Thread 720310014

Thoughts on unicorn overlord?

>>720310014 (OP)
Thinking is bad

>>720310014 (OP)
dragons crown was better

niggers

>>720310014 (OP)
I think my wife is stunning, and maybe their second best game after Odin's Sphere.

I thought 13 Sentinels was amazing. Is this worth playing?

>>720310014 (OP)
best game ever, loved the gameplay, artstyle and the music. Needs a sequel, tho

>>720310014 (OP)
It's Vanillawares best game

i never played this because i'vd had my fill with grand knights history and grand kingdom
i'll play it at some point but mostly for the impertient elves

Dinah sex.

>>720311447
Eww. That’s not even human.

>>720311027
I can't decide if I like Unicorn Overlord or Dragons Crown more. Dragons Crown was really fund with friends, but Unicorn Overlord is amazing single player experience. I wish dragons crown multiplayer wasn't dead and was on PC.

>>720310014 (OP)
I had been hoping someone would make a successor to Ogre Battle for ages, and UO was pretty much exactly what I wanted.

>>720311646
it just needed a more involved story.
The only thing they meaningfully added was the thief and archer in the beginning of the game, however it was the same tired shit through the rest of the game: Do you kill them/abandon them or not.

Ogre Battle had actual meaningful choices impacting the story.
Was a shame that in 64, everyone got chaos ending because they over leveled everyone.

>>720311532
Dragons Crown was amazing on release when you could get other players to do everything, but once those left and you had to use bots it's just terrible, but DC still had the best food/cooking in videogames

>>720311827
I had feeling that Vanillaware ran out of time, I loved the game but I agree that the story could have been better and included more choices than just "Do you want to execute this free unit" Here's hoping their next game is just as good.

>>720312046
I loved fighting over food with other players, fun times. Amazon was fun as hell.

>>720310014 (OP)
Muramasa is still their best game hands down.
Their faithful and quiet hatred of PC is kinda funny.

>>720310014 (OP)
It's pretty good. Runs out of steam around the animal kingdom though. I beat the hardest difficulty last night.

>>720312278
>Their faithful and quiet hatred of PC is kinda funny.
You'd think that after Atlus released Persona and SMT on steam Vanillaware would follow cause sales, but no. PC bad, can't release shit on that cursed platform even if it made you money. Quite admirable stance, retarded but admirable. At least they got guts to just stick by their principles.

>>720310014 (OP)
elf sexo

>>720310014 (OP)
vanillaware eye candy as usual
best auto battler i've ever played

>>720312932
I agree

>>720310014 (OP)
I want to get into these tactics game but i am a fucking retard, i get filtered as soon as the tutorial is over
only close thing i got into was BG3 because it's super intuitive

any Game suggestions for me or guide or tips??

>>720313595
Attack order (initiative) is the most important thing to understand in UO. I think most people's issues with the game systems stem from not paying enough attention to the order. Targeting is the next most important after attack order.
If you can figure out those two concepts, maybe the rest will fall into place. In general you wan all your guys' initiative to be higher than all the enemy's, and you want your guys to move in a certain order. If the opponent has a Cover skill for example like the Hoplite class, you need someone on your side to move first who can wreck their shit, or you're just going waste half your attacks getting cockblocked by a tin can. If the enemy has a Shaman, do something about them first. Etc.

It's a 7/10 game that could've been way better with some changes.
>Press skills
Just letting the player occasionally interrupt with some input would make the battling way more engaging. It wouldn't have to be much; think of something like "slotting in" from the jank ass game in pic rel. (Battle Chip Challenge)
>More RTS mechanics
I understand that UO belongs to a subgenre that was more popular in Japan, and is like that Yugioh game on Gamecube. Still, I think its overworld mechanics are kind of barebones

>>720311532
Last time I checked you could play with friends in the ps3 emulator, I wonder how's going now

>>720310014 (OP)
fantastic game
my favorite of last year

Why isn't this on Steam?

