Pier Solar PC -- Any word on the physical release, also GoG has it for 50% off

[Tanooki]

I noticed it has been delayed years now which is just pathetic, even if it's a small team but I've eyed this and waited because I'd love to have a real copy of the game.

That said I had no idea this was eeked out recently on GoG.com for $15, and for the next few days it's 50% off at 7.50.

Has this even been on sale this cheaply before? Any history I can dig up between steam and sony of all things says no, usually 25-33%(psn+psplus discount) is the most.

I understand the game is like maybe 50 hours which is a bit long but it looks like it would be fun, reviews seem to be mixed towards positive but some calling the battles on it tedious along with some of the elements of the story (more as you go deeper.) Anyone here take a crack at this one before or finish it?

[mailman187666]

I have it on PS4 myself. While I do like the game, its not without its faults. You mentioned the battles in the game, which I kind of agree with. I find myself getting lost in some of the maze like dungeons, and while I'm trying to figure out where I'm going or what to do, the frequent random battles seem to just get in the way and prolong progress. This wouldn't be so bad if you leveled up more frequently as you get into these battles...but you really don't. After awhile, I found myself rolling my eyes whenever I'd go into a battle, because I felt like they were just wasting my time.

That being said, it is supposed to be an old school style RPG, which it does pretty well. The frequent battles when trying to figure out where you need to be really is a test of patients.

[Tanooki]

I grabbed it, didn't really think it did random battles that frequently, but it does have the annoying feature of flying enemies so some can't attack, and the huge one is that the terrain is just confusing to get around so it's a bitch even in the opening forest to figure out where to go. Also they seem to gimp the players pretty badly if you don't buy that feather thing in the shop because you'll take a horrid beating in a basic fight. My first fight I bought armor, not the feather/leaf thing and I got killed in the first battle on 2/3 people which sucked. I retried with that, got the vaccine and had that guy jailed, couldn't figure out how to do the watermelon collection junk, and kind of poked a bit into that jungle where the cave is but ran out of time to play and I couldn't figure out where to go either.

I have a feeling this game is very well designed, but also well designed to require buying a damn strategy guide which like a lot of things watermelon is good and known for is being very very late. I didn't see the harm in throwing $7.50 at it on GoG since I can keep a copy of it, and I'm not writing it off.

The test of patience I entirely agree on if anything because how slow it is to level up which seems very odd.

[Jorpho]

Has this even been on sale this cheaply before? Any history I can dig up between steam and sony of all things says no, usually 25-33%(psn+psplus discount) is the most.

http://www.isthereanydeal.com is my tool of choice. (The Enhanced Steam Firefox addon even integrates its information into Steam pages.) It's PC only, but it's a rare day that you'll see PSN and such outpricing Steam.

[Tanooki]

Hadn't seen that before. I check out https://www.steamprices.com/us and also that greenman gaming and humble store sites to see what shakes out.

I pushed the game yesterday into the desert. It's starting to pick up, just need to really level up or I'll get squashed as the feather isn't saving me from beatings in this area. There is a total cheap out cheat in this game I'm not above using either as it's in the design. Always use defense against a group of enemies. Even the aerials will come down to your sword types and even if they hit you it's not much and most times you'll counter. I find that if I set defense until aerial types are gone I take a large less amount of damage while still dealing the pain.

The game does have bugs though, or it's just not 100% friendly with the 360 controller as it sometimes gets dumb (not often but happens) where it just pops out, was mostly annoying with the watermelon round up in the first area at that farm to where I was forced to use the keyboard on that which sucked.

I'm surprised that GoG doesn't have the soundtrack they usually throw those in as this has some nice scoring to it.

[Nz17]

I moved this thread to the computer gaming sub-forum because that's where it belongs.

As far as Pier Solar goes, I tried to play the demo of it on PC. But I found the game to be such a total LUNAR wannabe that it was just sad, and I couldn't play more than 10 minutes into the game before I said, "This is B.S.," and deleted the demo.

Tanooki, if you want to know when the physical release for PC will be (or even if it will be), then you should probably e-mail the developers or use whatever form of contact information they make available on their Web site. Have you already tried them?

[Tanooki]

I haven't, just saw a lot of other recent requests for the info have all gone ignored so I wanted to see if I missed something maybe someone who paid early on it had found out.

[Nz17]

It's just stupid that they don't release this thing. I mean, the game is DONE and already DRM-FREE. All they have to do is pay a CD replicator to make the things and re-purpose the box art from the other editions.