The Tenth Line

The Tenth Line is a really badly made console (PS4) ported JRPG made for furries, by furries. The game eschews traditional JRPG combat mechanics for a mobile app like tile dropping mess that doesn't really work... a lesson for developers everywhere, just because an idea is slightly more unique, doesn't mean it's a good idea. So you have bad writing, bad/mismatched graphics, some of the worst controls I've ever seen on a game, bad combat, and furries. This is not a game for playing, it's a game for putting in the flaming dumpster where it belongs. With maybe a bit of petrol splashed on it to make absolutely sure. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The most notable thing about this is just how godawfully bad the console port is. It's really one of the laziest, worst console ports I've ever seen. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics, but only for some elements like the character art. This sticks out like a sore thumb... it comes across as technical incompetence. Did they just want the characters to look crap and nothing else? The whole thing looks bad as a result. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. So while lazy, low quality pixel "art" has been used, making the game look bad, many elements of the game aren't done with pixelcrap... which accomplishes a couple of things. First, it shows the developers perhaps could have done better and they knew it, so that's a major screwup. Secondly, it destroys any hopes the developer had of creating a "retro aesthetic" as their excuse for the lazy pixelart compromise... It looks completely inauthentic from a retro gaming perspective. Visually, this is a hamfisted mess, a dogs breakfast of bad visuals, and this kind of laziness and poor quality should never be foisted on gamers. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. To make matters worse, there's no mouse input, despite this being sold on PC as if it were a PC game. This is unacceptable and somewhat insulting to PC gamers. It's a good demonstration of the poor attitude the developer has towards PC gamers, and this attitude has resulted in yet another defect in this game. Because this is designed for consoles, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? The Tenth Line has the comically over-optimistic price of around $8 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam. For comparison, the $8 asking price for this game could get you games like "Rise of the Tomb Raider", "The Elder Scrolls Online" or "Prey". No pixelcrap is worth $8. If developers want to get paid the same kind of money as real game developers who know how to do graphics properly, they need to learn how to do graphics properly.

TTL is a wonderful game that makes me very nostalgic for the golden age of the Jrpg era on the PlayStation 1. In that era, a lot of games followed certain aesthetics and musical styles while experimenting with the gameplay. And like that era, this made games unique but there were also flaws when trying something new. TTL is great with writing, character portrayal, world building and soundtrack. You often even have different dialogues depending on the character you’re controlling. The gameplay (on the second difficulty level) is very entertaining. I love the way character progression is handled (similar to Final Fantasy X), the mix of platforming, the battle system that has some Valkyrie Profile elements and there is even a fantastic card mini-game very similar to Final Fantasy VIII. I love the character specific cards and collecting all 45 of them for the achievement. The graphics look very charming and appealing in motion. Which might be a surprise because of the way the UI looks, it doesn’t fit with the graphics much imo. I thought the game looked ugly in screenshots, until I played the game. But that’s the game’s least worries anyway. The main two are some tedious platforming sections and not being able to save whenever you want. With the first one, I don’t mind controlling characters individually to reach the other side. It is however annoying that you have to try again when you fall, when a snow storm drops you etc. There are some punishing sections, especially the snow area. Saving is only allowed at specific save points. Now, normally this isn’t a big deal when you get a save point every time you reach the next area. But all the enemies return when you save, so you can’t kill some and then save. You have to press on if you want to make some progress. Coupled with the tedious platforming sections, I was forced to leave the game on on a couple occasions. It’s not a game you can play for a bit and leave whenever you like, you have to reserve some time and commit to it. Even with those flaws, the journey was absolutely worth it. I highly recommend the game for Jrpg fans, especially fans of the PlayStation 1 era. The normal price of €8 is very fair and it’s even on sale often for around 90% off. It took me around 25 hours to complete the game, get all the achievements and do all side quests. The achievements are very doable if you’re invested in the game, most of them come naturally.