>>720315520
Vanillaware just hates PC and has sworn to never release any of their games on it ever.

>>720315520
Vanillaware doesn’t release games on PC. Period.

wish it had a NG+ worth a shit
otherwise it's great, best Vanillaware game so far

Odin sphere.

>>720312827
>>720315520
I legit think it's because PC has a bazillion different resolutions and that factor directly fucks with their 2D art, which mindbreaks them since they need to prepare their art models for downscaling and upscaling and that is insane work for a jap dev. On console you literally have 1 fixed resolution and that's it.
Of course, they are too embarrassed to admit it so they would rather have people think they set PCs on fire for techno-racism reasons.

>>720316831
Atlus offered to do all the work for a PC port of UO. Vanillaware refused. They simply don't want to release anything on PC.

>>720315849
Neither did Atlus. Give it time.

>>720310014 (OP)
Amazing game, a bit too easy tho.

>>720314864
battle chip challenge was so fucking bad
why did you have to remind me
my day is ruined

>>720316949
>Atlus offered to do all the work for a PC port of UO. Vanillaware refused.
They know the 2D models will get raped since Fatlus is a shit developer. Metaphor is a goddamn PS3 game, nigga.

>>720310014 (OP)
Scarlett breast girl.

>>720310014 (OP)
Brilliant addictive game but it's too easy. Then you jack it up to the hardest difficulty and it kinda becomes a chore.
Enemy armies should've had more unique squads instead of throwing the same generic cannonfodder at you

>>720319215
Nice to see that Vanillaware still don't know shit about balancing gameplay, and still didn't bother to hire anyone who has talent for that.
This was a problem even in Muramasa, the game was fun but it was either too easy or bullshit, there was no in-between.

>>720311027
Nah. I love Unicorn Overlord but Odin's Sphere (Leifthrasir) is the goat

>>720310014 (OP)
I wish I didn't have such a big backlog

>>720316831
Why are her tits huge

>>720319695
i don't know, shigurui remains one of the best hard modes in gaming
everything changes when you have no healthbar and your swords are your life
the whole game just comes together
only the last few caves of evil threw the kitchen sink at you but i enjoyed it all
odin sphere by comparison has much bigger balance problems imo, even leifthrasir

>>720310014 (OP)
Too easy,safe and predicatable.

>>720310014 (OP)
I got to the elf country and I got lost on how to progress and haven't been back to it in over a year as I got distracted by other games.

>>720310014 (OP)
I was addicted for a while, doing every mission, side quest, town rebuilding, etc. But by the time I finished the elf country, after completing drakenwhatever desert place, I just got burned out. I ended up just speedrunning the furry and angels and got the best ending. Your mom being alive the whole time was pretty funny

The battle predictor before each fight completely ruins the game. It's a bizarre experience ruining feature that takes UO from a stellar 9/10 game to something I only played once.

>>720310970
KEK this dogshit won't even get DLC.

>>720315520
Gatekeeping pcplebs out is pretty smart of Vanillaware

>>720321328
Well if they insist on leaving money on the table, they are doing a great job.
Don't really see how viable it is as a business strategy though.

My unwashed druid wife!

>>720321540
Port cucks only buy those games when then go under 20 bucks, they'd make no money.

>>720311497
And?

>>720321737
If that were true, nobody would be porting shit. Except literally everyone ports them, so I somehow doubt only Vaniallware cracked the code and literally everyone else is bleeding money, despite Vanillaware being a small studio constantly on the verge of being closed.

>>720321540
Its a waste , it really is.
>>720321737
>no money
You mean the fortunes of no-money that fell into Sega, Atlus, and especially RGG when they started porting, to the point the last one basically said that people buying Yakuza titles for like $9 are still making them money even today, PC is their most dedicated and viable player base? Atlus had to be dragged kickign and screaming into the modern era but then was 'surprised', once under control of Sega, that things like the P4 Golden sold a ton at only $20 and that getting it out of Vita jail was a masterful improvement. Hell, Sega themselves knew it when Valkyria Chronicles went from an obscure PS3 title to a full featured, revamped and all DLC included, reasonably priced PC title that sold well indeed. It still took Atlus too long to get P5 Royal, but they're finally in line with how things should be.

