>Chocobo GB Flopped. >Strangers of Paradise Flopped. >Babylon Fall Flopped and closed for good.

>Chocobo GB Flopped.
>Strangers of Paradise Flopped.
>Babylon Fall Flopped and closed for good.
>Star Ocean flopped.
>Triangle Strategy performed decently.
>Live a Live performed decently.
>Octopath Traveler Mobile is bombing.
>Nier mobile flopped.
>FF7 mobile flopped and closed.
>NEO TWEWY flopped on steam.
>Chrono Cross Remaster was whatever.
>The Diofield Chronicle flopped.
>Valkyrie Elysium flopped.
>Harvestella & Tactics Ogre: Reborn are releasing next to GoW and Pokemon, calling it a flop.
>AAA Full Metal Alchemist mobile game is flopping.
>Forpoken is releasing the next Fire Emblem & Hogwarts next year.
>FF16 is releasing next to Zelda next year.
>FF7 Rebirth is releasing next to Spiderman 2 next year.
>Wave of people are making "I am done with FFXIV...for now!" youtube videos.
>No western branch to help.
>DQ3 and DQ12 are MIA.
>KH3 only sold 6.7 million since the end of 2021.

I really like Square and don't want them to die or be bought by Sony, but it is hard to not see they are quickly dying atm.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    We hear you loud and clear anon, don't worry as we have perfect plan to recoup those losses.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      frankly i feel more like i dodged a bullet, imagine what modern SE doing a parasite eve reboot/remake/sequel would be like

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Tactics Ogre: Reborn flopping
    Nope, there might not be enough hype for this niche game but its going to sell millions. Its also $50 when the psp version was only $20 new. It reuses 90% of the asset so the game will be all profit for SE.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >millions
      more like 250k worldwide

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        That would be fantastic but the autistic OP would probably call it a flop.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >Tactics Ogre: Reborn flopping
        Nope, there might not be enough hype for this niche game but its going to sell millions. Its also $50 when the psp version was only $20 new. It reuses 90% of the asset so the game will be all profit for SE.

        The highest TO ever did was 500k on the PSP, so if this does 250k we can expect Mastuno to work full-time with Square. Though I doubt it will break 100k at full price, and reviewers are going to give an 8/10 since they already hit the review quota with GoW (I am saying this unironically btw).

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >but its going to sell millions
      Anon, I like Ogre Battle, and hope for a remake of 64/MOTBQ, but it'll be lucky to sell 100k.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    maybe they should actually make new ideas again instead of milking the same IP for 30 years.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they just made diofield, various dayjobs and harvestella

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's a shame diofield and various dayjobs were not very good, star ocean is surprisingly a lot better than I expected though but my expectations weren't very high

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >dioflop, various blowjobs and troonystella
        Not buying any of this garbage, mr. marketer.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >squenix only rehashes old IPs
          >"that's false"
          >no, those don't count

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Yes, ugly ass kusoge from the same creatively bankrupt team doesn't count.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >someone actually got paid to make the logos on the right
              ngl, im jealous. It's quite the racket, typing the title using TMR font on Powerpoint and submitting it as a logo. Takes all of 30 seconds to earn a paycheck

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              various daylife sounds so fricking stupid I cant believe its an actual game title

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Unironically it's supposed to make you think of the daily life iseka stuff.

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Valkyrie and Star Ocean were low budget and might end up turning a small profit. Stranger of Paradise wasn't exactly AAA either, and they'll likely break even with it.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Strangers of Paradise Flopped.
    It didn't though?
    You're right about the rest. Not a single bit of advertising for any of those either.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It only sold 60k physically in Japan, and charted in the PS store, but Square didn't release anything about which is save to assume it didn't recoup.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        they just released a new DLC campaign for it

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          These are planned in advance, and could very well be part of the main game taken out or reduced in scope.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Doesn't seem likely unless you think they did the same for Nioh 1 and 2, both of which have main campaign foreshadowing for stuff that's DLC only

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >watched Harvestella gameplay
    >it actually looks really good
    >story and atmosphere are dark and serious
    whew

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It has American gender politics in it.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        and that's why I'll not play it. what a shame.
        also what kind of $60 game is unvoiced? even all important scenes are unvoiced.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It has American gender politics in it.

