Take me back
TAKE ME BACK
IT'S BEEN TEN YEARS

>>715495198 (OP)
for me it's Levia, the best witch song in Stella Glow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OfFqSpnLBQ

>>715495497
that animation where lisette's inner world floods beats out all the others
i really like both of sakuya's songs though

>>715495497
That's a funny way of spelling Volt Shower.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEyNxfS4NaU
Popo's smile needs to be protected.

>>715495624
her first song is better

>>715495878
They're both good.

>>715495198 (OP)
I'll always remember when I first decided to get this game after dipping my toes in some weebery with Fire Emblem Awakening and got it along with some other games like Tales of the Abyss and Lord of Magna. I was charmed and the deal was sealed. I immediately sought out the Luminous Arc games and to this day I adore otaku games with similar aesthetics even as they're becoming rarer and rarer. Rest in peace Imageepoch, you made me a JRPGfag for life. I wonder if I should have got a Vita instead. Whatever, it doesn't matter now.

>>715497637
Stella Glow is fun to play. That's what gets me. So many JRPGs are grindfests.

>>715497756
For me, it comes down to the aesthetics a lot of the time. In other words, I'll put up with quite a bit of jank for cute anime girls. I became a Compile Heart fag after all. But yes, Stella Glow's gameplay is pretty good for what it is. Especially if you try to do the bonus challenges like I did, it's a lot more engaging than Fire Emblem Awakening.

Here I go!
Prison of blades!
I'LL BREAK YOU!

>>715497756
Stella Glow is a grindfest if you want to do later tuning levels, you have to go around and specifically level up in order to get the stats you need to handle some of that shit that's just set up to prank you and make you redo it

There are ways to trivialize most of the main fights but I spent legitimately 5-10% of my playtime grinding levels, and it should have been none

>>715495198 (OP)
Regent Elmar is who elevated this game to kino.

>>715498775
>comes across as an asshole
>actually the most noble and responsible character in the entire game baring Alto and Elcrest

Hilda > Mordimort > Popo >>>> Sakuya >>>>> dogshit >>>>>>>>>>> L*s*tte

>>715495198 (OP)
>dude this mid ass tactics game is actually goated

>>715501480
Yes, nigger, but it is above the level of comprehension by a lowly baboon such as yourself.

Something about the graphics are really nice too. Mario 3D Land invokes a similar feeling, being vibrant, bright and "shiny".

I always wondered why this budget FFT clone had such a banger soundtrack then I looked up the composers. They got Yasunori Mitsuda and ACE for this game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua05Z-hNfOc

>>715498606
>I spent legitimately 5-10% of my playtime grinding levels
That's weird, I don't think I ever needed to level grind in this game.
Granted, I abused Nonoka heavily and she's one of the most busted characters I've seen in a tactical RPG. Status effects are disgusting in Stella Glow and Nonoka is the queen of them. Hell, even in the late game when status starts to fall off she can just pivot to debuff stacking and she'll still be a top 3 unit thanks to her general utility (high speed plus good mobility is just really good in this game).

>>715501480
Rusty is OP

>>715495198 (OP)
Let it go anon, imagepoch already dead

>>715501480
It's fun. Just enough depth to the units that it's satisfying to figure out the best ways to abuse them, and the presentation is great. I have a few issues with the game (story relies a bit too heavily on contrivances and characters being unreasonable, there really needed to be a way to skip enemy turns because late game that shit gets unbearable, new game+ is the only way to see all the worthwhile content in one run but it also makes the game too easy thanks to the xp buff), but overall it's fun.

>>715495198 (OP)
This game had no right to be as good as it was. Peak ost too.

>>715502227
It wasnt a "budget FFT clone", it was a Luminous Arc spiritual successor. They never intended to be a clone to FFT, and it has many mechanics and characters similar to the Luminous Arc trilogy for the DS, which are all great games

>>715495198 (OP)
it was mediocre at best, dude
slow as all fucking hell too

>>715502934
Slow battles was its only real flaw. A fast forward button would've been much appreciated. A shame it will never get an enhanced port to PC.

>>715502931
Which are also FFT clones. I played 1 and 2. FFT clone is an entire genre at this point.

Why are all wind witches strong at the minimum, OP at the max?

>>715503174
Only played Stella Glow but I assume they're all fast units with good mobility? That's pretty much why Popo is one of the best witches despite being pretty average outside of being fast (and on the other end of the spectrum why Mordimort is one of the worst units in the game).

>>715495198 (OP)
OK I'm going to get this. Now the question is: Dub or undub?

