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THE WHITE KNIGHT CHRONICLES SERIES
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Enker
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CloseRiding off the high of playing through 'Dragon Age 2' I popped in and finally played through the original White Knight Chronicles for PS3, developed by the brains behind a couple of my favourite newer and more imaginative RPGs ('Dark Chronicle' and 'Rogue Galaxy'). I thought it was alright, and certainly not deserving of the bashing its recieved since launch. I'm running around in the secret tunnels under Balandor in White Knight Chronicles 2 at the moment and whilst the sequel isn't much more than 'more of the same' it's still not as bad as some games I've played through. The characters are alright and the story keeps the game rolling along. I'd say the MMO influences are evident and debatable, but overall the game features some good innovations - especially the implementation of 'Power Rangers' style giant mecha ala 'Escaflowne' into the battle system. I know there's a third prelude tale on the PSP too, but am yet to buy it. I'm wondering what others think of the series?
TheNecromancer
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I love the battle system. The first one wasn't so great because of the time you had to wait between moves. It wasn't as bad as the critics suggested. They improved it in the second one by reseting the timer when you start an attack animation, instead of waiting until the attack animation is done.
The first one was way too easy. Even the final boss, I basically just mashed attack. The second one was much harder, I got stuck on that boss near the giant tree. It kept killing the weak NPC you need to keep alive. Generally the difficulty is a bit higher.
Online is ok. The way you can make a town and farm items from it awesome. I found that there wasn't much to do, or rather, you end up doing the same mission 20 times to rank up for more missions. I still haven't figured out how to do those bounty hunts. How the fuck am I supposed to find the monster? It doesn't explain it well in game or online(maybe it does now). Like, will it be there in any quest? Do I have to visit the area without activating a quest? It's not clear...
There's lot of good things about this game but I find they didn't make good use of them. The enemies rarely push you to use any kind of strategy. Just find it's weakness and mash away. You can use some kind of buff/debuff strategy for fun, but you don't need it to win. The giant mechs are cool, but usually you're completely outmatched if you're small but you'll kick ass if you're big. It rarely feels like an even fight. I dunno, I'm not too far into the second one so maybe it gets better later on. I haven't played it in months.
I like the spear. Provoke+counter attacks=awesome.
The first one was way too easy. Even the final boss, I basically just mashed attack. The second one was much harder, I got stuck on that boss near the giant tree. It kept killing the weak NPC you need to keep alive. Generally the difficulty is a bit higher.
Online is ok. The way you can make a town and farm items from it awesome. I found that there wasn't much to do, or rather, you end up doing the same mission 20 times to rank up for more missions. I still haven't figured out how to do those bounty hunts. How the fuck am I supposed to find the monster? It doesn't explain it well in game or online(maybe it does now). Like, will it be there in any quest? Do I have to visit the area without activating a quest? It's not clear...
There's lot of good things about this game but I find they didn't make good use of them. The enemies rarely push you to use any kind of strategy. Just find it's weakness and mash away. You can use some kind of buff/debuff strategy for fun, but you don't need it to win. The giant mechs are cool, but usually you're completely outmatched if you're small but you'll kick ass if you're big. It rarely feels like an even fight. I dunno, I'm not too far into the second one so maybe it gets better later on. I haven't played it in months.
I like the spear. Provoke+counter attacks=awesome.
Enker
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Bounties are quite easy - I stumbled across them - just enter the area and scan the full map for an ! surrounded by a ring, that's the location of your monster. You don't need to activate a quest at all, they're part of the standard exploration map.
I found in 2 that the ability to duel-weild swords put my standard attack to similar levels as summoning the Knights, which made them a little redundent - I'm always a swords/healing mix player (+ Leonard) by preference with a bow/healing Yulie as backup.
