Tempo di gioco:
1921 minuti
Ok. I've finished the game. The reviews on this game are all over the place. So I'll try to clarify the main points on most of the reviews :
1) IS THIS GAME HARD ?
Yes and no. There is a lot of whining about the difficulty of this game. READ THE IN-GAME CODEX. Every monsters is explained after you have fought it. Every monster got an IA and in THE CODEX IT IS EXPLAINED HOW EVERY MONSTERS ACT. Some monsters attack the closer daughter, some the one with most HP, some the one attacked by other monsters, etc. You could actually predict every single monsters next move, every fight could be kinda like chess. This game it is hard if you usually play super-easy-game that require no brain, just clicking to kill. I'll say that this game it is a MEDIUM difficulty game. You have all the data to make the best move in every fight. If you make a mistake, it is YOUR FAULT, not the game fault.
2) IS THIS GAME A GRIND-FEST ?
No. You unlock remembrances by the achivement of several objectives (Kill a boss, doing a certain amount of damages, and so on), and with those "remembrances" you could start from a certain "age" (=Stage), or with your daughters on level 5 or 7 etc instead of level 1, and so on. So you could reduce the grind by A LOT if you want.
3) YOU SHOULD KILL YOUR DAUGHTERS TO HEAL YOUR DAUGHTERS !!!
Not necessarly. There are two difficulties that you could choose at the beginning of the game : Dream or Nightmare. In dream your daughers heal after each day, in nightmare not, so you should "kill" your daughters to heal another daughter. This is one of the main and most peculiar mechanincs in this game AND I REALLY LIKED IT. Let me explain better this point : (a) There are "resurrection sigils" that you could unlock by doing specific missions, so you lose the girls but you could also resurrect them during a run (b) If you use a daughter to heal another one, the healed one TAKE THE ESSENCE OF THE ONE YOU HAVE SACRIFICED (=lot of bonus). More, to kill the most advanced boss you should use this mechanics not to heal but to exchange the essences between your strongest daughters, to make them killing-machines. I really loved this mechanic.
4) BUT THE IA IS STUPID, SOMETIMES ATTACK, SOMETIMES NOT, AND... (Whining whining whining, excuses excuses excuses)
Not. Every monsters like I've already told you, got a pre-programmed IA, that you could find in the CODEX. The monsters DO NOT ATTACK (usually) on the turn that they spawn not because they are stupid or for a "bug", but because it is an in-game rule. And NO, the monsters do not attack you from the spawn point (the exception it is if your daughters....).
5) THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH MONSTERS !!!!
I think there are around 20 types of monsters. Enough for a 20-30 hours game. And yes some of them are an upgraded version of the weakest one, and that it is ok. Even just 10 monsters with different kind of IA and attacks are enough for this game.
6) THE BOSSES ARE UNFAIR, AND FOR THE LAST ONE YOU SHOULD GRIND A LOT !!!
Boys and girls. This is a turn-combat game with RPG elements. Do you whine when in your rpg you couldn't kill monsters above your level ? I do not think so. You just go to some secondary quest, or you go farm monsters. Same here. Yes, you should probably do a couple of run just to farm "resurrection sigils" and exchange the essences between your strongest daughters, but THAT'S IT. And btw, again, in every run you unlock stuffs, so it is never wasted times. And btw, you could resurrect daughters from another run with the "resurrection sigils". So you never lose "forever" your favourite daughters.
7) THE STORY IS NOT EXPLAINED, IT DOES NOT MAKE SENSE !
Blame dark souls. There is a lore explained in a souls-like way, and there is a main plot. I would say that there is an ATMOSPHERE more than a story in this game. And that's ok. Do not play this game for story or characters, play this game for the gameplay and the art.
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That's said, this game got an amazing soundtrack, and an amazing atmosphere. The art is very peculiar, and I really loved it. I loved that this game was trying to do something different from others games, with an indie budget. I would love to see this game evolve in-to an actually souls-like game, or something similar, but not everyone are the from-software, or got enough money to do so.
FINAL QUESTION : Is this a 30 dollars game ?
Not sure about it, but if you find it under 10 bucks, you like the genre and grim atmospheres, you could buy this one. I would give that a 7 out of 10. Buy especially if like me you love to just listen to some courses, or youtuber, or whatever, while playing something for the gameplay...this game is perfect for that.
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