Chained Echoes

at about 30 hours i JUST finished Act 1 and just unlocked the sky armors... like this game is pretty darn big! also there have been 3 huge events in the game. It's cool how the characters are all much more rational than your typical story, but in it's place is an environment rife with social disasters and silly technological asymmetries. Don't look too deep and the story and world are super neat! Lastly, the gameplay is good enough that I don't mind the battles. It's also easy to avoid battles. The overheat gauge is a very simple way to maintain engagement, even if it doesn't allow for much creative problem solving. The game is easy enough that I can roleplay a little with the attacks I use; it's not so tight/challenging that I need to be perfectly optimal. However, I do need to be careful and I've game over'd a couple times. The upgrade, materials, and crystals system is a mess, but it's good enough that I feel good giving my characters additional abilities. There are too many materials to meaningful search for specific ones. There are too many crystal types to meaningfully search for or hold out a boost for specific ones and the fact that 3 slot crystals are useless and 2 slot ones are crummy, and the wild variability of the randomness of the crystals, means you don't have much choice. I don't want to have SOS mnd up on a character, but that's what the crystals gave me 1-slots on :x I generally don't like elemental systems, but at least this one shows it clearly when selecting enemies and the characters have a good spread of different elements. Overall I think the creators did a great job and it's completely worth the money! More than Octopath Traveler, which i found sorta boring.

Story is messed up. Main character is a creepy ancient stalker-murderer. I have no idea why the writer wants the story to be in this way but this is honestly messed up. Most humans are not bad and you can't just force people into role-playing a creep as the main character in an RPG. I stopped playing.

9/10 好久没玩过体验如此流畅的JRPG了。像素作画、箱庭设计、配乐都很在线，较丰富的人物养成和团队阵容构筑，驱动力较强的收集要素，带有一些悬念但不老套的王道剧本，平稳的难度曲线，再加上多个显著减轻负担的优化（明雷遇敌，战斗满血进场，逃跑必成功），共同构成了这款优秀游戏。纵使天铠系统设计不佳，相比步行战斗反而更加皮脆肉薄，更容易暴毙，但作为独立游戏有如此之高的完成度，且在剧情、战斗、地图这三个JRPG最重要的领域都有用心打磨，实在令人惊喜

Meh. Neh. Didn't get it done for me.

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I really like this game. And I really don't want to put a negative review, but at this later part of the game, fighting these mundane enemies is harder than the bosses you meet. I genuinely don't know what they were thinking when making it, if i'm supposed to find a side quest instead, but even then that don't make sense since there isn't a leveling system in the game, it scales with the story. I am at a loss, it's a fun and well-made game but this just brought me down from that high.

真是一场充满友情与羁绊的漫长旅途啊