By the end I put it in story difficulty and just rushed and ignored enemies, and I barely engaged with the side content. This game has a serious length and pacing issue. It's focused on the narrative but questions linger for way too long because the game is so fucking long, and I just wanted to see how everything resolved.
The combat itself is fun for a few hours but not for how long the game wants you to engage with it. I get designing the systems to allow for player freedom, but at some point all the micromanaging becomes a nuisance.

Still GotY though. Writing, music, art, all top tier, specially the writing, but I don't feel like ever playing it again.

>>714795569 (OP)
>Still GotY though.
Death Stranding 2 and Donkey Kong will give it serious competition

>>714795569 (OP)
> By the end I switched the difficulty to easy mode
Anything after this sentence can be safely discarded

>>714795569 (OP)
>It's focused on the narrative but questions linger for way too long
It's insane how fucking retarded lune becomes the further the story goes along. Garbage writing.

>>714795569 (OP)
Shit taste, I did the opposite, I explored literally everything, when enemies became too easy because I overleveled I gave them 5x-10x or even 20x hp sometimes. Then I got 100% achievements as well.
Then I replayed the game again with the 2 party members I didnt use a lot in the first playthrough.

Its one of the best single player/storygames ever made.

>>714795569 (OP)
>because the game is so fucking long
It's like a 25~ hour RPG, zoomie, and the pacing's immaculate.

>>714795569 (OP)
Holy shit you're a zoomer faggot kys

>>714799259
>Its one of the best single player/storygames ever made.
no it isn't, it's alright, but it really isn't that special

Sometimes when Esquie flies, he says "Sun, here I come!" which seems to be reference to a Beatles song which didn't exist at the time in which the game is set.

>>714795569 (OP)
>Writing, music, art, all top tier, specially the writing
cool, so the least important aspect of a video game is its strongest quality

The writing in this game is actually it's weakest feature IMO, I don't understand what people see in it.
The concept was nice but the execution left so much to be desired and I feel like they undercut every theme they had been building towards by the end of it.
But yeah it is still GOTY because someone finally got around to making engaging gameplay for a JRPG after SMRPG paved the way nearly 30 years ago.

>>714795569 (OP)
Why set it to story? The ability you get for beating the Paintress IS the easy mode. I did one side dungeon after beating her before going to the final dungeon and I accidentally one-shot the final boss.

>>714796791
>the only competition is another snoy rigging and babyshit

The story has been told millions of times, if you have not seen something similar as a grown adult you really need to expose yourself to more media.
The music is great but ths designs and setting mismatch and the gameplay is going backwards in jrpg evolution.
I really hope that FF doesn't take notes from this game.

>>714801572
He doesn't say that in the French version so it's not canon

I have deal with that petulant faggot Gustave for the first half of the game, listening to his content whining and woe is me drivel and his constant "muh Maelle." Seriously I could have swore he wanted to fuck her... Which is gross since they're essentially family, BUT it is France, sooooo.
Anyway.. when he died I thought good! I'm done with him. But oh no. I get that faggot Verso. At first I thought fuck yeah this dude stood toe to toe with the White Haired faggot and obviously was a badass... But noooooo the little bitch gets prison raped by shitmobs. No I want the whiny "I want to fuck my sister" Gustave back because he could at least fight.
And where are the maps? Why don't I have a fucking map for the area I am in. Nothing more fun than running around in circles trying to figure out where the FUCK TO GO.
Fucking French faggots

>>714802862
Idk but seeing all the normalfags crying at the ending is kinda funny
I liked the worldbuilding but the narrative and characters are definitely whatever

>>714795569 (OP)
You can do whatever you want Anon. It's a single-player game.
You're still a scrub, but as long as you can live with that you've got no judgements from me.

Sometimes I jerk it to Lune. Imaging how hairy she is.

>>714795569 (OP)
Pretty much how i feel

Got to act 3 on expert and im really tired of the combat and the idea of going through 15 more locations and doing exactly same combat encounter mechanics sounds extremely tiresome. 3niggas in a row doesnt hold up after 50 hours, even if its revitalize by parry/dodge

I think I'll just do the main story and shelf it, great game still

>>714803972
Shes extremely well trimmed and shes very self aware about that, autistic girls are like that

>>714804976
Did you jerk to Lune at least once? Or is Gustave more your thing?

