i accidentally overrote a save i was trying to load when i was halfway through the game
and the worst part is the game wasnt even that good
the entire first third of the game or so feels genuinely unbalanced to a confusing degree. the first boss in the game is pretty much the hardest thing i encountered and it required a stupid amount of grinding, heading back to town to heal, grinding, etc. and each time you go back to the dungeon, you start from the same spot and have to navigate its maze (where everywhere looks the same) to get where you were. and once you do kill the boss and earn your party members, theyre at level one and you need to.... go back to grinding them, and more enemies will appear in fights, and they'll be the ones targeted, so they'll die and stop gaining xp until you revive them, so for the next few levels they'll basically need to defend until theyre at a high enough level where they can withstand the same crab boss
and then... its easy. once the allies are at a close enough level to yours, you can just brute force every battle, holding the same button, occasionally needing to leave the dungeon to heal. it is a tad annoying that you dont restore anything when you level up, as you'll go from a level 8 with 50hp and 20mp to a level 14 with 120hp and 50mp before you even need to leave the dungeon. hell before that second crab boss, money is fairly hard to get in good amounts, especially for 3 people, but then you can start making bank and earning all the good shit easily. i was level twenty-something (maybe 23-25?) when i lost my save, and i had completed 2 of the "trials (which is just navigate a more brown dungeon until you find a thing and maybe defeat a "boss") and the game had just lost all challenge that was once omnipresent. bosses i could just rush through, enemies began taking 1hp at a time (i wasnt even grinding intentionally, just trying to navigate the damn mazes) and i was just constantly getting interrupted by the same 5 enemy rotation every 2 steps, it made me lose track of where i was constantly. frankly losing my progress was probably a blessing, as i only kept wondering just why i was still playing this game

tl;dr its a frustratingly annoying, yet boring game with some cool designs here and there, but its got a jarring reverse spike in difficulty and the entire time i was thinking "i could be playing dragon quest"
just go play dragon quest instead

Reviewed on Mar 01, 2023


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