The Game That Never Ends HIGH The story feels both boundless and handcrafted. LOW Some reused art assets here and there. WTF A girl who wears a tomato mask I keep asking myself, have I really beaten The Hundred Line? Sure I’ve completed the story — I’ve reached the […]
HIGH Vibrant atmosphere with expert storytelling.
LOW Unbalanced, grindy combat.
WTF People flying by spinning in place.
HIGH Peak JRPG quality-of-life features.
LOW Story is too broad in scope. Endgame “optional” dungeon grind.
WTF Why do characters recite their archetype like Pokémon when they attack?
HIGH Snappy combat, improvements in visuals and quality of life elements.
LOW Tartarus grinding.
WTF Miss FemMC, where art thou?
HIGH The atmosphere is sublime.
LOW Seeing everything it contains in an hour.
WTF 70k seems like a low amount, given the stakes.
HIGH A well-done story with a lot of heart.
LOW Characters feel like items instead of allies.
WTF Smacking lizards to gain new abilities.
HIGH Fertile grounds for master tacticians.
LOW Poor English localization and outdated presentation.
WTF Menus that blend behind the UI?!
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Hi everyone! Eugene Sax here with a preview for an upcoming game from GameCritics.com.
WildArts Studio Inc and Dear Villagers present Born of Bread — a turn-based RPG with obvious inspiration taken from games like Paper Mario.
HIGH The feeling when an encounter is perfectly solved.
LOW The moment a single shot is missed.
WTF Pheromones to summon sentient trees.
It’s a difficult time to be an optimist about space colonization. Even as the possibility of human civilization living beyond Earth’s gravity comes closer, the reality is weighed down by the bleak situation at home. In the end, even optimists must concede that the prospects of living under a distant sun are likely impossible if we can’t solve the problems we have here on Earth — And from the look of things so far, that’s the premise of Iron Tower Studios’ in-development RPG, Colony Ship: A Post-Earth Role-Playing Game.