@popeanonymousxv:

I can't argue with any of that. Instead, I would add to it by saying the elimination of the estus flask concept is probably this game's worst offense. It introduces pointless grind that is certainly made worse by the horrible load times.

The collision detection is awful, the visceral attacks frequently fail (i'm talking the follow up R1 when you have the guy on his knees), they're still using some kind of command queue that really causes issues because of the sensitivity of the controller buttons - single presses of buttons being read by the game as two. It also sucks when you attack, but you get clobbered trying to deliver the hit and knocked down...because you hit the attack button though, the first thing your character does when he/she gets up is try to attack again as per your previous command Ignoring everything else you might try to do....which of course gets you hit again. Camera is terrible and loses lock-on way too easy. Lock-on switches targets with the same button that manually controls the camera, which is hugely problematic when multiple foes are on the screen and you're trying to get a decent view of the fight while maintaining focus on a certain enemy.

There are also some little glitches like status effects being applied to your corpse and then affecting you when you resurrect...i literally died to frenzy, revived and got hit by frenzy again standing next to the lantern. We know about the item dupe and the game breaking key fail. Both of those were fixed but they were still in the game when it got such high scores. As far as I know there is still some NPC glitches with the optional quests as well.

I enjoy BB very much, but reviewers giving it 9s and such just sends a horrible message to devs out there. You can both enjoy/love something AND be critical of it. And where necessary, we should be critical because that's the only way the things we enjoy/love will get better.

Not just JRPG. Look at Spec Ops: The Line.

Well at least JRPG are willing to try thing other than fantasy medieval setting.

It's okay, you're allowed to not like the game and not buy it. Its your choice.

I can tell you where you need to go and even show you where that location is and leave you to figure how to get to the prescribed location. That is simply stating the objective. In said game you can take that objective now or do something else if you so desire. Would you consider this hand holding?

I think the issue more is even if they added an easy mode people who don't like the game would still find reasons not to like the game until the dumbed it down to the point where it wasn't even the same game anymore. Like I was saying MLB the show added an easy mode. The people who didn't like it still don't like it. It was a waste of development time.

@mastermetal777:

You're starting to sound like one of those fanboy zealots..... highly uncharacteristic of you.

Anyway to put it simply: they lures into thinking stats don't matter then all of sudden they do ?

Miyazaki still trolling as usual.

I have no trouble understanding the message JRPGs are trying to convey. The problem is that what they try to convey is typically stupid and poorly done and the story makes no sense.

@davillain-: well on average they last about 20 - 30 seconds. They're getting patched soon though.

There's one thing that's really starting to irk me about modern day action games: the forced walk. You're moving at a nice pace, and all of a sudden, you come across a spot that forces you to walk slowly. I know it's a nitpick, but it's just really been bothering me lately.

Can't wait to drive that Batmobile, though. I hope there are some seriously badass vehicle combat stages in the game.