Level 5 games always have a cool Georama feature of some kind in their original titles - Dark Cloud and Chronicle had the first ones and they ROCKED! Rogue Galaxy had a cool factory you could customise - they do amazing distractions to their main quests, lol. I don't understand why the series has a bad rep - especially since WK2 comes with a FREE remake of WK1 on the disc as well - it's a bargain for rpg fans.
I found in 2 that the ability to duel-weild swords put my standard attack to similar levels as summoning the Knights, which made them a little redundent - I'm always a swords/healing mix player (+ Leonard) by preference with a bow/healing Yulie as backup.
Level 5 games always have a cool Georama feature of some kind in their original titles - Dark Cloud and Chronicle had the first ones and they ROCKED! Rogue Galaxy had a cool factory you could customise - they do amazing distractions to their main quests, lol. I don't understand why the series has a bad rep - especially since WK2 comes with a FREE remake of WK1 on the disc as well - it's a bargain for rpg fans.
I bought the second one for xmas, played a bit of the first one. I was really pissed that the character I created wasn't the one to become the white knight. The leading character is annoying to say the least, and his introduction was lazy and sloppy. I was actually having fun with it for a while, but school started up again soon after and I just haven't had much of an urge to go back to it.
Obviously I do intend to eventually, since I paid quite a bit for it. The unfortunate twist I mentioned above really sucked a lot of my enthusiasm from it though.
Obviously I do intend to eventually, since I paid quite a bit for it. The unfortunate twist I mentioned above really sucked a lot of my enthusiasm from it though.
Enker
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Interestingly I never actually PLAY as my character - I have him in the party but my active character is always Leonard. I tend to think of him in the same way I think of the support characters you create in some Dragon Quest games - a handy, completely custom party member that you can make into whatever you feel your team is lacking. Leonard is annoying for a good portion of the start of WKC1, but he does improve as things play out - he's rather likably heroic by WKC2's opening. Try setting him as your playable character for a bit and see if it helps?
Ugh, finally got back into this and it's the plague... or purgatory even. I understand why all the reviews are so negative now, just awful in every single way.
Quitting time, at 7hrs in. Time to load me up some Xenoblade.
Quitting time, at 7hrs in. Time to load me up some Xenoblade.
Erilex
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Ugh, finally got back into this and it's the plague... or purgatory even. I understand why all the reviews are so negative now, just awful in every single way.
Quitting time, at 7hrs in. Time to load me up some Xenoblade.
I thought the first game (or at least the remastered version included with the sequel) was decent enough. Did you even get to the second one? That's where things get really awful. As in, vomit-inducing, brain bleach-requiring awful. Why, I think I might actually hate WKC2 more than I do Legend of Dragoon.
I loved LOD lol, amazing battle system.
But no, didn't even make it to the second one. Traded it in for 20 bucks credit on Starhawk pre-order (decent little promotion they have going). While I enjoyed the initial couple hours, I found that it became extremely tedious (boring and repetitive battles with areas that are too wide open requiring way too much backtracking), the cutscenes went from annoying to astonishingly childish and pointless, and you just go from one area to the next without anything to push you forward. It takes real hate for me to actually trade in an RPG (considering EB only gives you like 5-10 bucks for each game now), but this game somehow achieved it in a very short amount of time.
Oh well though, frankly, I'm kinda glad to be done with it since I've finally moved on to Yakuza 3 :)
But no, didn't even make it to the second one. Traded it in for 20 bucks credit on Starhawk pre-order (decent little promotion they have going). While I enjoyed the initial couple hours, I found that it became extremely tedious (boring and repetitive battles with areas that are too wide open requiring way too much backtracking), the cutscenes went from annoying to astonishingly childish and pointless, and you just go from one area to the next without anything to push you forward. It takes real hate for me to actually trade in an RPG (considering EB only gives you like 5-10 bucks for each game now), but this game somehow achieved it in a very short amount of time.
Oh well though, frankly, I'm kinda glad to be done with it since I've finally moved on to Yakuza 3 :)
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