I am 20 years too late for the party but I actually wanted to experience the game in person instead of watching it on 2nd screen like a zoomer.
I can't decide if Asura's Wrath is some elaborate shitpost, a gigantic homage or if the producers were serious.
The gameplay is almost nonexistent and whatever little there is is serviceable.
But the QTE's actually work and tend to impact whatever is happening on the screen and somehow every QTE here is extra satisfying.
They fucking hired Studio 4C to make fully hand-drawn DLC episodes - a glorified AMV where failing QTE changes the clip, Time Gal-like. And the interludes were drawn by some really great and known artists which seem to be hired only to draw few pages.
There's at least one Itano circus scene with the same camera angles, missile spread, same dodging action.
The choreography in the cutscenes is amazing, I'm impressed how expressive the characters are and how nicely the combat scenes are constructed. Getting pinned to the ground by a planet-sized sword while Dvorak plays in the background was my favorite so far.
But the cutscenes range from good to so ridiculously over the top and so fucking campy (especially after teaming up with Yasha) that I start to believe this all is a very expensive shitpost.
Some scenes are pure kino and I love how exotic and esoteric it feels.
Also somehow the whole internet doesn't have a single artwork from Kaori Nishimura even if they were in the industry since Parodius. This POW box has to be a reference to something.
>mfw trying to bump my own thread about an ancient video game
Next time I'll simply post tits on the front page.
>>715000454 (OP)Don't care. Didn't read. Asuras Wrath is peak.
>>715003953Holy shit, someone actually posted in this thread.
>>715002360I think it's mostly an issue of "too many words without any direction for a thread". you've mostly just made a bunch of simple statements without really giving your own opinion one way or the other. sure you "start to believe this is all a very expensive shitpost", but did you LIKE it? you'd probably get more responses even with just a simple "what did you guys think?" at the end
i mean this game is good
but
no one rereleased it.
this was developed by cyberconnect2, theyr hack games was rereleased, theyr naruto games getting rereleases every year. if they wanted- they would already rereleased this game, but well they are not.
>>715004490cc2 is just a developer for hire, they don't have any control over what happens to the games they make (well, other than fuga now). the president gets asked about rereleasing solatorobo or asura's wrath or making new .hack games all the time, and his answer is always "we'd love to, but bamco/capcom own those and they don't want to do anything with them"
Holy shit, an asuras wrath thread? in this day and age? How far are you into the game anon? dont forget you need to get the dlcs for the true ending and the most kino of cinema possible in the entire game.
>>715005654Nah the fight on the moon was the most kino. Joseph Joestar's VA was the same as that guy you fight.
it's great fun but you have to accept it as an anime first and game second.
>>715005039>e, and his answer is always "we'd love to, but bamco/capcomi mean bamco rereleased lots of tales games
capcom rereleased dragons dogma.
i played tales of graces f on hacked ps3, and and asura wrath, and dragons dogma, in 2013, and i kinda can play tales of graces f, and dragons dogma now.
It's a game I do not give a singular fuck about playing because it's 99% button mashing
However the cutscenes are absolutamente cinema
>>715005654There was a pack on archive.org with all the dlc. I got 11.5 and 15.5 episodes, Nirvana and Lost Episodes 1 & 2.
I'm at episode 17 now, Deus just merged with Brahmastra.
>>715005821At least I can now control the buttons I press.
CC2 is very good at making really cool visuals and cutscenes.
>>715000454 (OP)Let me explain what the concept of Azura's Wrath is to your Zoomie brain.
It's an interactive anime. Do you get it now?
>>715005896the last fight and the other fight in ep 21 are the PEAK of game, dont you try and fight me on this
>>715006293then you have the whole package so no worries about it
>>715006168Olga best girl.
>>715006409Any recommendations for other CC2 games? Already played IMOQ.
>>715006704the litter tail bronx series is pretty good if you're not one of those kinds of people who scream bloody murder if they see furry characters. tail concerto is a ps1 game and it's short and pretty basic but still kinda fun. solatorobo on the ds is where it really takes off though, and now they've got the 3 fuga games on steam
>>715006704>Already played IMOQ.i mean this games are pure pain to play, gameplay wise. hack g u was at least good.
and, well, naruto ultimate storm are kinda okay game, there are same sound producer, so there are good ost. one can play story mode on some of later naruto games
after cc2 got into naruto games they did almost nothing else because main guy is big naruto fan and i think it brings lots of money
>>715006974>i mean this games are pure pain to play, gameplay wise.I enjoyed it for what it was. I have played worse games in my life.
>>715006974I love GU and I'm glad we got a remaster, but I really want a patch that adds a new difficulty that lowers damage and exp gain.
