Parakeetman
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Due to general health at the moment and seems like lack of interest in the import version from the community might not bother putting in time to finish up the post release OT. Since the import OT wasnt claimed in advance before release, should not be an issue. If I do change my mind about it, might just appear one day out of nowhere lol.
Some info on the game for those not familiar.
*More info at the Gematsu linkOriginal Story 2/23/16 at 7:43 a.m.: FuRyu has announced Caligula, a new RPG for PS Vita developed by Aquria, directed by Takuya Yamanaka, and written by Persona and Persona 2 scenario writer Tadashi Satomi. It features character design by Oguchi and music by Tsukasa Mako.
Caligula will launch for PS Vita on June 23 in Japan for 6,980 yen. Pre-orders include a swimsuit costume product code, visual booklet, Caligula full album CD, and a special event participation ticket.
Set in the virtual reality world of Mobius, the story of Caligula follows nine men and women that aim to return to the real world. It is a “next generation juvenile RPG” that focuses on modern pathology and trauma. Its title, “Caligula,” refers to wanting to see things we’re not allowed to see, or doing things we’re not allowed to do.
Caligula
The protagonists are locked up in Mobius, a virtual reality world in which all human beings become an ideal high school student and spend their days repeating high school life. Everyone within Mobius has forgotten the real world. For different reasons, each of the protagonists realize that Mobius is not the real world and form a “Going Home Club” with the desire to return home, and start looking for a way back. However, there are some members who suffered in reality and sought salvation in Mobius, and carry a darkness that can not be shared with the others.
Mobius is an ideal world created by the vocal software “μ.” People escape the despair of reality in Mobius, and those saved by her song are granted their every dream. In Mobius, there are men and women regardless of age that become high school students and live out a three-year student life on a loop.
Am currently playing it along with Coven. So not that far in to do any sort of indepth impressions yet.
Though early on this is a nice looking game, though folks who are overly concerned with things like FPS and whatnot do us all a favor and turn around and head back out the way you came. As this game is not the kind of "silky smooth" that unrealistic expectations would demand. Reason for the blunt statement is we have already seen enough complaints about framerates and whatnots from the various videos of the game itself. Would prefer actual conversations about the game rather than dealing with "pages" of whining by people who would not be buying the game anyways. This game is on a handheld with memory issues, curb your expectations. Now with that out of the way lets get to talking about the game.
The 3D and 2D portraits are quite nice not to mention actually look like each other which is a large plus quality wise. The 2d animated sequences though at times the artwork is a bit odd. Though some angles of the artwork look a bit weird, but overall its still cool that they added it into the game during the start. No idea if it will continue on into other parts of the story yet.
Sound quality of the title seems to be mixed quite well. As the voices come through clear and music doesnt get in the way of the voices so you go thinking that you should play with headsets to be able to hear the voices like poorly mixed games.
Still am going through all the intro story bits, but am looking forward to the combat and such seeing how the devs Aquria are the same folks behind Hollow Fragment, know how to make a good combat system and it looks like this one might take cues from that in the sense with all of the skill usage and whatnots. If it wasnt for them I literally would not have bought this title due to Furyu being a red flag as is.
As mentioned am also going through another game at the same time so am sure there will be others here who would be progressing a lot faster but thats good as it will be giving others different views of the game hopefully.
Anyways will update the post or do new ones when there is new info to share with folks. In the mean time heres a bunch of various media to watch.
1st Promo Video
2nd Promo Video
Samples of the Songs in the Game
Gameplay Footage
Imaginary Chain Footage
Gameplay w/ JP Commentary