My favorite Rance game so far and one of the best dungeon crawlers I've ever played.

I pretty much did everything there is to do except some post-game events. The gameplay loop is just so damn fun and addictive. The story is equal parts charming and gripping, and the characters are as entertaining as always, probably more so than ever given how all major characters have their own events. These events can only be played if you have enough orbs, a resource which you will be grinding for that unlocks most events. This is a good approach to developing these characters and also integrating it with the gameplay loop.

My only gripe is related to the aforementioned events, I wish they gave more characters more spotlight. Some party members get very few events and one particular "character" is a literal NPC with no events, no dialogues and is mostly useless in battle. It's a running gag in the Rance series to keep male characters in the background and never give them any spotlight because Rance simply hates men, but they didn't have to make him that useless.

Nevertheless, this is just me nitpicking because the game is still jampacked with stuff to do and see.

Reviewed on Jul 26, 2021


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