>>714795569 (OP)
All RPGs are too fucking long, especially the "J" variety. At least white men RPGs have deep gameplay systems and an immersive sandbox, JRPGs stretch a 5-10 hour story into a 100+ hour slog, it's maddening. FF6 and 7 are overrated dogshit, for real.

>>714805074
Based

>>714805103
I accidentally fucked Sciel and I had no idea it locks me out of hot asian wife

Lune if youre reading this, i can unfuck Sciel. Pls call me back

>>714803638
The ending was probably the worst part for me.
It felt extremely forced like they wanted to do multiple endings just for the sake of it and made a really unnatural feeling conflict to try and sell it.
Would have been better if they just doubled down on the Verso ending and actually supported it more throughout the game.

>>714805262
Except Verso is a homo and his ending would have been a massive homo orgy with Gestrals

>>714804976
Same

Funny thing is I can play Rogue Trader or Pathfinder or whatever for 100-200 hours without feeling tired (which have far inferior presentation), but a game like this does start dragging on after 30-40

>>714805748
Golgra would never allow it. She would dominate everyone.

>>714805074
>French
>Asian
>Trimmed

>>714795569 (OP)
>I don't feel like ever playing it again.
It's worth rewatching the cinematics now that all of the big reveals have happened
In most JRPGs, in the early game the antagonists say cryptic shit that is basically meaningless, but in E33 the dialogue all makes sense
One of the biggest ones for me was before the Paintress battle, pRenoir says to Verso, "The pain of losing you - she made me inherit it"
That makes little sense unless you know what's really going on

>>714803286
> The story has been told millions of times, if you have not seen something similar as a grown adult you really need to expose yourself to more media.
All RPG stories have been told before. The difference is that E33 tells its story competently unlike tranime garbage like Metpahor Refantazio which constantly dart back and forth through convoluted substories instead of focusing on their main plot.

>>714806513
>In most JRPGs, in the early game the antagonists say cryptic shit that is basically meaningless, but in E33 the dialogue all makes sense
>One of the biggest ones for me was before the Paintress battle, pRenoir says to Verso, "The pain of losing you - she made me inherit it"
Verso and Monoco are all whisper whisper whisper during Monoco's introduction, particularly about Alicia.

>>714795569 (OP)
>the game is so fucking long
incredible bait, I love it

>>714806642
And end of Act I when Renoir fails to force Maelle out of the canvas, Aline and Renoir talk about Maelle and how she shouldn't be in the painting, she's too weak, it doesn't involve her, etc.
Again, in the moment you're just like "Ok I don't understand, I'll just go along with it"
But each word makes sense once you have the full context

So yeah - I recommend finding a Youtube video of the cinematics since all the interactions get reframed once you know the full context.

>>714795569 (OP)
>it was a dream the whole time!
>muh GOTY

>>714802862
sorry kid the real goty releases next year

Nothing happens until the end of act 2 and they storydump on act 3, so yeah, I get what you mean.

>>714799346
>nice character scenes at the camp after the orchard or whatever it was
>set out with renewed resolve
>TIME TO PLAY ONLY UP AT THE GESTRAL BEACH
>ENJOY THE SHITPISS PLATFORMING WHERE YOU HAVE TO START AGAIN EVERYTHING WE DECIDE TO JANKRAPE YOU
lmao get fucked

>>714807123
>young girl is the key to everything

>>714795569 (OP)
it's pretty tame playtime for a JRPG
The pacing is weird for the first two acts because nothing makes sense without the exposition dump, it gets way better on a second playthrough.

>>714803286
only FFTA has done it in vidya, what are the other ones?

>>714795569 (OP)
It obvious when certain characters deliberately don't fully explain what's going on with them (Verso). And yes, I get the idea that you shouldn't dump an entire explanation right away, but it's parsed out and held off in such retarded way that normal people wouldn't do.
Oh yes, I do have a secrets, but I'm gonna wait till the next campfire cutscene to give another vague tidbit of information to pad out the narrative length of the game. wtf bro...
Most people would ask further questions instead of being content with a vague line and abruptly moving on. I mean these people are always self-aware they could die the next second.