RDDS
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- Oct 30, 2020
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Bought this game the minute it came out and finally got to the 'ending' last night. But damn, the story is great. I'm still a bit mindfucked from finding out everything that I have and I've barely even scratched the surface of what this game has. I also know Japanese and didn't use any translation, so maybe I have a slightly different opinion than some other people on this game.
First and foremost, This game is an actual GAME. Not some scene collector. If you don't care about the game and just want to see scenes then this game is not for you. But you can access all scenes by getting to lvl.75 and restarting your run for those that apparently don't care about playing. Now onto the gameplay.
The only places I really struggled with were finding all the statues for the second floor and how to get past the forest on the third floor. With regards to players who are stuck, I'll give a small hint that shouldn't be any spoiler, but spoil alert it just in case:
I've avoided any spoilers that I can and read as little as possible about the game since it's been out, since I didn't want to know anything more that I didn't already know going in. Ending up beating it on a 'virgin' run, and would sometimes explore a couple scenes/some endings and then load back. At first, the dungeon seems like a maze but you'll start to recognize some of the places over time if you've been there before. But even so you'll sometimes struggle to get to a certain place because you forgot how to get there. What helped was that I stopped just wandering aimlessly hoping to get to places and actually thought about where each path leads to and lo and behold, the dungeon is pretty easy to memorize if you just stop wandering aimlessly. I saw that there's apparently some minimap mod or something, but I feel like that defeats the purpose of the game. The map is pretty easy to remember if you just try to.
You can explore almost everywhere (location wise) in the game in one playthrough. Only limiting thing for that is the remote bomb which limits what entrance you go to the second floor to, but the entrances essentially are all the same, but there is one entrance superior than the others in my opinion which unfortunately I didn't take on my first playthrough, but they each give you something unique so it evens out. I even ended up walking to the prison while going mining once (without any lava protection items) by accident so you can essentially go anywhere in this game.
For the rest of the game, it's really well balanced and well done. The combat system is probably my favourite system in regards to any other rpg game I've played so far. There is auto battle for those who don't care as much about combat, but the only times I used it were when I accidentally pressed it and just manually battled for the whole game. I hate how in other rpg games you just end up becoming too strong because you level up high enough and all your stats are boosted and combat ends up just feeling like a waste of time. In this game your equipment and weapons and leveling stats actually feels like it matters and you can practically take on any enemy if you get the right loadout for it regardless of what class or playstyle you're using and even if you don't have "the right loadout" there's a million different ways to beat enemies. If you're struggling with enemies then try a different approach or just level up your hp. Making money can maybe be made a bit harder in my opinion or the amount made, but it's pretty close to perfect in that regard already since there's lots of equipment and items, but you'll end up with most equipment or weapons by the end of the game on only one playthrough when this game is meant to be played with multiple runs. Only thing this game really needs I feel like, is some extra scenes added when defeated by certain enemies. Unfortunately this game doesn't really have that, but I feel that's probably going to be high up on the list of things being added to this game when they start adding more features and scenes.
This ended up being a bit long, so maybe I'll post it as a review as well.
I will give a couple small hints for those that want them:
First and foremost, This game is an actual GAME. Not some scene collector. If you don't care about the game and just want to see scenes then this game is not for you. But you can access all scenes by getting to lvl.75 and restarting your run for those that apparently don't care about playing. Now onto the gameplay.
The only places I really struggled with were finding all the statues for the second floor and how to get past the forest on the third floor. With regards to players who are stuck, I'll give a small hint that shouldn't be any spoiler, but spoil alert it just in case:
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I've avoided any spoilers that I can and read as little as possible about the game since it's been out, since I didn't want to know anything more that I didn't already know going in. Ending up beating it on a 'virgin' run, and would sometimes explore a couple scenes/some endings and then load back. At first, the dungeon seems like a maze but you'll start to recognize some of the places over time if you've been there before. But even so you'll sometimes struggle to get to a certain place because you forgot how to get there. What helped was that I stopped just wandering aimlessly hoping to get to places and actually thought about where each path leads to and lo and behold, the dungeon is pretty easy to memorize if you just stop wandering aimlessly. I saw that there's apparently some minimap mod or something, but I feel like that defeats the purpose of the game. The map is pretty easy to remember if you just try to.
You can explore almost everywhere (location wise) in the game in one playthrough. Only limiting thing for that is the remote bomb which limits what entrance you go to the second floor to, but the entrances essentially are all the same, but there is one entrance superior than the others in my opinion which unfortunately I didn't take on my first playthrough, but they each give you something unique so it evens out. I even ended up walking to the prison while going mining once (without any lava protection items) by accident so you can essentially go anywhere in this game.
For the rest of the game, it's really well balanced and well done. The combat system is probably my favourite system in regards to any other rpg game I've played so far. There is auto battle for those who don't care as much about combat, but the only times I used it were when I accidentally pressed it and just manually battled for the whole game. I hate how in other rpg games you just end up becoming too strong because you level up high enough and all your stats are boosted and combat ends up just feeling like a waste of time. In this game your equipment and weapons and leveling stats actually feels like it matters and you can practically take on any enemy if you get the right loadout for it regardless of what class or playstyle you're using and even if you don't have "the right loadout" there's a million different ways to beat enemies. If you're struggling with enemies then try a different approach or just level up your hp. Making money can maybe be made a bit harder in my opinion or the amount made, but it's pretty close to perfect in that regard already since there's lots of equipment and items, but you'll end up with most equipment or weapons by the end of the game on only one playthrough when this game is meant to be played with multiple runs. Only thing this game really needs I feel like, is some extra scenes added when defeated by certain enemies. Unfortunately this game doesn't really have that, but I feel that's probably going to be high up on the list of things being added to this game when they start adding more features and scenes.
This ended up being a bit long, so maybe I'll post it as a review as well.
I will give a couple small hints for those that want them:
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