Such a fun journey. The art and music were very charming. I found myself so often having tunes stuck in my head. One specifically nautical song was an absolute bop. The world of Sea of Stars had plenty of lore, history, and characters to make it engaging and kept me wanting to explore. It does follow quite a lot of the standard JRPG tropes and even pokes fun at itself for that.


I loved the party members for the most part and Garl is just a gem of a character. I loved that lil guy so much. In addition, the side characters were also really cool and I enjoyed interacting with them. I feel there were a couple characters that would have done with having their roles be increased.

For gameplay, the combat system is pretty simple. It can be frustrating at first dealing with locks, as some attack types you don't have access to may pop-up. Once you learn skills and obtain more characters, it becomes easier to work around those locks. There are times where you just have to take the hit and I appreciate you have the option to strategically figure that out.

Puzzles were never really a problem. The puzzles build off of each other essentially, so you are not running into too many new things. There are one or two that are a bit tedious sadly and sometimes the pixels can deceive you on the depth of something.

The only time I ever truly felt like the game was a "slog" involved backtracking for items. Even then, it was not very difficult or bad. Overall, I loved the game and found myself wanting more.