Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition

Seriously, just buy Chrono Trigger. Don’t even bother with this. Don’t be fooled by the marketing and astroturfed praise. This was a boring, tedious slog of a game with very brief elements that I liked. I’m going to start with what was objectively good, as the general setting, artwork, and music were neat. Certain elements within these categories really mesh well that lend to genuine fun while exploring the world (the soundtrack changing based on the time of day, environmental puzzles based on new abilities you acquire, repetitive but charming animations from sprites, etc.). Cybirg ninjas and glass golems are just cool to have in your party commotion. But thats about it. The dialogue and story really drag this experience down for me. It insists that it’s not like those other cliché Jrpgs - “inspired” by the greats as the marketing says - but is simultaneously just re-heating Chrono Trigger’s nachos and being the blandest experience ever. It expects you to be invested for possibly 40 hours of gameplay, to be invested in one-note, stilted speaking characters that made me question out loud why I should care about anything that’s going on. Story pacing, character motivations, and a sense of real stakes were messed up, contrived, and just not present at all, respectively. I got so fed up with so many needless exposition dumps that I eventually just skipped cutscenes as the game went on. The ending genuinely pissed me off. FYI, there’s a “True” ending that also sucks and doesn’t make any sense if you think about it for more than a minute. I bothered to do all the side content here but ended up feeling apathetic about it all. Yeah, that how I wanted to feel after going on a grand adventure. Empty inside. As fun as the combat can be at first, it gets old quick, with many of the encounters becoming too repetitive. Point attribution when leveling up felt aimless and didn’t make me feel like experimenting. You are going to be using a lot of the same combos throughout, with some deviations for certain lock combinations. The locks btw are random, and often without enough turns to figure them out. It thinks it’s keeping you on your toes, but it just elicited a lot of disdain during certain enemy encounters (♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bird tribunal iykyk). Baffling that this costs nearly $40 for what you get, and what you get is just padding, both in story and gameplay. It’s honestly like this game just gives up three quarters of the way through and actively reminds the player that their time is being wasted. Please skip this and find something better.

I stopped playing when I learned you have to treasure hunt shells to get the "true ending." One of the dumbest game mechanics you can make for a "true ending" is making people do pointless treasure hunts that don't seem to have any function other than to waste your time. There are 60 of them. You will be required to backtrack to find them all. You might as well make the "true ending" of Dragon Quest games gated behind having to find all the gold medals. Don't waste my time. They named the game wrong, because it's more about a sea of shells. Not stars.

Ich habe das Game lange vor mir her geschoben, und bereue es das ich so lange gewartet habe. Es ist wirklich Klasse! Man bekommt sofort Lufia/Mystic Quest Legends vibes. Tolle Schiberätsel/Greifhaken/Licht und Schatten Mag über die Geschichte nicht spoilern, sie wr nichts wirklich neues hatte aber interessante Ereignisse und ich fühlte mich gut unterhalten. Grafisch ist das hier eines der schönsten Pixel RPG's die ich je gesehen habe. wirklich wunderschöne und flüssige Animationen. Dazu die ganz kurzen Zwischensequenzen im Anime Stil, echt toll! Der Soundtrack ist auch stimmig. Das Hauptspiel hat mich gute 24 Stunden beschäftigt. Hauptspiel Bewertung: Für mich eine 7/10 Anspruch: Einsteiger. --------------------------------------- DLC-Bewertung: Huch was war das denn? Das Hauptspiel genommen und die Regler auf 180 Gedreht! Die Rätsel waren viel Anspruchsvoller als im Hauptgame, dir Geshichte fand ich auch etwas besser. Kämpfe, ja sehr knackig im vergleich zum Hauptgame. Soudtrack hatte auch einige tolle Stücke dabei. Und das beste, alles kostenlos! Andere hätten für diese gut 7-10 Stunden extrainhalt kräftig kassiert, hier bekommt man nach Ende des Haupgames einfach noch was geschenkt, danke! Für mich eine 8/10 Anspruch: Fortgeschrittene

the beginning is so boring it has no choice but to get better... let's not find out

it's good, the DLC is good, buy this

RPGに求めるもの、それはレベリングでは無いでしょうか？ 毎ダンジョン、めんどくさいの極みであるギミック処理をさせられ、レベリングも金策も出来ずに装備を整える喜びもない。 テンポもスピードも遅く楽しめませんでした。 雰囲気は良いのに惜しいです。

Great game! Absolutely loved all characters This game will hit you in the feels and the story is actually pretty good Highly recommend

In terms of singleplayer mode, it introduces fun minigames into magic skills (such as timing attacks to achive more damage out of the spell cast) However, because I bought it for co-op via remote play, I would have to give this a thumbs down because you can't control just your own character, you can freely control both. I understand remote play is just split-screen co-op and hence the technical limitations, but it would have been nice to have a online co-op with friend pass.