          >NOOOO, I CAN PICK A 3RD OPTION FOR MY CHARACTER'S GENDER

          really, /misc/?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      NO DON'T TALK ABOUT IT, OR ELSE THEY'LL SHOW UP

      It has American gender politics in it.

      FRICK, TOO LATE

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >NO DON'T TALK ABOUT IT, OR ELSE THEY'LL SHOW UP

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Let us hope the pandering help bring in some cash. When are the reviews out?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        And here I wanted to give it a chance. Not anymore. I fricking hate Americans so much.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Americans ruin fricking everything. God damn it. Why can't you just keep your homosexuality out of video games.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The last thing I want in my farming/life sim is some deep story, they should only be about character interaction and relationships. Harvest Moon clones never understand this.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah. it'd be so much better if they REMOVE THE FARMING ALTOGETHER and focus on the grimdark story and world.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >no marriage
      no thanks

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >watched

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I'm boycotting it because of the troony stuff in the game, but I'll get TO day one.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Matsuno is woke btw, kept retweeting lgbt stuff a while back. I am not surprised given he is fluent in English so that is a leeway to him being brainwashed. Next Tactics Ogre will have troony stuff, you can bet on that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          You needed to be blind not to notice Marxist class conflict rhetoric and his disdain for nobles in his games, he was always woke.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            >disdain for nobles
            You want to be lorded over by homosexual who were born into their station? You must be a cuckold lmao.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >he wants to be ruled by a homosexual who is "democratically elected" but ignores his interests
              An actual NPC, lmao.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          why do nip consumers let him get away with it? why dont they band together and tell squenix to make him knock off the homosexual shit?

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Matsuno is a washed up hack who is barely involved in games nowadays and he hasn't worked for Square since FF12.

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              Matsuno is kino but is autistic when making big AAA games he would spaz out if anyone forced him to change anything.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Watch a nip stream Harvestella
      >She's audibly confused why she can choose male body and voice after picking the girl

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    - NEO would've sold 10x the copies if it was called TWEWY2, and making it a Switch "exclusive" (timed) would give it the Zelda/Mario bonus in review and sales.
    - HD-2D is a gimmick that is going to run out of steam.
    - Should've canceled Diofield and Valkyrie and put all that money into Star Ocean. One series at a time.
    - Learn to give a shit about WHEN you are releasing a game, you could always hold the game like Nintendo till the opportunity presents itself, not like 7 months of Twitter marketing ever done you any favors.

    I'll take the CFO job now.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >NEO TWEWY
      >A good game worth playing
      Hmm

      It's shit.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Wave of people are making "I am done with FFXIV...for now!" youtube videos.
    Kek imagine listening to ecelebs.
    There are still millions subbed to ff14, it's pretty much the only thing keeping SE afloat.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I re-subbed for a month just to see if that island sanctuary was going to be any good but it turned out to be mammet sweatshop grindfest instead of the comfy stardew/animal crossing thing everyone was hoping for

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    When was the last time the Square side of S-E has made a great game?

    I feel like Enix is carrying them hard these days.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Automata maybe?
      But that was more Taro and Platinums doing than actually Squares

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Triangle Strategy

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    At least the remakes are getting really fricking good. Now I can't wait for them to do Terranigma justice.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Terranigma balls

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous
  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >96 Metacritic.
    >10 million copies in a month.
    >Heights-rated and fasted-sold FF game to date.
    >Makes all western dev seethe.
    >Wins all awards away from Zelda.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's going to do well just from having the FF14 fanbase latch onto it to boost sales, I can't see this doing poorly unless the game itself runs like complete ass even on recent hardware or has some other launch day issues.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >It's going to do well just from having the FF14 fanbase latch onto it to boost sales
        Too bad it cut itself off from a part of the XIV community by being a timed PS5 exclusive.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah well that's mostly SE israelitery at work, I also fully expect a second year of Epic store exclusivity as well at full price, then finally two years later after launch it'll hit steam for full price yet again.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >FFXVI renamed to "THE NARUTO"

      >Looks boring, why can't Japanese devs make something like Genshin?

