La Pucelle: Tactics to US

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Originally Posted by Survival Kid

Because I found it to be a boring game. It was fun at first, but having every feature in excess got tedious after a while. Now when I go back and play it I find myself bored out of my fucking mind. Building Specialists up to Lvl300, going in and out of the item world, the pain in the ass Dark Assembly, transmigrating then having to build that character's level up yet again to respectable heights. Thankfully all that was totally optional, but still...

I'm not a huge fan of having to learn skills from weapons. I don't mind it to an extent, but I prefer a largely job based skill system.

The fields were ugly and lacked any sort of detail. Normally I'm not one to pick on graphics, but the total lack of any detail was disappointing.

The story certainly wasn't spectacular, though not many games have spectacular stories. Sure, it was amusing at times, but more often than not I found it to be nothing other juvenile bickering between the characters. The main characters being little kids didn't do much for me either, although I guess it did fit with the way they acted.

I did like certain aspects of the game though. Like I said, it was amusing at times, the lightheartedness was a bit refreshing in an overly serious genre. I like the wide range of classes, even though there weren't very many job specific abilities. And something more than mere palette swaps for sub classes would have been nicer.

It was by no means a bad game, just not as great as it's made out to be and not worth $50 in my opinion. I can play it in very short bursts, but anything over a few battles and it gets mind numbingly boring. I think it just got way too hyped up at the Atlus boards and didn't live up to my expectations since they were quite high. If you're that interested in the game, sure, go pick it up, but there are much better SRPGs out there. If you have a GBA pick up Final Fantasy Tactics Advance which is infinitely more enjoyable, albeit a bit on the easy side.

See, I also find FFT to be boring, lame, and up its own ass. Hell it might be a great game, but it fails as a game for me, for these reasons. It takes effort and time to execute the simplest of commands, and asks me twice if I want to do it. I recently came to the realization of what a truly polish game was only recently when I thought about exactly why the GBA AtomBoy was good.
I wrote this elsewhere...

I think the reason this game shines is that it does exactly what it says on the tin, so to speak. You run up to robots, and punch/kick/blast them. Thats it, gameover. Its execution is flawless. Considering how simple this sounds, many games I play cant seem to remember that. Games where I have to shoot a few grunts, I should just be able to run over and gun them down, but either the aim sensitivity is off and cant be adjusted, the bullets hit oddly, the grunts know where I am before they see me, my character moves like a tank when he should be a badass marine, etc etc. All this impedes the basic formula of shooting grunts! Hence the game is technically a failure. AstroBoy sounds great to me, because I know what its letting me do, and letting me do it perfectly.

Your focusing to much on the areas that Nippon Ichi also dident care much about. If they want deep and meaningful stories, then the game would be another cliché RPG storyline. If the characters dont interact with the environment, then why bother wasting the time making it look awesome and detailed, all you have to know is that its the ground.
In Disgaea, you can convert this, save that, create this character, hit that, throw that character there, steal from that monster, and on and on and on, thats not why its decent, many games give you depth like that, its decent because it lets you execute everything so easily! Complex does not mean complicated! In FFT all I want to do is move over there, and hit that monster, and no matter how many times I might do this, there is no option for shortcuts at all. Always I have to tell the game twice, always I will have to scroll and end the turn manually. In Disgaea it takes a move and the press of 2 buttons, that can take you 3 seconds. Even after that I have the option to move everything else, or move 2 characters and then end the turn, the options and tactics are limitless. Its fun, its fast, and its ready to play the way you want to play it. You dont HAVE to use the shortcuts, but its dependant on the gamer. Advanced Wars was another recent game that gave quick, perfect execution, fun, and fast strategy gameplay, or the option to take things slow.
You would think that such a game like Front Mission 4, yet another game that fits the premise of perfect execution with all its short cut options to be an example of Square knowing this lesson, but, no go.

This isent a personal attack, am just defending the game for the reasons people put it down.

IGN hands on: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/503/503203p1.html

In the newest issue of GMR one of the members of the dev. team had a good quote:

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I think it's really too bad when people say that graphics are of poor quality just because it's 2D. We feel really good about our 2D graphics. People seem to think 3d graphics are great but I think it's easier to develop a character's attractiveness with 3d graphics.

Good to see at least someone is keepingthe 2d torch alive.

The rest of the preview is decent, lots of pics, it's worth checking out.

Official US site now open:
http://www.lapucelletactics.com/

Nice site, though I'd like a character list...

The game has gone gold - http://www.vgpub.com/news256.html

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Oh man, this is so refreshing to see that in the age of 3-D that a quirky 2-D SRPG game can garner such attention. May is going to be a hell of a good month.

ssb

Cute site, if a bit unexciting.

How do you pronounce the title?

I say "pusselle," but I'm thinking it could be "puchelle."

From Google:
lä pü-sel'

It's amazing for me to see this 2D game zoom past Growlanser on the release list, no problem.