Relayer Advanced Reviews

Bad voice acting aside, I think this is worth your time if you like SRPGs. I like the animations and art style of the game. Everything is done very well when it comes to visuals. The only thing I dislike about this game so far is the voice acting.

There is a skeleton of something amazing here. The world, the lore, the mech design and the character designs are amazing. To be able to express distinction between characters even though the majority of them wear similar uniform is a masterstroke of character design. But that is all the praise that can be given to this game. There are so many problems. First of all, the gameplay of this game gets extremely repetitive and grindy very quickly. For a tactic game, the majority of the skills given to the characters have a distinct lack of uniqueness between them. The lack of AOE skills (except for ultimate that comes once in a long time) also limits the amount of strategizing and control the player have over the battlefield and make it more jarring when enemy bosses are able to spam them with no recourse. Then there's the story. There is a skeleton of a good story based on an interesting world building here, but all of that is squandered for the most asinine power of friendship story where enemies who hates each other and wanted to kill one another turned into friends on a dime, and there are no lasting or interesting conflicts or compelling antagonistic characters throughout its run time. There are attempts to make mysterious characters and some sort of conspiracy throughout the story, but they are all poorly written, poorly resolved and goes no where. Finally, in order to fully go through the endgame content, a lot of grind will be required. An absurd amount for such limited and boring gameplay. Definitely not worth it.