I'm waiting on Paul's copy which should be with me soon. Am hype to moan

Not that there's any hurry. It's a reskinned PS2 game.

I completed this recently after I finished Nier. I am a huge fan of Ueda's other works, and although I see glimpses of what he's trying to achieve here, I just can't see past the fucking awful bugs, the shitty camera, the basic gameplay built on the idea that, yes, you know what to do, yes, you know what the game wants you to do to achieve it, you know how to guide trico, but for some reason he just stares for 15 minutes and refuses to move. Or runs back because your pointing wasn't the right way because of course it wasn't. Or you press the button that's stroke trico/use mirror item/remove spear/pickup item, but it doesn't pick the right one because how the fuck could it. Also those amor suit guys crying you into the door? fuck that whole thing. Not fun at all.

Can anyone guess what my answer was to get trico to finally move or do what I needed? What worked every time without fail? Restart from checkpoint. That tells me maybe it's not some smart AI, but maybe the scripting broke.

(edit: Speaking of, how many jumped onto a ledge that crumbled above trico, and obviously the game plays a small cutscene that means you catch trico's tail, but the kid just falls to his death completely spoiling the moment? doing that three times a go was frustrating, because there's no way to do anything else!)

I loved the design, I didn't mind the controls at all, and I loved just sitting with trico and calming him down after a battle. I also loved that ending, and the story in general was quite nice. I was so ready to love this game.

It was just completely broken for me, unfortunately, and needed way more time in development. somehow.

The bugs in this game and many quirks pissed me off to no end. But, I'd rather have played it than not.

As the game has surely dropped in price by about 60% or more now, its a no-brainer, low-risk purchase. No great loss if you dislike it, and a stellar bargain if you are cinty-minded.

Vela wrote:

The bugs in this game and many quirks pissed me off to no end. But, I'd rather have played it than not.

That's a very fair shout. Maybe I should have added exactly this. I'm glad I played it, but like watching a film from a favourite director or a book from a favourite author, i came away more disappointed because I know what this team has been capable of.

There were moments where I got even more frustrated because they were so beautiful, and I knew I would have to move soon and potentially have the atmosphere spoilt. One main example was when I jumped into a pool, and under water I saw trico jump in after me, and seeing him at this scale dive under with the boy was just incredible. I absolutely adored just splashing around with this giant clumsy thing, and trico shaking off and having a lie down. THEN I hit this point where he needed to jump in the water after and just stared at a rock. And I refused to restart. 25 mins later I gave in running back and forth and pointing, stroking his feather etc, and restarted again. Was fine after that.

Maybe I just got a really shitty disc?

The game deemed you unworthy. Only the chosen may have an unbroken play through.

Cinty and I had pretty much bug/issue free playthroughs. Anyone else?

hylian_elf wrote:

Cinty and I had pretty much bug/issue free playthroughs. Anyone else?

Blinded by sheer faith fam

Moot_Geeza wrote:

It's incredible that a 7hr escort mission - where your charge is fifteen times your size - works at all.

Sounds like it might be your game, DS.

Not like my chippy tea this week: only a handful of chips!

Moot_Geeza wrote:

Not relevant to TLG, but when I wrote this earlier:

Moot_Geeza wrote:

It's incredible that a 7hr escort mission - where your charge is fifteen times your size - works at all.

I did a quick Google to see if the phrase 'your charge' is correct when escorting something, and managed to leave a Google Chrome tab open with the search results for 'escort charge'.  My wife has watched iplayer in a tab to the left of it since then.  I wonder if I'll be getting a chat about it in the next few days.

hahahaha

hylian_elf wrote:

Cinty and I had pretty much bug/issue free playthroughs. Anyone else?

I had no problems, and where it was a bit clunky or where Trico misbehaved I felt that it just fed in to the whole experience.

I really can't stress enough how much I loved this game. It's top 10 stuff for me.

Going to do another run-through when I get my Pro.

Me neither.

It was a barrel of laughs.

Definitely two different copies released, then...

hylian_elf wrote:

Cinty and I had pretty much bug/issue free playthroughs. Anyone else?

\o/