Sea of Stars (PC/PS5/PS4/NSW) - Sequel to The Messenger - 2023

[6souls]

[Gokulo]

Demo was added on Switch can't wait to check it out after work

[silverdragontyr]

Its so good. I am even more excited for this game after the demo.

[Qalbert]

Was announced for Gamepass during the Microsoft extended show

[BWYuko]

Demo is available NOW

Game releases August 29, 2023

[Odesseiron]

Man, good and bad time to be an RPG fan. I'll buy this the day it comes out for sure to give the devs full support, but I won't be playing it for months, will be deep into Baldur's Gate.

This is also the week Starfield is getting early access. That game I couldn't care less about, but still. I know they're all 3 different genres of RPG, but I hope they don't get crushed by releasing it this week.

[Andalusian girls]

any kind of release buzz is going to get absolutely crushed by BG3 and Starfield lmao, but yeah hopefully can get some good word of mouth and sell well in the long run

[Gokulo]

Sweeeet

https://twitter.com/PlayStation/stat...847741952?s=20

[Tyrath]

Well that certainly moves it up on my to play list lol

[Qalbert]

between that and game pass i think a lot of people will try it out which it deserves

[Odesseiron]

Review embargo is up. Generally favorable, 8+ or better across the board. I think I'll buy it versus game pass so the dev gets the money.

After 200 hours of it, should be a great Baldur's Gate palette cleanser.

[Kaslo]

I feel bad, but I'm waiting for the physical edition.

[Zealot]

Downloaded mine, will probably start playing tomorrow, or maybe break out the Steam Deck for this and take it everywhere.

[Andalusian girls]

hadn't heard much of this outside of this thread but that 89 at meta + it being on Game Pass means i'll give er a go

[Gokulo]

Played around two hours today. The start is pretty slow, kinda had to force myself to power through it, hope the story picks up soon. Also, I think I'm grasping the combat system mostly fine, but I ran into one encounter with multiple ants, which resist physical attacks and can summon two more units per turn and that battle took me like 15 min or more to complete, because I just couldn't kill them fast enough... Thankfully they decided to stop spamming summon at some point because I was almost ready to just shut down the game, lol.

[Ayn]

Should I wrap up the Messenger before starting this?

[Tyrath]

Played around two hours today. The start is pretty slow, kinda had to force myself to power through it, hope the story picks up soon. Also, I think I'm grasping the combat system mostly fine, but I ran into one encounter with multiple ants, which resist physical attacks and can summon two more units per turn and that battle took me like 15 min or more to complete, because I just couldn't kill them fast enough... Thankfully they decided to stop spamming summon at some point because I was almost ready to just shut down the game, lol.

Why didn't you use magic on them? It like one shots them.

Start was indeed slow, but I've been loving it since the battles got going.

Should I wrap up the Messenger before starting this?

I haven't played that but I don't think they are related?

[Gokulo]

Why didn't you use magic on them? It like one shots them.

Start was indeed slow, but I've been loving it since the battles got going.

I haven't played that but I don't think they are related?

I mean I could kille 1-2 in one turn, but next turn like 4 new would be summoned and then I need a couple turns more to recover mp. And when you have like 7-8 ants on the screen you're also wasting turns trying to heal from all the damage, lol. I dunno if AI just decided to screw me over so much, but I literally wasn't able to kill them fast enough with multiple respawning every turn.

And yeah, this is the same universe as The Messenger (which is kinda wild), but I think they said you don't need to play it to understand this game.

[Tyrath]

AI did decide to screw you because I only saw them summon 3x throughout the whole dungeon. 2 of them happened in the same fight and I ended that one with the Sun AOE combo attack lol

[Zealot]

This one hit me like a nostalgia bomb, wasn't 20 minutes in before I was thinking "When was the last time I played Lunar?"