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JRPGs are notoriously difficult to review; even for die-hard fans of the genre. We have a limited grace period in terms of time we can spend playing a game before the review is due, and any JRPG worth its salt will have many times that worth of game content. This becomes a problem when you consider that JRPGs are notoriously… unsatisfying (for lack of a better word) for the first few hours or so. Gameplay tends to take a while to grow and develop over the course of the early to mid-game content, and most JRPGs survive this via a combination of story setup, aesthetics, and fan service. So what happens when the story setup is typically Japanese and convoluted, the aesthetics are that of a first-person dungeon crawler that mated with a bishoujo visual novel, and the fan service is semi-SFW loliporn?
The PlayStation Vita has become a haven for RPGs, but there is one particular type that has really made itself at home on the system. People who love first-person dungeon-crawlers with turn-based battles and often customizable parties can find tons on the system. Developers like Experience and Compile Heart have taken to the system. This means people who enjoy level grinding and customizing characters have plenty of options to choose from when looking for a new game to play.
Digitally Downloaded writes: "At DDNet, we do love a good Wizardry-style dungeon crawler. There is something classic and timeless about delving deep into a hive of monsters and traps, overcoming them bit by bit while developing an intricate map of the sprawl of corridors and rooms along the way."
Still upset Atlus sided with Nintendo for Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth. I don't mind it's on 3DS, I mind it's not on any PS console cause the PS community are the ones that built the franchise and even made P4G a success on an unsupported system... then they decide to not give us Q but instead a dancing game *FACEPALM*
The developers are the developers of the Etrian Odyssey series which are exclusives to the Nintendo DS/3DS and which sole mechanci is drawing and constructing maps on the touch screen.
Such feature can not be replicated on Vita.
Not owned by Nintendo though, Atlus could/should work on it from the dev or another to be on Vita instead of betraying the fans like such. And there has been hundreds of games where touch screen from the 3DS has been replaced with the Vita touch screen and back touch pad. Seen gameplay, easily portable.
Please do explain how you make a game that actually needs two screens on a console that has one, Slinky.
It has nothing to do with the touch screen. It is the fact that the Etrian Odyssey mechanics require both the map and the "action" to be displayed - and interacted with - at the same time, at all times.
A map overlay, as other dungeon crawlers do on the Vita, would not work, as you wouldn't be able to draw on that while you played.
Dominic Sheard: "By now we all know that the word Vita means Life in Italian, and we can all make fun jokes about how Sony has abandoned the platform, but in Japan, it seems third parties love making games for the sleek device. Smaller publishers, such as Nippon Ichi USA and Atlus, are keeping the system alive in the Western world with niche Japanese games that find a small fan base in North America or Europe. Dungeon Travelers 2: The Royal Library & the Monster Seal is the latest title published by the house of Disgaea, but unlike a few of Nippon Ichi USA's titles in the past, Dungeon Travelers 2 has hit our shores with quite a reputation, one where whoever has heard of the title and doesn't follow Japanese games closely has noticed about the sexual imagery that gives the title a negative aura, tainting what otherwise is a mechanically solid dungeon crawler that I had fun playing through."
I was pleasantly surprised at how much I enjoyed this game. The sexual content didn't bother me (though I do agree with their decision to purge some of the more hardcore loli stuff for the US release).
It's a fun dungeon crawler and has a ton of content. I put in a good 130+ hours to beat the main game, and the post-game stuff is almost as big as the main game!
