Sorry folks, forgot to post this yesterday because daylight savings fucked me up. Anyway I’ve poured every available minute of free time ive had into Persona 5 royal. Hope everyone had a great weekend and your week is off to a great start.
Sorry folks, forgot to post this yesterday because daylight savings fucked me up. Anyway I’ve poured every available minute of free time ive had into Persona 5 royal. Hope everyone had a great weekend and your week is off to a great start.
I have been playing Esoteric Ebb and its good folks. I like it.
It is very disco elysium but has its own DNA. I have only played it for over 6h and I legit had at least 3 times where I laughed out loud. It can be very funny at times. It feels more whimsical and “cute” than Disco ? But yeah its good.
I no-lifed that one the day it came out and beat it in two sittings. I think it doesn’t take itself as seriously as Disco, in a good way. Which like Disco is very humorous and equally absurd, but everything is still in the context of people’s destroyed hope and lack of a future. Ebb is the opposite, where it still uses politics as a basis to talk about people’s relationships, but from an overall more hopeful and forward looking perspective given the context of it being the first election, not a failed revolution. We’re either going to kick out all the non-humans in the name of Urth and make the Coast great again, or establish the egalitarian society we’ve always wanted.
No Ebb spoilers, but it does have some heavy moments that reminded me a lot of Disco’s
spoiler
ending encounter with the Deserter, and the phone call with your ex-wife
Good game overall even if it didn’t hit me the same way as Disco or Planescape. Unique spin on that kind of game that I think people into stuff like Terry Pratchett would like.
EDIT: Something I don’t really get is the amount of items that have negative stats. Unless there’s super unique dialogue for having extremely low stats like Fallout low INT runs, they all seemed like flavor items that clogged up my inventory.
How long did it take you if you finished it in 2 sittings ? Im still on the 2nd day after 6h. I dont think its as good as Disco but I do think Esoteric is a special little game and im happy it exists. Also yeah Esoteric feels more upbeat than disco.
My final save is about 15 hrs and 49 minutes. I’ve been sick, so I really did just sit and play it for like 8 hrs lol. I also missed two quests that I think can only be picked up in the morning, so could have extended that out a little longer. As far as I can tell, you can enter the ending sequence of the game any time before the dawn of the last day without getting any sort of bad end or lose condition. I didn’t actually try, but I know I had lots of time left that I could have used to finish those quests out if I had started them a day or two before.
I really disliked the combat I saw in the demo (wow I failed every dialogue option with the skeleton and they just repeat, failed those too and then failed the death saves) and it kinda turned me off it. How much of that is there?
I had 3 combat encounters that took maybe 10-15mins at most in about 7h of gameplay . So far only 1 of these 3 combat encounters seemed mandatory. If you are worried you wont like the game cause you wont like the combat… there is very little combat in the game. Plus I dont think you are supposed to go down there on the first day anyways. Get some levels first.
At least based on my game time.
Good to know.