Recent reviews by Setra

Overall the game is just 'decent'. I would recommend it, but not at the current full price of $15 US, I'd suggest waiting for it to go on sale first.

I thought the first game was... kinda meh, but I heard this game was a lot better so I gave it a shot... it felt basically like the first game, there are some minor differences, but they're just that, minor.

I got bored before even finishing everyone's first chapter.

Short little game, beat it in an hour, and during that time I was mostly idle. Can't beat the price though.

As someone who picked the 'retro' difficulty for this game (as opposed to 'modern') I am finding myself having a good time despite how difficult and obtuse the game can be at times.

It really does bring back an oldschool RPG feel where you have to figure things out for yourself. There's no tutorial or any sort of handholding, but it's intuitive enough that anyone with even minor JRPG experience should be able to get going.

I checked this game out because I saw a video talking about its mech customization, which is a feature I love in games like Mechwarrior and Armored Core, plus I love tactical turn based combat... the core gameplay is fun but the customization is very limited, sure you can mix and match mech parts but mechs tend to be designed to be used all together due to stacking passive bonuses. Also the prices for the character and mecha recruitment are high even by gacha standards.

This is a very simple game, also extremely easy, and it centers around fetch quests. If you like that, you might like this game. For the base steam price of $15 I had an ok enough time, but honestly it's not so good I wouldn't wait for a sale if you want to try it.

For me it was the sort of game where I played it while listening to something else, the game couldn't actually hold my full attention, but I still enjoyed it well enough to recommend it.

The Pros: The core gameplay, the combat and dungeon exploration, is mostly fun

The Cons: The characters are dull or annoying and the story is mediocre, also backtracking can be a major pain.

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The core combat is focused on timed hits and timed defenses, but when an enemy begins to use an ability 'locks' will show up, each lock corresponding to an element (Slashing, Blunt, Sun, Moon, etc.). For each lock you break the ability (usually) becomes weaker, and if you break all of them the ability is cancelled outright. In general this is fun, but sometimes, especially late-game, there are abilities that are simply impossible to stop and don't even weaken if you break some of the locks, which is very annoying.

For the most part the exploration of dungeons is fun, if you hit the Map button you can see how many treasures are still in the map you're on so you know if you've found all of them, though sometimes certain chests require backtracking which is very annoying, going through a dungeon and a town just to get to the dungeon you want to go back to. Also the overall movement of the characters feels slow, especially in the overworld.

Overall I liked the game enough to do all the sidequests and whatnot and reach the true ending, except the wheels minigame, I hate the wheels minigame.

An absolute gem of a game. I enjoyed the story, the characters, the worldbuilding, and especially the gameplay. 10/10. My only problem with it is that it's a bit too easy, though I was only playing on the default difficulty settings and was too much of a coward to turn up the difficulty.

One thing I will say I loved was that status effects were actually useful, even on bosses, a rarity in games.

While it's intended to be an homage to older games (mostly Final Fantasy X and Chrono Trigger) it fails to live up to these games. A decent combat system is bogged down by an annoying system of learning and using skills.

As well, after a certain point bosses started one shotting weaker characters from full health even though I went out of my way to fight every enemy, this ends up requiring luck to beat or just grinding. One boss could double-cast and one shot even my tankiest party member if I was unlucky, then I got really unlucky and he used an AoE twice in one turn that one shot two characters from full health.

The later difficulty is un-fun and I only beat the game just because I didn't want to feel like I lost to it. I regret purchasing this game because with unfun combat there's also a boring, predictable story (I kept waiting for a plot twist but none ever came that I didn't predict, and I'm usually pretty bad at such things).

A fun little RPGMaker game, no random encounters and a decent combat system combined with enjoyable characters and a good story.