The remaster made it so you are always over leveled by just doing the story missions while also buffing everything the player can do. They already added a cheat mode they didn't need to make the base game this easy
>12000+AD
>not chilling with the boys
>>715005039the game is too based to get a remaster in today's age
a game about the family values that also insults the people in power for their vices and sins against humanity? that would hit way too close for comfort at a certain western group
i personally think it's unfair to compare AW to a normal action game and judge it for its lack of gameplay, because you end up missing both the specific context at the time it was released, and also the specific and very deliberate intentions of its creators
this game was created to be a cinematic super stylish epic of God tier fight after fight, with clear inspirations from the god of war cutscenes but taken to its natural extremes
it's arguably closer to a 3D CGI shounen anime, and a damn fine one at that, kind of a genre on its own because of the added interactivity from the gaming medium
i'm not saying the game was a masterpiece, there are and were plenty of legitimate complaints about it, like the ending being separate paid dlc, but people shouldn't just dismiss it as "qte moviegaem lol", because they end up missing out on what was arguably one of the coolest experiences at the time, kind of a time capsule really.
it was back when stuff like ttgl was in vogue, so having shit like punching the ground really hard and half a continent cracks, and then a fucking planet sized titan tries to squash things with a finger, it was fucking peak.
>>715008281? I don't think republican boomers play games
Asura's wrath is the best shitty game ever if that makes sense
The actual game itself is one of the worst I've ever played and can probably be removed and nothing I like about the game would change. The cutscenes and the story are so good I still think about it to this day, it told the "gods are actually really shitty beings" story far better than anything else and nothing has really topped it
https://youtu.be/3Smf5rC9MFo?t=449
and this scene lives rent free in my head, not even his actual daughter but he's just tired of all the gods' bullshit at this point and goes berserk
actual kino
>>715007738>can do. They already added a cheat mode they didn't need to make the base game this easywell GU games was easy even on ps2, if you even 1-2 level higher than enemy than your damage is lot higher than needed, not saying about like 5 levels, then you oneshotted bosses. only way to somehow enjoy it was to be underleveled.
>Shot shows dying Deus extending his hand towards Gaea and Vlitra
>He dies and his body disintegrates
>His extended hand disappears too, reveling Asura and Yasha looking into the distance together
I love video games.
>>715002360Sorry anon, was asleep. Third shift hours. Here's a bump, glad you're enjoying the game. Let us know when you beat it so we don't have to worry as much about spoilers, okay?
lets hear it. JP or EN dub? I honestly quite like both for different reasons, but i think the english Yasha voice actor steals the spotlight every single time and i simply cannot play the game without his voice
>>715010898American anime dub actors are worthless, JP.
>>715011080You know they used liam o brien's scream even in the JP version when he transformed because it's that good?
But good job being a tasteless faggot weeb
>>715011080I would agree for 99% of jp media, but asuras wrath en is just too good.
>>715010758That won't happen today. I have work in 6 hours so I need some sleep.
>>715011220>You know they used liam o brien's scream even in the JP version when he transformed because it's that good?>one screamI don't know who the fuck that literal who is but what about 99.99999% of the rest of the game? It's like Xenoblade lmao, that Shulk eng dub did one good scream and now redditors fellate Xenoblade as having a special dub that actually sounds good, fucking LOL
>faggot weeb>NOOOOOO YOU HAVE TO LIKE OUR WORTHLESS VOICE ACTING INDUSTRY>OTHERWISE YOU ARE LE WEEBI know it's difficult for your r*ddit peanut brain to understand but americans are not good at dubbing in general. And they're certainly not better in voicing japanese foreign media. It's not weeb to say that the original VAs are better than the american literal whos.
>>715012494>don't know who liam o brien isyou have to be willingly ignorant to not know who that is
yeah you are retarded sorry not reading the rest of that good luck bro
>>715000454 (OP)How does it fair on PCS3? I wanted an actual PC port for eons but at this point i might as well try emulating.
>>715012726>you have to be willingly ignorant to not know who that isOh I remember, it's that retard who always does the Illidan voice in 99% of his roles, LMAO. What did he do Illidan aside? And aside from shitty american cartoons dubbing? And shitty japanese anime/game dubs?
>>715012912emulates totally fine, and you can have it run at 60fps, though that does make the mashy QTE bits harder
>>715000454 (OP)Asura's Wrath is one of the biggest cringekinos in gaming, period. Modern Crapcom could never make something like this today.
They should fucking release a remaster or a port already, I'm tired of listening to my PS3's plane engine everytime I want to replay this.
>>715014035>muh cringekinothere is nothing cringe about it you ironic retard
>>715014035>cringePeople don't like this game ironically nigga, the love for this game is completely genuine there's nothing cringe about it. The only movie game people unanimously like