[played on normal difficulty] The Tenth Line is a challenging combination platformer and active turn-based RPG with a memorable story and characters. The platforming involves moving three characters one at a time around different areas, often with separate routes due to varying jump distances and heights. There are environmental hazards to be avoided and puzzles to be solved along the way. All three characters must reach the end of an area in order to move to the next one. Turn-based battles take place on a separate screen in which the player must strategically choose abilities (mostly attacks) to defeat waves of enemies. For example, one enemy on the platforming map can represent 50 enemies in the battle screen. Battling always feels like an active endeavor because the player is constantly pressing buttons to attack on their turn and dodge/block on the enemies' turn. Much of the strategy in these battles is about managing what abilities are available, knowing when to use attacks against rows, columns, or single targets, and when to prioritize the use of secondary attack effects such as defense disruption and poison. You will not survive without blocking, so be sure to master it. The game also features an interesting level up mechanic that finds the player using expendable items to connect squares on a board in order to increase character stats (strength, hit points, and skill points) and unlock new character abilities in battle. In addition, the same expendable items can be used in a different menu to power up in-battle attacks, dodges, and point regeneration, as well as change elemental attacks for two characters (think fire, ice, etc.). Once I understood how these menus worked, it was a lot easier to progress in the game. I recommend new players take the time to figure these things out because they will end up in a world of pain otherwise. This is how you level up, after all! Those points must be spent! I had a lot of fun in these battles, and there was still plenty of challenge for a seasoned RPG veteran like myself. My party got wiped when I underestimated enemies, and when I didn't understand the timing of enemy abilities and blocking. There were aspects of the game that seemed uneven. For example, some sudden difficulty spikes caught me off guard and required exp farming to progress. One of these involved a chapter-end boss that I reached at level 57, but was only able to beat at 67. That was a lot of backtracking to level grind and derailed the story for awhile. Another thing that bothered me was how per-character blocking during battles uses X, A, and B on an Xbox controller, but the characters are positioned on the screen in a way that would better suit Y, B, and A. It felt like I had to rewire my brain-to-hand connection in order to block properly and consistently. Note that button bindings CAN be changed, but I typically don't do that in games I play, and in my opinion, the default should always be what makes the most sense. And I can't quite put my finger on it, but a main character comes across as one way in the first half of the game, then their personality seems to change in the second half of the game. There are plausible story-related reasons for this, but this change and its effect on / relation to other characters didn't seem to get fully resolved by the end of the game. As of this writing, only 14.3% of players complete Chapter 1, and 8.9% complete Chapter 2. That is a real shame to abandon a game so soon! If you invest a little bit of time to understand the mechanics of The Tenth Line, you will be rewarded with a great time. Stick to it and think strategically! I always say that the sign of an interesting character is that the reader/viewer/player [i]cares[/i] about them, and I'll be thinking of these characters and their world for awhile yet.

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A really charming JRPG with a lot of work put into the narrative. While the platforming is a bit janky at times, the other systems and narrative especially make up for it. There's a battle system sort of similar to Valkyrie Profile where you choose actions on attack phase, and can actively defend/guard during defense phase. A card game similar to Triple Triad of FF8. Multiple character upgrade systems, one similar to FF10's Sphere Grid where you feed items for stat boosts. And the main reason I found myself playing - the story and characters where a lot of work was put into the main 3 & additionals, with each party member having their own unique flavor text for each item, monster, most of the townsfolk, and more. Also has post game content and NG+.

Really fun turn-based RPG that I think deserves more attention than it appears it may have gotten! Highlight is definitely in the story and some of the combat systems and leveling, with shoutouts to the wonderful pixel art and background work. Be sure to talk to NPCs with each of the controllable characters to get different conversations, world building, and character development! Bonus points for the optional card mini-game; it reminds me of FF9 a bit, and I adore that one, so I really liked a similar game here. :) Game runs wonderfully, encountered no bugs. Controls work on both a keyboard or a controller (played on controller personally); you may want to look into rebinding no matter which you choose, because some assignments seem strange, like buttons to defend in combat versus the line-up they are on screen. You may need to be prepared to return to title screen to reload a screen every so often if you accidentally knock an item out of the map (swamp area) or want to grind a little bit. On that note, played on the intended difficulty because I saw post-game and NG+ are not available to lower difficulties!! So be aware of that. Having played on it though, I found I didn't not need to grind at all -- doing even average star ranking in your battles will lead to you reaching very close to, if not capped out, by the end of the game. I love the leveling grid, the "Power Flow" as it were, and slotting items to gain power. Same with the training, having items have qualities that impact their strengths and how their unique mechanics work. (Leveling the strength is mandatory! While I found I didn't need to interact with the unique mechanics until near end of game.) Speaking of end of game, I think my only complaint is that I feel it ends too abruptly! I really liked where things were going, the twists and character building that was happening, but it just feels like it needed that little bit _more_. Threads get set up that don't always feel like they pay off fully. Post-game has some challenge fights you can do, but I found they might be a little -too- sponge-y to be worth exploring, but your mileage may vary, as I wasn't the best at the juggling and guard breaking mechanics of the game's combat system...! Which, in itself, is a really cool idea, trying to weave your attacks in ways to try to max out your big hits versus spending or saving your attacks. Defense is tough, requiring you to be very quick on deciding when to press the button, and I found sometimes I could get by just going "Press all three the moment you see someone start to move on screen," hah. The super defenses are also VERY helpful, but I found they didn't always activate reliably; this may be a user error, as I'm using the new Steam Controller, so I may not have set it up properly. Again, your mileage may vary! All in all, this took about 15-ish hours to go from start to finish without post-game, and goes on pretty large sales (I think I got it for, like, a buck because it was recommended in the checkout window??, which is *insane* for the quality here). I really think this is worth your time!! It's got some big hits, and some misses, but the pros vastly outweigh the cons, and I think you'll find a really good time here. Great work here from Sungazer Software. i love rik and tox and want to draw fanart of them, especially rik, oh my gosh i love their designs so much. need to make time to paint them if i cannn

