Sonic Chronicles Quick Review: Another nail in the coffin.
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Nice review, I don't know if this counts as spam though...
Also, you're one of the few people that emulates Yahtzee unannoyingly, good job
Also, you're one of the few people that emulates Yahtzee unannoyingly, good job
I find it intriguing that you complain about the difficulty when every other review under the sun criticises the game for being too easy.
So wait, what? A video review nowadays is automatically a "Yahtzee emulation"? I thought we got past the whole "Doom clone" thing a while ago.Spartan Bannana post=326.73165.785591 said:
Anyways, not a bad review. I got the impression from others that the game had a lot of potential but just not enough time in the oven for it to fully come together. You seem to echo that opinion, more or less.
Its always fun to see more video reviews. Ever since Nilcypher STOPPED, we have been devoid of a user video review. That and it was done well, and the at least the pictures made sense within the context of what you were saying. I would have prefered something more visually exciting, but at least what you were saying was enough to entertain me. Also, completely off-topic, but if you want to post videos directly from youtube, use the code: [ youtube=Everything after the equals sign in the URL here ] Removing the spaces, and the result is...
No, but he made attempts at humor during the review, and so: Yahtzee emulationsearanox post=326.73165.786885 said:
I'd rather a review contained basic factual accuracy than confident speaking. The latter is a bonus for a video review, the former is essential for any review, and it is missing from this one.
Selecting targets in combat, for instance, does not demand that you wait for the camera to pan to them, you can select targets whilst it is doing so.
Not perfecting the interactive combat actions does not make them miss completely, it just makes them do less damage. Also, these moves do not require any massive accuracy, the trigger points for them are huge, they require timing. If you are failing them, it's because you are pressing at the wrong time.
The menu items are easily selectable for anyone not suffering from the kind of shakes a lifetime alcoholic gets before their first drink of the day.
Shop inventory at the first shop is not limited to one equippable item, there are several different items for each character.
And the whole rant about defence being everyone's highest stat is odd, since the reviewer admits to not having spent a significant amount of time with the game, which implies that they do not have the kind of in depth knowledge of the battle system to judge relative statistic values to the level required to say whether equivalent numbers are of the same tactical worth.
So no, this was a fucking terrible review, and would have been if it had been delivered with the speaking confidence of Winston fucking Churchill.
Selecting targets in combat, for instance, does not demand that you wait for the camera to pan to them, you can select targets whilst it is doing so.
Not perfecting the interactive combat actions does not make them miss completely, it just makes them do less damage. Also, these moves do not require any massive accuracy, the trigger points for them are huge, they require timing. If you are failing them, it's because you are pressing at the wrong time.
The menu items are easily selectable for anyone not suffering from the kind of shakes a lifetime alcoholic gets before their first drink of the day.
Shop inventory at the first shop is not limited to one equippable item, there are several different items for each character.
And the whole rant about defence being everyone's highest stat is odd, since the reviewer admits to not having spent a significant amount of time with the game, which implies that they do not have the kind of in depth knowledge of the battle system to judge relative statistic values to the level required to say whether equivalent numbers are of the same tactical worth.
So no, this was a fucking terrible review, and would have been if it had been delivered with the speaking confidence of Winston fucking Churchill.
I agree with the above poster. His factual accuracy was terrible, and while I can agree with the interface being slightly clunky, if nothing else, he really doesn't have much of a point. He complained about a lot of things that weren't wrong with the game, and honestly besides the defence stat thing not much, if anything, in his review can be excused by "it sucked at the beginning so I can stop now and say it sucked." He was just plain wrong in a lot of aspects.
EDIT: Also, his comment about the story being slow was what jarred me the most, because you could have absurdly fast conversations as far as RPG's go and get the info you needed without the big exposition on every side characters life story, which seems to imply he actively tried to take all the long conversation options. Or he's really impatient.
EDIT: Also, his comment about the story being slow was what jarred me the most, because you could have absurdly fast conversations as far as RPG's go and get the info you needed without the big exposition on every side characters life story, which seems to imply he actively tried to take all the long conversation options. Or he's really impatient.
Also, this is a big improvement in characterisation for the Sonic posse. Sonic Team had about gotten to the point where I expected Amy to re-enact the hobbling scene from Misery, she was that psycho...
Also, they've given Rouge a sarky attitude. Not quite up to making S&M jokes like in Sonic X, but a smart mouth is always an improvement.
Also, they've given Rouge a sarky attitude. Not quite up to making S&M jokes like in Sonic X, but a smart mouth is always an improvement.
I got about halfway through the game and have over half the characters. All of them have defense as their highest stat. They all have crap for MP. In fact, everyone's stats are remarkably similar. It turns out that certain characters get more turns and certain characters do more damage because......THEY JUST DO. Look it up, it's in the game's own in-game glossary. Such things are barely, if at all, affected by stats. Atk and Def are actually accuracy and evasion, which is why so many of your attacks miss early on when your "atk" is low.
