La Pucelle: Ragnarok

Careful. Ragnarok's character portraits and background renders have clearly been filtered through an AI upscaler, which makes much of the art look choppy, muddy, and warped. The actual character sprites are unaltered, though, which is thankfully what you'll be looking at most of the time, so most might not notice. However, once you see how the background art looks like someone has sloppily smeared their hands through it, you won't unsee it. The game itself is a good rpg with interesting mechanics, though, and a classic. It leaves me conflicted, because gameplay wise it's a good port that makes plenty of improvements to the old game, but the cutscenes are just blurry and hard to look at. I don't know how anyone can butcher such beautiful art and still show their faces in public, it's just shameful. La Pucelle deserved better than this, but what can you do? Companies can get away with anything so long as they're fine with sacrificing whatever good quality or reputation is associated with their brand. I'm sure this would have been a much bigger and more fruitful discussion if more people actually bought this game. But, alas. Genuinely; If you don't care about what you're looking at a…

Before I got this I didn't realize it was a side-scroller RPG, unlike Nippon Ichi's other works that I adoree, like Rhapsody or Disgaea, where you can roam around wherever you'd like in the overworld without the movement constraintss, which wasn't something for mee, but I could get behind itt (bonus 'cause the text font is simply awfull, dunno why they changed itt, but I could get used to it with timee) Howeverr, what I can't get behind is that the character portraits have clearly been ran through an AI upscalerr, which is a huge shamee, and now once I've seen it in gamee, I can't unsee itt. The lines/colors on the portraits are very muddiedd, the kind of muddied that only AI upscalers can dooo. Strangelyy, this was dishonestly never disclosed on the game's Steam store pagee, and having it only be slightly mentioned in one Steam review is rather jarringg. Aaand since nobody's seemed to have modded this version of the game yett, this can't be fixedd. Just play La Pucelle: Tactics or emulate the original Ragnarok with the English patch insteadd, not this AI upscaled re-releasee Thankfullyy, I was able to gather a few screenshots to show some examples of the AI upscaling in the char…

Another great NIS classic. Charming characters, humor and spritework. The dark energy system is a rewarding intercombat puzzle and a close relative to what would become the geo system in the Disgaea series. Item fusion might need you to look up a short guide that explains it better than the ingame "tutorial" same with the Dark World system. As for the "Over 100 hours of gameplay with multiple endings" I kinda disagree unless you go out of your way to see EVERYTHING including multiple NG+ runs and without spoiling anything grind for special endings.

This is a fun jrpg.

중독성 오짐

game is good! one of the all-time great NIS games