Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten Reviews

Starts slow but grows immensly. Dont't give up on this one.

Game is okay if you play on controller but still has the same issue of not being able to move the highlighted option. I played this on controller and I can only press down button to move the highlighted select option to the left not right and this really annoys me because I can't hit any buttons to move right after i hit the down button. That's the only issue that I came across during a few hours of playing. For me the issue is trying to select the no option from saving when the highlighted option is on yes and trying to equip armor on a different character when purchasing it from the shop. Well, have fun if this doesn't bother anyone who is still interested in getting the game.

Wanted to like it, but felt my goodwill draining by the hour. It's a shame because I like the characters and the combat system has potential. The combat, when properly implemented and challenging, works very well, utilizing a pretty unique system for turn order. Unfortunately, that's rare. The pretty okay combat is surrounded by a punishingly boring story (20 hours in and we're doing a 'clear out the gambling den' mission as part of the critical path mere hours away from the unsatisfying ending), at least up until the final act, where you will be expected to know everything about the lore of Utawarerumono if want to understand what's going on. The animation is stilted, and the game will just decide out of nowhere to waste your time for an hour or two with the aforementioned irrelevant quests or by becoming a screwball comedy for with no actual gameplay to interrupt it. Dialogue crawls on and on and on. And it kills me to say this, because the concept is great, but the mechanic where you just defeat monsters if you are over-leveled really tanks the experience. If you do the side quests you'll be over-leveled for the main path roughly halfway through the game, which means the vast majority of generic enemies just die on contact. This is great because it's nice to not have to waste time battling level 4 rabbits or whatever, but the way it's implemented here means you're basically only fighting bosses for the back half of the game. And of course because you're over-leveled, even they are usually trivial. The music was fine. It goes for a lot of those flute and bell sounds that many games with a Japanese flavor go for. I personally like this kind of music just fine, but I also can't think of any standout tracks. Finally, the overall quality of things like the animation and the way the game is constructed are not reflected in the price point. For example, the game will say things like 'press the ride button to get on your mount' and then not tell you which button that is. There's a lot of sloppiness like that here. Based on that and everything else, this should not cost $60 plus tax, especially three years post release. I don't think it should have cost that AT release, frankly. Can only recommend to Utawarerumono superfans, unfortunately.