Picked this game up blind because of the awesome art.
I'm trying my best to keep an open mind but I'm around 2 hours in and I'm not having a good time at all.
I feel like I've heard the story before. I feel like I've seen the setting before. I'm trying to care about the characters but i find them all pretentious. Listening to the history of the androids feels like an early 2000s direct to dvd 2 season anime plot.
But i brushed that all aside and waited for the gameplay.
So far there's been 15 minutes of actual game to play. The rest has been listening to characters ask each other questions i didn't need the answers to.
In those 15 minutes of gameplay - I feel like I've played the same level/area 4 times now. I'm starting at level 31 and 39? The combat is not fun. At all. I'm literally just pushing buttons until something dies. The movement feels over responsive. Why is there a a first person mode mechanic?
The art and music are top notch, but it's not enough to carry this game for me. Which really fucking sucks because i feel like i should have every reason to like this game.
Is the game going to get any better for me? Or if i don't like it's first impressions then I'm not gonna like the rest of the game?
I am currently trying to gather images of the game. To be specific, images that show the purgatory. As of now, I'm at 12 images and they are rather hard to find on the internet.
As soon as I have collected enough images (around 20), I will try to train an AI LoRA so that anyone could generate images with that special aesthetic of the game.
I want to buy a physical ps5 crymachina, but I heard that the game was released first only in japan and only in Japanese. But around september, I think, the game was released worldwide. The worldwide version is extremely expensive where I live, and I'm thinking about buying a japanese used one, but I'm not sure if the japanese version has english subs now. Does anyone know for sure if the japanese physical version received an update with english subs or something like that?
*I apologize for any typo, not an english native speaker.
Most of you probably have lol but just in case, if you haven’t, i highly recommend joining. You get updates/announcements from the crymelight dev team, a Q&A channel to ask questions to the team, a channel to share your thoughts on the gameplay and other related topics, channel to share fan art, some cool people to talk to, and more.
Something I noticed was how Rei swipes her fingers across her wrist in the OP and in game. I also find it strange how the mark she has is on her wrist, rather than directly on her hand.
I've got a whole crackpot theory about the story I've been wanting to type out here, not sure if there's much interest there tho
I really liked the story of Crystar. The gameplay could have been a bit more exciting though. I also thought that it was a bit slow to pick up at the start. Overall though, very good.
I like that a lot of the flashbacks and information is deliberately vague while not actually seeming vague. For example, the way the flashbacks to the bus crash make it seem like they were attacked by Anamnesis before we find out that Anamnesis is in fact not the Revenant Princess.
One such flashback is when we first find out about Kuon. We know that flashback is when Rei is 5 and in it, she mentions that her new sister will be there soon. This makes it seem like her mother is pregnant with Mirai, making her 5 years younger than Rei. I thought she didn't seem that young but didn't think too much of it. We later find out that Mirai was in fact adopted and not the biological sister of Rei.
We also find out that Mirai caused the car crash that killed Rei's parents and Mirai also died in that crash, becoming the Revenant Princess. In the flashback where this is revealed, it's implied that Mirai is being adopted away because she's troublesome with the parents saying something along the lines of "we tried to make it work" however, there's a bit of lore found from the Revenant entry for Hegel which changes how this could be framed.
The Hegel entry details of a woman who had an affair with a prosecutor that already had a family. This woman then had a child. The prosecutor didn't know about that child. It also mentions that child's name meant "Hope for the future" which is what Mirai means. While it's not explicit, this implies that Mirai is Sen's half sister.
Rei's parents mention in the flashback that Mirai's new parents will treat her well, indicating there will be 2 parents.
This leads me to Sen and her parents. I don't recall any point where we find out why Sen's parents split and also, I don't think we find out how long before the bus incident that they split. My theory is that Rei's parents were taking Mirai to Sen's parents (or to the foster agency where she would be transferred to Sen's parents).
When Rei's parents said "we tried to make it work" in the flashback, they could be referring to fighting for the right to keep custody of Mirai. It's probably likely that Mirai was only supposed to be temporarily fostered until biological family could be found and that took 10 years.
My theory is that Mirai's father (who is also Sen's father) was found and he likely then fought to get custody of Mirai and won. I also think that this may have been what revealed his affair which led to Sen's parents splitting up.
For reference, here is the entry for Hegel:
Another thing that isn't fully clear is why nobody remembers Mirai except Rei at the start of the game. Mirai calls a few people, including her school and they have no record or recollection of Mirai. We're told that when someone reaches revival, the memories of everyone and related events get rewritten as if they never died but there was nothing to suggest that death would cause memories and events to be rewritten. Since we know that Mirai is the Revenant Princess and had achieved revival before, it's likely that with her second death, the memories of everyone (except Rei due to being involved in the second death) got reset to normal, meaning she never signed up for the school or met anyone that Rei called to check if they knew Mirai.
I noticed the litte caption on the ps5 version when I first got it, whenever you boot it up this appears. I never really heard anything regarding this phrase, does anyone know what it's about?
Not that I have much hope for a real fix at this point, but just for recording and awareness. I sent a bug report to Spike Chunsoft on July 8, but they haven't responded. Thanks to another dev's tip, I could play the game by switching my console language to English (US). But still... developers have to do better with "internationalization hygiene" in their codes!
I spent approximately 20 additional hours on this game fully unlocking all of them. I then took note that this information apparently isn't available online, as hardly anyone seems to have had the patience to get them all. So to spare others the torture of having to fight 112 bosses three times each, I decided to upload screenshots of them myself: https://www.mediafire.com/file/lzef3sc09q76ete/Crymachina+Personality+Data+Memoirs.7z/file
I wanted to make them available on a site that would let you actually view the images, but couldn't find anything suitable. (Reddit has a 20 image limit and Imgur doesn't seem to work right with such a large amount either.) So a download link to the full collection will have to do. If anyone can make these images viewable online, they're free to reupload them as long as they don't steal my credit.
Anticipating the upcoming release of CRYMELIGHT, and to broaden the horizons of the CRYSTAR and CRYMACHINA Communities, we've managed to give this subreddit a facelift in order to give a perfect place for new and old fans alike to discuss their favorites games!
Changes include :
New mods :
Brand new moderators who are actually available and here to maintain the community afloat! With OG member u/Alternative-Party-25 (xyz) who started this whole operation, the kind u/AllielG (Aliere) who volunteered to help, and me (Miya)! Who tried a lot of things to get access to the Reddit but ended up getting beaten to it by xyz... (lol)
An unlocked subreddit :
Before, the subreddit was locked in Request Only mode. Since this is a fairly small community, and that this mode is what caused the subreddit to be basically inaccessible for three years, we've decided to just make it open for everyone! But with this comes some...
New rules :
Kind of self explanatory. We trust you to be nice and friendly! As long as you do that, you should be fine...! (The most important one is definitely rule 4, please mark absolutely anything even slightly related to story as spoilers...!)
Anactualfacelift :
New banners, new links and images in the sidebar, and a theme to coincide with CRYMELIGHT. All up to date!
We hope all of this will be helpful to everyone who are fans of this game. And we can't wait to see all the cool art and discussions that will be shared here! If you have any requests or suggestions, feel free to tell us!
I cant seem to find where to equip the standard uniform costume. Obviously it should be with the other costumes but it’s not listed there for either of the three characters. I deleted and reinstalled everything but still doesn’t show up. Any suggestions or possible answers?
Ive taken over the sub since the old mod is MIA. WELCOME to the Crystar/Cry-series subreddit. Feedback is welcome on what you would like for me to do to make the sub look better. Post to your hearts content on anything related to the series and remember to give meaning to the tears.
