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i couldn't get into expedition 33 and im not sure what the big deal is with it (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by godlessworm@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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typically when there are popular games i cant get into, i still get why people like them. but i tried this game out and made it maybe 20 mins. granted im not a fan of turn based battles, i can get into turn based games if the rest of the story is good

but all i saw in my few mins of playing was some lame ass british people (even worse, the JRPG version of british people) and then movement that literally felt like an unreal engine asset flip. you dont feel connected to the world at all and the design of the world doesnt feel like its made for that movement system. after feeling the movement in the game and then doing the battle tutorial, i thought “this is not for me” and uninstalled it

i feel like the biggest fucking idiot on earth tho. im the only person who cant get into this game.

can those of you who enjoy it explain to me what’s good about it?

does the movement feel less janky as you get used to it? it just felt terrible to me. no weight to your character or anything

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[–] No_Bark@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm not big on turn based JRPG styled games, FFX is the best Final Fantasy if that gives you any indication of how I feel about the genre, but this game really managed to hook me after you leave Lumiere.

I'm a big fan of the surreal environments and how aggressively French this game is. The game has STYLE and I find it very refreshing in a new and interesting way.

The story is engaging and pretty great so far. I've been finding the world interesting enough that I go out of my way to find side content that expands on the world more.

The combat really opens up by the time you get to the Gestural Village early in act 1. Or at least thats when it finally started to click for me. Figuring out how to synergize your party members with each other and playing off of their set ups is satisfying. The dodge and parry system took a little bit for me to get acclimated, and I found it very achievable but not necessarily easy.

I think I've been enjoying it as much as I have been mostly because its so different from what I normally play.