DragonSword : Awakening

Played for ~ 12 hours, so I think I can give a fair assessment Story: The story is ... not terrible. It's split up in to chapters which span ~ 10 story beats. There's a lot of filler, but usually as you get towards the end of a chapter and it begins to really drive the story forwards it becomes much more interesting. Writing: The Engish translation can be very unnatural, but I suppose that's due to it being AI translated? There are a lot of grammatical errors and phrases which have to be re-read to understand. Having lived in Korea for 5 years as my wife is a Korean, there are manners Koreans speak in that are 1:1 translated. I.e: the lack of pronoun uses. Rather than saying "You smell of alcohol" while talking to one of the characters, it'll be "Castella stinks of alcohol" while talking only to Castella. Or only referring to characters by their titles rather than their names, despite having a close relationship. Sounds very normal in Korean, but it can be a little unnatural to international players. Sometimes I'm trying to speed through the filler sections, such as when the main characters are having dinner together, it can be a little jarring or I have to re-read it to understand what's going on. I'm not an AI hater, but it probably would have benefitted the translation to have someone proof read and over some of these parts of the dialogue to make it more natural to international audiences. Combat: It's fun. Especially when you get a team together and you're constantly switching to get those big numbers out. Ranged characters like Kalien are disgustingly OP; not only putting out big numbers but in most content can stay far enough back that they're not under any threat. The combat really shines in raids and hunts, as the enemies can be more aggressive and hurt a lot more. Though the most fun I've had is just... exploring the world on non-OP characters. Other stuff: I don't play gacha games, so it's been interesting to experience one without the gacha. It scratches that itch of incremental progression, slight boots as I level up to get single digit increases in DPS which causes my rotted brain to have a dopamine spike. Thoroughly enjoying this game, excited to see the resolutions to some of the mysteries they set up, and will probably aim for 100% completion

角色不能爬墙也太恶心了，必须要召唤坐骑，但是爬的依旧很慢，有的角色攻击会后退，大世界打怪偶尔会掉下去，想回来接着打还得多按两个键，因为乘骑状态下不能攻击，个人感觉这部分的系统做的太差了，玩起来卡手

Tl;dr the game is grindy, the characters are bland, the combat is repetitive, and the story is the only semi-interesting thing if you could fight through the grind to get to it. I love jrpg fantasy games, but this is not that. It's a gatcha game without the gatcha, but with all the pointless grind and clicking redeem menus gatchas have. I spent more time in menus sifting through various currency than I did playing the game. You don't pay real money for the currency, but you have to do and redo so many dungeons and bosses, it's like monster hunter without the feeling cool hunting monsters. Also, if you level up, the entire world gets harder, making it so you have to regrind the first area EVEN MORE just to play the game. It's like the developers said, "What's the thing most players use bots to avoid doing, put more of that in this game" which, unlike an MMO, I can't even socialize while I'm doing pointless grinding. I wish the story and characters redeemed the grind, but even that was disappointing. Lute is as bland as butter, Arya is emotionless computer lady. Castella is a dumb brute that is aggressive to everyone for aggressive's sake, and Johnny is such an over-the-top character that he's impossible to relate to. All the characters felt so one dimensional, that it felt like a story was happening around them rather than through them.

Thank you devs for listening honestly i will support your team c: most people i know use mods they keep in single player avoiding ruining someones multiplayer session.

I played GI and many "GI killer" they said. but never made me stop playing GI. but this game give me that reason. for me the main reason of playing game is trying and maxing all character combos, gear combination, etc etc, which i can get from this game without paying huge amount of money. i cant wait for the updates story and additional character. I really hope they will ad English and Japanese voice soon

I played the demo and really liked what it was doing and picked it up. Its awesome. The game started as yet another gacha game to enter the market. But at some point in the development I think the devs pitched it to release as a single player offline game instead. So instead of FTP and locking content behind pay walls and making a gacah system, installing stamina limits of activities and all of the other things that come with gachas, they just removed all the restrictions. Gameplay is just like Genshin Impact or Wuthering Waves, or if you havent played those, you can think Breath of the Wild. Combat is based around having a three character party, with swapping in and building on each others' status effects. Tons of different characters with wildly different playstyles and building different teams is fun. They made some recent changes to ease the level up grind that helps building way more rewarding. Its an open world, literally go anywhere do anything (WuWa, BotW, Dragons Dogma, Crimson Desert) built in an anime style. Has mounts and skins. Some of the optional skins have some fan service (ie Summer skin swimsuits) but the normal character designs are very light on that while still having good looking characters. Tons of mounts and some skins are available and earnable by getting achievements, but there are some that are paid dlc. There's no item durability which is something i hated in BotW. Story is... ok. It has the feel of what you would consider a typical fantasy anime to have, with the same amounts of light hearted silliness you might expect from those while still having an overarching "epic" plot of saving the world. The story is not bad, but also nothing to write home about, and the biggest plus story wise is the characters are very likeable. The characters are where the game shines to me, but I acknowledge that I'm somewhat of a gacha addict. There are just under 20 right now, with a big mix of elements and mechanics. They are well designed and while some of the normal expected tropes are here (solemn priestess, sneaky assassin, quiet mage, small woman with weapon bigger than her) there are some that do break the mold, like one of my early favorites, Castella the great-axe wielding elven barbarian. Right now one of my favorites is Astria, who uses a giant crossbow that has to set up on a bipod to fire her explosive shots. Very Monster Hunter-esque. There are more advanced things that you can do in order to collect level up materials that can be done co-op, including boss fights and raids, which allows multiple parties to fight at the same time. TBH i havent got into that yet, ive just been playing on my own. All in all, I really like it, and it's well worth the $30, and ive bought some skins to support the devs. Theyve already got a roadmap of more content coming, with additional characters, regions, etc. Easy recommend.

一百块钱就能体验到原的全部氪金内容，宗门一开省肝养生，十二块一款皮肤便宜到哭，还能入库坐等更新升值，还有龙之谷风味怪物，满满怀旧感，这是我今年买的最值的游戏