Letdown....
posted by kodaikun (CAROLINA SHORES, NC) Jan 21, 2010
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I was expecting more from this title, really, I was. The opening sequence, with the song and all, was simply sweet! Made you want to get into the game. "This is gonna rock!"
Sadly, it doesn't.
Game start, the cloggy controls take some getting used to, and the camera buttons are backward from what you would expect, so you find yourself spinning around to get the right angle so you can lock onto things to select them. So you do a couple of simple "Do this, go here" quests in the town, and then you venture forth to slay some beasts!
Turn based combat is annoying, as you are forced to wait for the move meter to circle, and indicate you can do something. If you could move, and dodge, that would be one thing, but you can't.
Finish battle, rejoice! Walk, fight, walk, fight, then your weapon breaks! ???? Really? I can accept battle damage, and needing to go get items serviced, but you have no option for this, they just break, and are gone. So you need to "craft" a new one. Which is REALLY annoying, after the 30th time. I'm only killing low level robbers and beasts!
So after several hours of mindless battles, attempts at recreating lost weapons, only to see it tell me "Lost large blade" - well, there's 2000 coins I'll not see again...... I finally sent this puppy back.
A shame, because the beginning LOOKED so good..... Perhaps the later points in the game would be better, but I didn't have the patience to find out. and I LOVE RPGs.
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