I found out after it’s best to just do the final dungeon then clean things up. Lol I know it seems backwards but since there is two endings it makes sense to clean it up before the second ending

I’m already cleaning up before final boss as well. Should I divert course? I already feel like I killed my momentum.

@@nintendude794 Just finish the game. Normal ending worked a lot better for me. Loved it. True ending wasn't worth it for me since I wasn't a fan of their narrative choices. When I replay this in the future, I'm sticking with the normal ending.

I love the main game graphics. All the portrait art and stuff and whatnot is a big miss for me, though. I dont understand how that happened.

If you want a sequel you could play the messanger. Its the game sabotage made before sea of stars, and sea of stars is actually a prequel to it. Its also really good.

I couldn't stop noticing that 🤣

😆yep, same

My GOTY as well! The secret at the end made all my efforts feel like such a heartfelt experience

Same here! Finished 2 days ago. I was immediately looking for a similar fix. I'm thinking chained echoes.

An excellent choice. Chained Echoes is another fantastic game for sure.

@@devin_the_dude_3 I actually just downloaded chained echoes yesterday lol. I finally built my PC last weekend and got game pass, and Chained Echoes is on there! I'll be starting it soon, Brad has hyped it up so much I'm sure we won't be disappointed

@@chrisisjoking I'm very excited to check out Chained Echoes. I'll be starting it soon!

I feel that, at least for me, 20 to 40 hours to complete a game's main story is the goldilocks sweet spot (at least for narrative single player type games).

Oh, there will be. Eiyuden Chronicles Hundred heroes comes out in early 2024. That's a spiritual successor to suikoden!

Thank you! -Bloodworth

it wouldn't be so bad if there was a tradeoff but it's just better than every other super move.

That's the magic of finding your own tastes, regardless of what others say. I played the demo as well and loved it. The art and music are flawless. And the combat feels strategic, even if a bit simple (which isn't really a negative trait).

i'll join on that, outside of visuals and a few tracks everything was feeling artificial. Even battles were formulaic, basically telling you what actions to do every turn to win. I never felt i was the one playing the game and making choices, much like the 2 main characters who names are forgettable.

People are always going to finish at different paces. I was going off the in-game clock, which was well past 40 hours. -Bloodworth

@@EasyAllies Fair. But still.... where did you spend that time? 😄

Honestly, now that I think about it, probably Wheels. -Bloodworth

@@EasyAllies thats a lot of Wheels 🤣

ha ha, yeah, I'm sure I didn't put 10 hours into Wheels. -Bloodworth

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They were reasonable enough for me, without the parrot perhaps less so, but only a couple items were truly hidden imo.

Check out the intro of Jirard’s video about this game.

I will 😀 @@metalmilitia89

Far from all of our reviews are late. Most go up pretty close to release if not before. But we're also not afraid of putting together a review a bit later, since there are a ton of people who aren't going to pick up a game day one, particularly in a year like 2023, and many people enjoy watching our reviews even if they've already played the game. As for the reasons why a review might come later, that varies depending on the game. Sometimes we don't get a game until launch, so we don't have an option but to start later. Sometimes a game has a significant online component, so we either can't play multiplayer before launch, or the pre-launch multiplayer has such a limited player base that we decide it's better to wait until the game is out in the public. Sometimes we simply don't pick up a game until later for one reason or another, but still think it's worth a review. We also have a very small reviews team who are all juggling multiple responsibilities, not just writing reviews. Anything I review in particular can be a challenge since I'm also doing a lot behind the scenes to keep the business running. I'm hosting the weekly podcast, I'm coordinating all of our editorial coverage, checking off on every script and editorial video, getting groceries, checking the mail, updating the bookkeeper, coordinating our team's schedule, archiving Twitch VODs, and of course, trying to cover other games with previews and impressions at the same time. A lot of that stuff can't just be pushed aside to work on a review, so I'm often trying to squeeze in a few hours here and there after midnight etc. I put this script together between like 11 PM and 3 AM the other night after group stream, but I'm really happy with how it turned out. Ha, ha. Sorry, that was a lot, but should answer your question. -Bloodworth

The opening is a bit slow indeed. But believe me.... After that the game gets incredibly good. Easy contender for GOTY 2023 imo

@@recht_voor_zijn_raap5506 doesn't the opening last the entire game? it never really picks up.

@@zeosummers3984 Yeah pretty obvious you haven't played the game.

Even better than Tears of the Kingdom, Baldur’s Gate 3, Hi-Fi Rush and Starfield?

For me, it’s close to Zelda. Starfield is a mid game and everyone knows it.

@@metalmilitia89 nah, the hysteria around Starfield has been blown way out of proportion. The gaming community always does this, I’ve seen it too many times. Starfield has many flaws, but it’s also an incredibly large and ambitious game. It’s got a lot to offer depending on what you want out of it. I have a LOT more to play yet, but it feels like about an 8/10 to me. With the potential for that number to go up or down easily.

@@mick9707 yea?

@@sanskarmishra5309 nice! Glad you’re enjoying it, must be a cool game.

Why is it so much better than Starfield? Story Characters Writing Dialogue Choice and Consequence Exploration Side Quests Lore Combat Loot Environment and Level Design Graphics Voice Acting Sound Design Music Which of these does Sea of Stars do better to make it so much better?

@@mick9707 The vast majority of those are better in Sea.

@@SojiRo23 I haven’t played Sea of Thieves, but from what I’ve seen and heard about it, and what I know about retro style JRPG’s like it, I find it hard to imagine it beats Starfield in a handful of these areas. Choice and Consequence Exploration (despite Starfield’s mixed quality here when defining exploration and decision WHAT you want to explore and HOW) Side Quests Lore Graphics Voice Acting Sound Design The list above is surely all better in Starfield, no? I imagine Environment and Level Design would be quite complicated to compare, but Starfield is surely far more ambitious, complex and immersive here?

@@mick9707 Starfield isn’t ambitious. It’s just big geographically. Sea of Stars has WAY more creative ambition.

@@SojiRo23 saying Starfield isn’t ambitious is just plain untrue. While it didn’t push the boundaries in all the areas people wanted; the game is huge, with countless interacting parts. It has an insane number of systems, some of which have incredible breadth and depth. Creating a game of this scale, that attempts this many things, is a huge undertaking, and thus very ambitious. Just because the focus was more on things like Quests, volume of dialogue and dialogue options, scale of the Galaxy, lore, ship building, rpg peripheral systems etc. and not on space travel, seamlessly landing on planets etc like a lot of people hoped and assumed, doesn’t mean it lacked ambition.

Sounds like MK's coming along well. Don't think it will be too much longer. -Bloodworth

Yeah I played in on GP so its no big deal, but I would be pissed if I spent money on it after reading so many 9 and 10/10s from media outlets.

worst part is, that you end up with characters with so little personality the stoic character gets dialogue to fill the void. you get 1 personality trait of garl to try to hold it together.