      >The characters are old, but what they're doing is chuunibyou stuff, so cringe.

      >Feels less FF-ish than FF Ramen (FF SoP), just the eikons. It doesn't feel like FF without that subdued stylistic narcissism.

      >This FF16 doesn't look any more interesting than FF15. Looks like they've just lost the technical ability to make bullshot trailers.

      >FF16 is not being released for the customers, but for Sony, so it's no wonder it's not appealing.

      >Gokiburi lit. Sony roaches haven't been saying anything about selling 10 million lately, it seems like they've realized that FF can't do it anymore.

      >Isn't the game too dark visually? Is this for gaijin? Also, stop old guys from talking with a smug look on their face.

      >Now that I think about it, the PV of the host group frolicking in the convertible got a lot more attention.

      >There used to be good openings like in Chrono Cross even if Nomura and his team didn't storyboard them.
      >I guess they don't have any employees in the visual dept these days.
      >Well, Nomura's NEOTWEWY and KH3 didn't look too good either.

      >it's over www

      https://krsw.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/ghard/1666351162

      FF16 sisters...

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >>This FF16 doesn't look any more interesting than FF15. Looks like they've just lost the technical ability to make bullshot trailers.
        I know you're a moron, but this isn't as much of a dig you think it is. 16 isn't lying to your face like 15 did for a decade

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, just lied about the solo combat and AI party members, "unfinished graphics" that looked even worse 2 years later, because fixing empty environments is adding more post-processing, VFX and dimming the picture, releasing "sooner than you think", lying some more about how 1 year of wait is no biggie in game dev which they really really need though the game is supposedly playable, lied about muh poor communication with the main office and Malaysian sweatshop they outsource to, etc.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Lmao remind me of the negative comments they made about xenoblade 3, its not weird it dropped from Amazon jp list so fast

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        What is it with japs being so ageist?
        Like all they want is to play as teenage boys for all eternity while being in their 40s

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          What's with mutts fetishising Black folk and old people? Does your life begin at 40 unlike normal human beings, so that must also be reflected in fiction? Really hope China replaces you ASAP.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >>Now that I think about it, the PV of the host group frolicking in the convertible got a lot more attention.
        This is gonna send Yoshita cultists into meltdown, lol. Imagine losing to Tabata trailers, FF16 team are nothing but zero talent hacks.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        boring, why can't Japanese devs make something like Genshin?
        Pedobait with shit gameplay and the depth of a puddle?
        No wonders everyone hates otakus lol.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Pedobait with shit gameplay and the depth of a puddle
          sounds like the last of trans part 1

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >The characters are old, but what they're doing is chuunibyou stuff, so cringe.
        Frick them this is my jam

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Don't worry, Square has a new flagship.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That's not painting very fair picture.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >views = sales.

      Now shows us animal crossing and elden ring.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Checks out.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          ER had a couple of million views in its initial trailer, it only picked up when it showed gameplay and 6 months away from release. Now show us Death Stranding and Last of Us 2.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            barry wont
            dont point out how 14's trailers viw count blows 15's out of the water by several million or he'll ape out and start spamming clash of clans clones

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >and start spamming clash of clans clones

              i kind of want to see this

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                Here you go, this should set him off
                When he starts trying to cope because of a song that existed before 15 and was used in the game has high views, bring up that an AMV for crisis core comes up when you search "Final Fantasy" in youtube and filter by view count
                Then he will start screeching about a chinese mobile game for 15 that is just clash of clans with some FF15 jpgs

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >numbers, numbers
                you dont want to see most botted videos on YT

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                right on queue

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Barry seethed

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I liked Dungeon Encounters, I want DLC or a sequel to that.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >I liked Dungeon Encounters

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Octopath Traveler Mobile is bombing.
    I've never heard of it? Did they even market it?

