9th Dawn Remake

I played this game for awhile and I think it's fun. But it definitely has some glaring issues that make this a game most people will not like. The game is extremely poorly balanced. In no particular order - the mini games stink. They don't respect my time as a player. I don't need to do them, but also, kind of need them for upgrades (money needed for end game upgrades). - the game advertises x amount of creatures, but in reality, you have like 5 base creatures and then each one has five or so individual evolution trees. At the end of the game the "final evolutions" leaves maybe about 25 choices out of everything because of stats, etc. -early game is good. Mid game and late game. No. - dev said, iirc, that defense at max can cut half of the damage. Meaning it's ultimately a nearly useless stat. - bows are unstable due to particle effects preventing any real sort of aiming late in the game. Meaning dexterity is a pointless stat. - aiming is done top down perspective, from what I can tell, so you constantly aim and miss, because you have to adjust for the 2.5d perspective. - the particle effects make it so the only viable combat is wands, and aoe magic. - no way to know what debuffs are affecting party, and no way to cure them. Status effect panel doesn't work, and ai can't figure out how to use items on creatures. So they just sit there taking damage. -also, stats make it so magic is the only real viable build. - as defense is limited, this creates a huge problem for survivability. For example, in late game enemies, alone, will do like 1-5 percent damage per hit. And it's all somewhat aoe, not including spells. So when you get 5-10 enemies, all attacking at once, you can have maxed out monsters taking huge chunks of their life out before you can register the damage and heal. A lvl 100 trollkyng with 30k life can die in seconds. And if your creatures all end up in the same area, you can lose your party in a heartbeat. Often your own character, even with heavy def gear, buffs, and stuff will get one shot. And that's not even considering named enemies. Which really only leaves the option to try to heal as a mage build with aoe spells to cover the screen. Which prevents you from seeing what's happening. And it snowballs. Combine this with enemies also being huge damage sponges. A single enemy can stand against a whole lvl100 team for several seconds, this imbalance creates the opportunity for npcs to stack damage too quickly to counter. - end game isn't balanced, once you hit Max evolution and lvl, the only way from what I can tell yo get stronger to combat the ever increasingly imbalanced enemies is to buy pet stat boosts. These are expensive as ♥♥♥♥ for minimal return. In 25 hours of gameplay I maybe got a million gold. And I didn't buy much, just crafted as much as I could. At 4k a piece that is like 2500 or so boosts, split over eight creatures and all of the stats. When I looked at the math, the 500/1000 or so attack/hp/etc out of the 20k is like a 5 percent boost in stats for that enormous amount of gameplay? A last gripe - no descriptions about how any of it works in the game. Which doesn't help when you are really struggling to fight against the mechanics. Anyway, maybe the mechanics didn't click for me, but while I had fun, I think this is it for me.