Well Witcher 3 did rank like number 4 or 5 on Game Informer's top 100 RPGs.
Well that's awesome. I was always frustrated when I had to choose between a social link and raising stats! In the meantime, I am no longer suffering because I can't play P5 because I started the Witcher 3 and I am crying the purest tears
Outside of the opening theme, I did my best not to listen to anything until I started playing. I also don't think there is a single social link that I don't find interesting, and I'm liking how the game is subverting expectations with this game. Emperor, Temperance, and Death are easily my favorites so far. I'm also surprised because I'm in July and I only have three more Confidants to acquire if the game is going by the traditional mode of things. I know where one of them is, but he's locked behind my social stats being too low, the other two are story characters I still haven't met yet, but the plot is starting to hint to them. The way the system works in this game, it's so much harder to figure out how to spend your time, which is probably why more of them raise social stats, in addition to regular social stat raising activities now raising multiple stats instead of just one.
I've had the soundtrack on loop for some time now, tbh
I hear that. The interesting thing about the narrative (well there are a lot of things, but I dare not spoil it for you) is that it kind of combines the flow of both P3 and P4. Like P4, the scenarios are very episodic with a certain "routine" that has to be done before completing the story mission, but unlike P4, the story actually feels like it's going somewhere and the stakes are being raised with each "episode" which is closer to P3. It also has more of the oppressive and negative feel of P3's story. Your party is pretty chummy like P4, but the game drops the slice of life feel from P4. It also has P3's way of making everything flow into each other. The confidants work well with the story premise and the central themes are much stronger and more cleverly integrated into the mechanics. The Confidants actually feel like they serve a purpose narratively in this game as opposed to P4's "hey let's bring back that popular element from P3 and make it better" shlick. Also the soundtrack is more jazz and 70s influcence. The track that plays for Evening time is just gold, and I'm now understanding all of the youtube memes using the battle theme, because it's just as much as an earworm as P3's battle theme.
That's awesome As much as I loved P4, the way everyone and their mother loved it and shoved the rest of the series aside to put it on a pedestal was annoying. And I can totally relate. I can't get out of the grip the Witcher has on me either. Just beat 2 yesterday and GOG has a big RPG sale right now, so I managed to snag theEitcher 3 expansion pass for half price. Now I just need to wait for all of it to download, because my computer doesn't like my Witcher 3 disc for some reason.
Not much to say, Persona 5 has consumed my life, and I feel the changes it made has reflected on things I didn't like about P4, even things I didn't realize annoyed me until P5 came in and changed it for the better. This game is kind of the anti-P4.
So how's stuff?
Yeah, I was a bit worried that the hype would leave a bitter taste in my mouth, but so far, I'm happy that my doubts are being proven wrong. Hopefully once you get a new place and some financial stability afterwards, you can get either a PS3 or 4 and this game.
Man, I really can;t wait to play it. Super glad you're enjoying it though! That way I know it's legit and not just hype.
