Demon Gaze II

Reviewed by playing a on November 10, 2017Demon Gaze II is also available for.Finally, there's a sequel to 2014's highly underrated dungeon crawling masterpiece. Although Demon Gaze II doesn't reinvent the classic formula, does it at least live up to its predecessor? The revolution may not be televised but it will be on the radioBefore I start this review, I should mention that the original Demon Gaze is one of my favourite games of all time.

I'm a huge fan of first-person grid-based dungeon crawlers and that game blew my mind by how addictive it is. Now that I played the sequel, I must admit that I'm mildly disappointed but still happy to see the underrated dungeon crawler turn into a series.For starters, the familiar dynamic of travelling to various dungeons while battling foes and gathering a wealth of treasure then returning home to enhance your party is as addictive as it was in the first game. Nifty mechanics such as placing furniture to provide stat boosts and extracting ether from unneeded items to enhance equipment have fittingly carried over to this new adventure. Demon Gaze II's primary gameplay addition is the fact that demons now join your party as opposed to merely being assist characters. This is handled well in that it's enjoyable to watch them grow and you can even form relationships with them via a mini-game and a dating sim aspect. My gang of demon ladies and I have some dungeon crawling to doDemon Gaze II's story is a big departure from the first installment.

Demon Gaze II - Official Website: Demons Magnastar has spellbound the people of Asteria into obeying him. As the Revolutionist Party attempts to overthrow him, it is up to you, the Demon Gazer, to wield the power of demons, liberate Asteria's citizens, and shine the light of revolution! Demon Gaze II begins with the player on a mission for an unknown cause. As the story unfolds, we find out that not only does the player have amnesia, but we are also a part of a rebel group who.

Basically, you and a ragtag group of revolutionists are planning on overthrowing a tyrannical regime. Pirates of the burning sea physx download. Some of the characters run a pirate radio station where they broadcast both information and lovely songs to inspire the masses. If you played the first game, you'll even recognize a few of the characters although I'm not 100% sure if that's just in name only because Demon Gaze II seems to take place in an entirely different universe than the first game.

Overall, the cast of characters and innovative story premise are intriguing enough to keep any genre fan hooked.Although this all sounds fresh and exciting, I found the world in Demon Gaze II to be a lot less enjoyable than the one in the first game. The original Demon Gaze featured plenty of cheeky humour, off-the-wall characters, and a gorgeous soundtrack full of catchy vocal tracks. Demon Gaze II definitely feels sterilized in comparison as the humour and cast of characters don't stand out as much and the music surely isn't as memorable. In other words, everything seems much more toned down which makes the world a lot less lively. Liberating the land is hard work but someone has to do it!As I've already discussed, the gameplay features a new layer in the form of recruiting demons to join your party.

I enjoyed forming relationships with them and watching my party grow more powerful over the course of the campaign. Another interesting mechanic in play is that you unlock abilities based on your alignment that you select at the beginning of the game.

You can choose to be good, neutral, or evil which basically acts as a spectrum with skills that range from supportive to offensive.All of that being said, there really isn't much gameplay-wise that sets Demon Gaze II apart from its predecessor. It comes across more like a side-story that should have been titled Demon Gaze 1.5. I wish there were new mechanics besides just recruiting demons and the alignment system such as a fresh way to customize equipment or innovative dungeon puzzles like in the recently released. Instead, what's here is a tried and true gameplay dynamic but it definitely doesn't take many chances.

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Some demons sure are fierce but at least they make for good party membersEven though it isn't as captivating as the first game, Demon Gaze II offers an engaging campaign that dungeon crawler fans are sure to appreciate. I just hope Demon Gaze III takes a few more risks.

Maciejewski (crazyaejay): Thanks for reading my review of Demon Gaze II. Feel free to ask any questions about the game or provide feedback and I'll gladly reply.GeoffBoyRD: in your opinion, what is the best games most like SMT type games.

Monster recruiting, and fusing is a BIG BONUS. A la Dragon quest monsters jokers and the likeA.J. Maciejewski (crazyaejay): Hi, Geof.

Although many critics didn't enjoy it as much as I did, I highly recommend The Lost Child. It allows you to recruit, customize, and evolve a party of monsters and it has some very elaborate dungeons, too.

