This is objectively not a bad game, but I simply cannot give it a good review. It had the potential to be fun, and I think if you abuse the more op character roles it certainly could be fun but.... wow. My least favorite game experience of the year and I typically love this style of game.
Needlessly difficult but not in the fun dark souls way, more in the "everything you do, from the movement to the combat, feels like shit" way lol. Story is entirely meh. World is a chore to travel through. Portcrystals were a super cool concept that utterly fail bc you have to use them as the only fucking fast travel points outside of the two citites - like who thought that was a good idea??? If they were like bonus fast travel spots then it would be rad, but alas. Enemies were a chore to fight, esp as a physical dps (rogue--> assassin) and the fights themselves weren't even engaging. You kinda have to grind in this type of game but yeesh is it a tedious task.
Now, if anyone is actually reading this review (lol) then you're prob thinking my poor experience w this game is entirely my fault for picking those classes but... why the fuck are those classes built to be so bad???? im sure they could be good at the post-game level but i dont see how anyone could see theyre good for earlygame let alone midgame. And how is someone going into this game blind supposed to realize this. At every level of the game my pawns would do more than i could. Even after i switched to sorcerer late game out of frustration, my pawns 10 levels lower than me did more damage than i could with a 7/9 vocation level bc I didn't have all the necessary core skills from that class + mage.
I just dont get this game!!!! What was the point!!!! its so insanely "of its time" and not in a good way im sorry. also visually, this game is cute enough. but the armor choices for men were beyond abysmal, they were all nasty uggo drab sacks and I hated it. Why are you forced to be ugly for 95% of your experience playing this game if you choose to play as a man. And locking all the good clothing to fem models and giving only fem models fanservice-y clothing was an insane choice.
Also don't really get the romance aspect to this game, it felt so shoehorned in at the end lol. I DID end up getting gay married, so tyvm for that at least i guess that's iconic for a game this old. But still lowkey a weird feature to include that felt like the game ticking off a box of things it had to do.
Idk. I should probably rate this game lower bc of how scathing my feelings towards it are. By far my least fave game of the year thus far. I get the love to an extent, i see the potential and the class system is rad, but some of yall are just delusional and desperate i stg lol.
Needlessly difficult but not in the fun dark souls way, more in the "everything you do, from the movement to the combat, feels like shit" way lol. Story is entirely meh. World is a chore to travel through. Portcrystals were a super cool concept that utterly fail bc you have to use them as the only fucking fast travel points outside of the two citites - like who thought that was a good idea??? If they were like bonus fast travel spots then it would be rad, but alas. Enemies were a chore to fight, esp as a physical dps (rogue--> assassin) and the fights themselves weren't even engaging. You kinda have to grind in this type of game but yeesh is it a tedious task.
Now, if anyone is actually reading this review (lol) then you're prob thinking my poor experience w this game is entirely my fault for picking those classes but... why the fuck are those classes built to be so bad???? im sure they could be good at the post-game level but i dont see how anyone could see theyre good for earlygame let alone midgame. And how is someone going into this game blind supposed to realize this. At every level of the game my pawns would do more than i could. Even after i switched to sorcerer late game out of frustration, my pawns 10 levels lower than me did more damage than i could with a 7/9 vocation level bc I didn't have all the necessary core skills from that class + mage.
I just dont get this game!!!! What was the point!!!! its so insanely "of its time" and not in a good way im sorry. also visually, this game is cute enough. but the armor choices for men were beyond abysmal, they were all nasty uggo drab sacks and I hated it. Why are you forced to be ugly for 95% of your experience playing this game if you choose to play as a man. And locking all the good clothing to fem models and giving only fem models fanservice-y clothing was an insane choice.
Also don't really get the romance aspect to this game, it felt so shoehorned in at the end lol. I DID end up getting gay married, so tyvm for that at least i guess that's iconic for a game this old. But still lowkey a weird feature to include that felt like the game ticking off a box of things it had to do.
Idk. I should probably rate this game lower bc of how scathing my feelings towards it are. By far my least fave game of the year thus far. I get the love to an extent, i see the potential and the class system is rad, but some of yall are just delusional and desperate i stg lol.