#turn based rpgs

[toxiclizardwrites]

I'm playing Octopath Traveler 0 and all of the different stories I've experienced so far (Master of Wealth, Master of Fame, Rekindling the Flame) have been very well written and engaging. It's just so refreshing to experience real and beautiful writing when AI slop is everywhere.

Anyway if you like traditional turn-based JRPGs the Octopath games are all fantastic, but this one is my favourite by far.

[msunitedstatesjames]

Reasons I appreciate Serai from Sea of Stars:

I love that the big reveal of her alter ego holds absolutely no narrative weight (at least so far). As I was playing I was like, "Okay, I know 'character with an incredibly obvious but somehow still secret identity' is a common trope, but really how has no one figured this out yet?" And then she admits it and the gang is just like, "Yeah, we figured that out immediately, but we just figured we'd let you pretend to have a secret for as long as you wanted." (I guess the name Captain Klee'shaë should have made it obvious that the writers were going to turn that trope on it's head.)

I also love the weird turn based combat scenario that is Serai's Ultimate. She just casually whips up a portal in the middle of battle, changes into her Captain outfit, parades her crew onto the bloody battlefield, does a little dance with them, then ushers her crew away again while the scene is littered with outlandishly huge cannonballs, all while the boss just chills like two feet away.

[stuff-of-legends]

Clair Obscura: Expedition 33

a turn based rpg set in 18th century France. A mysterious being called the Paintress called a spell that will kill people with the same age as the number in the sky. You follow an expedition that struggles to find and stop her.

[magistera]

speaking of claire redfield, i’m genuinely awful at this. i keep dying. i hope that the more i play, the better i’ll get. practice makes perfect, right?

[stuff-of-legends]

Penny Blood- 2025 tentatively

An upcoming turn-based rpg set in 1920s new York. We play as a private detective with supernatural powers investigating a case that spans Europe, Asia and North America.

It was funded via Kickstarter along with another project called "Armed Fantasia" and will release for Xbox 1, ps5 and PC next year.

it has a roguelike spinoff called "Hellbound" that focuses on the villians of Penny Blood before the events of the first game.

[stuff-of-legends]

Clair obscur expedition 33 thoughts.

act 2 is definitely tougher than act 1. Verso's perfection rankings reminded me of DMC. His dynamic with Esqui was interesting. The jumping controls outside of combat sucks. Meet Sciel in a tournament gave me KH1 Olympus colliseum vibes.

its not really open world but exploration is pretty fun.

the opening in lumiere was effective in setting up the story.

i like how the members outside of your party are used as backups.

gradient counters feel unnecesary.

[thesturnest]

im kind of annoyed at seeing people say that turn based rpg's are back after seeing clair obscur: expedition 33 like this game is great and awesome but turn based games never really left. there's so many great turn based rpg's that came out recently and I refuse to let them go overlooked.

And before somebody comes here being like "Oh in clair obscur you have to react to hits instead of just standing there" I have some news for you and those are the fact that clair obscur is not the first turn based rpg to have this mechanic

where clair obscur is unique is that it's the first turn based rpg in a while to get this kind of popularity outside of any specific group such as jrpg spaces in a long time.

What i'm trying to say here is that if you like clair obscur and you're saying that the last rpg like this was final fantasy x then you are sorely mistaken and i have a lot of rpg's to show you

[mrski]

Every turn based RPG ever

Me: Hmm, I think i'll start this new RPG

*plays for a few hours and gets stuck on a semi hard fight*

Me: Hmm let me check a guide to see what can help

Guide: "...Your attacks should be doing upwards of 9999 damage by this point in the game if you leveled up perfectly and found every hidden item up to this point, generally an easy fight"