I really wished this game was better than what I found out, I always like games where they introduce fairytale characters and give their stories a dark twist, but on this game, those elements were just scratching surface level and had no real plot relevance.
The story of the game is a huge mess, the plot twist is obvious since the beginning, to the point you're already thinking after the prologue if it's a Red Herring because of how much the game tries to shove it to your face. It doesn't help either that the story doesn't try to develop the main plot points at any time, leaving a lot of questions unanswered, which I guess they will develop in the sequel. I'm fine with some missing information, but here, there's too many important things that aren't revealed to the player.
The Main Characters are also way too many, there's 10 characters in total, excluding Jack, who feels more like a shoved mechanic. Gameplay-wise, every character has another one that has the same job system, the same stats and the same skills. Story-wise, a lot of the characters feels unnecessary, with the worst case being Sleeping Beauty, who mainly speaks in snores, there are other characters who feel similar, but she's the worst offender of this. I would say that the only character of the whole game is Gretel, who actually feels more developed than the rest of the cast and I actually enjoyed her presence.
And finally, is the gameplay good? No, it's a really generic dungeon crawler where Dungeons feel done by AI and have no real logic to travel through, they have some puzzles but they're so repetitive that calling the puzzles feels like an insult. The extra dungeon was obviously not tested, being too big for it's own good and even has an unexplorable part that you can't reach, but it's fully programmed for some reason.
The combat is also horrible, there's a weakness system, but it's totally forgetable because the best strategy to follow is spamming AoE skills all the time with all your party to defeat all the enemies before they can't counterattack.
And finally, there's the fanservice, which is cringeworthy at best, there's a lot of CGs and scenes that are totally unnecessary and are basically awful to read, it doesn't help that some characters who are on those parts look and act like they're too far from being able to concent.
The story of the game is a huge mess, the plot twist is obvious since the beginning, to the point you're already thinking after the prologue if it's a Red Herring because of how much the game tries to shove it to your face. It doesn't help either that the story doesn't try to develop the main plot points at any time, leaving a lot of questions unanswered, which I guess they will develop in the sequel. I'm fine with some missing information, but here, there's too many important things that aren't revealed to the player.
The Main Characters are also way too many, there's 10 characters in total, excluding Jack, who feels more like a shoved mechanic. Gameplay-wise, every character has another one that has the same job system, the same stats and the same skills. Story-wise, a lot of the characters feels unnecessary, with the worst case being Sleeping Beauty, who mainly speaks in snores, there are other characters who feel similar, but she's the worst offender of this. I would say that the only character of the whole game is Gretel, who actually feels more developed than the rest of the cast and I actually enjoyed her presence.
And finally, is the gameplay good? No, it's a really generic dungeon crawler where Dungeons feel done by AI and have no real logic to travel through, they have some puzzles but they're so repetitive that calling the puzzles feels like an insult. The extra dungeon was obviously not tested, being too big for it's own good and even has an unexplorable part that you can't reach, but it's fully programmed for some reason.
The combat is also horrible, there's a weakness system, but it's totally forgetable because the best strategy to follow is spamming AoE skills all the time with all your party to defeat all the enemies before they can't counterattack.
And finally, there's the fanservice, which is cringeworthy at best, there's a lot of CGs and scenes that are totally unnecessary and are basically awful to read, it doesn't help that some characters who are on those parts look and act like they're too far from being able to concent.