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ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
I haven’t played the 2nd but I remember the first feeling like eight separate short stories that just so happened to include party mechanics and level grinding.
“I only work alone.”
“Join up with this group of 7 random people?”
“Okay!”
veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Did you finish the first one? I played through all the characters through either chapter 1 or 2 (can’t remember now) and it immediately turned into a grindfest where I couldn’t progress because everything was suddenly killing me.
Did I miss something or was it specifically designed to be a “grind to progress” type of game?
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Nope. That’s pretty much all I remember and my same experience.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 hours ago
OK good, I don’t have to feel too bad about dropping it then. The story was ok enough (ish) and they made enough changes to the combat system to make it feel innovative at first, but I’m not sure who they thought was clamoring for a 90s style padded grind experience in 2018. I guess it got favorable reviews and sold well enough so maybe I’m the crazy one but I thought the time of farming random encounters to triple the length of your game was a thing of the past.
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
The innovation they used to address that was mostly the unique interactions each (half) the characters had. The steal/barter, inspect, duel, etc. That got access to a lot of things that either shortened grinds or made grinding easier.
But for me it just wasn’t worth the grind anyway when the characters didn’t really interact.