Like 4 and 5 the press turn system is excellent. While I dont think it's as strong as those two games due to the game being on the easier side (like I literally used auto battle most of the game), the boss fights were pretty fun and strategic. I never really did struggle, there was only one boss I'd consider to be hard, but as I said it was still engaging. Dungeon design is decent but it uses a lot of trial and error design I'm not a fan of and obviously random encounters can be annoying at times, but that was mitigated by the escape command working 90% of the time.

Music is fantastic and the vibes of this game are immaculate. The art style is amazing. Like 5 the story didnt do it for me too much but I think it was a bit better because the characters were more memorable. But the alignment locks genuinely ruined the ending for me, I got the worst ending by mistake because I picked wrong choices throughout my playthrough, I didnt care that I got the bad ending, my problem was that it doesn't even have a boss fight. Even if I got a bad ending I still think I "deserved" a good final fight to round it off. Was pretty disappointed when that happened, so when you play this game use a guide for all of the dialogue choices if you want an actually satisfying ending.

Reviewed on Dec 06, 2023


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3's definitely harder than 4 overall. 4 have a brutal early game but becomes pretty braindead soon after

5 months ago

I think the smirking system in 4 just makes it a bit harder but it's still not insanely hard like this game.