Especially if Vanillaware needs to make more money and is concerned about being one game away from shit going under every fucking time, leaving the most long-tail sales viable platform (with the least fees mind you, nothing to license unlike console faggotry) out of the equation. They could do massively well if all they did was port a handful of their previous titles with Sega/Atlus help and release them on PC via Steam
>Odin Sphere Leifthrasir
>Grand Knight's History (this could probably also be released on mobile and rescued from PSP jail, actually put the EN subtitles/UI on this tme)
>Muramasa Rebirth
>Dragon's Crown Pro (preferably with some new DLC if this one sells well)
>13 Sentinels Aegis Rim
>Unicorn Overlord

The problem is Kamitani basically is petrified of letting anyone else do the porting for him and he doesn't know how to do it that well, but if he'd work with Sega and Atlus to just one success he'd probably realize he should have done it a lot earlier

>>720310014 (OP)
Really cool artstyle, awful gameplay and story
But it gets some extra points for letting you marry your cousin who looks almost exactly like your dead mother

>>720310014 (OP)
it's peak.

>>720316831
In the engines they use, the resolutions aren't an issue really, not to mention the resolution of each bit of artwork is a different factor than what resolution you're playing the game in; anyone who's used some massively high res texture pack mod will see the difference. That said, modern consoles are literally gimped PCs and run games with the same/similar engines much of the time, but its not like there's some super magic done on consoles to just run things at one resolution - if anything the opposite is true; they use shittier upscaled dynamic resolutions; there's some video of the second Jedi Fallen Order / Survivor game basically rendering at like 800p or less . They really wouldn't have any problems with modern development and could make their art look even better with less bullshit, vs jumping through hoops for console stuff

Needs a dlc with femMc and yuri wedding.

>>720310014 (OP)
13 Sentinels was so bad i can't even bring myself to play it even though it's been installed on my switch for months.

Vanillawear need to go back to making actual video games.

>>720313087
>best auto battler i've ever played
*watched

>Impossible to lose the game because the game warns you in advance that you're going to lose every single battle
>Battle RNG determined before it even starts so shuffling characters to reroll RNG is a viable strategy
It's so close to being great.

>>720321098
It's a tough situation design-wise because they basically backed themselves in a corner where it's practically necessary. There are so many variables and random elements that without it, it would be practically unplayable unless you had a ton of patience for watching lengthy animations to sus out all the minutiae. But including it makes the game a braindead cakewalk.

>>720326606
>it would be practically unplayable unless you had a ton of patience for watching lengthy animations to sus out all the minutiae.
But that's the game. The fast forward and the battle prediction make the game less like a strategy game and more like a mobile gacha.

>>720326670
They'd have to rethink a ton of other elements in the game then because the pacing would be unbearably slow for 99.9% of people.

>>720326764
Vanillaware games are already niche, they filter 99% of people anyways.
Regardless, they had difficulty settings. I don't know why the "Hard mode" doesn't remove the battle spoiler. Normies are gonna play the regular difficulty anyways, keep the battle spoiler there for them and remove it for "Hard mode".
It's just bad design.

>>720326832
I think that if knowing the outcome of a battle ruins it then the game had design issues in general. Other SRPGs don't get ruined by them.

>>720326971
It's because it's not a "prediction", it IS the outcome of the battle, including RNG elements.
Fire Emblem doesn't warn you in advance if you're gonna get a crit, at least it didn't used to. I dunno about the new games.

>>720327101
I guess that's fair. I just felt that UO's battles tended to be very all-or-nothing. Which again I think would be miserable to play without any sort of forecast. But I would agree it probably went too far.