I've only been playing this for a little while but it seems very cosy. What did you think of it...

I've only been playing this for a little while but it seems very cosy. What did you think of it? I'd heard it was a bit underwhelming for most people.

I never played it but from what I saw while my wife was playing it looked super cosy. She didn't seem to care much one way or the other about it though.

It's meant to be played VERY LAZILY.

Anyone expecting high or even medium energy out of it won't end up liking it at all.

It's a great time-passer.

Super fun and easy, but short as fuck. After maxing a few classes it becomes repetitive, having you revisit zones just to hunt down an enemy or material or two, sometimes forcing you to wait for areas to reset to get multiples kills/items from one time spawns.

Showed a lot of promise and was a lot more fun than Final Fantasy Explorers.

It's a good way to waste time. Expect to buy the DLC though because it adds a shitload of content into the game, and the main game is too easy.

It's not nearly as good as Rune Factory 4 though.

take off your trip you fucking faggot

Never bought the DLC but loved the game; does it add enough new to get me re-engaged or is it just "you unlocked the ability to grind higher"

More of the latter. The island is cool, but it's more of the same with an extra layer of grinding on top.

The game is very grindy. I bought it for the multiplayer but it turns out it's terrible since you're so restricted in what you can do. Thought I could play the whole game in multiplayer.

The DLC adds way more difficult stuff for you to do like actually challenging dungeons and super bosses, and all the items you can craft are way more powerful and interesting. It gives you an actual goal rather than just trying to max out your levels (Get strong enough to beat the super bosses)

And yes of course there's way more grind on top of it too.

Slightly underwhelming.

But it scratched that Animal Crossing itch better than New Leaf for some reason.

Yuelia is best girl.

I've just started playing this myself as well. Started out as a blacksmith. Seems very comfy. I hope I can change jobs soon though, I want to start mining. And then I'd like to make some clothes and decorate my house or something. To be honest, the combat doesn't interest me very much but I'm sure I'm going to have to do some of that sooner or later. I'm the same with Harvest Moon/Rune Factory. I just like farming and fucking around in the town and fishing and stuff. Rune Factory just doesn't do it for me.

It does have a very Animal Crossing feeling to it.

I really liked it.

Pretty lame desu. Not too cosy.

You can change jobs very early on, I think after the first or second chapter.

Also the DLC makes the game twice as enjoyable imo, I bought it but it's probably possible to pirate it now.

>short as fuck
>story is cliche as fuck
>dialogue can be cringey
>everything is grindy
>multiplayer is not like I expected
Ehh. It looked cute and the music was catchy.

Can I just use this thread to ask for recommendations for 3DS RPG's? I played a bit of Fantasy Life but got bored rather quickly, same with Rune Factory 4. Stella Glow wasn't that good I thought. Any others I should know about?

I liked it but you can tell it was only a part of a much larger vision they had to compromise on. I heard it was supposed to be a sort of MMO at the earliest stages, which makes a lot of sense to me since there isn't a lot of inscentive to just stick with one Life... In fact if they were going to let one player do everything I don't see why you have to go through the hassle of officially changing jobs at all. It would work much better as a game where every player is part of a larger ecosystem and they have to work together

Just wait for Dragon Quest VII in a few weeks. It's amazing and will probably take over your life for weeks.

You can change your job as soon as you finish the tutorial can't you? I remember playing it and just doing every job intro first. It's really a good idea to juggle several ones at the same time as you progress. Like, do Archer, Mining, Woodcutting, Carpentry and Blacksmithing all at the same time.

I had no idea the game was in development for so long and that it was originally going to be for the DS.

It's a good game, OP. You can't go wrong with Level 5. It's not perfect, but it's perfectly enjoyable.

You know you could rest in a house to make the resources respawn, right? For monsters to respawn you just had to reenter the area, so that's even faster.

Yeah, in the DS days the graphics were done by the same guys as the graphics for Mother 3, so it looked great. I was actually kind of bummed when they moved to 3D models for the 3DS

Not that guy, but I just started with the game yesterday, too. That is precisely what I plan to juggle, so I guess I'm on the right track. Although the stat builds confuse me a little, right now I'm just focusing on maxing the main stat for my combat class and luck because I think that affects rare drops, right? Am I doing it wrong?

