Any VP fans out there?
I can't imagine that any RPG with a level of innovation that puts even the original Xenogears in it's place can be completely ignored here!
I'm not sure if I could be considered a fan of it, but I'm in the middle of writing a review for it.
I've played through it but it didn't really jive with me. Almost would've preferred a book telling me the story to playing the game. Though, this could be because I never played the hidden dungeon.
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not that surprising, I guess... part of the downside to trying to be new and interesting in as many ways as possible almost necessarily means that people won't like some of it.
It's not a must-have, not a papagon of what RPG's should be, but nevertheless it deserves respect for taking so many chances and succeding as well as it did, considering.
I give praise for innovation sometimes, but I do have to consider that I find a lot of the latest trends of derivation and innovation disturbing. Valkyrie Profile is an example of a game that did innovation fairly successfully. So is, sadly, a lot of the recent Final Fantasy series of games. I though look back on my own past couple decades of gaming and find the trends moving away from the types I like in the main stream. With the popularization of innovation above all else, a lot of nifty stuff is being left in the past. Stuff that not only worked, but worked well.
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