Aria and the Secret of the Labyrinth Reviews

The pacht no work.

Failed to patch for english version. -- Fixed.

For 19.99 not worth it, I recommend waiting for a sale,

I like this game so far only played it for like 45 minutes but so far so good but one thing is I would like to know the keyboard controls and if you can hide the text box and if so what key it is?

Not recommended - The patch from the dev is already buggy - Really bad MTL (comparable to Wasabi/Sakura Games) - This English version of the game crashes and is buggy/laggy, which you do not experience on the original JP version. I do not recommend buying any games from Dieselmine Int'l. given how unresponsive they are.

TLDR: Good game. Horrible publisher. [list] [*]I obtained the patch from the publisher's ci-en site. This looks like they are too cheap to buy a domain. The patch itself sucks — It extracts and copies files one by one, single-threadedly, for 1338 files. That took 20 minutes on my computer. Just give me a standard ZIP archive if you can’t write a program properly. [*]The game doesn’t have Cloud Save. This is a basic quality-of-life feature that costs nothing for the publisher and takes less than 5 minutes to enable. [*]The translation is acceptable, though my standard is super low. [*]The text sometimes isn’t wrapped correctly and runs beyond the viewable UI. This is a basic quality check failure and can easily be fixed by using a smaller, thinner font. [*]The action window that appears during certain lewd scenes only shows one word per line (excluding the subject). This indicates that the publisher [b] did not [/b] test the game. This can easily be fixed by modifying that specific plugin. [/list] This is just a cash grab attempt with a popular Japanese game. The publisher doesn't know anything and likely just threw the game into machine translation. I bought this hoping to support the original developer’s effort in bringing it to the global market, but it’s disappointing. They should consider cutting ties with this publisher.

game requires outside patches to work, no reason for them to not include them in the game itself especially for the price

If your Looking for the version I was looking for make sure you follow the creator on twitter then find some patch notes for this game... your're welcome and have fun. This is the only way this game will actually be worth the money also make sure you check the language it will be in English and in Chinese

Game Length: 4Hours+ 5/5 Story: Very minimal, Bare. 1/5 Gameplay: Dungeon Crawl Survival 5/5 Art: Great, Patch required. 5/5 Total: 8/10 Total was a bit high but the game was probably more like average>above average. There's not much story in it just a bunch of events or silent exploration. Only 1 hub/main town. Kinda like Diablo 1 or something where you are trying to reach from Point A to Point B. The CG is pretty easy to start unlocking. Game had a nice set of CGs. This game is a sequel to BloodPrice, barely. Overall I liked the game and enjoyed my time on it. Buy now or wishlist it for a sale later, not missing out too much.

For reference, I played this game with the official English patch from the developer's Twitter. There's fun to be had here, but ultimately I cannot recommend this game to others, and shall be refunding it myself, due to one significant glitch. The majority of text in this game is broken. Surprisingly, it isn't broken English. The translation is actually remarkably serviceable, with only the most minute Engrish slipping through the cracks. No, it is broken in its implementation in the RPGMaker engine. In RPG Maker, if a line of dialogue reaches the edge of a text box, it doesn't wrap to the next line automatically, it just gets cut off. Developers need to be aware of this fact and manually input line breaks at all the right places to ensure all of the text fits into the desired text box. These developers didn't do that. So for the majority of sentences, we can only ever see the first half or so. This is not a "here and there" problem, this is the MAJORITY of dialogue. The fractured sentences make it almost harder to follow than a rough machine translation would be. In the worst offending cases, the text boxes just repeat "Aria. Aria. The. Aria." over and over again, which is clearly meant to be a back and forth exchange, but we are given nothing but the identifier for who is speaking with none of the dialogue. My reason for refunding rather than waiting for this glitch to be fixed via patch is threefold. First, the game is too expensive to justify leaving sitting around my library as dead weight. Had it been less than £10, I'd probably have just taken the hit, but for the price it is there's no defending this. Secondly, the issue is so glaring and widespread that it would have been immediately caught if they had done ANY QA testing on the game. This does not give me hope for their quality standards or the likelihood that they'll care to fix it. And thirdly, the content of the game I played was significantly altered by an external patch. Therefore, no official Steam update would be able to repair the problem. My only option would be to lurk the dev's Twitter to see if they release an updated manual patch, which would frankly be more effort than I care to put in for likely no fruit. For all I know, the unpatched game has none of these problems. In which case it would be a serviceable but barely entertaining dungeon crawler, since it's clear that the gameplay of this game was designed first & foremost to be window dressing for the additional patched scenes.