Played until 1.4

Absolute GREAT exploration and world, with fight gameplay that can hold its on very well.

You know there's a but.

The story, with some quest exceptions, is trash considering what they have in setting and characters. I could feel something great in the bottom, like there were some nice writers in a basement somewhere struggling to make it come to light in a huge gacha that has money and player entrapment as its only objective. My props to whoever makes the maps though, they're great.

I'ts as a live service game that all its faults arrive (wow who could have thought!). The drip feeding, the stalling, the constant character/weapon banners as the only new content (and it is monetized in a shitty way), the barely-developed story released bit by bit, the psychological warfare to retain the playerbase (that's the worst part), boring events...

Kept an eye on the game for some patches and nothing could convince me to return. Honestly, I do not recommend.

While I had my fair share of fun with this game, I found running errand after errand onboard the Courageous a bit tedious after awhile. You cover so many areas and events in a short period that it was hard for anything to really hold weight and meaning. It felt like everyone knew each other despite being so spread out across Erebonia. The huge amount of cast members certainly didn't help its case either, though I did like a good amount of Class VII members. I still wish Fie and Laura got explored more after their moment in CS1, as well as Jusis and Machias and their class differences that seemed to just become nonexistent after awhile.

I think what really took me out of the game on several occasions was the game's fascinations with unwinnable battles. I really disliked the amount of times you stomp the opponent in battle, only to see you straight up lose during the cutscene. I hope future Kiseki games abuse this kind of thing less.

Also, the epilogue final dungeon was way too much. I didn't really need to fight 4 cryptids AGAIN, as well as a copy pasted boss from CS1.