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Square enix is finished, all they had to do was focus on final fantasy but they shit it up from XIII onwards

  17. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Make a fantasy and magitech based, 4 homies in a row Final Fantasy with no voice acting and an overwprldmap with progressively better and cooler methods of travel that unlpck areas later in the game.
    Its not that fricking complex.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they're just gonna remaster bravely default for that

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        frick remaster drones.
        anyone who likes remasters is a total homo.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Frick off moron

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

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  18. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Bayonetta 3 flopped

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      anon that's not a square game

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I know but you are a tendie who get happy whem other games flop so frick you

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          It's not my fault developers are moronic.

          But hey man you enjoy having to defend a two hundred thousand to three hundred thousand debut for FFXVI.

  19. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    XIV is gonna be able to keep square on life support for a while

  20. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    *raughs*

  21. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >AAA Full Metal Alchemist mobile game
    >mobile game
    israelitepanese EA cant die soon enough

  22. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    It’s way too early to say whether Star Ocean 6 failed.

    It seems to be doing fine.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Opening sales are the worst in the series history in Japan.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's going to be saved by the NPD just like Digimon Survive.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Survive debuted at #2 in Japan.

  23. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Enix should've never the saved them.

  24. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >>KH3 only sold 6.7 million since the end of 2021.
    I like how DMC5 is slowly outselling this kusoge.

  25. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Final Fantasy needs to go back to its roots like Resident Evil and Zelda did

  26. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Square is anti-PC and wants everything on the Tencent store. I pirate all their shit and don't care if they go under or not.

  27. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Good, i want this SE to fail until it finally starts punishing their japanese directors.
    Their western studios suffered all the flak over the years now they have only themselves to point fingers.

  28. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Strangers of Paradise Flopped
    it shouldn't have but epic exclusivity killed it

  29. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Triangle Strategy did good
    >Live a Live did good
    >DQIII Remake is a slam dunk in the making
    Team Asano is fricking carrying this company right now, my word. And this comes from somebody who enjoyed SoP and NEO quite a bit.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Yoshi P actually is pulling more people in with 14 and eventually 16.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Team Asano
      Possibly the worst nostalgia baiting shovelware team in the industry, but tendies will lap up their trash regardless as long as it's on Switch.

  30. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I try to support them, but anytime I give them a chance I’m disappointed.

    This is coming from my first final fantasy being mystic quest in the 2nd grade and still having my original ff3 and chrono trigger copies. I don’t know if I can do it anymore anon

  31. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >AAA Full Metal Alchemist mobile game is flopping.
    I blame the trend of splitting off global/ JP servers that phone games go with, on a fricking phone the most versatile and portable piece of tech you wanna split the bases frick you.
    I ain't actually played the fma game but Its always the way

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      if you split the servers you dont have to deal with varying country laws and regulations that differ for each one.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        You can also give global shit service the cry about how necessary the global market is

  32. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Add Harvesettla to the bomb list. Just scored 69% on SwitchUp.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >69
      HEHE
      But the + and - are on spot. exactly how I felt about the game.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Teach me how can I get early copies from Square.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Make a nice looking website
          >full set of socials
          >ask for free games from indies, they are so desperate for attention they will throw them at you
          >review them until you build up a few months worth of articles
          >with this start sending requests to PR and community manager types
          >aim for specific games rather than immediately going for a rolling pass on everything
          >"i love franchise, developer-san, genre etc"
          >one of them will crack
          >subtly cite and highlight that review as leverage for more
          >come to find playing games as a job sucks the fun out of it

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >No Voice Acting
        >a negative
        Unless it's nuPokemon tier where characters are moving around a lot and even singing in complete silence without even any background music, no voice acting is a plus.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          There's SO MANY dialogues, it's like a visual novel, but ALL of them are mute.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            a lot of great visual novels don't have any VA or minimal VA

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            Then use your imagination. Voice acting is fine to have at times, but it's never necessary in vidya unless the gameplay is built around it.

