+ The npc bio writing is oddly very strong! Poignant, and terse; I felt very motivated to click on everybody and read a little two sentence life story, in a way that the likes of baldurs gate 3 or <any fallout> absolutely fail to do.
-job system is extremely dry and boring. so many things wrong with it. just steal from FFT if you can't be bothered to do it right.
-narrative driving force is non-existent; this is just a collection of 8 character arcs that are totally unrelated to each other
-as such, the texture of playing the game is much like hitting speedbumps over and over, as you get a new character and have to train them up from 0 again (and if you play their initial chapters, that's basically a whole hour where the net power level of your ACTUAL party has ZERO delta!!)
-whats the point in having 8 characters if i can only ever use 4 of them. this is a problem thats been solved for 20 years, embarassing to stumble into it again.
if you're going to invest a bunch of time / money into developing a character the feeling i get when i pick one up can't be:
1) great another bench warmer
or 2) make me feel negatively about replacing another character that i've already put a bunch of levels into
bunch of other mechanical issues with it that are deeply annoying but are too nitty gritty to want to get into here, and the character stories are simply not good enough (and often not good at all) to cover for it.
-job system is extremely dry and boring. so many things wrong with it. just steal from FFT if you can't be bothered to do it right.
-narrative driving force is non-existent; this is just a collection of 8 character arcs that are totally unrelated to each other
-as such, the texture of playing the game is much like hitting speedbumps over and over, as you get a new character and have to train them up from 0 again (and if you play their initial chapters, that's basically a whole hour where the net power level of your ACTUAL party has ZERO delta!!)
-whats the point in having 8 characters if i can only ever use 4 of them. this is a problem thats been solved for 20 years, embarassing to stumble into it again.
if you're going to invest a bunch of time / money into developing a character the feeling i get when i pick one up can't be:
1) great another bench warmer
or 2) make me feel negatively about replacing another character that i've already put a bunch of levels into
bunch of other mechanical issues with it that are deeply annoying but are too nitty gritty to want to get into here, and the character stories are simply not good enough (and often not good at all) to cover for it.