Effulgence RPG

All in all, game is fun. Obviously, graphics are amazing, and they serve a role in one of game's mechanics, which is great. That being said, there are certainly a few notable things to mention: 1. Controls are rather clunky and all over the place. You can't hold button to scroll, in one of the minigames you need pgUp and pgDown to control things on keyboard, different mechanics behave differently. Later in the game I used a mix of keyboard (mainly for certain mechanic where you need to type) and gamepad. In one of the mechanics I preferred using mouse. You can't easily change cartridges on characters, I had to learn blindly how to do that and what interaction does what. I can's say I struggled with controls but I certainly can't say my experience was fluid or smooth. Separate mention goes to map navigation. Thank god we have fast travel list, otherwise i'd go mad. But even with it being present, having to visit 8 different places after every single fight was quite annoying. 2. A lot of mechanics are not explained or underexplained. That problems stretches all throughout the game, from stats to core mechanics. Does accuracy add flat bonus to hit chance or scales off weapon chance? What does * stat duplicate on weapon mean? How is weapon accuracy calculated in-game? I have no idea even right now, having finished this game fully. Same goes for Glyph bombing, this particular mechanic is my bane, as much as I like the idea I have 0 idea how it actually works. My approach was "♥♥♥♥ it we ball" for this one. There are a lot of instances of game not explaining things, which may be a part of fun for some people, but not for me. 3. Mechanics are kinda all over the place, as other people mentioned. Overall I enjoyed this fact, it felt nice to go from planning things in battle to some dice game (even thought it's heavily RNG dependant and you have little control over winning). But some mechanics don't mash that well, main thing that comes to mind are unique skills of the characters and their stats. Why would I want to spend 1 skill point to increase damage of 1 time (per fight) ability from 35 damage to 37, when I have weapon that deals 220 AOE damage and I can instead increase accuracy or how often I can do actions? It's not a major issues, but I just can't wrap my head around it. Easiest solutions I can think off are either making spells scale with level (or scale better with stats) or make them not 1 time use per battle. Saving grace is them costing 1 PING, so it's at least nice to clean out very low hp enemies. 7 hp blast skill on first cartridge is a total joke btw ----- My overall aftertaste of this game is that I certainly didn't feel like I wasted time playing it, but there is that lingering feeling of game being generally clunky and mismatched.