They do. And I love the game. It's a great way to just kill some time and hope you come up with some good treasure. Multiplayer is a blast.
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I was playing a few hours of Hyper Dimension Neptunia Victory this morning. Holy shit does this game like to talk. I thought the 2nd one had a lot of text, but i think this one is a throwback to the first one where it's almost a visual novel with jrpg elements. (i haven't played the first, so i'm just going on what i've read)
They just go on and on and on and on, like 10 minute cutscenes with a break, then you go back to another 10 minute cutscene. The dialog is at least entertaining and i wasn't just mashing the button to get through it, but if you're one of the two other people that are interested in this game and that sounds awful, you might just want to keep that lunchbox in the shrinkwrap.
Neptune's voice is the same from the last game (Ed from Cowboy Bebop's voice actress, yaaay), but i think they've changed a few of the others. NepNep's the only one that matters anyway. Plutia's voice is pretty charming too.
Everything else has at least been polished and improved. It's a step closer to an actual good game, but i don't think the audience will expand at all. I swear to god that every character that had cleavage in the last game has gone up a few cup sizes in this one. I guess the developers thought BIGGER JUGGZ was an improvement they needed to make.
I need a more relaxing game after NGS so I'm playing through Golden Abyss. It's fun and looks great but I didn't realize that they were using Donkey Kong 64 as inspiration. All the collectibles are a little overwhelming.
I'm playing Happy Wars still. It seems to have less connection issues? Either that or I'm just used to it. I haven't touched my iPad in around a month (I don't really know why, since I have a bunch of new tower defense games on there), so no iOS action. Not even the new Plague Inc mode.
My Neo Geo X will arrive on Tuesday, so I'd imagine the rest of this week is Metal Slug to borderline obsessive levels. Or I might play it for a day then never again because wtf I don't even know why.
Snagged Proteus, the Lunar Pack (when it was on sale, includes Wake and Lunnye Devitsy), and Bientôt l’été. Played some Proteus and am installing the rest.
Proteus - Is a little different than what I expected. It's somehow a bit less atmospheric than I thought it would be even though that's literally almost all it is. Almost like some of kind of alpha of a Tail of the Sun sequel, the exploration and simple existing is interesting but the complete lack of any interaction beyond sound occurrences fails to be compelling. I still need to mess around with it some more but adding a few basic actions could go a long way in selling this ambient exploration title.
Warframe - Just got put on Steam a couple days ago and I finally started putting together some good stuff, but the later levels have gotten pretty tough so I have a lot of work ahead of me to get the warframe that I really want. They don't fuck around and not having a group can mean super rough times in even basic levels on some planets, since the enemies don't have the usual kind-of-shitty aim that's prevalent in most games and are actually competent in hitting the player at every opportunity. This game has also been a lot more addicting than it previously seemed, I keep losing hours each time I boot it up and there's a surprising amount of depth in the controls.
Fire Emblem: Awakening - A couple chapters in and it's super adorable, although the levels of my characters are wacky since my strong ones dominate too much and have a hard time letting the weak guys get hits or finishers in. Really I'm just playing for the art and making relationships and it's awesome for that.
So who grabbed the new FFXI expansion?
BonusKun.