I'm playing in hard more, and where I'm currently at in the game, the experience so far has been neither good nor bad. Allow me to explain:
Firstly, let me talk about the gameplay, it starts off pretty tasteless, the game acts like a combo heavy hack and slash, but none of the skills chained from basic attacks without baiting the opponent off of their grounded invulnerability or purposefully stopping before the basic attack finisher and then using a skill after (all endlag included). 10 hours into the game and I finally got more skills and options to work with, but the feeling of having to forcefully interrupt an attack to get skill hits is very unsatisfying for me... This has led me to resort to basic attacking and dash cancelling (without endlag) to reset the basic attack chain and repeat this cycle until the enemy is dead or I have to dodge.
This is somewhat fine, but when I see the abilities that look like they should chain together and don't it just feels a bit irritating.
And secondly, the story later in the game gets a bit anti climatic, moments in the game that I think should be tenser and have more emphasis, however, this didn't happen and I find that really annoying.
But it's not like it was just bad things.
The protagonist's designs are really cool and I love their armor (excluding the one that doesn't have armor), even if I think they could show a bit less. The UI for the game looks really good and I love all the decoration that went into it, especially the in-game HUD, the multiple diamond shapes (biased) and the how elegant it all looks.
The english voice acting is actually not that bad, especially when the characters have to scream, the VA's for this game did a really good job. Though this makes my previous point about the game being anti climatic even worse, because even if the voice actors tried their best to sound emotional, the game did not give it enough tension to feel immersive.
Even after all this, I still find the game entertaining, the beginning of the story after the prologue, even if a bit cliché or predictable, still felt really emotional and somewhat real.
If you like magical girls or are interested in this game, I say you should give it a try, but it's not a game for everyone. I'll post another review when I get to finish the game or get too pissed at another missed opportunity.
Firstly, let me talk about the gameplay, it starts off pretty tasteless, the game acts like a combo heavy hack and slash, but none of the skills chained from basic attacks without baiting the opponent off of their grounded invulnerability or purposefully stopping before the basic attack finisher and then using a skill after (all endlag included). 10 hours into the game and I finally got more skills and options to work with, but the feeling of having to forcefully interrupt an attack to get skill hits is very unsatisfying for me... This has led me to resort to basic attacking and dash cancelling (without endlag) to reset the basic attack chain and repeat this cycle until the enemy is dead or I have to dodge.
This is somewhat fine, but when I see the abilities that look like they should chain together and don't it just feels a bit irritating.
And secondly, the story later in the game gets a bit anti climatic, moments in the game that I think should be tenser and have more emphasis, however, this didn't happen and I find that really annoying.
But it's not like it was just bad things.
The protagonist's designs are really cool and I love their armor (excluding the one that doesn't have armor), even if I think they could show a bit less. The UI for the game looks really good and I love all the decoration that went into it, especially the in-game HUD, the multiple diamond shapes (biased) and the how elegant it all looks.
The english voice acting is actually not that bad, especially when the characters have to scream, the VA's for this game did a really good job. Though this makes my previous point about the game being anti climatic even worse, because even if the voice actors tried their best to sound emotional, the game did not give it enough tension to feel immersive.
Even after all this, I still find the game entertaining, the beginning of the story after the prologue, even if a bit cliché or predictable, still felt really emotional and somewhat real.
If you like magical girls or are interested in this game, I say you should give it a try, but it's not a game for everyone. I'll post another review when I get to finish the game or get too pissed at another missed opportunity.