Miden Tower is a fantasy RPG with a compelling and dramatic story. After Miden Tower is invaded by the Alroval Empire, the mages who call it home find themselves cornered on its upper floors. This sets in motion a series of tragic events that lead to a counteroffensive being launched to take back the tower and to get revenge for the wrongs committed against them.
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Miden Tower is one of the better EXE Create games I've played. The world and story are both surprisingly interesting. The world reminds me of the webtoon, Tower of God because of the tower setting. In Miden Tower, the whole game takes place in a massive tower where people are self-sustained without needing to leave the tower. In fact, the the residents of the tower hasn't left for hundreds of years. There is a lot of variety to the locations within the tower. From volcanos, snowy mountains, and forests, the place doesn't look much different than the outside world.
Even though the residents hasn't left the tower, it hasn't stopped the Empire's army from outside in invading. Another unique aspect about the tower is that Mana exists everywhere within allowing its residents to use magic (which helped create the environment). The Empire is drawn to the Mana and wants to use it for nefarious reasons.
The story starts with the the MC on a crusade against the Empire's soldiers for killing his childhood friend many years ago. Much of the story follows his journey from being obsessed with vengeance to finding another solution.
The development of the main cast is good and while the heroine doesn't have much herself, she plays a large role in the MC's development. If the game was any popular, I'd expect there to be wall memes since the heroine is a literal wall slab that was animated through magic. She can turn from wall to a human appearance at any time. Despite the ridiculous idea, the concept was amusing and played for a lot of laughs throughout.
The gameplay is similar to Exe-Create's other games. It does seem a bit harder early on since enemies deal a lot of damage (and throughout the game actually), but there's a lot of easy ways to break the game and get very powerful which ultimately makes it a pretty relaxing game. There's a lot of QoL mechanics which allows you to adjust the encounter rate. Eventually can be turned off once you reached the end of a dungeon.
One highlight of the game is the passive system. Every character has 48 passives (most are shared with each other) that can be increased during and out of battle. Passives like fire resistance gets stronger the more fire damage you take. Then there's the heroine's tea passive that gives a chance to inflict poison. The passive levels up through various cutscenes where she happens to make tea which makes the whole idea pretty amusing too.
Overall, Miden Tower was a fun game with some interesting game mechanics like the passive system. The story is solid and surprisingly dark at times. A ton of characters die throughout so I'm surprised it doesn't get a higher ESRB rating than "E". Like many Kemco games though, it's on the short side so you can complete nearly everything in under 20 hours.
Even though the residents hasn't left the tower, it hasn't stopped the Empire's army from outside in invading. Another unique aspect about the tower is that Mana exists everywhere within allowing its residents to use magic (which helped create the environment). The Empire is drawn to the Mana and wants to use it for nefarious reasons.
The story starts with the the MC on a crusade against the Empire's soldiers for killing his childhood friend many years ago. Much of the story follows his journey from being obsessed with vengeance to finding another solution.
The development of the main cast is good and while the heroine doesn't have much herself, she plays a large role in the MC's development. If the game was any popular, I'd expect there to be wall memes since the heroine is a literal wall slab that was animated through magic. She can turn from wall to a human appearance at any time. Despite the ridiculous idea, the concept was amusing and played for a lot of laughs throughout.
The gameplay is similar to Exe-Create's other games. It does seem a bit harder early on since enemies deal a lot of damage (and throughout the game actually), but there's a lot of easy ways to break the game and get very powerful which ultimately makes it a pretty relaxing game. There's a lot of QoL mechanics which allows you to adjust the encounter rate. Eventually can be turned off once you reached the end of a dungeon.
One highlight of the game is the passive system. Every character has 48 passives (most are shared with each other) that can be increased during and out of battle. Passives like fire resistance gets stronger the more fire damage you take. Then there's the heroine's tea passive that gives a chance to inflict poison. The passive levels up through various cutscenes where she happens to make tea which makes the whole idea pretty amusing too.
Overall, Miden Tower was a fun game with some interesting game mechanics like the passive system. The story is solid and surprisingly dark at times. A ton of characters die throughout so I'm surprised it doesn't get a higher ESRB rating than "E". Like many Kemco games though, it's on the short side so you can complete nearly everything in under 20 hours.