CRYSTAR

Starts the game and immediately takes you to display settings. Okay not a big deal. Selects preferred display settings then met by a message that says "an error occurred while saving" Asked to select language. Chose preferred language and met by the same error message again. Proceeds to wait then suddenly forces you to straight into a somewhat lengthy dialogue with some choices. Lo and behold, you are already in New Game. No title screen. No Menu to config other settings. This not the way to go. It feels like you are forced to play so you would immediately hit 2 hrs and not have the option to refund the game. This game is easily skippable. Played the whole tutorial and skipped all dialogues/conversations only to be met by saving the game forever. Glad Crymachina had somewhat improved. "What is your name? What do you desire?" You don't need to know and I desire to get this game fixed which is unlikely because it is now a common thing.

A game where you can make girls cry... because there's a dedicated button for it. But also those girls have stand powers, and the stands have famous philosophers' names. "Fuc|< them up, Socrates! The pen is mightier than the sword, b!tch!" ...Even though that girl actually does use swords[strike], and they don't say it like that in the game[/strike]. On a more serious note, I had a lot of fun with this one. The level environments were cool, and soundtrack and voice acting were both nice too. Story was fine, with every single twist hella telegraphed several chapters ahead of time - but Furyu's other game, Monark, already prepared me for that so I didn't mind. Combat was serviceable - individual enemies are always straightforward to deal with, but with groups you still have to choose which ones to prioritize and when to attack/dodge. Some enemies felt like damage sponges, but that usually just meant I should use a magic attack instead of a physical one. The biggest downside for me was that with mouse and keyboard, the controls couldn't really be meaningfully changed. As in, they decided that a few specific buttons, like Tab, WASD, Q and R are going to be used - and the rest of the keyboard [b]can't[/b] be used. Then, if you wanted to change it to use, say, G instead of R, you're just out of luck. I was still able to play the game without issues with that setup, but it's kind of ridiculous that it couldn't be changed.