I get where the CRPG comparisons are coming from, but I really don't know that it's all that accurate.
Outside of the combat having a resemblance to CRPGs, pretty much everything is slanted more towards action or tactical JRPGs. This has none of the pen & paper roleplaying stuff (character sheets, dice rolls, etc.) that to me is what really defines a CRPG.
I've heard a lot of good things about this game, but I haven't tried it out yet myself. It must be the sort of thing that you have to experience to really get it because I feel like the gameplay doesn't come across all that well in the videos that I've seen.
Looks like the gameplay continues to hold up beyond the demo. Really looking forward to diving into this later this week as the Q4 2022 / Q1 2023 flood of Square-Enix titles begins - next week is Valkyrie Elysium which also had a pretty good demo.
Fire Emblem: Three Houses was also pretty muddy, but I'm just glad that the performance and load times aren't awful like they were on Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity. The performance is still not amazing, but it's at least better.
I'm really enjoying this game, but it is almost purely for fans of FE: Three Houses and musou games. If you aren't in the center of that Venn diagram, this may be a tough sell for you.
For the benefit of people that are new to OPM and may be following along with this podcast, this is really not the best place for discussing spoilers about the newest chapters of the manga.
As a general rule, you probably shouldn't discuss anything (even spoiler tagged) if it's beyond the episodes covered in the current podcast episode.
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