Hello Friends,
Today I will review the game Trillion: God of Destruction. This is a mix between visual novel, manager controlling game like football manager, and a strategy rpg. This makes a strange mix for the game, and actually makes it very difficult. The level of difficulty for the fighting sections are incredibly hard. Players can develop strategies to avoid Trillion's attacks, but one hit from them can usually can kill the player's character.
I even tried to beat Trillion. I only could beat his first phase, and that is only with using the Stone of Love resurrection event. Unfortunately, this boss has three phases, like a dark souls boss. Each phase the bosses movement set and fighting skills are different. The first one tends to be in a straight line mostly. The second is area effect all over the place. I am unsure of the third phase, but im sure it is very hard too. Due to the difficulty, i could not officially get past phase 2. I did try though. I played three full games, with new game plus on my save, and still could not do it. I believe this game forces you to beat it many times to actually fully beat it. Either it was done this way on purpose, or to inflate play length of the game, or both. Because of this difficulty curve and playing the same cutscenes three times, i decided that was enough for me at that point.
It is possible to skip some cutscenes, but not all of them. If a player tends to actually beat the game, they are going to have to see the same cutscenes maybe 5-10 times to even get to the point where they can fully beat trillion. To beat phase 1, it took me 3 playthroughs to do it efficiently. Once I got onto phase 2, I basically burnt thru all my characters. Each time a players tries to fight Trillion, they have a limited amount of characters to fight against him. Once a players uses all characters up, it is a game over. Then the player will have to start over from the beginning of the story and try again.
The football manager part of this game is technically the players does not control the characters except during the trillion fight. For the rest of the time, the player will picking training methods for the character they picked to train and fight trillion. If players ever played fight club, it is stats specific. So is this game. That is how the management comes in. The status increases are not much, but can be increased if they pick a training session with icons of other characters over the training method. The character will also get tired, so some days they may require rests. There are also random events, such as injuries, curses, etc that can effect training, and may require a item or rest to remove the debuff to training. Due to the limited training time, the players has very limited time to buff their character up to fight trillion.
In certain events, the players may also fight other characters or monsters. For example, players can go to the Valley of Swords which is a dungeon with random monsters that players can also get experience from, but only if they have enough credits to go into it. It takes 5 days for to get a entry credit to go into the valley of swords. Also, the players will run into move limits for the valley of swords. Since the game uses a grid based moving system, each grid movement equals one move. Most movement is limited to 100 spaces in valley of swords.
The rpg side of the game comes in fighting trillion and in the valley of swords. Players are shown a grid that they can move on. Then certain grid squares will light up, showing where trillion will attack. Many strategy rpg uses this method also. The rest of the game is visual novel. Basically players pick a choice that may lead to positive or negative effects on their training of the character they picked. Anyways, here are my pros and cons of this game:
PROS:
- The visual style reminds me of the series DISGAIA. In fact the fact that the seven sins in the games feels alot like what the disgaia games would do in it's place. Also, they are all female for some reason.
- A super hard boss. Even with training, players will lose...alot. They will get killed..alot. This is not a dark souls game, but it has a difficulty curve like it.
- For the first time, the story is interesting, but players playing multiple runs will see how boring it gets after the third time seeing it.
CONS:
- Lots of Patience is required. I stress this very much as multiple play runs are required to even beat the first phase of trillion. If this sounds like alot of work and grinding, players may want to ignore this game.
- Going thru the visual novel over and over and over again is boring. You can fast forward alot of the cutscenes, but some are unskippable. At least for me, i watched the same cutscene 4 times..ugh. I can even recite what they said word for word in the cutscene.
- Players have limited time and limited characters to fight boss. Do not expect to win the first run, or even the second run. I did not even win until my 4th run.
Do I recommend this game? If you like a very challenging game. People who like being challenged may really like this game, or people who like the disgaia aesthetics, may also enjoy the graphical style of the game. But after players have to listen and sit thru the story three or four times, they may not enjoy it very much and find it boring. I believe the worst enemy of this game is not trillion, but boredom. That is why only 12% of players even beat trillion first phase. I don't recommend this game to RPGers in general, but strategy rpgers may enjoy it, at least the first time they play it. If you want this style, go play dragon quest heroes instead. It has a decent difficulty curve and most levels can be beaten pretty easy. This game is not simple. It is not easy. It is very difficult.
NOTE: I recommended it because i did still have fun with it, until i had to repeat the story many times. At that point, i started to get bored.
