Tales of Seikyu

6 Hours of play, I lost track of time before I knew it. Well polished from other games like this, Would like to see if there is expansions for the game later on. Performance has been spectacular (may have had my FPS drop during the spring festivle event) and the loading times and fast travel times are almost instant.

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Un classique du genre, en 3D réussie, avec sa touche d'originalité avec les transformations et le gameplay associé, un peu d'humour, des personnages hauts en couleur. De très rares bugs, des soucis de QOL, mais j'ai été surpris de constater par un heureux hasard que les principaux ont été traités par les développeurs au milieu de ma session d'une trentaine d'heures. Le jeu assure de passer un agréable moment de bout en bout quand on aime le style.

So here's the rub...overall Tales of Seikyu is an enjoyable farming/life/dating sim, with some shortcomings. PROS: - Enjoyable storyline, that actually has some nice twists and more grandure than most farming sims. - Exploration is quite enjoyable and rewards you for looking in every nook and cranny. - Characters are weird, quirky, unique and interesting - whatever you're looking for - it's there. - Good choice of bachelorettes and bachelors to choose from. - Music is pleasant, nothing standing out, but a nice background earworms. - Different yokai forms are nice and refreshing take, most are really useful on a regular basis. - Fishing mechanics are quite nice, you have to wear down the fish before catching it. CONS: - Meaningless skills and its progression (you gain levels in combat, farming, fishing etc. up to lvl 10, but there's nothing behind it, no improvements, just level number goes up, kind of pointless at the time). - Perhaps it was already patched, but few days ago some clothes were still broken (particularly top of summer male outfit). When you put it on your character starts T-posing, clothes physics break and you cannot take it off (well...you can, but it's still on your character model). To fix it you have to take it off, save and restart the game, then put some other clothes on...or run around butt naked. To each their own. - Lackluster marriage and this is big one. Marriage is limited to literal token character in your house. You get married, prepare (what supposed to be a master bedroom) spouse room, after marriage your spouse is in the room, so you can interact with her/him, but that's it. You cannot use bed, wardrobe, cannot sleep together (unless you cheat it and ask your spouse for sleepover date every single day), I was hoping for maybe a possibility to change their clothes, given you have many of those. No after marriage contents, no specific interactions, no hanging out, sharing chores...anything. Feels like this one was rushed out of the door unfinished, so here's hoping future updates will change that. - Weird sound queues. Sometimes weird sounds are playing. Sometimes completely inadequate music plays to what's happening on the screen. No voiceover is a choice and that's okay, but I had few occasions, where I felt like the game is very silent in some scenes. - Stamina/Endurance in tengu form doesn't make sense. I was hoping with increase of that stat I will be able to fly further in my maxed tengu form, but that's not the case. 4 flaps of wings and you're done, despite having amost half of my stamina/endurance left. That's meh. - Map of ruins. Well...whoever designed this map deserves a long community service hours. I've played a lot of farming/life sims, many of those have similar form of dungeons/ruins/mines, but this is one of the worst and most confusing map designs I've ever encountered. Many times you're forced to wander around, guessing the route to the room you're looking for. Navigating the ruins supposed to be challenging, but not because of badly designed map. That's just...yeah, bad design. - Availability of fish during fishing. This seems to be very simplified, as it seems you can catch any fish in any body of water. No matter river, lake or ocean fish...you can catch all of them in any rivers, lakes or ocean. Would be nice to actually split those by certain water areas, so you can target groups of fish in the area, because right now catching the specific fish for quests or shrines completion is a painful experience at best. - Half of crafting is kind of pointless and serves in majority only to get items for daily quests. Even clothes or furniture crafting primarily uses items you can obtain from monsters, animals or through gathering. This really needs some fixing. - Not sure if this is by design, but Yuki-onna is missing from affinity tab. You can clearly interact with her at the same level (almost) as the other bachelorettes, so why not having her in affinity tab? It felt like she was there, but once you help her "recover" she disappeared? Not sure about that though. The game becomes kinda boring after you're done with the main story. Not many things to do past end game. I'm looking at some other similar games in comparison, where they offer so much more. The game just came out of EA, so I'm hoping this will be updated and more things will be added. I may push to finish at least all seasons of year 1, as I've finished the game somewhere around middle of summer, though this may be my fault, as I've increased the length of days, so I've had more time to do everything (not sure it was all that worth it, but it's good the option is there). After finishing the game I felt like something is missing at the end of it, there could be more...but then I looked at my playtime...and 83 hours is a really decent time. Even if it would be around 65-70 hours mark where I finished, that's still a lot of content. Perhaps looking from this angle, where I've played 83 hours and the time flew by, that's the testament of how enjoyable the game was to me? Hence, despite a lengthy list of cons, I still feel like I can recommend this game.

very fun so far, the characters are diverse and cute

I love the romance aspect, especially how its a 3D version of other popular life sim games.

I really like the characters and the farming mechanic, as well as the chill music. The idea of turning into different Yokai is definetly the selling point and imho it doesn't disappoint! I also like the whole inverted concept of everyone being some kind of Yokai and humans being the stuff of legends. The story so far is fine, but nothing groundbreaking. It gets the job done well. The game still has a few bugs and glitches though, like characters standing in objects sometimes, or the music cutting out suddenly. I also had a few problems with my framerate from time to time, but I am basically playing this on a potato, so keep that in mind. All in all, a very enjoyable game, and I am looking forward to what the developers will tackle next!

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