I wasn't gonna review this game. I had literally started this just to have something mindless to play while I listen to podcasts and whatnot. But the "Mule Character" trophy is so bad, I had to talk about it.
It won't take more than 30 hours to get through this game. It's a decent enough time. I'm indifferent to the writing at this point (I love 2 and think it peaked there). It's honestly hard to take the story seriously when you know it's a game within a game. At that point you can't be asked to be gripped in any meaningful way.
The gameplay itself is good enough to waste time with. I like the Medieval style and all the changes they made to gear and loot to fit said style. Combining two classes was a nice idea in concept, but in the end I just felt like one class with some extra skills stapled on. At least there was a decent end game grind. It beats having to farm the same enemies non-stop in two.
Oh yeah! Almost forgot the main reason I'm writing. You'll have just about every trophy by the time you finish the game with the exception of the Chaos Chamber related ones. However, the grind for the Mule Character is so absurd that it would take you hundreds of hours to get the money for it. Even when optimizing for money, it would still take forever regardless of your efforts. Sure, you get more money the higher up in Chaos Level you go, but you have to grind in order to keep your gear up to snuff as you get higher. That said, you're being asked to grind within a grind just for the chance at good money. The name "Mule Character" has to be a cruel joke by whoever made the trophy, because the glitch that most people use involving a mule character seems like the only feasible way to earn it. It's one thing to have that kind of trophy in a game that already demands you play for a long time and has other trophies that take a while. It's another thing when the rest of the trophy list is cake in comparison to just one outlier. I'm just annoyed.
Game is fine, but I hope whoever made that trophy has wet socks for life.
It won't take more than 30 hours to get through this game. It's a decent enough time. I'm indifferent to the writing at this point (I love 2 and think it peaked there). It's honestly hard to take the story seriously when you know it's a game within a game. At that point you can't be asked to be gripped in any meaningful way.
The gameplay itself is good enough to waste time with. I like the Medieval style and all the changes they made to gear and loot to fit said style. Combining two classes was a nice idea in concept, but in the end I just felt like one class with some extra skills stapled on. At least there was a decent end game grind. It beats having to farm the same enemies non-stop in two.
Oh yeah! Almost forgot the main reason I'm writing. You'll have just about every trophy by the time you finish the game with the exception of the Chaos Chamber related ones. However, the grind for the Mule Character is so absurd that it would take you hundreds of hours to get the money for it. Even when optimizing for money, it would still take forever regardless of your efforts. Sure, you get more money the higher up in Chaos Level you go, but you have to grind in order to keep your gear up to snuff as you get higher. That said, you're being asked to grind within a grind just for the chance at good money. The name "Mule Character" has to be a cruel joke by whoever made the trophy, because the glitch that most people use involving a mule character seems like the only feasible way to earn it. It's one thing to have that kind of trophy in a game that already demands you play for a long time and has other trophies that take a while. It's another thing when the rest of the trophy list is cake in comparison to just one outlier. I'm just annoyed.
Game is fine, but I hope whoever made that trophy has wet socks for life.