Eternal Sonata on PS3: More characters, more story

well, i've been planning on picking this up for awhile now. now i have a reason to wait (dlc and price drop). plus i got the forza 2/ MUA double pack last night for 26 bucks. that should keep me occupied for awhile with bioshock and halo 3 and dead rising and tons of other games that i have neglected.

I was disappointed by ES's ending. It had so much great potential built up for it in the early half. Then came dungeon grinding with no plot, then the end, which was strange and ambiguous.

Oh well.

I can't see her hands. What is she doing under the sheet?

there are not trailing ZZZ's so she's not sleeping.

Could she be fantasizing about me and business time?

"It's business, it's business time..."

The power of the Blu-Ray is unleashed!

LOL

Arrrrrgh.

I just want to say this:

I have not played ES but based on this screen...

The whole RPG cliché in which one character is in a coma in a dream world and they have to fight their way back to sanity/reality is overplayed.

Let's start a list

1. The Longest Journey: Dreamfall
2. Grandia 2
3. Eternal Sonata?
4.....

This game was brilliant. Whoever is complaining about the ending, did you happen to watch passed the credits? This annoyed me a bit, as it's a key to plot closure, but at least it's there. Also, I can see that the second half seemed to be missing a few things, but I wouldn't say it was terrible and "thrown together".

Although, knowing now that it appears they intentionally left out some story line does piss me off a bit. And if they don't release it as DLC on the 360 I'm going to start a one man ryot and they WILL be sorry!

passed = past

Good thing it's friday...

More Characters! More Story! More Waiting!

so, the first half of the story is promising, while the ending falls apart... sounds like most animes and anime based things to me :/

Only 1,5 month later than IGN!

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/820/820383p1.html

By More story, they mean more long dialuge that hurts the review score. Just like the reason the 360 version for the score it got.

Back on subject. This seems to be happening alot. Timed exclusives for one side gets less then the people that get it next. VF5? online for the 360 ps3 no online.
That just means good news, more things for UT3 for 360 then the ps3 got. :)

Cool, hopefully they will make the cut scenes even longer and more insufferable.

That image reminds me of a story I heard of a few years ago, but I don't remember what it is.

Basically, this student falls asleep and wakes up in another world, but when he falls asleep or is knocked unconscious in the other world he wakes up in the real world. So it's like he's never sleeping at all. From what I remember he was a hero in the "dream" world.

Can someone help me out?

The story was great up until it took a huge left turn an decided to ponder the ambiguity of life and death. There must have been alot that was lost in translation, or wrapped up in deep Japanese mythological thinking because I just found it extremely confusing and not applicable to my experiences. They should have kept with the, what i thought was, great political story. Last thing this game needs though is more movies--I honestly feel bad for people buying the ps3 version.

The majority of people have a hard time figuring out that the story within the dream is only one part of the story. Think of everything you do and even the people you talk with and how they figure into Chopin's real emotions. Who represents what and who is what person in his real life. The whole game just opens up at that point.

Hell, even the name Count Waltz ends up making perfect sense. The little vignettes about Chopin's real life end up factoring heavily into the emotions presented by Chopin during each section and you see exactly how his feelings develop during his death. It's absolutely amazingly well-written.

I'm somewhat concerned by the changes to the game. Crescendo and Serenade both really shouldn't be with you at any point (Serenade especially) and if they ARE with you, it won't be until the last dungeon anyway. Costume changes are just superfluous. That also doesn't count how the last time Namco did something like this (the PS2 version of Tales of Symphonia), it A. was actually worse than the GC version and B. it didn't come out in the US.

Hopefully this somehow comes out for DLC on XBL, don't know how they would incorperate it, but I don't want to buy and beat ES again to get a better second half of the game story