  33. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Nier mobile flopped
    I couldn't believe how bad it was. I got bored before I even finished the tutorial.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >out for 2 years
      >second story chapter isn't finished yet
      Nier Reincarnation is a social experiment on how much mileage you can get out of 2B's ass, nothing more.

  34. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    For some reason X and XIII are ok to be linear but remake is criticized so much more seriously.
    With ff7 remake you look at bad first and foremost and then slightlly the good, while other games are just all good except this nitpicks, but they are not bad since "it has soul".
    You can feel the special treatment the game has.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >X
      is a complete game
      has coherent story

      >XIII
      trash even worse than 7R even though is complete

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      No they're not ok and any other ff aint ok either. Two wrongs doesn't make a right.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >people like a good game but dislike a bad game
      crazy

  35. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Stealth XIV thread?

  36. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yet none of this matters because they'll just keep siphoning XIVs hard earned money into these shit projects. They're unkillable unless Microsoft buys them or something

  37. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Yoshi is saving FF don't worry

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >Asians we had in FFX
      We had a blonde-haired blue eyed protagonist, a couple of full blown white girls, a fricking Hawaiian, and a '''''''not Muslim''''' who was as white as the other two girls and had one blue eye and one green eye.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        They were all super asian looking in the cutscenes. Its super jarring since they look so different from the in game models. Clearly you've never played the game or you would know that.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >muh FMVs
          >DUH CLEARLY YOU NEVER PLAYED
          Yeah right, I shouldn't rely on the in-game models or any of the promotional materials or official art, i should use the 180 seconds total of FMV footage to judge them as asian. Good one spastic.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Half of the characters in FF16 looked brown, what the frick is he smoking?

  38. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >FF7 Rebirth is releasing next to Spiderman 2 next year.

    if this is actually true you really have to wonder wtf is wrong with SE

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I hope it does release on the same day. It will be another good excuse for low sales. Anything to avoid blaming it on people disliking remake.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Sony is also banking on Square games, so they'll force them to move it.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I hope not. Like I said, we need all the excuses we can get for low sales.

  39. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Chocobo GP and SoP are great games and pretty cheap right now

  40. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >KH3 only sold 6.7 million since the end of 2021.
    Is there anything wrong?

  41. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >AAA Full Metal Alchemist
    More zoomers know Fullmetal Alchemist than a 35 year old franchise like Final Fantasy.

  42. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

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    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      I bought Jade's game, I'm posting

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Here here. Or was it "hear hear"?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        For me it’s “hear here,” I mean there isn’t a prefered way to say it honestly.

  43. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >bought by Sony
    This'll probably happen. Jimbo won't let them go. Especially if the Activision Blizzard deal goes through.

  44. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    They should just price their games lower, Triangle Strategy and the Tactics Ogre remake have the same budget as an indie game and are simply too expensive even though I want to get them eventually.

  45. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Traveler Mobile is bombing.
    good. their rates for gacha is the most giga moronic shit ever, like 600 bucks to get a guaranteed pity is dogshit greed and they literally just throw pennies at you. a shame though because the gameplay was actually decent compared to the original octopath.

