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Some people get filtered by a game so they give it a bad review, happens all the time with journos. Stranger of the sword city is an amazing game and probably Experience's best game. Labyrinth of yomi is coming to the west soon, it's very similar to stranger of the sword city, so you should check it out.
What's the deal with the Stranger of Sword City? It has a "best of the best" ★ recommendation but the SoSW/SoSCR pack on Steam has mixed rating. Is the port bad, did they somehow fucked up the revisited update?
I personally didn't like Sword City all that much. Primarily because it features the easiest random encounters I have ever seen. It is logistically impossible to die against 90%+ of fights you encounter, no matter what you do. The enemies do pathetic damage. The few harder fights you are meant to run from or muscle through.
It has pretty decent layouts, but it takes too long to get the kiddy gloves off. That leads to some pretty silly stuff, like using spinners in a dungeon part where the automap is enabled.
It is at its core however fairly straight Wizardry. You got your fighter, cleric, rogue, wizard analogues and a few elite classes. Some well known like samurai and valkyrie, some more exotic like clocker. You roll for stats, then choose class. You have the same attributes and combat is all about AC, to hit and amount of attacks.
It also has all off the stuff you want for a mapping challenge. Spinners, dark zones, stuff that turns the automap off, teleporters, etc...
Rincewind Sword City actually features two different graphic sets, because the original game had much grittier art, and they made it more animu in later ports. You can toggle them. So while I wouldn't recommend Sword City personally for gameplay gripes the graphics is not really a reason to skip it, as the grittier artset is pretty decent.
I can deal with some of the less weeby, more western-inspired jRPGs but the weeb ones are just way too much for me. And the more weeby they get, the creepier they get.
That's a double pack, the screen was from Saviors not Stranger, but it's ok, I get how someone who thinks all blobbers should be like Dungeon Master could get confused.
Well, it doesn't sound too good from what you described. Why did you give it a star then? It can't be both mediocre and best-of-the-best. I find easy blobbers offensive so it's a deal breaker.
I can deal with some of the less weeby, more western-inspired jRPGs but the weeb ones are just way too much for me. And the more weeby they get, the creepier they get.
At best, they copy Proving Grounds mechanics wholesale, down to spells called COKK and SHEEIT. At worst, it's a rabbit hole of ludicrous inanity no sane person would willingly submerge into.
Yeah, and I have to add I personally find it a bit disturbing when people older than 12-14 or so are super into animu (like that's their main focus of "interest"). Especially when we're talking about 30+ guys...
Yeah, and I have to add I personally find it a bit disturbing when people older than 12-14 or so are super into animu (like that's their main focus of "interest"). Especially when we're talking about 30+ guys...
Well, it doesn't sound too good from what you described. Why did you give it a star then? It can't be both mediocre and best-of-the-best. I find easy blobbers offensive so it's a deal breaker.
I can recognise that some people are into blobbers for a different reason than me.
Personally I play blobbers primarily for the ressource management and the feedback loop, of delving deeper and deeper into the dungeon on each run, taking care as to not to get wiped out if I delve too deep. The satisfaction from returning to base and leveling/gearing up and then getting deeper into the dungeon next time is such a primal feeling of progression.
Secondary I play them because they tend to have the best 6 niggas in a row type combat.
There are however people that genuinly do not care about combat in a blobber, and much rather have a good map layout with spinners/teleporters/darkzones. Those people tend to love Sword City.
Interestingly I find that Etrian Odyssey and Sword City are two sides of a coin. The ones who play blobbers for a similar reason than me love EO and have disdain for Sword City, while the ones who play for the dungeoneering love Sword City and have disdain for EO.
As a matter of fairness I gave both series a star. My bias for my own preferred style already crept in as I kept every single other game by the Sword City developer Experience Inc from being on the list, except Operation Babel which I flaired disputed.
Also Sword City is objectively Experience Inc's best game available in English, so that counts for something. It didn't land in full weeb because of the alternate gritty artset, and because I know that Gregz likes the game a lot. Which surprises me a bit, as Gregz hates anime.
Given that I know of Sword and Sorcery Underworld and Erranorth Reborn (card game) due to him, I value his opinion, even if we tend to have differing ones at times.
By the way, the Steam entry for the old version of Sword City has almost only pictures from the old gritty artstyle:
A few of the player characters are mixed from both artstyles as the game allows you to do that, but enemies and NPCs are in the gritty setting. That Anna character you see on the one screenshot is as weeb as Sword City goes on that setting. The trailer there is old and made for the gritty style aswell.
consider this the weeb high water mark for Sword City on second artstyle
I can't help anyone interested over version differences tho, as I have no passion for the game I never cared to delve if the more expensive versions are worth the extra dinero they want.
PLz recommend me the best blobber to begin with. An user of this forum recommended me "Lands of Lore", I have very little time a day to play games so I want the opinion of some other users to start a game.
I only need one or two post to decide for a game I see no reason the start a new post for this subject...
Thanks great post!
PD: Tried Legend of Grimrock and did't like It for some reason.
PLz recommend me the best blobber to begin with. An user of this forum recommended me "Lands of Lore", I have very little time a day to play games so I want the opinion of some other users to start a game.
I only need one or two post to decide for a game I see no reason the start a new post for this subject...
Thanks great post!
Do u like puzzles? If so then Legend of Grimrock 2.
Do u like TB combat? Might and Magic X.
Are u ok with playing old games with 1990s graphics? Lands of Lore, MM 6/7, Betrayal at Krondor. All fantastic baby's first blobbers.
PLz recommend me the best blobber to begin with. An user of this forum recommended me "Lands of Lore", I have very little time a day to play games so I want the opinion of some other users to start a game.
I only need one or two post to decide for a game I see no reason the start a new post for this subject...
