I like the new badge designs, but do agree that they stick out REALLY hard on profiles. Showing less at once or putting them behind another menu would make peoples pages look a lot less cluttered.

It's a lot of little things.

It's so close bro 😭

Now, about 40 hours in, I think that RW is extremely close to being the best game in the series, but a few major design and direction decisions hold it back from greatness.

But it's good.

The weirdest part, Kiwami and Kiwami 2 are getting free updates to add the english dub. I know 0 DX has more than that, but I feel like just making it a dlc upgrade or something was the cleanest path for everyone.

There's a surprising amount of love for the series here. If you like the old games you will probably have a great time. Also helps that the resleri world is actually pretty cool. Worth snagging on sale for sure.

I am also coming off of Yumia fairly recently so I may just have my expectations in the fucking gutter, but once I started not caring about balance I started having a good time.

It definitely doesn't suck but the gameplay is definitely not as tight as I was hoping lol. I would call the game quite good actually. I was hoping for Sophie 2 gameplay with enjoyable characters/writing and I have definitely gotten one of those things.

The worst part of night shift is that you're always awake when everyone else is asleep. Can feel a little lonely sometimes.

I am choosing to think of E33 as an action game instead of an rpg and it's let me appreciate it more I think. As a JRPG, it utterly fails. Especially before act 3. I think it's a pretty cool action game though. The love for the genres history is very clear, just not in the actual gameplay 😂

Every other game tries to get too cute with it. If you're trying to make a battle system that is engaging for a long period of time, reducing decision making to what is effectively just "I should have pressed buttons better" Is bad!

I definitely agree. It's fun in cute bursts, but you should NOT be able to avoid/negate damage in an rpg. Dealing with damage is a massive part of engaging with combat in these games.

Bug Fables nails it I think. Low numbers, MINIMUM damage is 1, and blocking only reduces damage by 1 at default.

I guess this is timed blocking specifically lol

I SHOULD GET HIT AND DIE MAN