Tried playing this game twice, but just could not bear the gameplay.

The normal encounters are simple rock-paper-scissors that are reskinned throughout the game. After you figure out the enemy weaknesses, you are just mashing to through them. This never changed throughout the ~85% of the game I played. Absolutely nothing interesting about the progression, mostly just imperceptible stat upgrades. You will never use abilities you unlocked unless you go against the bosses, who are immune to most of it anyways and resist everything. You just throw ♥♥♥♥ at them and wonder if you should grind more. I think the difference between this and something like Pokemon is that you can't really customize your party, and the weaknesses of the bosses are harder to pinpoint. Obviously a personal complaint but I just find it frustrating and repetitive.

The aesthetics and story are pretty cool, but the characters just do not emote. Very awkward looking and not enough to get compensate for the tedium of gameplay. Would have been better off as a visual novel.

Tried playing this game twice, but just could not bear the gameplay. The normal encounters are simple rock-paper-scissors that are reskinned throughout the game. After you figure out the enemy weaknesses, you are just mashing to through them. This never changed throughout the ~85% of the game I played. Absolutely nothing interesting about the progression, mostly just imperceptible stat upgrades. You will never use abilities you unlocked unless you go against the bosses, who are immune to most of it anyways and resist everything. You just throw shit at them and wonder if you should grind more. I think the difference between this and something like Pokemon is that you can't really customize your party, and the weaknesses of the bosses are harder to pinpoint. Obviously a personal complaint but I just find it frustrating and repetitive. The aesthetics and story are pretty cool, but the characters just do not emote. Very awkward looking and not enough to get compensate for the tedium of gameplay. Would have been better off as a visual novel.