it’ll appear smaller for a second when you post the video then resize once it cooks. should be sufficient for the time being. it’s embedding videos way bigger than they used to, so I don’t know if people want them that big or the old, smaller size?
should probably see how other videos embed, not sure if those changed, too, but people hardly ever embed anything outside of youtube, so it’s probably not a big deal.
The FF7 remake made me want to play more good JRPGs, and I’ve never played SMT: Nocturne. Should I play it? How’s the PS3 port?
I saw gameplay footage and it looked like glowing neon idiots running around dark rooms whispering about the apocalypse, and I’m gonna be honest, that’s not really my scene. Is it too serious for its own good? Is it completely incoherent anime trash? Is it actually a great game I could enjoy? I know people like this game, but what’s great about it? Do I need to be a 15 year old in 2004 to get it?
I’ve never played an SMT game. I played like 1/2 of Persona 4 last year and sort of liked it. But I needed to be a 15 year old in 2008 to really get it.
Nocturne is pretty much the best of its kind but bear in mind that SMT games are fundamentally 8-bit the same way that fire emblem is – 80% of it is collecting and breeding monsters and running around labyrinthine dungeons.
It holds up very well for the most part (in a literal sense the pacing is very good for a PS2 RPG and its visual design upscales well) and the narrative is alternately stylish and unobtrusive, but you’d be playing it for jRPG mechanics more than anything else.
It takes itself as seriously as it needs to without losing the humor that was present in every game prior to it. It’s probably the least anime trash JRPG out there.
also, a lot of humor comes from demon conversations, as there are very few human NPCs, relatively speaking.
eta: SMT3 is almost nothing like Persona games after 2 beyond sharing a similar battle system. it doesn’t have nearly as much of that anime bullshit feel as the persona games do.
My new thing is saying Dragon Quarter is the only good JRPG
But Nocturne would be the other good one except it’s so fucking long that I’d be hesitant to recommend it to an adult who doesn’t have copious “me” time but it’s 2020 and who the hell is going out so hey play Nocturne it rocks
nocturne is really fuckin’ atmospheric, gorgeous whether you’re playing it on a sony wega or on pcsx2 and about as far away from ‘incoherent anime trash’ as the genre gets narratively
the worst i can say about it is that the sewer dungeon a couple of hours in is… a sewer dungeon
and it’s the sort of thing rock paper shotgun or whoever would be calling “harsh but fair!!!” & “souls-like” if it came out now
I’m still poking away at it now and then. It’s excellent, but I don’t find myself compelled toward it, I have to make myself boot it up. No real fault of the game though. The atmosphere is amazing and I quite like the weird battle system.