3rd November 2016, 5:43 AM
White Knight Chronicles is a pretty big disappointment. It sold me with that initial trailer, but then failed to live up to that frankly incredible promised level of natural NPC dialog and interaction. Ni No Kuni also sold me with the trailer, and it is very charming. It's the most charming game I ever got bored with. I do wish they'd actually translated that title.
White Knight Chronicles was the start of my disenchantment with Japanese RPGs. They've become such paint by number affairs with rote characters that are defined entirely by single traits like "doesn't get noticed, isn't that hilarious?" or "is secretly in love with the protagonist, like Helga from Hey Arnold". The gameplay of the recent Fire Emblem games has been spot on, but the recent stories have just been... boring...
White Knight Chronicles was the start of my disenchantment with Japanese RPGs. They've become such paint by number affairs with rote characters that are defined entirely by single traits like "doesn't get noticed, isn't that hilarious?" or "is secretly in love with the protagonist, like Helga from Hey Arnold". The gameplay of the recent Fire Emblem games has been spot on, but the recent stories have just been... boring...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)