Topic: Atlus Brings Baroque to the Wii

[vudu]

Bejeweled is free.  Anyone who pays for more it is an idiot.

[animecyberrat]

Bejeweled is free.  Anyone who pays for more it is an idiot.

I gotcha.

[vudu]

I hang my head in shame.

[ReverendNoahWhateley]

I'm very disappointed to hear that this is probably a stinker.  To be honest, I was thinking about picking this up.

[KDR_11k]

It's a dungeon crawler, why did you even get your hopes up? There's craptons of those and most are just crappy games made because the developer couldn't be arsed to make proper dungeons for their RPG so they resorted to randomness. Unlike western developers it seems to me that japanese devs rarely attempt to optimize their algorithms for quality resulting in bad pathfinding, bad random levels, etc. Freaking Doom has better pathfinding than even RTSes made by japanese devs.

[ReverendNoahWhateley]

Because there aren't tons of these on the Wii, I've enjoyed every Atlus game I've owned, and the concept was interesting.  Seemed like a sure thing to me.

As someone that never owned the PS2, I was screened from most of Japan's low-quality RPGs; for a Japanese RPG to make it all the way to the West, it usually had to be quite good.  The last time I owned a console that was a haven for RPGs, it was the SNES, and back then even the bad RPGs were pretty good.

[KDR_11k]

Some RPG site gave it a review saying it's decent, take that as you will.

[Kenology]

The game is actually quite good.  Don't expect anything technically impressive as it doesn't do anything with the hardware even by PS2 standards.  But the gameplay is pretty interesting even if I'm a bit lost as to what to do right now.  More impressions soon come.

[ReverendNoahWhateley]

Is it a cheapie port?  Those are great!  30 bucks is just a small enough sum of cash for me to not get TOO frazzled about losing it.