I have held off writting a review on this game ever since it came out. Since I could not decide what to rate it. In the end even if I have gotten stuck at times due to the poor quest tracker, I still recall every single detail of the story. This is a breed of rare rpgmaker games that exploit the interactive element of being a game to make you remeber important aspects of its world. Instead of reading about visiting a location, you walk to it yourself. Instead of reading how a character feels about another, you play as them and experince their point of view. That is what makes this captivating.
Now for the bad, and there is loads of it. The early part is a piss poor introduction with a lot of busy work. Fetch quest galore and obtsue progression requirements. Since is all so time consuming is hard not to recall what happend but also how dreadful it was to get through it all. I really find it hard to describe this feeling without having experinced it yourself.
I still feel like is a good game. A game that made me care and so on, but Jesus I do not ever wish to replay it from the start. Then again that is not really needed since the dev has been aware enough to patch previous versions' saves and what not. Yet the whole game feels like a one and done deal. Is not like a MMO where the grind can become the fun and you keep replaying it from the start. Is more like having watched a series from start to finish, and deciding never to trudge through it all again.
Now for the bad, and there is loads of it. The early part is a piss poor introduction with a lot of busy work. Fetch quest galore and obtsue progression requirements. Since is all so time consuming is hard not to recall what happend but also how dreadful it was to get through it all. I really find it hard to describe this feeling without having experinced it yourself.
I still feel like is a good game. A game that made me care and so on, but Jesus I do not ever wish to replay it from the start. Then again that is not really needed since the dev has been aware enough to patch previous versions' saves and what not. Yet the whole game feels like a one and done deal. Is not like a MMO where the grind can become the fun and you keep replaying it from the start. Is more like having watched a series from start to finish, and deciding never to trudge through it all again.