warning: this review is from quick memory and should probably be 3x the length. will update it one day
i loved this game when i was 12 but i replayed it many many years later and it was one of the worst games i ever played.
the story has some ideas you'd think are cool at first thought, but when i replayed it, i realised its actually comepletly incohesive. (for example chapter 2 is just guiding joshua around town for some very mysterious reason thats never explained). characters have no depth to them because most dialogues are really short (for example one character that had a grand total of 34 lines constantly gets brought back up and ur expected to feel bad about her)
now for the gameplay the concept feels extremely cool, but then in actual execution it turns out way different. Pins feel really cool at first, but the more i got into the game i felt like i was just wagging my stylus around a lot, and the system cant really be as complicated as it should be because of the top screen which you have to do at the same time.
the top screen has 0 depth to it. Besides occasionally checking it to try to get your ultimate move, you can pretty much mash the right/left key, and i felt like there was almost nothing i could do to controll the damage you take from the top screen. Combining these two combat systems together just make it a tiring grind to play through.
overall i really regret replaying this game. wish i left the good memories as a kid
i loved this game when i was 12 but i replayed it many many years later and it was one of the worst games i ever played.
the story has some ideas you'd think are cool at first thought, but when i replayed it, i realised its actually comepletly incohesive. (for example chapter 2 is just guiding joshua around town for some very mysterious reason thats never explained). characters have no depth to them because most dialogues are really short (for example one character that had a grand total of 34 lines constantly gets brought back up and ur expected to feel bad about her)
now for the gameplay the concept feels extremely cool, but then in actual execution it turns out way different. Pins feel really cool at first, but the more i got into the game i felt like i was just wagging my stylus around a lot, and the system cant really be as complicated as it should be because of the top screen which you have to do at the same time.
the top screen has 0 depth to it. Besides occasionally checking it to try to get your ultimate move, you can pretty much mash the right/left key, and i felt like there was almost nothing i could do to controll the damage you take from the top screen. Combining these two combat systems together just make it a tiring grind to play through.
overall i really regret replaying this game. wish i left the good memories as a kid
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