When I played the original on PlayStation Vita, I was rather new to the DRPG genre and didn’t enjoy it as much as I did when I replayed it a year later. A few years have passed since then and for a while it felt like Demon Gaze II would remain as a Japanese only title. Thankfully NIS America finally announced the localization and a PS4 version which surprised me. I’ve been playing not just Experience Inc. Games but dungeon RPGs in general on handheld platforms so playing this on the PS4 has been interesting and Kadokawa did a great job with the port.

While it has a few flaws overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the time I’ve spent here.Demon Gaze II is set in the city of Asteria. The background CGI images are lush and pleasing to look at. You play as someone who has lost all their memories but back in contact with two of your childhood friends.

You were all orphans taken into Stella’s Palace and have formed a Revolutionist Party. The story involves a radio station broadcast program, finding the truth to why someone vanished, and more. While the story isn’t groundbreaking, it serves as a nice palette cleanser in between sessions of dungeon crawling. The main NPCs are mostly well written and I enjoyed the banter here and there in between story sequences.Dungeons are obviously a big part of the experience (I promise I will stop) and these exist in the Restricted Zones of the city. Your aim with dungeons is to take over demon circles through the use of gems and defeating enemies that spawn in.

This will allow you to get some good gear depending on the gems used and get closer to reaching the boss of the area. Once you control all the circles in one area, the portal to the demon’s realm. This is where you have to solve some basic puzzles (these get more involved as the story progresses) and eventually fight the boss. More and more demons will join your party and your cause as you defeat them with more than 15 playable characters overall.Since this is a DRPG, combat is turn based and there have been a lot of quality of life enhancements to the experience in combat and in dungeons. Your star gauge on the top left of the screen lets you know how much you can use your demons in their demonized or stat boosted form. It fills up the more you fight.

You can speed up each encounter, auto move through areas you’ve visited already, and a lot more making this feel more polished than many of the other recent games of the sub genre. The one gameplay mechanic I didn’t much care for is the maintenance mode. I’m no stranger to “rubbing” mini games after playing Moe Chronicle through an import on Vita already but it doesn’t feel well thought out here. You can date your demons as well to learn a bit more about them but it feels like a pointless addition to a formula that already worked well.I was initially skeptical about how this would look on the PS4 since many games that were Vita only and then ported to PS4 haven’t looked too hot. Ultra Despair Girls in particular looks quite bad on the big screen.

Kadokawa has done a brilliant job here with characters and dungeon designs on the big screen. There is only one single UI aspect that is low resolution and it is the small circle in dialogue boxes that shows the character face. The rest looks crisp and it doesn’t feel like a port outside of some UI elements being a bit too big.

The big complaint I have with the visuals lies in the text though. The text boxes for dialogue are huge on the TV and yet the text content is squished to the left or middle. The font choice isn’t terrible like but it should’ve been better.

In some cases one bit of dialogue had the text left aligned but the next sentence was center aligned. This shows a lack of polish and I even had a few instances where some text was just cut off or incomplete in the menu. Another annoyance is in the inconsistent enemy design. Some of them look great but others completely out of place.While many games have dual audio, Demon Gaze II has both dual text and dual audio options. You can mix and match between English and Japanese text and audio. Both voice acting languages are an option because they both are done well.

The original game had a lovely vocaloid soundtrack and the one here feels like a combination of the tunes in Demon Gaze and Ray Gigant. This extends to the interface sounds as well with an upbeat jingle on completing a quest that would fit right in with Experience Inc.’s Ray Gigant.After more 30 hours with Demon Gaze II, I’ve still feel like there’s loads left to do. This is a great conversion to PS4 and it almost feels like they started out planning for more than a Vita version because outside of one UI element, everything looks great on the big screen. Demon Gaze II is also the first DRPG on the PS4 and this was definitely an interesting experience for me considering I’ve played all the others on handheld platforms. Experience Inc. Continues to impress me and I’d say this is a great game to get into the genre with. It has multiple difficulty options for both new and experienced (sorry) players and doesn’t look like a low resolution handheld game on the big screen.

2017 has turned out to be a fantastic year for NIS America for sure.