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Vanadise
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 Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 4:13 pm
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| Quote: | | The plot here is tremendously satisfying. Quite possibly the best that a JRPG has had to offer all year. It's thrilling, exciting, mysterious, and genuinely moving at times. |
I'm genuinely curious about this since the Monster Hunter games have historically had threadbare plots at best. I'm going to assume we're considering Utawarerumono to be a visual novel rather than a JRPG, but are we not considering NieR Replicant a JRPG, or is it actually comparable to NieR Replicant?
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ranran-001
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 6:50 pm
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| Vanadise wrote: | |
I'm genuinely curious about this since the Monster Hunter games have historically had threadbare plots at best. I'm going to assume we're considering Utawarerumono to be a visual novel rather than a JRPG, but are we not considering NieR Replicant a JRPG, or is it actually comparable to NieR Replicant? |
I've only played the first MH Stories, but found the storyline to be pretty good. The game at least had characters with an arc that kept the story moving forward. MH games typically don't have that.
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Electric Wooloo
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Posted: Sat Jul 24, 2021 8:04 pm
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| Vanadise wrote: |
| Quote: | | The plot here is tremendously satisfying. Quite possibly the best that a JRPG has had to offer all year. It's thrilling, exciting, mysterious, and genuinely moving at times. |
I'm genuinely curious about this since the Monster Hunter games have historically had threadbare plots at best. I'm going to assume we're considering Utawarerumono to be a visual novel rather than a JRPG, but are we not considering NieR Replicant a JRPG, or is it actually comparable to NieR Replicant? |
Having played through 1 and 2, I wouldn't really call the plot deep or anything but I think satisfying is the right word. There's an arc, there's emotional investment, there's side characters who get fleshed out, there are characters from the first game that show in a "where are they now" style but that aren't out of place if you didn't play #1.
The gameplay is fantastic and there's a twist or two in the plot that were pretty cool. Only real complaint is, like the review said, a couple of the characters. Some dialogue from them is ehhh and a couple side characters are really generic tropes, clearly made for a slightly younger audience than the main series, but still has a lot of depth in gameplay and a pretty good story.
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Fluwm
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Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2021 6:12 am
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The story in MHS2 is aggressively average IMO. It still suffers from some of the issues w/r/t setting that all MonHan games have, but it's buoyed by really high production value.
Definitely do not buy this game for the narrative. Buy it for the combat system, which is really good, and the aesthetic, which is really slick.
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