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An empty BWW playing a live Dodger game in LA, during ICE raids. Usually you can't find a seat. : pics
Main Post: An empty BWW playing a live Dodger game in LA, during ICE raids. Usually you can't find a seat. : pics
WCGW messing with a soundboard during a live theatre performance : Whatcouldgowrong
Main Post: WCGW messing with a soundboard during a live theatre performance : Whatcouldgowrong
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Live A Live is a transcendental masterpiece
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Its very rare when you realize while playing a game that you are experiencing a masterpiece. Even rarer is when the experience retroactively uplifts all similar experiences before it and shines them in a new light. Live A Live doesnt have the best gameplay, doesnt have the best story, and doesnt have the best music, except for 1 song. However, all of its parts are quite good. More importantly, the total package is exponentially greater than its parts.
Its more than a love letter to RPGs. Its a love letter to storytelling and beloved tropes across multiple genres and media types, told through the focus lense of a jrpg. Its the kind of game that reminds me why I started playing games in the first place. The kind of game that might inspire one to craft their own stories to tell, be it game, movie, or book. The kind of game that makes people obsessed and enthralled by jrpgs all over again, as if its 1994.
Play Live A Live before you die.
Top Comment: Looking at these comments, I will never understand this sub's hateboner for Live A Live. Yeah OP was overly dramatic sure, but I see people wax poetical about games they like here all the time.
Live A Live Review Thread
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Top Comment: Live A Live has always been a weird game, and its cool how even to this day there’s still debates about what the “best parts” are. I’m glad the remake added some nice QoL so more people can enjoy it. I personally love the original and am happy the overall reception is positive. I can’t give an unbiased recommendation but I can say that no JRPG since has ever scratched the same “itch” this game did.
Want to play Live A Live? Start here : r/livealive
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Live A Live is one of the best JRPG I’ve played in years.
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I went into this game with pretty neutral expectations. It reminded me a lot of Octopath Traveler which is a game I liked but didn’t love so I was expecting a pretty charming if unspectacular game.
I was so wrong, this is one of the most inventive, creative and unique games I’ve played in my LIFE.
In my 20 or so hours in this game I played a fighting game, a horror game, a puzzle game a stealth action game and more besides all through the lens of a JRPG. Where Octopath Traveller also had you playing through 8 different perspectives the game always remained the same to the point where I’m pretty hazy on the details of who did what. All 9 chapters in Live a Live feel COMPLETELY distinct.
I really feel like each time period was idea for a game by a different game designer but they couldn’t agree on which to go with so they just went FUCK IT and made a bunch of short self contained stories with unique mechanics and somehow managed to tie them all together for a Final Fantasy VI style finale where you go around uniting everyone, side questing and leveling up all these unique characters to take on the final boss.
And it’s so SHORT for a JRPG that not a single moment feels wasted. Each of the original 8 time periods took me no more than 2 hours to get through but they were such memorable and fun hours that I never got a chance to feel bored. I was always just excited enough to be looking forward to the next character selection while never actually getting a chance to tire of the one I was playing. Even the actual foundations of the gameplay is unique. There’s no MP and you completely heal following EVERY battle but because of that there’s much more thought and complexity to even the most minor of encounters. Any fight can beat you or be beaten depending YOUR skilll and attention. My party was only level 20 when I finished but I intimately understood how to best incorporate every single move and weapon my party had at there disposal.
I was originally going to just rank the time periods from best to worst but I just really feel like I should spread the word that this really does rest among the Golden Age of SNES rpgs like Chrono Trigger and FF6.
I know xenoblade is kind of stealing the show rn but trust me. This game is worth your time.
Top Comment: Where Octopath Traveller also had you playing through 8 different perspectives the game always remained the same to the point where I’m pretty hazy on the details of who did what. All 9 chapters in Live a Live feel COMPLETELY distinct. This is the real draw of the game for me. It's a short story collection that comes together, where the short stories dare to have a different structure, pace, mechanics, and even genre. Such anthologies can still be horrible. (Ever hear of the 1984 film Dungeonmaster?) But Live a Live sticks the landing.
[NO SPOILERS] Live A Live is one of the most refreshing ...
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