Made in Abyss: Binary Star Falling into Darkness is NOT a bad rpg (not anymore anyway).

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I went against the advice of everyone when I posted on this subreddit about it and bought the game physically for the switch. All the complaints about “oh you have to beat a five hour tutorial to unlock Deep In Abyss which had the deeper gameplay” or “framerate issues galore” or “it’s ass” don’t appear to be the case at least with the updates I downloaded before playing. Right off the bat I could play Deep in Abyss, and 16 hours in I have yet to encounter a single framerate drop. Is the gameplay still frustratingly hard? Yes but I expect that from a rogue-like dungeon crawler based on an anime which is known for being brutal and unforgiving. I’m posting this because the initial complaints about this title don’t appear to be warranted anymore and it deserves a fair shot. I still think it’s a niche title and it’s not for anyone wanting to play a casual rpg, but it’s not “bad” like the reviews it’s been given. Voice acting is bad but I can look past that. If you say it’s bad because it’s hard though, you should play something else.

The other complaint I think that was unwarranted was about how it’s from Spike Chunsoft. Umm excuse me? They’re known for dungeon crawlers and it appears they branched out in that genre with this game to give a higher challenge. So what? They actually listened to and addressed all complaints with the game to make it better. How many companies can you say will do that on their dime?

in JRPGby BadLuckShoesie

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TehNolz

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On release, the Deep in Abyss gamemode was locked until you beat Hello Abyss, but they eventually changed this. Also, even today the game is locked to 30 FPS on Switch, and occasionally dips below that in certain areas. The game seems to perform just fine on PC and PS4 though (but I haven't tried it myself).

Personally I loved the game, though I'm a huge Made in Abyss fan so I'm a bit biased. I own the collector's edition on Switch, and I'm probably going to get the game on Steam later on just so I can get all the achievements.

shadowgamer22

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I was let down by binary star when I played it um a massive fan of the anime and the game just felt so Janky to play and the visuals were ugly

ShaNagbaImuru777

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Spike Chunsoft

It's amusing to see people complaining about that, even if a minority. Chunsoft as a developer has been around forever and, among other things, is responsible for some JRPG classics like the first 5 Dragon Quest games and the Mystery Dungeon series. I get the difference of then and now, but they're still quite successful and with Kadokawa's backing they don't have a shortage of funding.

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I platinumed it at launch. Game just wasn't fun and did everything in it power to be annoying at every single turn. Enemies infinitely spawning within 3 feet of you after a certain amount of time passed, those infinitely spawning butterflies that solely exist to make you fall to your death but you can't climb up too fast cuz the curse or fight cuz your stamina unless you're on a rope

First impressions are what stick, which is why they're so important. I'm not going back to it and how it was at launch will be how me and many others who played it will remember it as. It's fixed now? Should have been this way at launch. I also don't recall it being advertised as a rouge like so don't just add genres onto a game to conveniently help your cause. If you can show me that it was than I'll concede on that point

No man's sky is fixed now but won't escape it's launch controversy. Cyberpunk is better now, it can't hide from it's disastrous launch state

Hamyam1985

6mo

So, I am not the type to play very challenging games usually. I am I it for the great stories. So I really wanted to enjoy the easy mode in Made in Abyss. I played quite a bit of it, but as I did and characters were repeating the same voices lines over and over again! It was constant! Is this normal? Is there something I was doing wrong?