https://steamcommunity.com/id/aatar/recommended/1680880Aatar wrote:This game has an awful lot of good things about it... or it would if they just put a bit more effort in. The whole thing feels like the basic idea was great but then they handed it to the intern to sort out. In brief:
Combat is terrible. You circle an enemy hitting the "attack" magic until it goes to attack you... then you hit the dodge magic button and continue on attacking. Animations are poor, the main character runs... oddly? Not sure how to describe it but it's like her spine doesn't move, it's either bolt upright or at an angle, she doesn't bend it like a human does. UNTIL that is, when it's time for her to fight in which case she hunches over like a witch at a cauldron and jerks her right hand back and forth with each attack. That's the only animation for attacking, by the way, the one flinging, jerking, motion. There's no spins, no difference in movement if the enemy is close or far... just the one attack move until you feel sick.
Graphics are... middling I'd say? If you came up to me two or three years ago and showed me what this game looked like, I'd be fine with it. Not over the moon, but happy.
Open world is bleak to say the least. I mean, in the story it's meant to be bleak, fine, but the first zone is just dry, brown, shrubland and grey cliffs. It didn't invite me to explore, there was nothing to really do there, just different points on the map (Pre marked, so no need to go searching!) that you touched and it gave you a thing. No parkour challenges, no climbing puzzles. I came across a place which I seem to recall was called the "Sealed Labyrinth" or something similar. It wasn't a labyrinth and it was barely sealed. I walked in, there was a hallway... then a fighting arena... then a hallway... another fight... another hallway... a boss.
At no point did I feel engaged by the story, it simply failed to hook me. The main character is actually rather good, decently voice acted compared to the rest of the cast but there was a point where they needed a plot hook to get her to do something and they did the usual thing of killing off a character to make her go on a revenge thing. A character the protagonist had had two conversations with and barely knew. I turned off at this point.
In summary: For this price point I'd want some actual real work done by the devs. Every single part of this game feels half-a**ed. At this price point I'd want to see some love put into it but this is probably the most paint-by-numbers game I've seen in years.