Resonance of Fate for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

This game is a fun and detailed RPG, but it takes a long time to master its intricacies. Weapon modification and character customization lend this game a strong RPG feel, and the combat system is turn-based (despite the fact that this is a 'gun-based' RPG, you still choose your target and your action). The tutorials are missing a lot of details however (tri-attacks are especially difficult to figure out), and the translation from Japanese is less than perfect; combine these difficulties with a combat system that involves a lot of new mechanics (damage from automatic weapons, for example, is quickly healed and not capable of causing death, while damage from non-automatic weapons is permanent) and it's easy to understand why this game takes a while to master.

Wow, this game sure wastes no time throwing right into the thick of it, thrusting you right into a, albeit vague, story and what I can only describe as excruciating difficult combat (you're going to die a lot, trust me...).

Resonance of Fate has a unique sort of game-play that mixes traditional turn based combat with other action RPG elements that kind of remind me of Star Ocean (after-all, Tri-Ace DID make it after all) and Arc the Lad. As far as a brand new concept goes, I give this game a 10/10. You really can't find this kind of experience in other games, it's really neat, and frustrating, but I'll get back to that.

I also really enjoyed the main story arc of this game as well, although I'm sure other people will disagree. The reason I enjoyed it so much was because it left you to decide a lot of the answers, especially at the ending, instead of it just drawing the plot out for you. Overall for the story, I'll say an 8/10. Oh, and there are some really sad scenes in this game that are real tear tearjerkers. They honestly know how to convey peoples feeling and emotions through the characters.

The game-play on the other hand....eh? The trouble with presenting a new concept, doesn't always mean the game-play side of it always hits correctly. It's frustrating. REALLY frustrating at times in fact, especially at the beginning of the game, and towards the end. I'll give it a 6/10 for this.

Now here's where my personal score for this game plummets hard. In addition to the infuriating controls, this game has dramatic, and I mean dramatic difficulty spikes throughout the game, and it seems totally out of place a lot of the times. I thought after 70 hours of this game (which at a point, I was really dreading), that it was one of the hardest games I have ever played in my life, only to find out that once you beat it, there's a hard mode...and after that, a very hard mode...Ugh... 2/10 for difficulty.

So that's my analysis for this game. Definite Rental!