Jesus, Feb is ending. What are you playing?
Still playing Ar Tonelico 1. Ten hours in. I am fairly surprised by the sexual metaphors in this game. The main girls belongs to a female-only race called Reyvateil. The Reyvateils cast spell for their partners in battle, and the stronger the relationship, the stronger they will become. The partners can also enter the mental world of Reyvateils (called "dive") to strengthen the bond and discover new spells together. Diving should be mutual consensual and the place for them to conduct diving is called dive house, and these dive houses look exactly like love hotels. In addition, the evil corp in the game is known to force their employees to dive so they can become stronger. Well shit...
The gameplay during diving is basically handled like a visual novel with level-like progression. Like relationships irl, the girls would slowly open up their hidden feelings and secrets during each dive. I like this mechanics a lot and it is a good way to go deep into the characters, although the writing is so far fairly mediocre and mundane.
Combat is still very easy and difficulty is honestly inexistence. But I continue to enjoy what they do. Fun game.
I also played 4 hours of Atomic Heart. Really beautiful game and it also plays nice. But I discover that the Xbox version has a bug where TV screens in-game show nothing, so I have probably missed some lores due to this bug. Waiting for a patch now.
Still playing Ar Tonelico 1. Ten hours in. I am fairly surprised by the sexual metaphors in this game. The main girls belongs to a female-only race called Reyvateil. The Reyvateils cast spell for their partners in battle, and the stronger the relationship, the stronger they will become. The partners can also enter the mental world of Reyvateils (called "dive") to strengthen the bond and discover new spells together. Diving should be mutual consensual and the place for them to conduct diving is called dive house, and these dive houses look exactly like love hotels. In addition, the evil corp in the game is known to force their employees to dive so they can become stronger. Well shit...
The gameplay during diving is basically handled like a visual novel with level-like progression. Like relationships irl, the girls would slowly open up their hidden feelings and secrets during each dive. I like this mechanics a lot and it is a good way to go deep into the characters, although the writing is so far fairly mediocre and mundane.
Combat is still very easy and difficulty is honestly inexistence. But I continue to enjoy what they do. Fun game.
I also played 4 hours of Atomic Heart. Really beautiful game and it also plays nice. But I discover that the Xbox version has a bug where TV screens in-game show nothing, so I have probably missed some lores due to this bug. Waiting for a patch now.