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Some good, some bad, but more boring
posted by LemmyKoopa (MADISON, WI) Feb 3, 2011
Member since Jan 2011
1 out of 3 gamers (33%) found this review helpful
Pros: Great combat system! You can easily switch between six characters; mobility is fluid, and a variety of special moves are at your disposal.
Cons: Kind of everything else... But let's start with the puzzles. They should have been a strength in this game in which each character has his or her own special field moves, unfortunately poor design tries to merely cover up what should blatantly be taken as glitches. Puzzles can be broken by dropping a block in a hole or falling onto the wrong platform and there's nothing you can do but reset back to your last checkpoint. Hope you realize that before you mess around too much longer! Other times if you don't figure out exactly where you're supposed to jump or can't see that you can climb a wall, you'll be stuck for a while.
Beyond that, there's only about ten areas in the game that you keep visiting; you keep talking to the same people, few of whom are at all interesting; but the game will keep forcing you to visit the 3 big towns to check in for various concocted reasons. The story is a mess, and there's not a good song in the game to speak of. Half of the first half of the game was frustrating and three quarters of the second half was just boring.
The Ancient Cave level is fun because all you do is fight! I said the combat is great, didn't I? Too bad that to be able to play through this area in full you'd have to beat the game first. If you're lucky, your rented copy will have a completed game save on it already so you can get to this right away...
There's not enough here that manages to A) be interesting; and B) not be frustrating, for me to recommend this. Find a better game, or just catch up on some Zs instead.
Cons: Kind of everything else... But let's start with the puzzles. They should have been a strength in this game in which each character has his or her own special field moves, unfortunately poor design tries to merely cover up what should blatantly be taken as glitches. Puzzles can be broken by dropping a block in a hole or falling onto the wrong platform and there's nothing you can do but reset back to your last checkpoint. Hope you realize that before you mess around too much longer! Other times if you don't figure out exactly where you're supposed to jump or can't see that you can climb a wall, you'll be stuck for a while.
Beyond that, there's only about ten areas in the game that you keep visiting; you keep talking to the same people, few of whom are at all interesting; but the game will keep forcing you to visit the 3 big towns to check in for various concocted reasons. The story is a mess, and there's not a good song in the game to speak of. Half of the first half of the game was frustrating and three quarters of the second half was just boring.
The Ancient Cave level is fun because all you do is fight! I said the combat is great, didn't I? Too bad that to be able to play through this area in full you'd have to beat the game first. If you're lucky, your rented copy will have a completed game save on it already so you can get to this right away...
There's not enough here that manages to A) be interesting; and B) not be frustrating, for me to recommend this. Find a better game, or just catch up on some Zs instead.
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