The Adventures of Elliot: The Millennium Tales, early reviews
every review is just someone's opinion, man, but i have some questions for some of the reviewers who praised this game's story. did we play the same game?! kotaku.com/the-adventur...
Rebekah Valentine199I am BEGGING RPGs, and video games more broadly, to learn to tell a more nuanced story than "one day everyone woke up and realized racism was bad, and then everything was fine forever, the end"
Dora B9Can't believe his name is Elliot and the game is set in Philly(abieldia) A lot of Square Enix's recent games have felt very "by the numbers" to me when it comes to story and writing in a way that I would say skews very young if not for the fact that young folk have way meatier material to choose.
Jesse Norris7It's a game with one seemingly bad person and everyone else is levels of the greatest/nicest person you've ever met.
Fossilized Nerd (Jesse)5dang, my fears from the demo are realized. Maybe they intended this game as more of an introduction to the genre for younger audiences, but that doesn't excuse the story being bad when my first real RPG was Paper Mario TTYD that had multiple deaths and very nuanced story bits lol
Nathan Savant3I played the intro demo and nearly threw myself in front of a bus during the orphanage scene. It takes skill to be that saccharine and overwrought...
Matt Sowinski3Right?!?! Like I can't remember a single characters name. Everyone is exactly who you'd expect, with no exception.
Luke M.3Sometimes I feel like players and reviewers a) hold JRPGs to a different (lower) standard of storytelling than other genres and b) are still judging them by 1991 video game standards.
woke stifler3i thought it finally picked up and did some interesting things at the very very end but yeah not much of note before that
Hugh J. O'Donnell 🏳️🌈2I played the demo and the sidequest with the hat broke me.
Kraehe2I quit the demo after the first dungeon. I couldn't stand the dialogues any longer. And the gameplay wasn't fun enough to make up for them, which is sad. I hoped I would like it.
a vague and maybe unpopular take I have is that while the name "The Adventures of Elliot" is a bit silly and fun to joke about.. I do wonder if somewhere in the mix is that ever-lingering fear of "can games be taken seriously" because of how much it kinda sounds like a child's storybook title.
Mitch Dyer4very funny to see people clown on this while ignoring the very thing it's riffing on, the equally goofy "The Legend of Zelda" video games have always had silly titles, odd to see this one attract so much attention for it lmao
Rebekah Valentine3in the universe of the game "The Adventures of Elliot" literally becomes a children's storybook as part of a sidequest
bramslammin3I mean its a guy named Elliot going on adventures that perfect describes the game. I mean outside of a video game title context Elliot is not really a funny sounding name or anything so I'm not sure myself why the name in a game title does feel funny to me.