  46. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      it's OVER, Nippon is FINISHED

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Square Enix hasn't represent Nippon for over 2 decades

  47. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I just finished Diofield Chronicles and I want to talk about it

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Diofield Chronicles

      I beat it in ~25 hours

      I have mixed feeling about the game
      >The main combat is poor-man RTS, very simple and barebone, but still quite fun
      >Enemies and even maps keep being reused and they keep spamming useless samey side-missions
      >Characters lack personality and their side-stories are meh and mostly not related to their personal issues at all
      >Combat-wise, characters are mostly generic. their personal skills aren't unique enough.
      >Adjutant gets so few EXP, reserved members get NO EXP and even active members don't get enough EXP to keep up with level creep every chapter, so switching up your party is not counter-productive.
      >So many resources to gather, so much money needed to upgrade your shit
      >Though, low level run + barely upgraded weapons are more than enough since the game is easy enough even on Hard
      >So many important story bits are resolved off screen
      >The last 2 chapters are extremely rushed, and Fred became moronic all of the sudden without any build up
      >The grand story is pretty much incomplete, though I'm satisfied with Rias' personal story

      That's a lot of negatives.

      I feel they really want to emulate Fire Emblem 3H experience, but RTS. This is a mistake. They should've went generic SRPG combat route like FE:3H or... especially Triangle Strategy. The spirit of this game is reaaaally similar to Triangle Strategy. Political conflict, war over resource, "mercenary" troupe etc
      This game would've benefited so much from 2D-HD style too. Lower budget and lower effort to make actual HD 3D sprites so they could've actually focused on writing longer dialogues and actually-complete grand story... with BRANCHING routes just like Triangle Strategy.
      This really could've easily been its spiritual successor...

      Man, what a waste of fricking potential...

      Rias and Fred's relationship the entire game reminded me of Mikazuki and Orga, except Mikazuki has the personality and intelligence of Ayanokouji

      What does everyone think?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >lump your MCs into a tight group
        >gang up on the guard when he's not looking
        >rinse and repeat
        SE didnt do their research. The game is RTwP except there's no single general pause button, and the character variety is nonsexistent which makes it disgustingly boring

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          yeah I just end up doing the same thing over over over and over again

          1. Fred with Wyvern support aggros everything on the map
          2. Gather them all in 1 spot with Wyvern skill's Wings of the Storm
          3. Umarida (Sniper) use Headshot to AoE 1-shot most of them
          4. Cleanup with other AoE and Assassinate
          5. rinse and repeat

          Never needed summon and barely needed to heal at all.
          The final boss is a joke.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I was so close on getting day one at full price, but I'm gonna wait till it is sub 20 bucks. Square's issue is that they don't give any game the right amount of budget to correlate with their scope.

  48. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I would have bought Strangers of Paradise by now if it was released on a real platform.
    Maybe early next year I can finally get it.

  49. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  50. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >>AAA Full Metal Alchemist mobile game is flopping.
    wait it's out already?

  51. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    booba... armpit...

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Damn, the girls here are pretty cute. Are their stories interesting enough?

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah.
        everything that's unrelated to the gameplay itself is actually good. but as a game, it's just not fun. frustrating, even.

  52. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The only good thing that company has ever done was acquiring Taito but letting them do their thing to this day, unlike what Konami has done with the Hudsonsoft absorption
    and even Taito is having troubles staying afloat these days

  53. 1 year ago
    Anonymous


    Real or fake?

    @617141935
    Nice offtopic shitpost, schizo.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Looks fake as frick

  54. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >AAA Full Metal Alchemist mobile game

  55. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >KH3 only sold 6.7 million
    Is this bad? It sounds good.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Ganker hates kingdom hearts so that's bad

  56. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I really like Square
    Why?

  57. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    All I want from square is a world of final fantasy sequel that isnt held back by the fricking vita.

  58. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >NEUTRAL? NEUTRAL WA NANI!? FUTANARI?

  59. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >I really like Square

    yeah OP they were based but square enix is cringe shit

  60. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Thank god Embrqacer's buying Thief and Tomb Raider from Squeenix. They really screwed the two up.