>>715503438
I personally liked the dub, but all the Witches' songs are sung by their Japanese seiyuus, which creates a bit of a disconnect with the dub, so you should probably do the undub if you can.

It hurts that Luminous Arc is fucking dead.

>>715503408
Good grief all these images of Sadie are shit resolution.
Anyway, yes they're all fast and also all have flight and can thus ignore terrain. I forget if Sadie and Popo can, but Vivi is allowed to sit on normally impassable terrain like lava because she's flying. Vivi has a good magic stat which is good because magic gets extremely overpowered when you get the giant AOEs. For me when I recruited Sadie she was massively above everyone else in level on my team, and also seemed to have a fat magic attack stat. I regularly ended up with most of my units dead and then Sadie just kited them with her flight, magic range and far faster turn orde.r

>>715503576
Got it, undub it is

>>715503631
Been there, done that. You sadly get used to it and go back to enjoy the games.
t. Golden Sun, 7th Dragon, Etrian fan

>>715503809
>Etrian
We'll get Next Stage anon, just believe.

>>715502931
This is in comparison to that "Luminous Arc Infinity" on the vita which was dogshit with dogshit music and dogshit artstyle.

>>715503438
>Dub
If I had a nickel for every time Robbie Daymond played the protagonist in a 3DS SRPG, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice right?

>>715504396
Oh yeah, that happened...
I remember disliking how there weren't any other male characters and it was just 1 guy and the rest of the world was just women.
I have always liked the harem aspect of the previous games but I also liked that there were bros for the main character

>>715504209
Remember Metaphor and how everyone thought it was never coming? This was announced a few years after Metaphor was first announced so maybe Fatlus is still working on it... just prioritizing the one trillion persona remasters they're doing instead first!

>>715503438
All of the playable characters (and important NPCs) had good performances.
Weakest link is probably Hilda because it's Wendee Lee and she's not remotely trying to imitate Yukari Tamura, but more trying to sound like some weird in between with Yahiko and Faye Valentine.

I played this before an undub was made.
The desert levels pissed me off so fucking much I kind of don't want to even bother.

>>715504782
>desert levels
Movement reduction is short for character select-forcing for those with high base mov, mobility, and range. You can brute force it if necessary, but the game's not that hard except that mission in THAT chapter that requires Alto to survive a fight against THAT character when the main goal is for everyone to escape.

>>715503576
>which creates a bit of a disconnect with the dub
You could be funny and think that's why only they can sing. Only they can speak the forbidden language.

>>715504912
Certain characters don't suffer movement penalties on sand terrain as well, most notably Sakuya (which the game tells you in the tutorial when you start Chapter 4). Rusty also gets an ability that lets him ignore movement penalties from terrain, but it might come a bit late for that chapter outside of NG+.

This was the last game I bought from Gamestop.
I got called a pedo by some landwhale running the register.
Don't care it was a pretty good 3DS game, I miss comfy anime cliche ridden JRPGs so much.

>>715505402
>she was my MVP thanks to the fixed damage iaijutsu attack for the final boss because I was extremely underlevled, hurling mana potions at her with Ewan and Lisette's recovery song
I needed to waifu her in my 1st playthrough just for that performance.

why has this not got a remake or something
game was incredibly slept on, forever stuck on 3ds

>>715505670
Because imageepoch is (was?) dead.
I'd like this and both 7th Dragon 2020 PSP games to be released but I guess the in-game Miku Hatsune OST for both 2020s would be a big hurdle to deal with.

>>715495198 (OP)
Still one of my most prized 3DS purchases along with my imported EO2U artbook.

>>715505670
Company that made it died soon after and the rights are in limbo.

>>715495198 (OP)
A friend of mine in college showed me this game because he knew exactly what I'd like. He was right, ended up being one of my favorite games on the 3DS to the point where I played through it to get every ending inspite of what a grindfest it could be. Love the music, love the characters, love the big ol silly twist with the evil angels, loved how this is like the only piece of fiction I can think of where the chancellor didn't end up being comically evil and was a loyal bro the whole time.

That friend is now terminally online, doesn't play vidya anymore and spends his time seething about trump on bluesky and defending troons from mean posts on social media

>>715507838
>and was a loyal bro the whole time
Him slapping the shit out of Archibald and rallying everyone was awesome. You knew he was a bro the moment he started reminiscing about carrying Ana around when she was a child and that the reason he was so uptight and stern was for her sake. The story would have been significantly worse had he ended up just being some kind of Mayor Bonanza.