2012-05-20, 03:38 PM
If you love kookie anime archetypes then this is the game for you. Otherwise it's pretty bland. The story begins and ends with "I'm going to become and adventurer and find my mom!" and... that is what you spend the duration of the game doing. But it's not like your adventuring takes you through a series of unusual events to finally find your mom. Instead you have to travel around a lot collecting materials for the (pretty cool) alchemy system and fight a lot of monsters to gather points so your stupid adventurers license doesn't expire. In that time all that happens is character interaction in the form of unskippable cinematics that are actually just two character portraits and text. And there are a LOT of them.
The battle system is mind-numbingly boring and instead of using characters you like you are pretty much forced to use Sterk and Melvia because they are the strongest and once you get to a certain point you can't really progress without them. Or at least that's the problem I've been having, but I may be doing it wrong.
I like the baseness of the game but the time limit really takes away from the fun of just being able to explore, gather and create via alchemy. Good concept, poor execution.
The battle system is mind-numbingly boring and instead of using characters you like you are pretty much forced to use Sterk and Melvia because they are the strongest and once you get to a certain point you can't really progress without them. Or at least that's the problem I've been having, but I may be doing it wrong.
I like the baseness of the game but the time limit really takes away from the fun of just being able to explore, gather and create via alchemy. Good concept, poor execution.