So far I like how different encounters require you to use your abilities in an efficient way. There’s also more enemy variety and shows the importance of adapting your strategies to different encounters. I guess it shows the importance of those. I spent 30+ hrs in the demo, so understood the combat completely, but still had a hard time against mobs especially at beginning portions because I stamina management became a bigger deal with no stamina managing or restoring abilities. I just like the gameplay loop and for me that’s the most important thing when playing a game. Also just because I feel like the combat is great doesn’t mean I’m blind to it’s faults (read my post about the beginning). it also heavily rewards trying to maximize dps through its systems. The game is very responsive to its inputs. But if it feels clunky/unintuitive it’s probably because you’re used to every other game having the exact same control scheme. Ofc not everyone is going to like the combat. Makes up for the beginning in my eyes.Įdit: I was mostly joking about the skill issue thing but it’s my fault since I didn’t make it obvious. You could’ve accomplished nothing of real value and you’d still have fun. It’s parkour, fighting, parkour, looting, parkour, events, and repeat. Once you get into a “flow” state, hours just disappear man. It all comes together in a beautiful time sync of a package. Parkour also has a bit of a learning curve but once you get that hang of using shimmer, whip and running together it becomes so smooth and seamless. I thought I understood the combat when I played the demo for 5 hours but this is a game that keeps on giving I’m having a blast and I’m still not even consistently going for back attacks or using magic parkour to stun enemies and I just unlocked a whole new element.

You have to worry about switching skills, which skills are the most effective, keeping your distance but not being too far away so you can you do of a fishing blows, dodge, manage your stamina and the list goes on and on. The combat system with rock magic alone is deeper than most games. When the game finally clicks it’s so addicting. This game was never meant to start a franchise for them, just a tech demo to see if the movement and magic can work in their other games.Did you try the demo and find the combat clunky/unintuitive? I’m sorry my friend but that is a SKILL ISSUE. Square Enix will try to incorporate parts of the parkour and magic into the next final fantasy or another one of their games. My theory is that this game is a tech demo, a very expensive tech demo for the parkour and magic system. I’ve seen comparison photos where five year old games have way better graphics. You can tell all the money went into the magic visuals, and none I tk the character models, dialog, or environment. Not even kidding, her eyes are always crossed, she’s bucktoothed like bugs bunny, and she looks like she has the downs.

She looks like she’s cross-eyed and down syndrome. Take one look at auden and you’ll see what I mean. It’s like they made a decent looking protagonist and then had a rule that everyone else is this game has to look hideous. The dialog is pretty jank, the graphics sometimes look worse then games from like five years ago, and those faces, Jesus christ the faces. This game lol for a next Gen only game, some of it is really low budget and just corny. The only positives are the parkour mechanics and visuals in some way. The game runs on avg, even with a 4090 enabled RTX, the graphics don’t even justify the need of a 2080 as a recommended setup let alone, the game has immense amount of cinematic cutscenes on almost every step, you will be taken away the control quite too often, aiming in combat with parkour and using different spell types at once ain’t working properly and your flow gets disturbed, the cringy talking between the main character and the bracelet is not funny, the game’s narrative that a black person who is a gang bitch can also be a hero but gets arrested in the new world and the guards giving zero fucks about you after you escaping the prison… Makes no sense at all, the story has absolutely no holding points and you shall immediately fall in love with any NPCs which you haven’t heard anything from (that’s what they try to force upon you), areas having weird mesh collisions which are blocking you from entering or passing by areas (which are supposed to be accessible), dungeons are pure copy and paste with different monster varieties and different ambient light, etc Look for the official and initially released reviews.

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