I really REALLY wanted to like this game. Any game with graphics as good as this one has I really want to like, but the grind and convoluted quests killed it for me.
The cheat mod is a must for this game. Otherwise the grind will kill you with the 12 stats you have to maintain.
The quests are a mess. There is no quest log. I spent two hours trying to find the trigger for the next event in this one quest until I broke down and looks at the walkthrough. Some of the quest events have to be triggered by finding certain characters on certain days at certain times. And if you miss them you will have to wait for it to grind back around the next week. There is no indication on when these happen. You just have to kind of stumble over them. And some events in a quest need to be experienced multiple times before the next event in the quest will become available.
Either there is no real story to speak of, or I haven't hit it yet with the 12 hours I've already put into the game.
The writing itself isn't necessarily bad. It's just a bad translation.
I don't mind a bit of complexity with these games, but the amount of stats and horrendous quest structure this game is a bit more complicated than it needed to be.
I'm not going to recommend this game, but I'm also not going to tell people to avoid it. I know there are people that like this kind of game. It's just more trouble than it's worth. The CG is honestly the best part of it so I just downloaded the CG set.
Edit: I stuck with it a little longer and did find an actual quest guide. Like a dumbass I never thought to click on your character icon. You do that and it shows your stats and has a quest book. My overall rating still stands though. I appreciate the creativity the dev instilled into this game, but it really is much more complicated than it needed to be.
The cheat mod is a must for this game. Otherwise the grind will kill you with the 12 stats you have to maintain.
The quests are a mess. There is no quest log. I spent two hours trying to find the trigger for the next event in this one quest until I broke down and looks at the walkthrough. Some of the quest events have to be triggered by finding certain characters on certain days at certain times. And if you miss them you will have to wait for it to grind back around the next week. There is no indication on when these happen. You just have to kind of stumble over them. And some events in a quest need to be experienced multiple times before the next event in the quest will become available.
Either there is no real story to speak of, or I haven't hit it yet with the 12 hours I've already put into the game.
The writing itself isn't necessarily bad. It's just a bad translation.
I don't mind a bit of complexity with these games, but the amount of stats and horrendous quest structure this game is a bit more complicated than it needed to be.
I'm not going to recommend this game, but I'm also not going to tell people to avoid it. I know there are people that like this kind of game. It's just more trouble than it's worth. The CG is honestly the best part of it so I just downloaded the CG set.
Edit: I stuck with it a little longer and did find an actual quest guide. Like a dumbass I never thought to click on your character icon. You do that and it shows your stats and has a quest book. My overall rating still stands though. I appreciate the creativity the dev instilled into this game, but it really is much more complicated than it needed to be.