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get this game.

is gud.

is gud gaem

lots of fun.

great gunplay, awful everything else. wouldn't buy.

by "free to play", what they mean is that you're free to play the game for a period of 14 days (i think it was, i wanted this off my hard drive ASAP).
you're then forced to buy table pack DLC for the amazing price of £30 each.

if that doesn't disuade you, as a pinball game that's meant to be "painstakingly accurate" it's pretty damn crap.
the pinball game i played on our old windows 98 pc was much more fun and "accurate" than this piece of turd.
also the UI is horrid and looks like it was made for touch screens.

just don't even bother.

pay to win, unsurprisingly. they actually evben sell weapons and armour in the cash shop, absolutely awful.

so far so good.

gameplay-wise i know a lot of people don't like the game as every action you take (or more like influence) in battle shapes the kind of battle style and stats your units will develop. it makes absolutely no indication as to what will change your class (but you can kind of figure melee will get you on the fighter route, magic on the mage route, etc) or how much experience is needed to advance to the next level. lots of people recommend you research which routes you want to take in advanced so you know what actions to choose in game... but i think that's kind of boring/cheaty honestly. i've had no trouble so far and intend to complete the game this way. maybe on new game+.

there's also the issue of battle ranks. battle ranks are this game's way of determining how well you are doing in battle, and are not to be confused with the traditional JRPG's levels. in order to gain stats quicker, you want to keep your battle rank fairly low. basically, in battle you should punish your units and suck as much as you can. this mechanic is definitely interesting but it's pretty damn masochistic.
what i've learnt is to get into battle with multiple semi-tough enemies that will give your units a good wolloping, and just chisel away at their HP in between healing/reviving and if things aren't as going as planned you can do the good old square enix soft reset by pressing all shoulder buttons as well as start/select or in my case back/start. it'll take you back to the title screen so you can load your last save and try again. you should be saving before every battle.

you should also be checking the pubs after every single advancement in the story. there'll be two NPCs standing behind the bar, the one the left is the bartender and the one on the right is the guy/girl you want to be talking to. they'll let you know if there's an available side quest. you should be doing these as soon as you can, and i suggest doing so before continuing with the story as they are constrained to certain plot points. save before you accept any, however, because some of them transport you to new areas that you can't exit unless you finish the quest objective or suspend the quest until later on.

this game was originally released on 360 and ported to pc much later, and because of that, in my medical opinion, this game suffers from mild consolitis.

controls... just use a controller. very bad port in this respect, having to navigate menus with arrow keys and enter is just incredibly lazy and wrong.

it also has major loading times if you have a dual core cpu, which i still do. to fix it, you either need to get the mass affinity.exe to launch the game (mass effect 2 had the same issue) OR do what mass affinity does manually by
going into task manager
right clicking TLR.exe process
set affinity...
then uncheck one of your cores, doesn't matter which.
click apply, then set affinity again
recheck the core you chose, and just leave it like that until you've exited the game.

FOV is also ridiculously small and it's really annoying in wide open areas as you can't see what you're pulling the attention of which is NOT good in this game. if you're willing to, you can change the settings in one of the ini files, and also bind keys that assign different FOV values.

overall there's nothing too much to complain about.

they've changed nothing apart from fitting the clothes properly and adding some new things here and there. pfffft.