I will say one thing which is that I wish the combat in this game wasn't so heavily QTE-based I understand it's their design decision and the rest of the game really seems phenomenal but this is just not my particular jam - ThreadSky

rincewind.run • 29 days ago

I will say one thing which is that I wish the combat in this game wasn't so heavily QTE-based

I understand it's their design decision and the rest of the game really seems phenomenal but this is just not my particular jam

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sadknob.bsky.social•29 days ago

this is what i was i was waiting to hear about. i've had others tell me the same. i play on pc, and avoid qte like the plague.

shanembailey.com•29 days ago

I feel the same. I'm going to give it another try though since everyone is raving about it

taojones.bsky.social•29 days ago

this is a game that i think even people who don't play video games would love, which is why it bums me out a little that even story mode keeps you on your toes from act 2 onward. i think a lower difficulty with more generous parry timing would have been nice to have as an option

oggie.bsky.social•29 days ago

I am entirely with you. I stopped playing because of this. It just ...was actively harming the fun for me. If they let me have a visual indicator (like I do for outgoing abilities) I would be fine, but the audio cues are difficult for me to process ( and as good as the music is, short bursts).

oggie.bsky.social•29 days ago

To be clear - I haven't sworn off the game. Other stuff came up, and it was a thorn in my side, and I play games to relax or get enjoyably stressed, and getting angry about, effectively, a ux choice just made me want to do something else.

So, tabled for now, hoping others love it.

thelongshot2112.bsky.social•29 days ago

I wouldn't call a parry system QTEs. QTEs basically are random buttons thrown at you to react to, while this is more reacting to attacks, which you can dodge if parrying isn't your thing.

soupness.bsky.social•29 days ago

Oh .. I thought he meant attacking.

jess873.bsky.social•29 days ago

You can turn off the QTEs in the accessibility settings if you want to. I started out that way and then turned them back on after I had a better feel for the combat.

purinos.bsky.social•29 days ago

Are those in the defensive side, too? I thought I read that that was only for attacks.

jess873.bsky.social•29 days ago

oh, you're right and I read too fast, that's only for attacks. Still helped my non-gamer ass out but doesn't solve the dodge/parry situation.

papaziti.bsky.social•29 days ago

Dodge is fren

kobullied.bsky.social•29 days ago

I've talked to a lot of people who turned on the auto-QTE option for your attacks which I think is fair, they're kinda boring

I do really like the dodge/parry dynamic. I will also say that tank oriented builds are genuinely feasible, I am a big fan of Maelle's Egide for this

irfauna.bsky.social•29 days ago

I haven't been doing the QTE, does it become necessary at some point?

cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social•29 days ago

As someone with not the greatest reflexes and coordination I've really come to loathe QTEs. What worse is when they're shoe-horned into games that don't even have an action component, like point-and-click adventures. I see so many others railing against them so why do devs keep shoving them in?

herrstephen.bsky.social•29 days ago

The advice I heard was switch to Easy *to learn the timings*, then bump it back up if desired.

cobwebmadeoflego.bsky.social•29 days ago

It's still bloody annoying that players have to resort to such tactics just to get through the game. I'm kinda glad this game is outside my price-range.

absolutereality.blog•29 days ago

It felt that way in the beginning for me, but I ended up enjoying figuring out the rhythm of the parries and jumps for each enemy. Then by the time I had a handle on that, I had enough pictos and skills that I could really really enjoy setting those up to work together across the whole party.

absolutereality.blog•29 days ago

This also wasn’t obvious to me until later in the game, but you increase health/defense mostly by equipping pictos with high health and defense stats. Not by upgrading attributes. You’ll stay alive longer even if you get hit.

soupness.bsky.social•29 days ago

I believe you can tell the game to set those to auto.

rincewind.run•29 days ago

IMPORTANT UPDATE: I HAVE ACQUIRED THE BAGUETTE OUTFIT FOR GUSTAVE

FRENCH LEVEL +1000

doom.calamitousintent.com•27 days ago

art

benharri.org•27 days ago

wait how do you get that outfit lol

rincewind.run•27 days ago

fight the optional mimes, they give you baguette outfits

benharri.org•27 days ago

dang I must've missed some of them! I only have it for sciel so far

rincewind.run•27 days ago

yeah the gustave one is back in spring meadows, you’ll have to backtrack

benharri.org•27 days ago

ooh ok! i haven't done any backtracking yet, will have to give it a look

karamcnair.bsky.social•29 days ago

honh honh honh! 👨‍🎨

markshatraw.bsky.social•29 days ago

suboptimaldad.gobirds.online•27 days ago

I know this thread went on for a while, but I was considering calling this game “good but not my thing” and then unlocked baguette outfit for Lune and I’m immediately back in.

rincewind.run•27 days ago

maelle does so much damage, you guys

just turboleveled to 30 because she can two shot the bosses at the hidden gestral arena, she is a god of war

youkillmyfather.bsky.social•27 days ago

bonestudent.ing•27 days ago

She is a beast and I love her.

vagaries.bsky.social•27 days ago

Maelle and ~other character you have not met yet~ are damage GODS.

vagaries.bsky.social•27 days ago

Seriously, I keep one shotting end game content with both of them. It’s insane.

spavel.bsky.social•27 days ago

1d6 French damage

samuraipizzarob.bsky.social•27 days ago

I have absolutely not got my head around an effective Maelle build yet *but* I am having a lot of fun with this game. It’s so, so good.

rincewind.run•27 days ago

get the weapon that lets her start with virtuose stance (have her be the one doing the solo fights in the gestral village arena), optionally have someone apply mark, percee them for eleventy billion damage

then set them on fire and use the ability that switches back to virtuose, repeat

realcoachbeard.bsky.social•27 days ago

Enjoy the ride. I’m not done with the game yet but it is terrific

vaelis.bsky.social•27 days ago

Just you wait, she gets so many good skills.

timil.bsky.social•27 days ago

As a French, I feel even frenchier knowing this.

malcolm.redbirdmenace.com•29 days ago

As a rhythm game liker, it's made the game so much more addictive because I love the feeling of figuring out the pace and ruthlessly parrying. I also understand my opinion is largely invalid because I played Hi-Fi Rush at least three times.

mattstorymusic.bsky.social•29 days ago

I think I saw a video of someone turning those off in settings.

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