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Compile Heart announces Black Rose Valkyrie for PS4
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cosmicblizzard
Banned
So is this a Galapagos game?
LordGorchnik
Member
This looks great and a step to the side of their normal lineup. Really digging the traitor concept and hope they use it to tell a good story.
Frozenprince
Banned
So a waifu simulator with evil waifu's?
I'm down.
I'm down.
One guy and five girls =/= pervy by default. Granted with their pedigree I expect SOMETHING there, but they could be more tasteful there.
Ah hahaha, of course.
It's funny. Your quotes could describe every Compile Hearts game, too.
No wonder the criticisms are always the same.
Pellegri Testament
Member
The criticisms are always the same because people like you come into every single one of these threads and shit on them after only having played a single one of their games, or not playing any of them and doing nothing but parroting others. Unless you're wanting to say that you've played several of them and think they're all trash, in which case i'd ask what compelled you to do so without liking something about them.
If the company name or the artstyle being anime (welcome to Japanese games) is enough to make you feel the need to shitpost, then maybe don't even enter the thread in the first place? You knew what to expect before entering, why even waste time posting?
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
damn, it sounds good. i hope it comes here
It is an IDEA FACTORY INTERNATIONAL game, which is a whole new separate brand from the localizers known as Idea Factory International.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Huh. Certainly didn't expect this. Diversifying the portfolio or something? New IP allowing them someone on-staff to try a different tone?
This bolded phrase makes this post especially depressing.
This bolded phrase makes this post especially depressing.
I think you meant "Welcome to this company's brand of Japanese game."
It's ridiculous for you to ascribe this kind of senselessness to all Japanese developers and producers.
Pellegri Testament
Member
I didn't know that I said anything about game design choices, could have sworn I was talking about artstyle for what you're quoting me on. I didn't know that having a moe artstyle automatically made something trash, especially since Compile Heart is hardly the only Japanese company that uses said artstyle.
Again I would ask what exactly it is that you're trying to accomplish by coming in here and wasting the time to shit post about something you clearly have an all encompassing opinion of already? It doesn't exactly add to any kind of discussion when you have nothing to say other than "meh this company only makes shit".
Silent Chief
Member
Sounds ultra generic. Valkyries are the new samurais.
plasmawave
Banned
Dem JRPGs keep coming.
Man i'm not gonna lie, I every time I see Compile Heart all I think is "weeaboo garbage" and keep scrolling but something about this caught my eye.
It might be the randomized aspect or just the idea of having one of your teammate that you go through the game with actually be a Traitor, I thinks that's a really cool concept and one that's not often used in video games.
It might be the randomized aspect or just the idea of having one of your teammate that you go through the game with actually be a Traitor, I thinks that's a really cool concept and one that's not often used in video games.
OniBarubary
Banned
I'll take whatever Sakura Wars game I can get, even knock-off ones.
I heard Sakura Wars is part dating-sim. Pass. I don't want to get a criminal record.
YianGaruga
Banned
criticism? I only see shitposts
Why does that remind me of that one scene from The Cell with Jennifer Lopez. You know, THAT one scene with the horse?
CrispyBoar
Banned
For those that are complaining about one guy & five girls, just what is wrong with it? It's not like it hasn't happened before in games or in animes.
I was with you until this sentence. There's no need to generalize that all Japanese games are like that, because they certainly aren't.
I was with you until this sentence. There's no need to generalize that all Japanese games are like that, because they certainly aren't.
Pellegri Testament
Member
No need to generalize that almost every game that comes out of Japan has an anime aesthetic? I don't really think that's far from the truth depending on what you consider to be "anime".
The "company name" was more for Compile Heart since it's clear that some are instantly turned off by seeing it (see this thread). The "anime artstyle" was more for everything, not just CH (if I wanted it to be for CH then I would have said blob). You constantly see people who will say "I don't like jrpgs because of their artstyle", who lump them all together because of how they look, because of their "anime aesthetic". I don't consider it wrong to say "welcome to Japanese games" if someone is just now noticing that trend in aesthetic and gets turned off by it.
YianGaruga
Banned
would be kind of dumb to produce it under the label Idea Factory International and then only release it in Japan
The traitor mechanic sounds a lot like Hanako Games' Black Closet. (the team behind Long Live The Queen)
Sub_Level
wants to fuck an Asian grill.
You are right but I am still triggered from Square not localizing International versions of their ps2 games.
YianGaruga
Banned
haha you have a point there
The traitor mechanic sounds a bit like Dawn of War 2 Chaos Rising though that based the traitor on how much corrupting influence the characters suffered rather than pure RNG (and generally had a lot of temptation stuff like getting extra powers or powerful gear by giving in to the corruption of the Warp).
Acquiescence
Member
Blue-haired chick looks cool. That's all I've got.
bobawesome
Member
So we're just making shit up now, huh? Please point everyone to a CH game where this happens.
Based on my (admittedly limited) experience with CH, I find their games to be very repetitive and grindy, with dreadfully low production values, terrible dungeon design and confusing systems. But I'm always willing to give them a chance, and apparently they are getting better?
butman
Member
Like PS2 days my friend.
YianGaruga
Banned
Yeah that's not far from the truth. Talking about the Neptunia games, they're "light"-JRPGs with half of the appeal coming from the characters and the setting. I expect this one to be a bit more meaty, gameplay wise
To be fair most compile heart games have moe designs but not this game.
If it's from the Rebirth series, then I can see that. They kind of did shit those out real quick, but even though there was improvements in each iteration of that. The battle dynamics from 1 to 3, while familiar are vastly different with just the SP gauge change for example. I'm intrigued to see what they've done with V-II. I can't imagine how the original Neptunia games played, but it'd be fun to see the evolution. I imagine this will be another evolution still.
DangerMouse
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Its tiring. JRPG parties used to be diverse? Now its bland nameless faceless self-insert dude and half a dozen different tropey females. Besides wheres the 1 female x 5+ male rpg crews? FFXV... maybe o.o?
LordGorchnik
Member
Wild Arms 3? 1 female and 3 males.
If I didn't know better I'd have assumed it was a new Tales game. Dat Fujishima~famitsu cover
Actually scratch that. Costumes way too subdued for a Tales game.
Fujishima style for Tales of is usually pretty tame, his only fanservice character I think of is Judith. It's usually Inomata (ironically) who design improbable clothes. <_<
YianGaruga
Banned
Can you list some JRPG parties that are like that? I have a hard time coming up with more than a few
Cold Steel: Even split
FFXV: All male
Star Ocean 5: 3 guys 4 girls
Persona and Tales games seem about evenly split as well
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