Dungeon Dreams

It's a game based around grinding dungeon runs with two glaring, major issues 1) Combat is incredibly sluggish. Every action by allies or enemies except a basic attack(and some enemies do this with basic attacks) is preceded by a pause and unnecessarily long 2-3 second glowing flash that grinds things to a halt. It's also ATB which boils most of the strategy away into "go fast hit hard". AoE skills become paramount not due to resources or strategy but because they waste less time. 2) There's no reason to actually dive into the dungeon. It kind of sucks. All the senior adventurers crow about their incredible wealth but the dungeon doesn't give you much more than cutting down trees part-time until you get fairly deep. The money-sink construction projects are thus mostly there to taunt you, especially anything to do with your house which is absurdly expensive for no particular reason. 25k + 3-4k for every individual piece of furniture, meanwhile remodeling someone else's house complete with furniture was like 2k. You're also going to miss basically everything unless you have a guide. And these events tend to punish you for missing them. You didn't find a specific random spawn on a specific floor with a specific party member in x days? They're gone forever. Another way to lose party members is romance, some characters assume you are dating just by doing their personal quest and will become furious if you dare betray this entirely one-sided relationship. Getting married will likely end up with at least 3 characters hating you for this if you haven't been explicitly avoiding commitment at all times like the world's biggest fantasy fuccboi. Thankfully there's basically no reason to get married at all; it's a huge money investment with no real story or mechanical return outside of a free heal once per dungeon run. The writing is stff and barebones with the exception of Grant who holds the entire game together. Grant is richer, stronger, and better-looking than you and makes sure the entire city knows it at all times. Slowly undermining his popularity and becoming the new The Guy is a very strong narrative hook and kept me invested through all the above. Grant himself somehow manages to avoid being annoying(to the player) just by being so overwhelmingly obnoxious that it becomes comical. The Fantasy Gary Oak. Once you get established there is fun to be had, it's just probably not worth the hassle.

这也许是第一个中文评测？Anyway，这个游戏玩法新颖，剧情上佳，角色刻画可圈可点。唯一有问题的就是战斗节奏特别慢。如果有机会看到这条评论，不要错过这个用心做出来的游戏。找一个 RPGMaker 的中文翻译器，还有一个加速插件，战斗速度加速三倍的时候体验适宜。

One of a very few example of pushing the RPG Maker to its limit, story is relatively fun, nothing crazy, everything described in the game description are there. Major Issue for me is this game punish you for progressing too fast, since the event and story in this game determined by your dungeon level, if you go too fast, you might skipped some important events

I don't often do multiple playthroughs of a game that isn't specifically a roguelike, or otherwise designed to reward repeated playthroughs. For this one, I've played through it three times, and am going for a fourth. The gameplay loop is just really satisfying, and once you've got a handle on how the passage of time works, it feels even more enjoyable and intuitive. This is a nicely done game.

good game

good