[h1]Reseña: The Tenth Line - ¿Una línea que vale la pena cruzar?[/h1] [h2]Resumen[/h2] ¡Ay, \The Tenth Line\! Un juego que intenta cruzar tantas líneas, pero ¿realmente logra patear la lata hasta la meta o tropieza y cae de cara? Al parecer, la comunidad le tira confeti a distancia con un 74.86% de aceptación. Lo que sí te digo, amigo, es que este titulillo es una mezcla rara de aventura, RPG y plataformas, como una pizza de piña con extra queso. [h2]Aspectos importantes e interesantes[/h2] Primero que nada, bravo por intentar algo ¡DIFERENTE! \The Tenth Line\ nos lleva por un viaje raro pero curioso en un mundo fantástico que no se ve todos los días. Además, los personajes y sus habilidades únicas son como un menú degustación: nunca sabes cuál te va a gustar más, pero definitivamente querrás probarlos todos. Y, ¡ah! Esas mecánicas roleras mezcladas con plataformeo, un soplo de aire fresco entre tanto clon de clones por ahí. [h2]Aspectos por mejorar[/h2] Vamos, no todo lo que brilla es oro. El juego puede crujir un poco en las costuras cuando te empiezas a sumergir. Hay veces que no sabes si estás jugando un RPG o compitiendo en las olimpiadas del plataformeo extremo. Además, algunos diálogos son tan largos que podrías prepararte un sandwich (o dos) en lo que terminan. ¡Y cuidado, la curva de dificultad puede pegarte un salto como engañado por un trampolín! [h2]Tabla de puntuaciones[/h2] [table] [tr][th]Criterio[/th][th]Puntuación[/th][th]Comentarios[/th][/tr] [tr][td]Jugabilidad[/td][td]8[/td][td]Innovadora mezcla de géneros, pero por momentos saturante.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Dificultad / IA[/td][td]6[/td][td]Prepare to die. ¿Estamos en Dark Souls? No, pero se siente así a veces.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Contenido[/_Height][td]7[/td][td]Hay bastante chicha, pero quizás demasiado aderezo para la ensalada.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Video / Gráficos[/td][td]6[/td][td]A veces encantador, a veces te pregunta si debes actualizar los drivers.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Historia[/td][td]7[/td][td]Interesante, aunque los diálogos necesitan una buena poda.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Ambientación[/td][td]8[/td][td]De lo mejor del juego. Realmente te transporta... a su propio caos.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Efectos[/td][td]7[/td][td]Hacen su trabajo, sin fuegos artificiales.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Música[/td][td]8[/td][td]La banda sonora tiene su encanto. Ponla en el coche y a volar.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Voces[/td][td]5[/td][td]¿No había para más actores? Repetitivo y a veces plano.[/td][/tr] [tr][td]Diversidad[/td][td]7[/td][td]Bastante buena en términos de caracteres y opciones.[/td][/tr] [tr][th]Total puntuaciones[/th][th]69[/th][th]Un puzle bicolor.[/th][/tr] [/table] [h2]Veredicto[/h2] Si la puntuación final es de 69... [i]Compralo con descuento.[/i] Si quieres un juego que casi puede ser del otro mundo (en todos los sentidos), pero quieres asegurarte de no gastar mucho por si acaso, ¡espera esa oferta y lanzate al ruedo con \The Tenth Line\!

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