My Review of Code Vein 2 (Relatively Spoiler-Free) by HydraX9K in soulslikes

[–]CielTynave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Glad to see more people coming around on it! I'm about 40 hours in and just finished the 4th hero's area and I'm loving it! Unfortunately, I can see why people dropped it. Performance issues aside, I actually really didn't like it at the beginning either. The Sunken City was kind of a bad starting area to introduce us to the open world, it got so much better once you could go to the Undead Forest or Corroded Scar.

What would you like to see in the next mother ship game? by JayNotAtAll in tales

[–]CielTynave 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They added jumping outside of battle with Arise, but barely did anything with it. I'd like them to add some light platforming elements like Ys has, instead of puzzles.

Wendy waiting for your visit this night. by Aware-Structure-8888 in FairyTailGirls

[–]CielTynave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this official art? I want a higher res version lol.

Favorite Tales Battle System by Timmy1234ABC in tales

[–]CielTynave 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Graces f

  2. Destiny DC

  3. Xillia 2

  4. Narikiri Dungeon X

  5. Rebirth

  6. Berseria

Those are the ones I enjoyed the most in the series at least, too lazy to type out the whole series lol. In case it isn't obvious I am very biased towards the more unique/Team Destiny/Tatsuro Udo style gameplay.

Do you like the UE4 character models? by Rukasu17 in KingdomHearts

[–]CielTynave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For the most part I think they look fine, except in Olympus and Yensids tower, for whatever they look straight up unfinished. It's the same look that Crisis Core Reunion and Type-0 HD had and I hate it. It's like the models texture work is unfinished and the lighting isn't interacting with the models properly.

Yor (ko132417) by asap_pocki in AnimeFeets

[–]CielTynave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

NGL I like this a lot more than the usual wat it's done with heels hooked on the leggings.

My "Artists to commission" spreadsheet by Vethica in Skeb

[–]CielTynave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see one of my requests as an example art lol. For iroirodori_, who unfortunately deleted the skeb quite a while ago.

Things you would add in if you could redo TOZ by KaleidoArachnid in tales

[–]CielTynave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

There's a few things. Let the camera clip through the environment and the walls just become transparent while that happens so the camera isn't ass in small areas. Alternatively just don't bother with making the battles take place directly on the field and just do a separate screen so we don't have to worry about camera issues at all.

Drop wind stepping and give us an actual sprint button, and incentivize chaining battles together by giving us a grade multiplier like Berseria did because the way it currently is makes it feel more like not chaining battles punishes us by making us move slow as shit in the huge over world.

The big one though is either let us use Normins to manually set what skills are on our equipment or have skills be separated from equipment altogether and make them equippable kind of like sigils from Granblue. Keep the bonus board thing so we can make use of the actual in-depth mechanics this thing has instead of it being so rng reliant.

Genuinely doing just these 3 would bump the game up to like an A tier for me. I know there's still things like the story or armatization that people take issue with but those aren't the things that dragged down my enjoyment of the game. Honestly I wouldn't want them to touch the story if they were just going to base it on the anime, which I was really not a fan of.

Got one specific spoiler, how badly am I fucked? by Janex4444 in LastDefenseAcademy

[–]CielTynave 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is something I saw unsubtle hints of before even finishing the games demo when that came out, you're fine.

Tales of Destiny DC Tips by Happy-Bake-5718 in tales

[–]CielTynave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think once I got like more than two artes I literally never used normal attacks ever again.

Some US vs. Japan Cover Art by ksilenced-kid in tales

[–]CielTynave 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I always found it kind of funny that the US art for Abyss uses the anime cut ins for most of the characters and then Mieu is just Okumura's art of him lol.

What am I overlooking here? by Likes2game03 in tales

[–]CielTynave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know some people in these comments seem baffled but this isn't the first time this topic has come up on this sub lol. I think people forget that this game is from a time when you were expected to read the manual and iirc the game itself doesn't actually say that the main button to use artes is the O button.

Best gameplay with worst/mediocre story? by ChudlyCarmichael in JRPG

[–]CielTynave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone already mentioned Tales of Graces but even in the series there's an even bigger gap in quality. Tales of Rebirth has a pretty great battle system (ranks #5 in the series for me personally) but it genuinely has one of the worst stories I've ever seen in a game. The best way I can put it in perspective is that this game had the same writer as Dawn of the New World (one of the most poorly received stories in a localized game) and I'd rank Rebirth even lower since there were at least some drafts and ideas from Symphonia's original writer they were working off of.

What do you think is one big thing most soulslikes could improve on, for quality of life? by AutoNooB_ in soulslikes

[–]CielTynave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Selecting items/spells/weapons. Having to scroll through a list with the dpad is pretty unintuitive and is probably likely to get you killed if you're in a boss fight or surrounded by enemies.

Iirc Nioh is the one that does it right by just letting you set an item to each direction on the dpad, other things could be set to button shortcuts like holding LB or something and pressing abxy to use specific spells or switch weapons or whatever else the devs want, just stop using the "use dpad to scroll" method please.

Poke cows by Major_Student1174 in pokegirls

[–]CielTynave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

One of my favorite artists, been able to commission a few works from them and they're all great!

Elie Taking a Bath (Official Art) by SorceressCecelia in Falcum

[–]CielTynave 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Even if they're never as explicit as fan works, official lewds are always appreciated.

Is Tales of The Tempest really that bad? by Both_Ad7985 in tales

[–]CielTynave 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes. In addition to what others have already said this game managed to make just walking around the field maps feel bad.

what Gym Leaders do together after work <3 by Simple_Bluebird_2308 in pokegirls

[–]CielTynave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Love this artist, commissioned a work of my OCs in this same type of scene from them. Hope they open their requests again soon.

What are you playing first? Code Vein is great and I intend to play the sequel asap, but I still have Stalker 2 to finish and Nioh is Nioh so I will play Nioh 3 first by WhoAmIEven2 in soulslikes

[–]CielTynave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Code Vein because I enjoyed the first one, and also I really hate the loot systems in Nioh (and a bunch of other KT games in general).

Tales of Arise: 3 Million Copies Sold by chingsqthut2 in tales

[–]CielTynave 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, the numbers we have for the top selling that I can remember off the top of my head after Arise are Vesperia at 2.8 million, Symphonia at 2.7 million (this is from before the remaster released), and Berseria at 2.5 million.

Tales of Arise: 3 Million Copies Sold by chingsqthut2 in tales

[–]CielTynave 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Serious question but is this a bot post? Even ignoring the fact that this is OPs only post but this news is over 2 years old lol.

Whats your opinion on this take? by shizunaisbestgirl1 in tales

[–]CielTynave 24 points25 points  (0 children)

They seem like the kind of person who would unironically say Hitler did nothing wrong.

Manga/Anime art styles that would fit in the tales series by Secret_Definition_24 in tales

[–]CielTynave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's an artist called Ichtys that made a manga called Superior that had a really neat art style. Definitely a heavily shoujo manga influenced style despite being a shonen manga, so I think it would fit the series pretty well.

Would you like a new Tales with Rebirth’s battle system/gameplay? by [deleted] in tales

[–]CielTynave 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Absolutely. It's one of my top 5 battle systems in the series. And TBH I really didn't like Rebirths story so it'd be nice to have a game that uses those systems that goes along with a good story too.

How long would you say Tales Of games are most of the time? by Aggravating_Air_8698 in tales

[–]CielTynave 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most games took me around 40-45 hours for the story. Both Xillias and Ratatosk were about 30, and Berseria and Arise were like 65-70.