hello stingue nation I come to check if you all, just like me, forgot that these two did in fact, sleep on the same bed during the GMG, and if you did, you're welcome.
I love whatever the fuck some moots have going on in tomodachii life, one morning I open this app and see Sting died in a fire or Yukino's daughter had plastic surgery and I just nod in complete understatement.
You said you were playing the first FT game and now im kinda interested in getting it myself (if it goes on sale). Can you give me some thoughts on it when your a decent bit through it? Thanks
Okee~! Long post ahead
I'll be fully bluntly honest the main (and mostly only) reason I bought it was because Sting and Rogue are playable characters lmao
I'm like halfway there, I haven't advanced much into the story after unlocking stingue as I spend more time running around with the sillies instead of actually progressing into the game but alas.
Reviewing what I've played so far: it's a mediocre game, but like I was expecting that already so it didn't come as a surprise.
Story-wise you play throughout the Games and Tartaros arcs, with like half of the scenes missing because not all the characters appearing in the arc have rendered models so they just, skipped their parts. A few exceptions exist only in dialogue –not even voiced dialogue by the way, just the square of text ☠– so yeah don't expect an amazing adaptation of the story.
(By the way do you know those fully rendered, movie-like cutscenes these type of games usually have? You would expect important moments in the story to have this style of cutscenes right, such as idk the games' finale, or future Rogue's defeat or fuck idk the main character's fights right?
Unsurprisingly and kind of funny, only scenes featuring the girls have these type of cutscenes, making sure to have a full shot of their boobs in the process, I love this series!)
What I'm personally enjoying the most: the side quests. All of the playable characters have their own story quests and the progression system involves ranking up the guild by doing commissions in which your team gains friendship points that level up and unlock even more side stories between them.
Essentially you have at least 3 side quests with every combination of two characters plus their own separate story quests.
This leads to lots of interactions between characters and lots of silly moments that I personally enjoyed a lot, they added good depth to a lot of the relationships and honeslty I'm just a huge fan of little extra bits that exist outside of the main story and characters that usually don't interact doing so. (There's an entire side quest of Rogue being jealous of Sting spending too much time on Fairy Tail fyi, as a bonus <3)
Combat-wise it's cool, if not a little long with attack animations that you can't skip, the mechanic of doing unison raids with any pair of characters you like was dope, lots of other ways of making combined attacks and lots of upgrades available if you like to grind like me.
There's also the photo mode, because what is the point of any game if I can't take silly pictures whenever I want. This is the first game I've played that allows you to just, put all the characters in one frame and pose them however you like, usually it's like 4 at most but here you can just pile everyone in there lmao it's cool.
Idk if you're interested in any DLCs, I know there's a couple that add more playable characters such as Lyon, Levy, Lisanna and idk who else I haven't bought those, what I did buy was the set of Sting and Rogue's skins, obviously. They're cheap but it's three separate skins per playable character (I had to buy six in total) whatever you consider worth it ig. There's a free recolor of each characters' regular suits which are cool, but nothing to cry about.
Like I said before, I knew this game was overall not good but these two bitches have me in a chokehold and I knew I'd buy it at some point, I was dissapointed by some stuff but meh, I'm used to getting dissapointed by this series anyways.
Summarized: Is it a good game? No, am I enjoying it the fuck out of it? Absolutely
