20 Hours In, My Take

[Rhyis.]

I'm at chapter 7, and I'm still on the fence about this game tbh. Fights are still easy and a becoming a little mundane. More because there are so many of the exact same fight over and over. Not because the combat system isn't good. Story is more character driven then I prefer, and honestly, not overly fluid. But it's decent. That's how I'd describe this game so far, not bad but not good.

Lots of people tell me it'll pick up. But I mean, how far into a game do I have to be before a game really starts? 20 hours of tutorial is a long ass time. I definitely find myself playing less often.

The best thing about this game is for sure the combat system. But the problem is that's all you can do in the game. There's nothing to distract you from it, even for a short while. I think that would've helped the games cause with these earlier chapters. Optional side missions, of some sort, to remind you that you're playing a RPG. Not Streets of Rage: Final Fantasy addition.

[Aemora]

Bout the same. Only problem I have is having to read about key story points from the datalog. It's not that they don't tell you what you need to know, but the details are always more thorough in the log. And a lot of the time, things pop up in the log before its even discussed on screen..

^ This

But totally in love with the game, though it could just be me liking a fresh break from FFXI, lol. Took me a while until I figured out how to manipulate fights with the Paradigm system, but man that system rocks; gets so much better when you get access to the sixth character.

Just hit the point in the game last night where I can pick my own party, and I looked at hte different combo's I could create, for like 15 minutes, before I decided it was 4am and I needed to sleep as sleep deprivation did not aide my cause at all! lol