HARVESTELLA

Plenty of bugs. For example, in Echo of the Bulla (Map), there is a bridge that is in JP text when using the EN translation. There are the semi-bugs/continuity errors such as of a party member running off and if you return to town right away, that party member will be wandering around town (but if you return to the dungeon, the party member will still be in a rush and ahead of you in the cutscenes). Similarly, the quests that pop up upon doing so will also treat you as having already been through the area. In a later map, if you return right away after an event, [spoiler]a character will have "moved" before they actually move, thus creating two locations where that character lives.[/spoiler] Jumping off certain areas can result in the minimap not updating, thus showing the wrong minimap. Combat is meh. Could use plenty of QoL such as making it easier to swap targets mid-combo (the enemy has to physically enter your combo area for physical attacks, for example, and the attack will fizzle if in the middle of magic charge and the target dies). Your AI allies can be rather dense as they won't attack if you have not attacked for a few seconds even if being attacked. FEAR enemies are mainly tough because they have a very short leash, some will literally despawn while fighting them. Otherwise, they are actually absurdly easy (but time and stamina consuming) to kill if you know how to deal with their attacks (there is a trick to beating one as soon as you find one, but it does require you to be at relatively full stamina and be fairly early in the day). Farming is okay, but very basic and feels more like it was just an extra part of the game. Two mechanics from farming games though... My biggest two annoyances are the stamina and time mechanics. Time is very fast here and stamina is fairly low even with being able to recover stamina with food. Almost everything consumes stamina. The dungeons are clearly meant to be cleared in short bursts of running to the next shortcut and then ending the run about there. I personally hate the fishing minigame due to how heavy RNG is. The art and music is beautiful as expected of a square game. Only issue is that events such as talking with an NPC will often reset the music, causing it to break when you enter and exit a conversation or in some cases, after a new line. As for the story... it is kind of annoying. [spoiler]It feels like everyone has amnesia or memory loss or similar. The MC, one or more storyline NPCs/Party members, several sidequest NPCs, etc.[/spoiler]. Outside of that, this is basically your typical storyline that Square often uses [spoiler]with saving the four crystals[/spoiler]. Not much in terms of surprises since the 'twists' are given away fairly early on for the most part. Your choices don't matter for the most part as the same things seem to happen with only small variations in the text and/or the how/why.