I have a keen interest in this one. Please update on how you like it with another post/comment!
Luella
joined 1 year ago
Apparently 5-10 hours. I checked the website howlongtobeat.com.
I might just give it a try as a palette cleanser because I've been playing exclusively long games lately. It's nice to have a shorter game between those.
What are your favourites? Because I don't know where to go after XII, and I'm really in a JRPG mood.
Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. I'm enjoying it a lot! It has an interesting case of having the main protagonist of the story be a girl, but they opted to make the main character you play and pov of the game from a boy. Probably because that was their target demographic and who they expected to play being made for PS2 originally. I still like most of the characters.
I enjoy the feel of the game, there's a combat system called Gambits where you program your party members to auto attack. Example would be: Heal if HP = <50%, else attack. But like 10 steps to optimise how your party behaves meaning if properly prepared the combat is done automatically while still feeling fulfilling because you made them that smart with your skill build.
The most frustrating thing is people don't really praise 12 among the Final Fantasy fandom, and yet it's probably my favourite mainline so far!
I have a 1.5 hour commute in total each day to work, so that entire time can be spent gaming. I really like my bed, or the couch, or just in general different settings especially for the cozier games I prefer.
I game a lot so spending dozens of hours a week at the same desk and chair doesn't work very well for me. The option to play handheld or use my dock to move from my bed to my living room tv seamless is very welcome. Even once at a family gathering I brought it for us all to play Jackbox and it was a blast.
I play a lot of cozy games, ones that deserve to be played huddled up in a blanket on a couch, and I find them all the more enjoyable on Steam Deck than my Desktop.
I wanna 100% this game again just for the sake of playing it portably. Brilliant game.
Docked: Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age. Perfect for laying in bed, has a near auto-battle combat system between cutscenes that i can enjoy comfortably.
Undocked: Persona 2: Innocent Sin. I'm trying to get all the achievements via RetroAchievements and am at the point where it's just grinding so it works elegantly for those random chances I find to put some playtime in. I played through the story, which was great btw, mostly docked.
I'm taking a bit of a break to avoid burnout, but I'm looking to start Crusader of Centy / Soleil from the Sega Mega Drive this weekend. In a simple sense it was Sega's bite back at Zelda: A Link to the Past but with jumping and animal companions. I even bought myself a whole controller (8bitdo M30) just to enjoy me some Mega Drive emulation.