on a whole community got boring or too intense for people?
I don't know, the lore of the internet is weird, someone get MatPat.

The first game was amazing. Part of a long running series of games (Solatorobo is also wonderful) that are criminally underrated and written off by people because of the character design
I am super excited for this! Bring it on!

@HotGoomba The poster said they don't like furries, not that they hate people into them. How is that hating on a whole community?

I don't like realistic racing sims, doesn't mean that I'm going after people that do.

@GuyProsciutto Your two posts in this thread are hugely contrasting.

This is a series I hadn't heard of before. I'll keep an eye out!

Not a good release date to pick. With it releasing everywhere it hopefully won’t be too bad sales wise.

After waiting a long time for a physical release, I finally gave up and bought the 1st Fuga during the New Years eShop sale. Alas, it is atop the backlog at the moment, but I'll get to it when the mood strikes. I've gotta admit, I'm worried the stress of trying to get through the game without sacrificing children's souls as ammo for the Mega Cannon will kind of negate the fun, but we'll see.

@Ryu_Niiyama And hopefully the sales won't discourage CyberConnect2 from making from making Fuga into a trilogy like they originally want to do. Worse case scenario, they'll most likely have to make the third game at a loss like they probably had to making Fuga 2; judging by the sales of the first game.

@HotGoomba @GuyProsciutto @Type_Trubbish

I don't really think that term even applies here, I mean they're just cartoon animals and that aesthetic existed long before the internet

@SmugOinkologne @Ryu_Niiyama

I'm pretty sure it'll do fine considering it's already confirmed on gamepass, so they have some source of income going on already.

Was the first game good?

I absolutely adored Solatorobo back on the DS so I was curious about another game set in the same universe, but the war setting and overall depressing mood killed most of my interest.

I’m not one for RPGs, but I actually love the art direction this game takes, and the story looks interesting. Might check out the first game.

All sounded wonderful until I saw that trailer. How embarrassing.

@Teksetter Yeah, somehow sacrificing children's souls for ammo sounds like a pretty big turnoff for me too

@Ulysses
Right?! It’ll be like the last resort I never let myself use. It’ll take forever to get thru the game. I’m stressed just thinking about it! 😅

Similarly it’s why I’ll probably never beat Darkest Dungeon - I can’t stand characters dying or going insane.

I’ll just go play a happy game of Smurfs or something now… 😁

Great tactical RPG that I actually took the time to get all achievements on. If it wasnr for gamepass i never would have given it a chance probably. For the people that think it's a "furry" game, if Star Fox's animal characters are too much for you, then sure.

There were 0 times in the first game where I felt the characters were sexualized or otherwise designed to appeal to fetishes.

@HotGoomba No I detest furries because it's completely based on zoophilia and I can't be convinced otherwise

@GuyProsciutto Why would I not detest something that is entirely based on sexualising animals and zoophilia. Don't tell me it's not because it really is.

@Type_Trubbish It's not completely based on zoophilia lmao it's just people on the internet roleplaying as animals.

Zoophilia is a whole different beast, pun intended, but I'm not going into detail because, well, Nintendo Life. Also from other interactions about furries on this website I don't feel compelled to even if I could.

Game looks pretty cool, will add to wish list for a sale maybe. For people talking about the characters in the game being anthropomorphic kids and as such can't see them without thinking it's a fetish that's kinda on you, like when you look at Fox or sonic in smash bros are you thinking "I'd hit that" but not in a melee kinda way? Don't get hung up on the character design and hate the game because of something you happen to associate it with that's not present here.

Must say never heard of this one before...
But it looks nice! Is this comparable to/ a mix of Advance Wars & Valiant Hearts

I for one am stoked a company has finally brought a "sacraficing party member for ultimate power In battle" mechanic into a turn based rpg again. Been looking for something like it. Nothing has ticked that Valkyrie profile ds game box again yet for me. I would legit play this furry game presented in the article specifically for the sacraficing children mechanic, dark atmosphere and music? Unsure if that music in trailer is in the game. But it reminds me of Yuki kajura. I would've preferred a battle grid, but beggers can't be choosers.

On that note, they should consider making a Pokemon game with difficult Pokemon battles and a Pokemon sacraficing for ultimate in battle power mechanic, if you have more than one on your team in battle. Like legit perma death. Haha....would be amazing. I would buy so fast. The first ever non easy Pokemon game in years. Let's go.