Flowstone Saga Reviews

Sadly, it still has too many problems to be called done. If it were done, this would be a [i]yes[/i] instead of a [i]no[/i]. In the past hour I have experienced: (1) a fade to black before a quest fight never unfading from black to continue, (2) a main story cutscene loading the sprite of a slime along the bottom edge of the screen instead of the characters the dialogue references, (3) winning a long boss fight with piece drops that were too quick (or something) at the end that didn't end the fight, (4) wrong/rotating dialogue when talking to the frog spirits in New Riverstone, (5) if you get more than a few different drops in a regular fight, the text lines just keep going down (and the one overlapped by the EXP readout is unreadable), and (6) walking straight through an enemy without triggering a fight (needing to double back over it to trigger it).

Great twist on tetris, i've had a great time with it. If you like tetris and rpgs youre in for a treat

I'm quite sad I slept on this game for so long before taking the leap. Great pixel art, fun engaging combat (it's effectively Tetris the rpg), and thus far has shown an interesting world and an interesting cast of characters I want to explore. Yet another 16 bit game that proves that there is still more to find and love with this classic style, embarrassing triple A game publishers who focus to much on flash and not substance, or most importantly, just plain raw fun. I hope the gameplay continues to expand more as I can see the potential with the systems that have been introduced early on. Tldr: Great pixel art game; exactly what I want to see in the indie scene showing old methods still can produce fun results.

TL;DR Combat is interesting, but story is really sluggish if you are looking to play tetris I suggest looking elsewhere I wanted to like this game I really did. I love the art style and the music. The combat which is tetris seems interesting. Unfortunately is all kinda falls flat. Fights felt too long and I know I can run but without the tetris the game for at least the first 2 hours is a glorified fetch quest. We need item from there, go there kill enemy come back, give item, and then a new quest of go there, kill X, come back. Rinse and repeat for 2 hours and it broke me. I was so bored the story wasnt doing anything at all. I suppose all the fetch quests are meant to introduce you to the people of the town but I wasn't feeling any connection with them. I was so done being in the same place with what felt like no progress in the game. Maybe it picks up afterwards but I'm not convinced. But after spending two hours in the same town with next to nothing happening I was done. This game needs to figure out where to trim the fat.

Great game - like the mechanics but also art style.

Very fun game with charming characters and dialogue