Well, here goes. It's a shame that it has to be positive or negative like it's a black and white world, so bear with me to explain a bit about the negative for the review.

When it comes to turn-based RPG and terms like retro, if you're a first generation gamer who remembers when Super Nintendo was this awesome thing you couldn't afford because you're a kid on an allowance and you were amazing to have been able to scrape together the money on your own with a paper route's new years wishes to afford the original gameboy when Tetris is all the rage... these terms just conjure different expectations of a game. Turn-based party RPG to someone like me is thinking back to AD&D RPGs from US Gold, or the old style Final Fantasies where you could choose the professions from a lineup of white, black, blue and red mages, and more such before they got cinematic.

If this is something that you hear for the first time, or like 'heard of something like that before' then just ignore this review.

I haven't played much or a lot, so I'm not going into depth of the game and mechanics that requires timed button presses and all that. And this negative review truly isn't about it being a bad game, or without ways to make it accessible to a particular group of people that would play it. I also haven't ever played Paper Mario. It's just a title that came by at a time that it simply didn't interest me and belongs to a different kind of generation.

From what I've seen, it sure has a novel storyline idea, shares visuals with the way Paper Mario was presented and I don't doubt that with that kind of inspiration they got plenty of quirky ways to make a witty storyline. And to be able to get rid of the need to properly time button presses in a turn-based combat to do extra damage or negate it... it speaks of a well thought program to make it accessible for all kinds of players.

CONCLUSION: This 'negative' review is simply for people that can relate to someone of my age and may feel similar that this could possibly be a game that just doesn't suit their taste. Simply because they may not have the patience to really get immersed into a game of this kind. Few that they may be.

As someone who LOVES Paper Mario 64 & TTYD, this game scratches that itch. Excited for updates on development!