roxanneB
2016
2017
tldr: it's aight
Only knew 3 of the properties featured which honestly made me enjoy the story a lot less since most character development can be summed up as truncated versions of their character arcs from their respective shows. There are also frequent loredumps about how concepts from different shows interesect and honestly my small brain couldn't handle discussions of how Getter Rays affected the the world of Evangelion or how Super-Robots were popular before the mass produced mobile suits for long periods of time. If this crossover fanfic type stuff sounds interesting, it's probably up your alley. I'll say that I did enjoy the original characters the game introduces and feel interested to check some of these shows out.
As for the gameplay, it's an alternate universe Fire Emblem where every character is in an offensive class with a 1-4 range. Your units are honestly really overpowered and you can snowball extremely easily. The real source of difficulty comes from the objective-based difficulty system. Early on, they're easy to complete but some of the later ones might require retrying the maps multiple times (which I did not).
It does run a bit too long.There's 50+ maps and the story has alternate paths you can take and a few secrets (check out a guide to get them) so to really see it all, you'd have to get a second or third playthrough going.
Personally, I did like playing through this but was also rushing to get it over with towards the end. It'd probably be a 3.5 but by the end I was kinda able to follow the plot again and starting enjoying it more.
Only knew 3 of the properties featured which honestly made me enjoy the story a lot less since most character development can be summed up as truncated versions of their character arcs from their respective shows. There are also frequent loredumps about how concepts from different shows interesect and honestly my small brain couldn't handle discussions of how Getter Rays affected the the world of Evangelion or how Super-Robots were popular before the mass produced mobile suits for long periods of time. If this crossover fanfic type stuff sounds interesting, it's probably up your alley. I'll say that I did enjoy the original characters the game introduces and feel interested to check some of these shows out.
As for the gameplay, it's an alternate universe Fire Emblem where every character is in an offensive class with a 1-4 range. Your units are honestly really overpowered and you can snowball extremely easily. The real source of difficulty comes from the objective-based difficulty system. Early on, they're easy to complete but some of the later ones might require retrying the maps multiple times (which I did not).
It does run a bit too long.There's 50+ maps and the story has alternate paths you can take and a few secrets (check out a guide to get them) so to really see it all, you'd have to get a second or third playthrough going.
Personally, I did like playing through this but was also rushing to get it over with towards the end. It'd probably be a 3.5 but by the end I was kinda able to follow the plot again and starting enjoying it more.
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1992
It's one of the best games of all time but you either know that or just don't like it, so here's a review of the flight I beat it in;
2/5
Overall pretty comfy as far as plane seats go, but I was seated next to a five year old and she kept randomly screaming. Now, this isn't a diss on the mother or anything and yeah okay I can handle it, but at that time I felt like joining an anti-natalist subreddit. Anyway I love Sonic 2
2/5
Overall pretty comfy as far as plane seats go, but I was seated next to a five year old and she kept randomly screaming. Now, this isn't a diss on the mother or anything and yeah okay I can handle it, but at that time I felt like joining an anti-natalist subreddit. Anyway I love Sonic 2
2001
My biggest gripe with this game is characters keep asking you arbitrary yes/no questions that have no bearing on what's gonna happen. It feels like hanging out with a group of friends who you're not really comfortable with yet so you don't hop in their conversation too much but then someone randomly asks you something and you're like huh? oh yeah sure I like Bjork
The class system is also kind of a disappointment. It looked really exciting from the premise alone, switch Djinns and get cool spells. But realistically you're just better off staying with your own element because baring very few exceptions, you'll pretty much only get really meh moves and even if bosses have elemental weaknesses it's not really enough to justify it.
The presentation hardcarries most negative aspects of the game and really is what kept me playing. Hopefully the sequel is better
The class system is also kind of a disappointment. It looked really exciting from the premise alone, switch Djinns and get cool spells. But realistically you're just better off staying with your own element because baring very few exceptions, you'll pretty much only get really meh moves and even if bosses have elemental weaknesses it's not really enough to justify it.
The presentation hardcarries most negative aspects of the game and really is what kept me playing. Hopefully the sequel is better
2017