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Mobius. An idyllic world that lets people forget about the pain and problems of reality. Created by a sentient vocaloid program, μ (Mu), reality and fantasy have become blurred, allowing people to relive their high school years in bliss -- but just how real is a virtual happiness?
The Caligula Effect: Overdose is a rpg, jrpg and anime game
developed by FURYU Corporation and Engine Software BV
and published by NIS America and Inc..
Released on March 12th 2019 is available only on Windows
in 5 languages: English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 573 reviews of which 418 were positive and 155 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.0 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 49.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 15.82€ on Instant Gaming.
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- OS *: Windows 7 64-bit or later
- Processor: Dual-core Intel or AMD processor, 2.5 GHz or faster
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 450 GTS or AMD Radeon 6770 HD
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 6 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 3D Resolution Scale at 50%
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While this is a recommendation, it's a rather careful one. Admittedly, the game is not that good. The low(er) budget is painfully obvious, the dungeons consist of rather bland corridors, basically no characters outside of the main two groups exist, the Causality Link quest system is a nice idea implemented poorly, the equipment system makes no sense and feels almost pointless, there is almost no meaningful mechanical progression outside from a handful of unlockable skills, and the combat eventually starts getting frustratingly repetitive. Why is this a recommendation then? Predominantly for the story. Sure, the setting and premise are rather generic, but it really lets its characters shine. Most of them, while undeniably tropey, are written very well and have some really satisfying development both in the main story and in the optional character events. This goes both for the heroes of the story and the antagonists. And it's elevated greatly by the very emotional, sometimes even raw-feeling, voice acting. In part this has to do with the voice direction being strong too, I'd say. While the combat does get repetitive in frequent encounters, when it works it works very well. The unusual battle system was part of the reason I checked the game out in the first place and ultimately it did not disappoint. The main mechanic is a "prediction" system that allows you to see what the enemies intend to do in the near future and the effects any attacks would have, and plan ahead up to 3 actions per character. It suits boss fights and scripted encounters well, but the battle system being more involved means that the chaff encounters get rather annoying. You can skip most regular enemies given that they will only "notice" you and initiate the fight if they're at your level or higher (and even then you can dodge most of them or run from battle), but you really don't want to fall behind on XP since being underleveled incurs rather big accuracy penalties. The music certainly deserves a mention as well, every dungeon has a unique theme seamlessly switching between the vocal and instrumental versions when going in and out of combat, capping off with a remix of it during the boss fight, and pretty much all of the tracks are quite good. Ultimately, if you can handle some jank and slogginess (honestly I wouldn't mind the game being 10-20 hours shorter, though the long playtime is mostly on me here), it's a unique and somewhat fresh-feeling JRPG that's worth checking out on sale.
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You'll spend more time completing the mystery of the 21-class leader than the story itself. Thoughts and prayers
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HONESTLY!!! Ive been fairly biased towards this game... but its still really fun!! Like, its fun but OBJECTIVELY speaking its not that good. The problem is that it had really good baseline but it just didn't execute it that well... I don't think thats the best way to describe it but for example: The characters are really interesting HOWEVER their development (and how they live with/solve the issue with their life) feels rushed and incomplete sometimes not even resolving the character's development ending when the protagonist learns of their issue. Again this isn't that bad because the characters are geniuenly interesting and when their arc is actually pulled off well it's really cool just that most of the characters' often feel off. This isn't the only thing like this in the game... The main story can feel rushed too in a similar way and the way the characters act feels very off... The thing is that if you can look past things like this the game is very fun but not mentioning these just because you CAN look past them wouldnt be a very good review.... Although I haven't played it from what I hear the second game pretty much fixes those issues... The game does have other problems like the dungeon design being pretty repetitive in the later areas because HONESTLY the first 4 areas we're cool cuz there was like some degree of interactiveness with the dungeon with different objectives to do... after the library all the dungeons are pretty much just going to the end (unless you wanna count looking for two keys in the construction site). Other than that, there's the combat, which is a masterpiece probably up there with my favorite combat systems. Seriously, this combat is really good... Anyways, I really like the game. I do recommend you play it even with these shortcomings because its still honestly a great game that I find really fun, just expect things like this... Also this is the first time I've tried writing an honest to goodness review so like yknow fr fr fr....
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Get this game if you want a JRPG with unique battle system, amazing character design, lovable cast of characters (even the antagonists!) and banger OSTs. There are a some downsides that I encountered, such as stiff animations, repetitive dungeon design and I feel like some of the story lacks the resolution that it deserve. My mind has been occupied by this game for weeks now, you can say it's all the effect of overdosing on caligula, heh.
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Bought this on sale with no clue what it was and was pleasantly surprised by how interesting the cast and story were. JRPG with the premise of what if The Matrix was run by Vocaloids The battle system is... ok. It incentives juggling enemies to not allow them to get their turns but the lack of a battle timeline scrub control makes it far more time consuming that it should be. MC stat improvements outside of levels is tied to the Causality Link which is a sidequest tree. Cool the first few times you try it, but with how much the sidequests repeat, gets really tedious. I'd honestly recommend this game at lowest difficulty just to be able to speed along the story because that really is where it shines.
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The Caligula Effect: Overdose is currently priced at 49.99€ on Steam.
The Caligula Effect: Overdose is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 49.99€ on Steam.
The Caligula Effect: Overdose received 418 positive votes out of a total of 573 achieving a rating of 6.96.
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The Caligula Effect: Overdose was developed by FURYU Corporation and Engine Software BV and published by NIS America and Inc..
The Caligula Effect: Overdose is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Caligula Effect: Overdose is not playable on MacOS.
The Caligula Effect: Overdose is not playable on Linux.
The Caligula Effect: Overdose is a single-player game.
There are 16 DLCs available for The Caligula Effect: Overdose. Explore additional content available for The Caligula Effect: Overdose on Steam.
The Caligula Effect: Overdose does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Caligula Effect: Overdose does not support Steam Remote Play.
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FURYU Corporation,
Engine Software BV
Publisher
NIS America, Inc.
Release
12 Mar 2019
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