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Playing ToCS: Trails of Cold Steel on the PS Vita. About 15 hours in and I am enjoying it a lot! I like the "school" setting since I always enjoyed fantasy books where hero(s) goes "school" for training and all the politics, friendships, rivalries etc which goes along with it. For example I am talking about Patrick Rothfuss's The Name of the Wind or Antony Ryan's Bloodsong etc.
The reason why I like the “school”/”academy” setting is that it automatically makes the world big, mysteries and you a small fish in the grand scheme of things since you are someone who is dealing with school life. In many recent RPG’s I have played, I know from the start that I am the big hero who is going to save the world! So it’s kind of refreshing to go from saving the world to studying at the school!
Also they are cleverly building up the outside world as well. There is no information dump as such (unless you go the library and read books). You get information about what the world while talking to your classmates and trying to figure them out. You are mostly interested in the local school stuff but vignettes about the world is revealed while doing this.
Some people may have issues with this but this is anime so you get the usual anime tropes as well but they are not over the top and I kind of enjoying these tropes so far!
After playing lot of action games lately, its refreshing to go and play a turn based game. They have multiple different system which works together and its seems very tactical. I have not figured out the whole thing yet but it seems to have lot of depth.
On aside note, I am pretty impressed with the vita. Its slightly bigger than the iPhone Plus and graphics seems pretty good. Most of my gaming is done while travelling to and from work on the train so its nice little handle for that!
The reason why I like the “school”/”academy” setting is that it automatically makes the world big, mysteries and you a small fish in the grand scheme of things since you are someone who is dealing with school life. In many recent RPG’s I have played, I know from the start that I am the big hero who is going to save the world! So it’s kind of refreshing to go from saving the world to studying at the school!
Also they are cleverly building up the outside world as well. There is no information dump as such (unless you go the library and read books). You get information about what the world while talking to your classmates and trying to figure them out. You are mostly interested in the local school stuff but vignettes about the world is revealed while doing this.
Some people may have issues with this but this is anime so you get the usual anime tropes as well but they are not over the top and I kind of enjoying these tropes so far!
After playing lot of action games lately, its refreshing to go and play a turn based game. They have multiple different system which works together and its seems very tactical. I have not figured out the whole thing yet but it seems to have lot of depth.
On aside note, I am pretty impressed with the vita. Its slightly bigger than the iPhone Plus and graphics seems pretty good. Most of my gaming is done while travelling to and from work on the train so its nice little handle for that!
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