2011-03-08, 09:18 AM
Beat this the other day. Enjoyed just about everything the game had to offer. The music and characters really set up a nice atmosphere and the story was enjoyable every step of the way. Just about everything looks like they put in a lot of attention to small details.
This isn't a game where you can just button mash your way through battles, but I still think battles aren't exactly that hard. If you make good use of movement skills (push assault, grapple, etc.) and the Change option to rearrange turns you shouldn't have too much trouble, having a strategy helps too. Once I realized how good Aht's trap skills were I pretty much stuck to using her and the trap strategy whenever I could (which kinda sucked when I got to Hell Spider and Guardian because it made me realize I can't depend on it in every battle).
The time travel mechanic sort of gives the game built-in replay value while still only playing through the game once, you can re-battle bosses and replay certain scenes over and over if you really want to do so. Sometimes when I'm playing a game I just want to watch a certain scene play out again and this game let me do that (for the most part).
Also, whenever the game let you make a critical decision I always tried to choose the one that would lead to a bad end. I sort of made it a little game to try to get it first, I managed to get it the majority of the time just by being reckless, but even then I still couldn't get the bad end first every single time haha.
If you're thinking about playing this, please don't hesitate to purchase.
This isn't a game where you can just button mash your way through battles, but I still think battles aren't exactly that hard. If you make good use of movement skills (push assault, grapple, etc.) and the Change option to rearrange turns you shouldn't have too much trouble, having a strategy helps too. Once I realized how good Aht's trap skills were I pretty much stuck to using her and the trap strategy whenever I could (which kinda sucked when I got to Hell Spider and Guardian because it made me realize I can't depend on it in every battle).
The time travel mechanic sort of gives the game built-in replay value while still only playing through the game once, you can re-battle bosses and replay certain scenes over and over if you really want to do so. Sometimes when I'm playing a game I just want to watch a certain scene play out again and this game let me do that (for the most part).
Also, whenever the game let you make a critical decision I always tried to choose the one that would lead to a bad end. I sort of made it a little game to try to get it first, I managed to get it the majority of the time just by being reckless, but even then I still couldn't get the bad end first every single time haha.
If you're thinking about playing this, please don't hesitate to purchase.