CRYSTALGATE'S PROFILE

Killed the first step-sister in Child of Light. Cinderella should take notes. I unlocked better skills and Aurora lost about 10 years of her life. Maybe Cinderella should not take notes.

I'm going to call foul on some tricks the game pulls. I lost two battles so far, both time due to the same crap. I encounter a boss and interrupt it. The boss then goes all "ahaha, you interrupted me like you have been taught to do, now I'm going to hit you with a party wide slow spell!" and basically punishes me for not letting the boss act unhindered. For those who wonders, interruption works pretty much like cancelling does in the Grandia series.

I've just finished the main game of Tales of Zestiria. It was quite fun, but also disappointing.

The story started out great, but got reduced to decent for the second half. For the first half of the game, the story gave you a main character with enough power to change the tide of a war between nations, but also presented the dilemma of how little that does help in solving social problems. In the middle of that, a greater threat was looming in the background. For the second half, the main character interacted much less with the political powers and instead the game settled for just blabbering about humanity and human society. The looming threat also felt more like it was patiently waiting for the main character to do whatever, something that immediately nullifies the sense of danger. The writing itself was good though and that prevented the second half from becoming a train wreck. Well, with some exceptions, like Seymonne, who's lines were just as ridiculous as her outfit.

The battle system is okay, but nothing special. The game gives you a load of options in battles, but most options have rather a low impact. The basics of the battle system like attacking and defending worked okay, but not great. Adding a ton of middling option on top of a middling base isn't really a super recipe.

What is good all the way trough though is the character interaction. Not only that, but despite having a total of eight character (two non permanent), almost all relevant two character combinations interacted meaningfully.

author=Jeroen_Sol
I agree that that is almost always the case. But if the developer feels differently, then it's still a dick move to LP the game. It doesn't matter whether the developer is right or not, all that matters is that their work is being used against their will. Yes, LPing falls under fair use and is completely legal even if the developer doesn't want it (Even though Youtube's bullshit claim system seems to think otherwise), but LPing a game when the dev doesn't want you to is a dick move regardless of its legality.

An LP or any video uploads of a game being played, is the best way for me to get an accurate picture of what to expect from a game. Trailers show me what the publishers want me to see and a review show me the reviewer's opinion. Watching a gameplay video actually shows me what to expect.

I can respect a developer's wish to not have their game spoiled, but I absolutely cannot respect a developer's wish for any extent of control over how well I can inform myself. For this reason, I cannot agree with you for the majority of games.

author=Ratty524
Why is the LUK stat even there in the first place when it barely affects anything in the game?

I don't think Enterbrain understands how effective something is. The sample spells in VX had the SPI-F set to 30 which makes spirit almost useless. Many users took it as a recommendation and the result was a load of VX projects where the spirit stat was negligible.

Can you post a screenshot with a longer text?