The game IS easy. It's also very drug-out when it comes to fighting.
Yes, there is more than ONE THING in the first shop. The other equipments also boost stats by ONE POINT. I'm halfway through the game and I've never equipped anything on anybody and still the game is easy. Then just now I equipped a couple of things, fought a few more times, and there was virtually no difference.
The special move inputs don't make them do less damage. They make your moves miss. But maybe there is some screwy calculation to it. I did a move with 3 separate inputs to complete, missed ONE of them, and the move completely whiffed.
The story is crap. Utter crap. And I went through all the conversations the long way, choosing all the available options until the one that continued the story was the only one left. It's composed of nothing buy weak, generic one-liners that aren't interesting or witty, and no depth of character is shown at all, though it's not like Sonic is known for having quality storyline, anyway.
I don't like having to use the stylus for everything. The buttons aren't just decorations for the system to look pretty, they're supposed to DO SOMETHING. And the stylus controls aren't even very good.
I wasn't aware that yahtzee had purchased the copyright to humor.
I openly admitted in the video to not having played the whole game and that if that bothered you then you have a point. Nobody seems to get mad at yahtzee for only playing an MMO for the two-week trial period before doing a hate-filled review on it, or when he angrily didn't finish "alone in the dark". There are surely other games he didn't finish before reviewing, since he does a review every week.
I also find the team attacks in Sonic Chronicles to be done very poorly. They subtract from your character's movelist rather than add to it, and they restrict your ability to use the team of characters you want to use.
The game IS easy. It's also very drug-out when it comes to fighting.
Yes, there is more than ONE THING in the first shop. The other equipments also boost stats by ONE POINT. I'm halfway through the game and I've never equipped anything on anybody and still the game is easy. Then just now I equipped a couple of things, fought a few more times, and there was virtually no difference.
The special move inputs don't make them do less damage. They make your moves miss. But maybe there is some screwy calculation to it. I did a move with 3 separate inputs to complete, missed ONE of them, and the move completely whiffed.
The story is crap. Utter crap. And I went through all the conversations the long way, choosing all the available options until the one that continued the story was the only one left. It's composed of nothing buy weak, generic one-liners that aren't interesting or witty, and no depth of character is shown at all, though it's not like Sonic is known for having quality storyline, anyway.
I don't like having to use the stylus for everything. The buttons aren't just decorations for the system to look pretty, they're supposed to DO SOMETHING. And the stylus controls aren't even very good.
I wasn't aware that yahtzee had purchased the copyright to humor.
I openly admitted in the video to not having played the whole game and that if that bothered you then you have a point. Nobody seems to get mad at yahtzee for only playing an MMO for the two-week trial period before doing a hate-filled review on it, or when he angrily didn't finish "alone in the dark". There are surely other games he didn't finish before reviewing, since he does a review every week.
I also find the team attacks in Sonic Chronicles to be done very poorly. They subtract from your character's movelist rather than add to it, and they restrict your ability to use the team of characters you want to use.
I would have preferred the speech to have been a little quicker with more variation in pitch and for there to be more in the way of pictures; also, so from a technical point of view, you have a lot of 'pops' due to the emphasis you put on a lot of the 'p' sounds in the review. You need to move your mic a little further away.
Even Yahtzee pops into the mic at times during his reviews. Still, that's good advice.nilcypher post=326.73165.793655 said:
Now, to the TC, I say that I'm very glad that you didn't mumble during your review; so many people have sacrificed word understandability for speed during such reviews. Oh, and the review itself is quite good, too.
Which makes your rant less arbitrary how, exactly? Seriously, you aren't justifying your point at all, you just have this didactic position that Defence should not be the highest stat, regardless of how that affects the gameplay. Also, the low MP is not an issue given how easy it is to restore. Items are easily available to give per turn regeneration, characters regenerate MP by guarding, and items which reduce MP usage are easily available....... post=326.73165.793390 said:
Holy character balance Batman! Some characters do more damage and have less attacks, some characters have really high HP and tanking skills, some characters have weak attacks and lots of support skills
And you complained about the difficulty in your review. Score one for consistency.
It varies from move to move, admittedly, but mostly only the moves with really powerful effects whiff completely if you mess up.
Shit, you'd almost think this was a DS game or something.. Wait. It is.
I'm gonna say things that have already been said...so instead I say this.
Anyone here baffled that OP's Username is "....."?
Anyway I've seen your reviews, and you're improving. Gradually.
Anyone here baffled that OP's Username is "....."?
Anyway I've seen your reviews, and you're improving. Gradually.