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06-23-2016, 01:47 PM | #13341 |
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Don't worry. A lot of people never really knew about SMT since it didn't really gain traction in the US like it did in Japan.
P4 as a game is pretty fun, though I would recommend playing the PS2 version, rather than Golden, which alters the story by introducing mary sue, I mean...Marie Sue.
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06-23-2016, 02:06 PM | #13342 |
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Since I don't have a Vita, i'd go with PS2 version anyways. But with 5 coming out, I'm just gonna wait for that one.
But yeah, I first discovered SMT around 2007. They all seemed really cool, but I ended up going with Nocturne. I enjoyed it but didn't get very far. Picked up Persona 3 FES about a year later but didn't play it until 2012 and absolutely LOVED it. I grabbed SMT IV when it came out and Devil Survivor last summer. Can't wait for P5. Still debating if I want to try SMT Apocalypse (IV didn't keep my interest as much as the others did) or spend that time with other ones instead (Strange Journey, Digital Devil Saga, Soul Hackers, etc) Just watched Drive 3. I feel like part of what made the early episodes of Ghost so exciting for me was the fact that they had a time limit on collecting the Eyecons. It made everything so much more tense, and then when Specter showed up, even more so. Drive doesn't have the stakes early on like Ghost did, so these generic MOTW episodes aren't as interesting. However, I'm still enjoying it. I like the detective aspects of it...and I still really love the suit. Chaser should be interesting as well. I can't say I'm too big a fan of his suit though.
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06-23-2016, 02:08 PM | #13343 |
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Don't worry. A lot of people never really knew about SMT since it didn't really gain traction in the US like it did in Japan.
P4 as a game is pretty fun, though I would recommend playing the PS2 version, rather than Golden, which alters the story by introducing mary sue, I mean...Marie Sue. Weirdly, I hated Persona for several years before loving it. I tried playing Revelations: Persona on the PS1 around 2000 or 2001 and that thing is a piece of garbage. I didn't even try P3 until P4 was already out, but when I finally played them I became obsessed (I've beaten P3 twice and P4 four times). I went back and played P2: Innocent Sin and P2: Eternal Punishment relatively recently - both are weird, but pretty good PS1 RPGs. I also tried Persona 1 again, but it's still a burning tire fire. And... I guess I don't hate Marie as much as MatrixBeast does. She checks every box in a list of tsundere character traits, but I thought her storyline in Persona 4 Golden wasn't that bad. P4G adds a LOT of interesting content to the main game (including playable sections in January and February, when the normal story in Persona 4 ends on Christmas Eve and then goes to an epilogue). Marie is only one part of Golden, but I don't think she's *that* bad.
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06-23-2016, 02:57 PM | #13344 |
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I might give Golden another chance one of these years, I just didn't care for the addition of Marie in a perfectly good story.
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06-23-2016, 05:02 PM | #13345 |
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Fourze's suit design is something that grows on you while you grow to like the character. I used to dislike it and now I adore it.
Though Drive is also good. The start felt somewhat Drive-ish, but Drive is better by far. It takes some time to, excuse me, "start its engine", but from then on, it's very good. Actually, the writers who worked on Drive were also involved with Fourze (and W), so if you enjoy one of them, you might enjoy the others too. |
06-23-2016, 07:31 PM | #13346 |
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Riku Sanjo, W and Drive's main writer, wasn't in charge of Fourze, but he did write a lot of episodes for it.
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06-23-2016, 08:30 PM | #13347 |
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06-23-2016, 10:24 PM | #13348 |
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So I had just finished Kamen Rider Hibiki.
So to put things short that last episode may have been the worst last episode of a Kamen Rider show I had ever seen. They have the huge epic battle at the beginning and just skip to a year in the future. Also Kiriya becoming an oni I just did not like that. Another thing that bothered me about the production change was how the Makamou were handled. While they were always pretty MoTW they at least had this sense of mystery around them. Then when the change happened they completely give them a new vibe. Also having another set of parents appear in the last episode was totally out of nowhere and just raises more questions. I feel that the original writers had a better idea in mind for the Makamou. Now the production changes did not bother me that much. The show started to with its own feel, and ended up being more like a typical Kamen Rider show. The changes to some characters wasn't really necessary and it really felt like the new writers just were putting in moments for the character "just because we can." It really showed in the 40's as the show was going into its final arc. Also that final arc started out okay I guess? Kiriya wanting to become an oni was out of nowhere. I get that he wanted to beat his father, but the show felt like it was leading to how Asumu was going to mature and become and oni. Also on the final episode it was really obvious that they wrote it last minute. It felt rushed and the whole thing with Hitomi felt unnecessary. Also Ibuki's disciple just leaving was dumb. Like I was hoping to see her become an oni, and to an extent I did just I wished that we could see her fight along side Ibuki and the others. Also Kiriya I really disliked. He was pretty annoying always trying to one up Asumu, and when he became an oni I just quit. I knew I was not going to like this kid when I saw how he puffed his cheeks while playing trumpet. So overall I am pretty glad that I got to watch to show form beginning to end. The beginning was pretty good, and being a trumpet and baritone player myself I really was excited to watch this show. When the show changed staff it did not bother me all that much. If you remove Kiriya and the final episode episodes 30-48 were not all to bad, they were just different from 1-29. Anyway that is another rider series that I have tackled, now I have to watch Kugga, Faiz, Blade, Kiva and finish Agito. In fact I would probably restart Agito since the last I saw it was two years ago. Last edited by MrHerofan; 06-23-2016 at 10:31 PM.. |
06-23-2016, 10:41 PM | #13349 |
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Ryuki is pretty awesome so far! 25 episodes in and I have to say, I've been enjoying it plenty, good characters and an interesting plot. I was really struck by how similar it is to Gaim though, I really wasn't expecting that at all. Lots of Rider-to-Rider conflict in some epic battle royale, and a morally questionable secondary Rider to boot (Ren is awesome though, he's practically Batman). Still, I feel like there is going to be a massive mood shift in the show soon so we'll see how it goes from there if there really is a big shift.
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06-24-2016, 06:21 AM | #13350 |
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