  61. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >MALE? FEMALE? NEUTRAL? WTF THEY'RE ALL GIRLS. SQUARE ENIX-SAN? HELLO?
    lol

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >choose male
      >could select male body type and female body type
      >choose female
      >could select male body type and female body type
      >choose neutral
      >could select male body type and female body type
      >NPC calls you 男の娘 if you mix gender and body type
      lol what's the point then? fricking square enix morons

  62. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    The time jannies were worth the game not looking and sounding like the original reveal. I kneel to Nomura.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The time jannies were bad
      The original reveal was ugly
      These things have nothing to do with each other. Stop coping.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      You dared to say something positive about remake, i gotta correct you.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I think it's unfair that people will say FFVII or IX or X or XIII is good but they will say VIIR has flaws. Why can't people be more objective?

  63. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >>Nier mobile flopped.
    It's still alive till January at least

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Nono anon I think they mean the one titles nier not the one that coasted off neir with a different name, so 2 failed nier games

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        I'm pretty sure there's just 1 nier mobile. I mean there's Sinoalice but it's nier in the "created by Yoko Taro" sense.

  64. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    To be fair Square-Enix has been shit for the merger's entire existence and they haven't died yet

  65. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    XIV genuinely paid for all those failures and made them a profit anyway, and that's before DQX revenue. I think MMOs suck but the fact that they've made SE so much money that they kept giving the greenlight to AA games that feel like HD PS2 games is cool. Trials of Mana, NEO TWEWY, & Stranger of Paradise are all excellent. Remastering Tactics Ogre and the first 3 Front Missions is great. FF16 seems cool because it has a good combat director.

    Babylon's Fall is probably the worst game of 2022 and summer of that other stuff is bad, but I'm glad at least one publisher is putting their money into a bunch of different projects to see what sticks instead of 2 or 3 huge bloated AAA games. If only more publishers (maybe with better devs or smarter execs) could do something similar.

  66. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Absolutely no way I will get to experience FF16's story without it being spoiled a hundred times over unless I shell out $500 for a PS5
    I'm still seething

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It's not 2020 anymore, anyone who wants a PS5 can get one easily.
      The downside to that is we can't use PS5 availability as an excuse for low Rebirth sales.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      just stay off social media until it comes out on pc

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >implying I can quit you homosexuals for an entire year

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      There is a small chance for a PC release when the preorders open, that said, you could always borrow one from a store or a friend. Hell, buying it and selling it at a loss is always an option. If not then you are fricked regarding any kino story beats.

  67. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    FFXIV is their money truck. They're fine.

  68. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What were they fricking thinking?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >FREE MCU MONEY

    • 1 year ago
      Moose

      The stunt doubles were really a dumb choice, they should have stuck with a more OC look which is exactly what they did with every character afterwards which boggles my mind. The funny thing is the game is on life support but it's in a far better state than it was at launch and is fine if you want mindless beat 'em up content. Still sucks that it cratered GotG.

  69. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I KNOW!
    LETS JUST MAKE MORE BLACK EMPOWERED WAHMIN FOR OUR 99% ASIAN/WHITE MALE AUDIENCE!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Next one will be a hit, for sure!

      Unfortunately Foreskin will probably sell and above-average amount of copies

  70. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Next one will be a hit, for sure!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >make a black protagonist
      >everything you do and say will now be highly scrutinized by the insane woke posse
      The solution is simple. Don't make black protagonists

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >NOOOOOO YOU CAN'T PORTRAY BURAKKU PIPO REALISTICALLY
      lmao
      they want black skin with white soul

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Forspoken is gonna be a disaster. What a sad, failed, woke experiment.

  71. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >>FF16 is releasing next to Zelda next year.
    Clive is going to kick the shit out of that little twink.

  72. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    You forgot about Avengers also being a failure. Every time I see Sega's frick ups I just think "You sorry sons of b***hes are lucky Square Enix exists because if they didn't you'd be at the very bottom, underneath the trashcan not even at the bottom of it but literally underneath it."

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