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wew
>The Good
The game looks really good, I presume courtesy of Ekat. The presentation and overall atmosphere is not even a tenth as well done as Ashen Frost, but the tilesets, sprites, etc. all look solid.
QoL is...mostly nice. I like the low cost repels, the EV slider, so on.
For the most part game is competent. I know I obviously bitched hard about the certain awful segments, but I do want to stress that most people can just play this game on normal and I think have a mostly good time if you want something a bit more simple that's not just 8gymslop.
Unfortunately...
>The Bad
This game just has way too many issues that pile up over time. I assume this is what Ashime was feeling when he played Crimson and Cobalt, except to a harsher degree.
The story is bad. Almost insultingly so after Unbreakable Ties. It wants to be a revenge plot + a big revolution against an evil empire and manages to successfully toss both of those away in the most unsatisfying way possible.
Zero notable characters, I still don't even really know the inciting incident that provoked the bad blood between the MC and the edgyrival. Yes, they TELL you he stole some important ring, but SHOW you nothing. It's such an ineffective way to try and establish 'I need to enact revenge on this retard'.
He talks and acts like a toddler too much for me to actually hate him and does almost nothing notable besides. The MC is silent, so I can't even see whatever the in-character reaction is 'supposed' to be, I'm just told to hate this character. And I do, but because he's hilariously underwritten.
