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Crappy box art. Japanese one was better.

NR · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 10:59 am Post subject:

Holy crap did the bot just say something!?
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PipArchDevil · Joined: 30 Nov 2006 Posts: 1068 Location: Washington

I too was disappointed, I saw that on gamespot a few days ago.

And...

What's up with random fuzzy characters?

J.L.Jones · I'd like to see this Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2084

Because N1 can't make a good game to save their fucking lives?
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HeeHo · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject:

*dares to like the box art and some N1 games*

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randar23rhenn · Old school JRPG Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 2098

that box art is f--king terrible

other than that, im really liking the look of this game... as in squad based = ownage
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HeeHo · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:58 pm Post subject:

Aww, what's so terrible about it? I think the box art makes it look like a truly sinister game (which I am all for!).

Maybe I don't get it because I've yet to see the Japanese box art, but this would've definitely caught my eye when all there was to go by was box art.

J.L.Jones · I'd like to see this Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2084

SUPERIOR

INFERIOR

randar23rhenn · Old school JRPG Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 2098

by far
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J.L.Jones · I'd like to see this Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2084

I think the game looks like crap. But I really do like the japanese boxart.

J.L.Jones · I'd like to see this Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2084

WTF double post.

I hit edit, Not quote.

HeeHo · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 6:06 pm Post subject:

I guess...

I still like our cover better. Razz

I think the Japanese box art makes it look like any other SRPG or any other generic JRPG for that matter.

Cloudcent · 20th Century Boy Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Posts: 1192

That's one of the worst Box Arts of recent memory.

My god....

I have a feeling it accurately represents the game, though. It's probably about some gay guy who's really mad because he stabbed himself in the foot with a sword.

VsPluckyDuck · Duckslit Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Posts: 1268

Re: Box Art, yeah, I'm not a fan. Gig is pretty ugly, and not particularly fearsome- ooking. He is a focal point of the game, but there are plenty of other things that could have gone on the box either with him or to his exclusion. Like the World Eaters themselves. Those are pretty dang cool looking.

Re: fuzzy character, don't quote me on this, but I think that Danette's had an Edict used on her in that shot to make her look that way. Think the Blink or Image spell from the SNES FF games.

Re: this game, when I played a bit of it, the vibe I kept getting was Ogre Battle, which pleased me greatly. The two games look nothing alike, but they feel remarkably similar in system. The auto battling, as many squads as you like, arranging your squads, skills to give an extra kick to your battles (like the Tarot cards). I think the three-line auto-battle system is greatly underused: the only other game I can think of that uses it is the never-pond-hopped Venus and Braves.

And Jones, it makes it pretty hard to take you seriously sometimes when 75% of the games coming out either "ruined" something for you or were ruined, or are "garbage," "terrible" or "f---ing crap."

J.L.Jones · I'd like to see this Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2084

It's pretty easy. I don't like N1. So anything from they is garbage instantly. Same with SMT games.

That's what you've been covering lately. So yeah. 75% of what youve been coverint lately is fucking garbage.
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J.L.Jones · I'd like to see this Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 2084

Well, To be fair, Ar Tonelico was developed by Gust, The people who do the Atlier Iris series.

I can't say I've liked anything NIS has published either, But Gust is just a painfully generic developer, Not offensively resistant to change like N1 seems to be.
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randar23rhenn · Old school JRPG Joined: 29 Dec 2005 Posts: 2098

lol, fair enough, i hadnt really thought of that, as Ar Tonelico looks so darned similar to any NIS Game

*shrug*
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