Effulgence RPG

I tried the version 1.0 and it wasn't for me. I was exited for the ASCII-animations which are great. But the game feels just like an animated card game to me. You don't get to walk around in locations or overworld map or anywhere like you would in many RPGs. It's only turn based combats and menus. If you like that kind of game then I guess it's alright but I think expectation management would be in a key role here. Story and dialog writing seems quite absent and it feels like wackyness is used as an excuse for it. Meh.

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relatively straightforward yet somewhat esoteric in its presentation. a good time with some absolutely gorgeous visuals, but not my first recommendation for someone in terms of RPGs? there's no real grinding, you kind of go through the motions and clear stages and the occasional event. story feels thin but it's good! it's fun! it's also relatively short which is good because the game feels relatively simple in terms of what it wants to do mechanically so not being 20 hours long is great. the game does some good bits like weapon accuracy / crit rate being tied to distance vs character, needing to swap your party order to absorb damage, waiting for enemies to be grouped up for explosives and so on. it's less involved in terms of the rest of the management, but you aren't mashing attack the entire playthrough and that's nice. there's a couple minigames shoved in there and they're also okay, didn't hate them but still glad there's a bit of diversity in things you can do in a playthrough. some criticism i suppose is that the UI sometimes gets in the way (especially the top one) in combat. there's buttons you can press to temporarily hide it but i feel like i shouldn't have to do that. also played it with a controller and it felt a bit awkward at first to do so - the game feels kind of designed for a keyboard (being ASCII and all) and so while it's playable it might feel less than desirable for some people. game also feels like it lacks a tiny bit of tuning (the last few areas feel particularly punishing) but once again it's short enough that i feel like i can somewhat forgive it all. i think it's worth giving it a shot? there's nothing really bad or egregious here, just a relatively short and swell time. if it was longer i think it would edge way too into "too much" territory but as it stands the relatively short runtime is what keeps the whole thing together.

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Прошел весь доступный контент. Красивый визуал, простая и понятная система прокачки, простая боевка. В эту игру можно играть не напрягаясь Прокачивать персов и сражаться в локациях было приятно

Mais que ce jeu est beau ! Acheté pour soutenir la création. Testé pour être sûr que la promesse n'est pas vide (elle ne l'est pas, ce RPG centré sur les combats a un feeling délicieusement weird), maintenant j'attends la 1.0 !

Наконецто она вышла!