I couldn't handle the constant hand holding, tutorials, and dialogue.

>constant tutorials
What?

Aw man, that's kinda sad.

There's also at least one job (Postmaster) that was cut fairly late into the 3DS version. You can still see a postman feature prominently in the intro FMV.

A lot of the info on this game's development is only available in Japanese, it never made it to English sites like unseen 64 or TCRF. I'll dig it all up together someday

Fantasy Life seems to have been a case of absolute development hell. I just read that there was supposed to be an actual MMORPG for the XBOX that was cancelled.

Good luck to you if you ever decide to do so. Where would you post it? Here? Or somewhere more permanent?

I knew about resting, but was still pointing out the simplistic flaws. I don't know about reentering a zone, I remember having to rest for everything to respawn.

I'd post it somewhere more permanent, I'd probably try to submit it to a more mainstream site like unseen 64. I'm not as fluent in Japanese my friend who helped me find a lot of this though, I'll have to ask him for help

Yeah, I do agree that kind of makes it tedious, but I personally wouldn't know how to balance that as to make it just a neverending source of goods.
>That spoiler
Jesus fucking christ.

>want to be a blacksmith
>have to master every other job if I want to master blacksmith
NOPE

>spoiler
I swear it's something I tried several times prior, then just got into the habit or returning to the house anytime I needed that 1 monster or 1 material.

Can't you just buy resources?

I put a ton of time into it but fuck the spawn rates for rare trees to cut down

You'd only need like Mining, Woodcutting and Carpentry to master Blacksmith wouldn't you? You can just use knives to fight with if you don't wanna use one of the 4 fighting classes.

I like what I played of it when I rented it.
>In April 2015, Level-5 revealed a sequel named Fantasy Life 2: Two Moons and the Village of God, which is set exclusively for release on smartphone devices in 2016.[8][9]
Fuck you.

No not all of them
You have to master like 8-9 jobs
You need to craft master lvl items from those jobs or hunt for them to reach master lvl for blacksmith

No, that was True Fantasy Live Online.

I started playing it too and it's pretty decent. Definitely underwhelming though

Also, the bounty system is ass

>Everyone talks about how they want an Animal Crossing game with dating elements.

I feel like Fantasy Life with dating elements would be 100x better.

You'd need Woodcutting, Mining and Carpentry to be fully able to get all you need, right?

Something I love about Fantasy Life is that all the jobs are different, but equally important. For example only the carpenter makes magic wands, only the blacksmith makes armor, etc.

Then I went and played an MMO like Final Fantasy XIV and saw the crafting there... The carpenter makes Wooden Spears, Wooden Masks, and Wooden Furniture.... The blacksmith makes Iron Spears, Iron Masks, and Iron Furniture... The Goldworker makes Gold Spears, Gold Masks, Gold Furniture... It's the same no matter what you pick. Choice in an illusion

>learn every job
>get bored and quit game

I thought I liked life sims, but it turns out I hate them with the exception of Harvest Moon / Story of Seasons.

Dropped this. Dropped Animal Crossing.

Anytime someone mentions such, I always think of Thousand Arms. Which would be a cool concept to revisit if done right.

Though, either with a dating aspect is mostly what Rune Factory is.

I never could get into Animal Crossing. There's fuck all to do but walk around sending letters to people who live next door and selling apples. Harvest Moon is the best life sim.

Its all the ideas Level 5 wanted to implement into Dragon Quest IX but couldn't. So they just made a separate game for it. But you can see why some of it was axed from DQIX.

Finally people are figuring it out. Animal Crossing is basically Harvest Moon with all the good things removed. And shitty time requirements like a smartphone game such as Tapped Out.

Animal Crossing would be tollerable, even good, if it just added farming and more NPC interaction. Currently, it just a grinding game with a real world time limit. Might as well go and talk to actual people and maintain a social life over playing a game that makes you do more work for less results.

>b-b-but muh furries!

I have a very weird complaint.

The colors are too saturated, they burn my eyes.