Holy hell, SRPG was absolutely the wrong direction for this series. Iffy and Compa's games are never particularly good at the VN segments, the exploration segments, or the combat segments, but all of those pieces are usually decent enough to enjoy when you can float back and forth between them quickly and regularly. That's what I liked about Advent Dark Force.

But in this, not only are there no areas/dungeons to explore anymore, but each battle consists of crawling across the battlefield 3 squares at a time. Here's the problem with that: If I spend too much time in combat, I start to notice that I'm mindlessly fighting the same enemies on the same maps with the same attacks without much animations over and over. If I spend too much time in VN segments, I start to notice that these are just the same portraits on the same backgrounds without even a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CG to mix things up.

After 6 years, this is somehow worse than Advent Dark Force in almost every way. I guess congrats for getting my money anyway.