It deserves all the praise it has received. What an incredible game.

I did myself the disservice of watching a synopsis of the game to see what the hype is all about. All spoilers known.

Holy shit am I going to buy the hell out of this game anyway.

It meets the hype. Fully.

Absolute. Cinema!

I do have a question playing this game: how many decided to play with French language and subs? Somehow it feels that is the way intended with this game

I just don‘t like the game because it has turn based combat. Like it‘s an RPG but you can‘t demolish foes with reaction skills. Where‘s the fun in that?

Imagine being this clueless.

Nope, even tho the game is french, the original is English and French is a dub. They even splurged for well known/good english voice actors. But french dub is also good, so you can go for it if you want. Try both for a few minutes and decide which one you want, I guess?

The English VA is really good and if you don’t speak French you will miss some characterizing lines. Combat barks and such aren’t subtitled, and neither is what little passive chatter between NPCs there is.

Yeah I’m French and I actually played it in English… Mostly for Jennifer English

I don’t like it because its French.

You actually can smoke foes with parries and reactive skills.

Macron always has a knack to try to use things popular with younger people to score political gains. Infamously with the ZEvent, for instance.

It is now traditional for them to answer with “Shut your mouth Macron, this isn’t about you”.

I’ve been told the French is rather mediocre compared to the English.

It does have a lot of replay value because the gameplay loop is tight, and the foreshadowing work is so outstandingly tight that every in-game conversation has a second layer of meaning once you know the story twists.

Also they added a photo mode and I kinda wanna do a NG+ just for that.

Now want to try it less Macron has horrible judgement no reason to assume his gaming judgement is different.

Akshully both are dubs, but the script and mocap sessions were done in English. On top of that the French dub was outsourced and the game director and lead writer weren’t in the studio like for the English dub, and it shows IMO. Some French lines clearly don’t have the same level of direction as the “canonical” dub.

However I will say it’s still a better dub than most French dubs. I’d argue the bar is on the floor but the francophone dubbing lobby would draw and quarter me for holding such heretic opinions.

Its a pretty fab game, idiot endorsement or not

I switched to french with English subtitles… Because Mielle sounded like Shadowheart. It was fine for most stuff, but all of the jump/dodge/hit sounds, it sounded just like her.

Disadvantages of common voice actors…

That‘s atleast something. I just saw some screenshots and didn‘t like how it looked.

To me, combat needs to have positioning and creative interaction with terrain to be fun, which is why I love FromSoft games and soulslikes in general.