...there's exposition dumps that happen too often and at times that brings the momentum of things to a screeching halt. To me, it's like I'm trying to watch a 10 minute YouTube video that has 5 Ad breaks in it. I think it takes away from the immersion and that there could be better ways to have players engage with the story.
There are other things I could criticize as well, such as the lack of actual build options and runes just being stat-sticks. The lack of combat depth makes every fight in the game as easy as applying Iron Will before the battle and just holding down the confirm key to attack a few times to win. The only potential roadblock being the chance of getting RNG permastunned by the few enemies that have access to stuns, but that still usually isn't an issue. Let me ask this, if this game is supposed to span multiple chapters, generations, eons, etc, is the combat actually going to remain this stale throughout the entirety of it? Will we be challenged at all? Or is the Adalon Hunter going to continue to slice through everyone like a hot knife through butter? Did this dev work at fucking Blizzard or something? If the story is going to be raising stakes, then I think the combat should reflect that as well. It's obvious that the combat part of this role-playing game was sacrificed for the story. If I were to compare this game to something like The Three Charms R, then mechanically and narratively, Minwa is superior. Depth to the combat and story provided in ways that don't feel like you're #1 on every telemarketer's to-call list.
The dev is probably going to block anyone that criticizes them and say that we just don't understand their grand tale, but that won't stop me from pledging during release months to play the game. I'd like to note I'm not intending to come off as hostile, just criticizing. These forums are meant for discussion as well, but for some reason people here actually fucking hate any type of discourse and turn it into tribal warfare bullshit and try to shoo people away.
