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Post by Discoalucard on Feb 4, 2016 13:11:59 GMT -5
Will definitely pick it up and update the article with it. I wasn't crazy with the direction the series took with 2020, but it was still okay. Would be good to play it in English.
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Post by Discoalucard on Sept 30, 2016 8:20:42 GMT -5
Updated this with the fourth and final game in the series: www.hardcoregaming101.net/7thdragon/7thdragon3.htmI also went back and fixed up a few things for the older games, mostly to amend some errors and make the terminology consistent with the localization of 7th Dragon III. I ended up enjoying this quite a bit. There are a enough new party configurations that make it a big step up from the 2020 games, and I appreciate it attempting to tie together closer with the original DS game.
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Post by Lord Dalek on Sept 30, 2016 13:52:42 GMT -5
If only Sega would release the original as DSiWare or something...
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Post by Woody Alien on Nov 9, 2016 9:05:32 GMT -5
Updated this with 7th Dragon 2020: www.hardcoregaming101.net/7thdragon/7thdragon2.htmI lost interest in this PSP sequel almost immediately based on the changes they made (less classes, etc) but in spite of losing some of the more unique stuff, it's a better game overall. Reminds me that I need to look up who the new artist is...it definitely has a different look, sound and feel to the original game. Didn't know anything about this series, I don't think it's my cup of tea, but still I have to say something about character design. I feel the artist was trying too hard to make "cool" characters especially after titles like "The World Ends With You"... for example, why the Hackers look respectively an otaku rapper and a morose Gothic lolita? Sure it's not easy to convey that your character is a hacker just by their clothes, but still. That Trickster lady is mighty fine, though!
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Post by pikacommando on Dec 26, 2016 0:04:43 GMT -5
Where did you get that 7th Dragon was going to be a 5-part series and that 2020 was a spin-off? I always thought 2020 and 2020-II was meant as a two-part second game, like how Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004 are considered Unreal Tournament 2 or Super Robot Wars Z2 being divided into two games.
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Post by kaoru on Dec 26, 2016 6:51:08 GMT -5
2020/2020-II are rather obviously spinoffs, at least that was the feeling when I payed it, and I've not seen them refered to anything else anywhere on the internet. They are pretty much the same story/scenario of the DS game again, just in a style that tries to capture the Persona crowd instead of the Etrian Odyssey one this time arround. They also share some characters that aren't the quite the same. Just so happened that 2020 made more money than the DS one, so they made 2020-II instead and have III follow up that one's timeline and visual style too. I'm still early in 7th Dragon III, but I think it reatroactively sews everything together by time travel and alternate timelines and such , but rather by a late attempt to make the series a whole in the final entry, kind of how Xenosaga III had to quickly wrap everything up earlier than planned.
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Post by Discoalucard on Dec 26, 2016 13:54:30 GMT -5
Where did you get that 7th Dragon was going to be a 5-part series and that 2020 was a spin-off? I always thought 2020 and 2020-II was meant as a two-part second game, like how Unreal Tournament 2003 and 2004 are considered Unreal Tournament 2 or Super Robot Wars Z2 being divided into two games. I forget exactly where the number of games was initially stated, since this article was originally written several years ago, but the Japanese Wikipedia article states that 2020 was intended to be a "gaiden" entry: ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%89%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B4%E3%83%B3I think when they saw that the market really wasn't going to support five games, plus the original director leaving, they just wrapped everything together.
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