Battle Chasers: Nightwar

While Battle Chasers: Nightwar has its merits, it ultimately feels like a shallow imitation of better games, offering nothing new. If you're looking for a dungeon crawler, this game can fill that void, but prepare yourself for a grind-heavy experience that may become monotonous. With a somewhat strong start, the game boasts stunning-looking environments and character models. The characters are enjoyable to explore with and the art direction is commendable, however, the game falls short in several areas. The occasional long load times detract from the experience, and the pacing becomes tedious in under a dozen hours. The need for excessive grinding and lack of balance makes the game feel like a chore rather than an enjoyable adventure. Furthermore, despite being pleasing to the eye and rather intricate, the dungeons ultimately lack personality and fail to offer an immersive environment. Despite its potential and excellent art direction, Battle Chasers: Nightwar fails to deliver a truly captivating experience, making it difficult to recommend.

Game was in my backlog since 2020. Forgot it was in my library. Tried it on a whim on Friday, 14 hours played by Sunday. Guess I'm hooked. Nice turn based RPG with JRPG mechanics and original art based on an Image comic book I haven't read, but heard good things about. Probably will try to find an anthology of the comic book, because the story and the characters in the game are interesting. Not a perfect game and it does not reinvent anything, but good enough to give it an 8/10 rating as of 14hrs of gameplay. Will update review once I finish the game. Just hope it won't take 6 years to have the time to finish it though!

Very lacking in all areas.

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☑ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☑ Good ☐ Exceptional ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10

Short review after completing the game (missing only 2 very ginding achievements): a turnbased rpg based on the Battle Chasers comics delivering great art, combat and dungeons while lacking in the story department. Pros: - Very beautiful art style for environments, world map and dungeons, very impressive for and indie studio and probably the main attraction of the game - Great soundtrack for battles, dungeons and great sound design for multiple actions like opening doors, chests and hitting stuff - Nice looking world map reminiscent of a fantasy treasure map - Great desing of monsters and bosses (also good animations for them, they are not static like other indie RPGs) - Competent itemization (good amount of weapons, armor, potions and trinkets) and crafting/enhancing system (able to craft all types of gear and potions and also enhancing weapons and armor) - Dungeons are the main bread of this game (8 unique dungeons beautiful in their design with their unique monsters, boss and puzzle mechanics with a small touch of roguelite randomization) - Great turn based combat system with its own perks, mana is rare, however normal attacks/actions (each character has 4 unique normal attacks and even more skills) generate a special overcharge which can be used instead of mana. Normal attacks/actions are instant cast while each skill has a different speed of cast depended on their strength making all actions viable even at endgame - A cast of 6 characters relatively unique to each other in terms of play style each having 2 massive skill trees to invest in and 3 ultimates per character - Decent fishing system with great rewards to break up the monotony of combat Cons: - Main criticism you will find of this game is that its grindy. This applies to getting stuff to craft everything and to get steam and ingame achievements. While the steam achievements are just for decorations the ingame ones are not, as they permanently increase multiple stats of your party, and as they are so many of them the boost is massive and are a requirement as the game can be hard (this means multiple runs of same dungeons to kill/find stuff and some of the achievements require RNG events to happen and if you are unlucky you will loose a lot of time replaying) - The main story is very lackluster in combination with barely any sidequests and character development it only serves to move you from one dungeon to the next one - A lot of monsters appear as reskins in later areas (this is very noticeable for slimes, bats, bandits and spiders) - Some bugs are present as you can get stuck in some puzzles in dungeons, or in the fishing menu if you press to quickly and before each combat start there is a slight delay If you can show some patience regarding the grind and weak main story this game is pretty good, its beautiful art style and great combat makes this a solid indie turn based RPG worth a buy.

Slightly above average generic RPG So there are positives here: The game's got a nice perks mechanic. Every main character plays different than the other. You can choose the difficulty of the dungeon you're going. Has a very nice aesthetic. Innovates on little things from RPGs. So the cons... when the game is generic, is SUPER GENERIC, when it is not trying too much it's not trying at all. You can get to a grind block even if you play the story and fight every enemy, game uses % which make a single level the difference between dying in a dungeon and breezing through it. The story seemed like something new, but has a pitiful twist with a cliff hanger and mostly feels -again- generic. The combat felt good, but it's only the variety of stages that keeps you going, since the enemies after stage 3 will be recycled and repurposed. Voice acting varies from great to trash. When you find the best comp you won't use the others in any circumstance. The world is way too small. Lots of questions, especially the first one in the story, is not answered and completely forgotten. I could recommend this but the studio made, mostly, the same game with the League of Legends IP, that game has more bugs but has a better fighting mechanic, every character can be used, and I don't think the studio will come back to this IP after that.

It's just a mediocre game, with cool ideas and great characters, but I rather play something fun and interesting.

내 겜취향은 한결같아, 한거 또 하고, 한거 또 하고 이러고 있네, 이거도 한 5년전에 다 깨본거 같은데 그 계정이 어딧는지 모르겠다... 턴제 알피지 게임이고 여튼 이겜 재밌어요.