Cross Edge is a traditional Japanese role-playing game complete with world map, random battles, level grinding, item synthesis and talking anime portraits. The real charm of Cross Edge comes from the fact that so many different characters unite in a single story. The start of Cross Edge is unquestionably surreal. Main character, Miko, begins by delivering a monologue where she muses about what happens when your thoughts are immediately forgotten. Where do they go? What do they do? That's what the "world" of Cross Edge is all about -- it's a place where a person's lost thoughts and a collection of forgotten ideas go when they disappear.
Ai-Phuong and Haven are back in 2013 with a stack of RPG goodness to discuss. Trinity Universe, Cross Edge, Hyperdimension Neptunia are just some of titles mentioned on this show.
- Trinity Universe
- Cross Edge
- Hyperdimension Neptunia
- Pokemon
- Final Fantasy
- Reckoning
- Skyrim
- …and more!
BT: "We’ve all been there. You’re playing a game, having a great time, and then all of a sudden you’re hit with that one thing that will absolutely kill your enthusiasm. You think to yourself, this particular quirk of the game won’t show up too often, and when it does, you’ll be able to power through it. But no! It turns out that particular quirk is one of the main gameplay mechanics!
I have so many games sitting on my shelf that I haven’t finished. Games that I was just unable to get through because there was something about the gameplay, some annoying hitch in the game’s design that just completely killed my will to go on and made me shelf the game. Of course, there is a scale to such annoyances and some of us are willing to endure one more than others. Even though tolerances may differ, I think most of us can agree there are some common threads that run through these games.
There won’t be any special rules for this list, but instead I’m going to include a brief list of some common offenders of the things that I list. Bear in mind, this does not mean these are bad games. Even the best games sometimes suffer from something that really causes your enthusiasm to take a hit. So let’s take a look at what we all love to hate!"
“Save the Princess” Syndrome, is in almost every game. It can be saving the world or a person.
I just hate things that don't fit. The planet scanning in Mass Effect 2 for example.
i don't understand how there can be bad AI in any game these days. surely, unlike graphics, it should have matured but instead seems to just be rewritten for every new game from the ground up. is there not a couple of AI middleware players out there waiting to clean up?
how can a game today have the same AI problems as a 10 year old game?
good article BTW
Devil May Cry's camera makes navigation more interesting...and not a chore like many other games. I love DMC!
TGT: Girls that look like Melissa Fahn never gave me the time of day in high school. They discovered I watched anime, played video games and practiced my own amateurish voice acting in my spare time and immediately turned their noses up at me. Nerd. Geek. Dweeb. Freak.
So to come across such a stone cold stunner sharing my exact interests and providing the voices behind some of my favorite anime and video game characters, I’m a little taken aback. Beautiful, funny, smart, nerdy. It’s a geekified grandslam. But sorry, Melissa. I’m married, you’re married. We’d be doomed to failure. It would never work out between us.
I don't understand why this needed to be a PS3 game--from a technical standpoint, nothing about it screams current gen. In fact, it looks like it would do as well on the PSP.
With that said, the "old-school" rpg element intrigues me. I thought I was past my tolerance of this battle system, what with the advent of active battles and such, but after playing Chrono Trigger again I rediscovered it's simple charm.
I may check this out, either as a rental or as a budget purchase down the road.
but I do like everything else including the old school battle system and such.
Knowing me, I'll probably end up buying this. I have a weakness for JRPGs heh.