What an amazing game this was to play. This game has been on my wishlist for a while now and I finally decided to pick it up. This game is a Zelda style action / puzzle game that has a central mechanic where every character has a time limit left on how long they can continue living.

While most of this game is great, I feel as though there are many things that could have been improved to make this game just a whole lot better. For instance I think that there should have been a bigger emphasis on your relationship with the in-game characters. As it stands now the only reason to give characters Anima is to get the benefits they offer for doing so as well as the general feeling that you don't want any characters to die. Really though there isn't a lot of reason to keep giving a character Anima if you've already maxed out a relationship with them because most of the characters don't have much use outside of this, and the ones with greater benefits such as the Blacksmith have a counterpart somewhere else in the world with a higher time limit. By giving the player a reason to want to keep these characters alive the devs could have put a much greater importance on who the player distributes their Anima to, as well as creating much more interesting scenarios for the player to engage with.

Despite some of this games shortcomings the combat and overarching story was enough to keep me engaged, and this game should definitely be on your backlog if it isn't already.