An expanded game of The Snack World: TreJarers
An enhanced version of The Snack World: TreJarers, an action RPG developed by Level-5, released in 2017 for the Nintendo 3DS. "Crawl through randomly-generated dungeons in this roguelike RPG, delving deeper and deeper, besting brutal bosses, and hunting down rare loot. Prepare your equipment in town for the challenges that await! Head out to explore caves, woods, and other dangerous locales. Team up to topple tenacious tyrants! - Da~rling! Lookin' go~od! You are the crawler of your own dungeon! Create your own character to captain the colorful cast in this clichéd chronicle of...comeuppance?! - Nail Your Adventurer Aesthetic! High fantasy and high tech collide in this familiar fantasy RPG with a modern twist for gamers of all generations! - Juggle Your Jaras in the Heat of Battle! Master the use of equipment called jaras that you can swap in & out on the fly to efficiently eliminate your enemies! - Lookin' Like a Snack! Collect summonable companions called snacks and use their abilities to turn the tide of battle! What? That's, like, never been done before! Right? - Dungeon Crawlers, Grab That Booty! May the RNG gods look kindly upon you as you clear quests to collect ever-better booty!"
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But yeah, the game is repetitive, grindy as hell and all dungeons being the same dungeon, but with different furniture doesn't help at all. I think this game would get a semi-decent pass if you could at least secure ONE copy of the big reward, but hell, you could go through the dungeon 10 times and get a copy in the last one.
Going back to the world, the plot is simple, but dialogues and events are funny as hell, Level 5 knows how to write comedy and they show it here once more. Is probably one of the games I took more screenshots and videos from the story than any other, just to show my friends why I was still suffering the boring gameplay loop.
As per usual with Level-5, there is a lot of good fourth-wall-breaking humor in Snack World which was a lot of fun! The environments feel whimsical and all the major points in the town feel well-placed. The combat is solid, the exploration is intuitive, and the enemies are pretty cool as well.
Where the game went wrong is that it didn't do anything new - once you played the first dungeon, you've played them all. It was a repetitive snoozefest over and over again, and the lackluster story didn't motivate me at all to continue playing it.
I do like the characters, they're cute and funny and fit in well with the theme of the game, but they never really did anything major in the story. There were no stakes and no reasons to feel connected to any of the characters, and the combat was all the same as it was when I first played the tutorial.
I really wanted to like Snack World, and I can't say I didn't give it a shot. I know Level-5 are masterful game developers, and they've made some of my all-time favorites, but this is simply a title that is all Level-5 charm and no good substance or gameplay.