Reviewing for v1.0.1
I'm surprised at the number of glowing reviews of the game. I don't know if something changed recently or what, but combat is very tedious and unbalanced to hell. One of the things I find very odd about this game is how status buffs and nerfs are perpetual. This itself wouldn't be so bad if not for the fact that enemies seem to all have an unlimited use of skills.
Enemies do not possess a mana pool and enemy skills do not have a cooldown. Unless you're lucky, enemies can and will very quickly and quite literally become unkillable. If you skim through the thread, you'll quickly learn that people generally need to cheat to win. The only legitimate-ish way to circumvent this is to grind for potions and spam skills yourself, which isn't very fun gameplay. XP grind eventually hits diminishing returns. When you get to a point where you're dealing 50+ damage (before armor calculation) and creatures have 300+ health (about halfway into the game), 1 point for an extra 0.5 damage or dodge is basically nothing. Do yourselves a favor and pick a title that starts you off with an endgame item.
The story portion of the game is kinda meh. First off, I find it absolutely hilarious that the king sends you to go into the forest alone to stop a supernatural crisis with literally the clothes off your back and a rusty knife. I was quite surprised to find out later that the MC is supposed to be 30 years old and apparently a veteran of 12 or 13 years. The only reason you do not absolutely get the shit kicked out of you is because you 1) get a magic stone that allows you to level up, and 2) an equally suicidal merchant decides to take you on as his sole customer.
P.S. The game scales your allies to the fights involving them. Even though you're supposed to be this special chosen one that can level up, everyone else is just slightly weaker than you. Makes you wonder why the MC was chosen at all.
The rest of the game follows a generic plot. Find out that there's a world-ending crisis that only you can stop, become a public enemy for choosing to do the right thing and yet poorly explain the situation, enlist the help of a motley crew of angsty people with something to prove, win the hearts of all your enemies, and then kill an evil god.
The characters themselves are equally generic and a lot of them fall into very typical tropes and stereotypes. Despite having a mode for sex and romance, both are so scarce and off-key that they might as well not been offered. I don't know if I missed a choice at some point or what, but despite choosing all the options to have the male MC like the elf girl, they never actually shag or or get together. You can stare at parts of a naked dude (supposed you in the mirror) and choose to fantasize about fucking the elf, but that's such a cheap cop out. And if you don't want the elf, tough tits. Hope you're happy with only 2 one-off sex scenes and descriptions of having your dick enlarged, even though it never comes into play.
tl;dr: 1/5 stars gameplay. 3/5 Story.
Game is nearly unplayable without cheating and the plot/writing isn't worth getting into. You're better off choosing another text-based game.