Little Savior / リトルセイバー Reviews

Made for mobile devices, this game crashes every time I touch my mouse - i tried for about 30 minutes, and actually got the game to start once - upon which I was greeted by the worst English translation ever, and the entire story is in Japanese. I can read Japanese, that's not an issue. The issue arises when I bought this to make Youtube content - and my audience doesn't speak Japanese. Nevermind that, though. The game is pretty buggy, and clearly was never meant for a PC originally. This is evidenced by it starting with " floating buttons " on screen when you load it up - like a mobile game. refunded after the game crashed the 7th time.

The game is interesting but has some problems. Gameplay is similar to Avaris 2 where you control a single unit while there are hundreds of other units on the battlefield fighting among each other. You can choose one of the 4 units to control and you can switch between them in battle. Each unit has a team of up to 4 different summons that it calls to battle (size of your team can be setup in settings, normal size is leader + 8 summons (edit: number seems to be wrong as amount actually depends on Charisma stat, I discovered this after reading online manual)). On top of that there are several extra teams that you can assign a leader to, including Monument, losing which is the main failure condition on most maps. Each leader can respawn twice during the battle so you need to kill enemy leaders faster than they kill your leaders to dominate the battlefield and to eventually remove the enemy leaders. Each summon can respawn limited amount of times which is defined by total amount of such summons that you captured (if you have 100 of some unit and assign it to two teams, then this unit can respawn in each team 50 times). 4 main leaders can be upgraded using cash that you get after battles, they can also be equipped with up to 12 items and skills that can be activated in battle. Weapons also can be upgraded. Other units level up by gaining experience in battles. The problems: Story is not translated (but it is short and it is clear on what you need to do). There is no information about stats. Some stats are obvious while other are unclear (there is a link on store page to online manual that describes stats, need to use google translate to translate from japanese). If OS locale is not English then there can be crashes when starting a combat. To avoid them you need to switch Format on "Date, Time and Regional formatting" page to English. If you created a save before switching locale you need to delete it else the game will keep crashing when you try to save again (there is an option to delete a save file in settings or you can delete it manually at Users\\AppData\Roaming\Sorceryforce\LittleSavior01\App\1\5\User\Save\SaveData ). After switching format to English the game never crashed again while I played for 6 hours.