Avis sur Springblades

Cool game ! It's a cute game with delightful monster design and flavor text, with a (perhaps surprisingly) deep character building system and fun battle mechanics. For those who know "Paper Mario & the Thousand Year Door", "Springblades" scratches the same itch and the inspiration is evident, with its own twists. Battles are similarly turn-based, and successfully using abilities or defending requires you to perform timed inputs - hitting the button when a moving cursor is in the right spot mostly. Here you can use as many abilities as you want during your turn, but you have to manage your energy - doing to much exhausts you, which forces you to skip a turn. It's a simple and effective system, it's both fun and strategic. You explore the world by traveling step-by-step between nodes on the map. Every step you have to fight through one or two encounters. Every encounter you get to choose between two sets of monsters, so if you find one particularly annoying you can always pick the other. There are a bunch of special locations on the map, where you'll have to fight a boss to unlock it as a fast travel spot and (usually) as a shop, where you'll be able to buy new equipment. Your equipment determines the types of attacks and abilities you can use in battle. The game is 5 to 10 hours long, depending on how thorough your exploration is and how strong you manage to make your character. I didn't find it very difficult, but I kind of min-maxed my build. If I roleplayed more and made a prettier build, it might have been trickier !