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[Sima Tuna]

Granblue Fantasy is a successor to FF6? Why am I just finding this out? And why is it full of waifus if that is the case?

Are any of the Granblue games worth playing?

[BryanM]

I've talked about it a bit over the years. Often complained about how it's half Squaresoft's fault for never doing a follow up to FF6's aesthetics that I was addicted to the stupid thing for a while. (Early 2016 began an extremely depressing phase for me; got my hopes up like an idiot that maybe humanity's doom could be avoided or reduced in intensity but lolnope.)

The original game has a similar artstyle and Nobuo Uematsu contributed heavily to the soundtrack. The game itself has a high fantasy/steampunk thing going on (yes, the characters ride around on airships). The main character has a job class system that kind of seems like FF's thing at first glance. The boss fights are chuuni and over the top, always against one kind of god or giant monster or another. There's a reason it blew up into a franchise.

(I am deeply saddened the youtube video with the image of an angry splashing tuna while the Defend Order music plays was taken down. What's the point of anything anymore. Why live.)

The game itself I can't recommend - it's a browser game from ten years ago. That stupidly needs a freaking GPU to run at full speed for some ungodly reason. (The reason is Google Chrome sucks.) But if you need a mindless incremental game that doesn't require installing anything and doesn't have huge load times....

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Granblue Vs seems to have an active scene that likes it. It was popular enough to get a sequel, after all. Arc System Works did the core gameplay design, so it's probably not any worse or better than their other fighting games.

Relink seems to be have been received well by the people who played it. By god it should have been, being in development for half a decade and involving PlatinumGames. If there's anywhere for jumping into the franchise for a normie, it's that.

... seems more like generic action RPG fare to me. It lacks tuna and probably doesn't have the same edgy chuuni music, so I wouldn't know personally.

And why is it full of waifus if that is the case?

Compensation for all those classic FF games that were 79 to 100% male?

There must be balance in all things.

(Or you can say it's homage to the harem game FF5. It's always important to have at least one old man in your harem, tbf.)

[Sima Tuna]

It lacks tuna

Into the garbage it goes!

[NYN]

After all the FFT exchange here before, does the release of the remake in September, uh, or October get anyone excited? It also features an "original mode".

[it290]

I'm going to get it, because FFT is one of my favorite games, but I'm just wrapping up a playthrough of Lion War of the Lions that I started before the announcement, so I probably won't grab it for a while. Looking forward to the voice acting and the UI updates look nice. Hoping the upscaling isn't shitty and kind of bummed that not of the WOTL content is included.

[Steven]

There's going to be a remake of this game? Huh. When did they announce that? Then again, there is an extremely good chance that I did see this news before and forgot. Wouldn't be surprising or the first or last time.

I have the US PSP version that my ex-roommate basically forced me to borrow about 12 years ago and I never played it or gave it back. I should probably give it back to him eventually. Or maybe I should finally play it...? Or maybe I should play the remake instead. Hm, choices...

[BryanM]

I'd sooner try playing Triangle Tactics, I'm all FFT'd out. Already put in my hundreds of hours.

I would be interested in more FFT, but only if they make it a different game. Use a colorful fantasy setting like FF4, steampunk of FF6, or the cyberpunk of FF7. Or an insane mashup of all three, that would be very avant garde.

I'm 10,000% more interested in Sword of Convallaria than I am of War of the Visions: Final Fantasy Brave Exvius.

(On that note, it's both kind of sad and expected that Aster Tatariqus, a Fire Emblem Three Houses knockoff, crashed and burned. Can't really put in that kind of budget for these kinds of games... It does amaze me Langrisser M is still viable and still playable in english...)

[Steven]

I looked at Sword of Convallaria a while ago because it's on PC and insta-noped because it's free-to-play. No way am I going to get involved in any of that. I'll play literally almost anything, even play games in genres that I typically dislike (turn-based non-strategy RPGs) on occasion, but free-to-play...



I do plan to eventually get to Triangle Strategy. I just... haven't, but I also didn't care for the demo for some reason that I no longer remember. Planning on giving it another attempt eventually, but that "eventually"'s time frame is very unknown. It's on sale on Steam every once in a while, and it's been at 60% off a few times there recently. Maybe I'll go check out the demo again, assuming that it didn't get delisted.

[Sima Tuna]

I'd sooner try playing Triangle Tactics, I'm all FFT'd out. Already put in my hundreds of hours.

Yeah, I feel you. I put in hundreds of hours on ps1 and then more hundreds of hours when the game came to psp.

I was willing to have a 2nd go with Tactics Ogre Reborn, because the game was substantially reworked from the mediocre PSP version of the game, and it contains a lot more actual tactics in it now. But this version of FFT seems to be just a cross between ps1 and psp with the crappy nu-PSP translation and none of the extra classes from the PSP. Or guest characters from PSP, like Balthier.

FFT, for me, is a solved game. I can go back and have fun with it, but only in the same way an alcoholic can go back and "have fun" with a bottle of scotch. There's nothing for me to learn about FFT. And the tactics at high level devolve into a series of exploits (CT5Holy, Jumping Ninjas, Cid spamming sword arts, farming monster drops with Poaching etc.)

[CStarFlare]

Been trying to break into Ogre Battle (SNES version) recently and feel like I'm hitting a wall. I love the aesthetic, love the music, enjoy the first few maps well enough then find I get steamrolled and overwhelmed. Maybe I need to start over; the first few maps I used one group for everything so all my other parties are completely underdeveloped, but I guess I feel a little overwhelmed when I see I have ~12 parties from the get-go available to me and I don't understand much about what makes any of them tick.

I'm loving the idea of it but I'm bouncing off the game fairly hard. Without going full walkthrough, what 1/2 things should a new player know?

[Sima Tuna]

Been trying to break into Ogre Battle (SNES version) recently and feel like I'm hitting a wall. I love the aesthetic, love the music, enjoy the first few maps well enough then find I get steamrolled and overwhelmed. Maybe I need to start over; the first few maps I used one group for everything so all my other parties are completely underdeveloped, but I guess I feel a little overwhelmed when I see I have ~12 parties from the get-go available to me and I don't understand much about what makes any of them tick.

I'm loving the idea of it but I'm bouncing off the game fairly hard. Without going full walkthrough, what 1/2 things should a new player know?

It's good to build parties to do different things, like a flying party that can traverse quickly everywhere around the map to reach towns and accomplish objectives. And another party that swims so they can fight/move on water well.

A common tactics that works well in many strategy/rts games is a couple squads of fast scouts/flankers moving ahead of the regular army footsloggers (the most powerful, but slow units.) These scouts achieve early objectives and then fall back when the fighting gets too tough, sweeping around to the sides of the regular army and then becoming flankers who cut down weakened units or reinforce as needed.

I would do this all the time in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms games, specifically 14. But it also works in Tactics Ogre with Griffons and Cockatrices acting as the flankers.

Edit: I forgot to mention the super obvious strategy of putting a single flier in every unit so you can just ignore terrain entirely.