3 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 15.4 hrs on record (5.8 hrs at review time)
Posted: 13 Jul, 2014 @ 10:07am

The story is quite interesting, but so far it doesn't go any places you haven't seen before nor are there any big surprises in it, but it is fairly well written and it moves along at a good pace. It's biggest problem is that it is really the introduction of what is to come. So I will give the story a 7.

The character interaction is fairly classic romance comedy manga/anime however the story luckily doesn't linger long enough for the interaction to get "forced" in an attempt to obey the tropes, however this also means it doesn't linger long enough for the character to step outside this confine and develop to more unique characters. There is pretty much just one character we see any real development with, even though a few of the others seems ready to develop they fail to do so. So the interaction I will give a 6, its good but it doesn't lift the story any higher.

The combat are fairly straight forward but quite hard and a few of the missions are almost impossible, but on the up side it gives you a lot of option in what you want to do and how to expend your resources. For turned based combat it is actually really good at what it does, so I will give combat an 9.

The upgrade system is a bit of a mess frankly, while it is easy to see what you upgrae some iof the upgrades are meaningless in the increments they are in and otehrs are too expensive for the boost they do give. I feel this system needs a lot of adjusting or an overhaul, luckily you can "reclaim" all the money you spend to fiddle around with what works best. So since it still seems somewhat incomplete I will give it a 4.

The artwork is good, and to me seems very macross/robotech inspired for the msot parts the only thing that really got on my bad side was the use of "school uniform" outfit rather than uniforms or similar off duty clothes. So I will give this an 9.

The game itself can be unresponsive at times and be slow to react or because it is so slow to process where you click it makes you take an unintended action, this is very bad in the battles as these are really hard as they are already. So to play this game you need to saddle yourself with patience to make sure the game knows what you just pushed before moving on. Also the "target" places on the units you can select to affect with the action does not dictate if you select the right target rather their unit graphic (ryder or ship) does, this means a tall unit can partially cover for the above unit causing you to select the wrong one. Anyway I will give the "system" a 3, it is not unplayable, but it is very frustrating.

So overall I will give this game a 6, it has a lot of good qualities but a few glaring problems that in the current form needs to be fixed.
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1 Comments
Elvis Strunk 13 Jul, 2014 @ 1:37pm 
For the lag issue, there's a chance pressing shift+g, setting your game to render using DirectX, and then restarting could fix a lot of it. If this doesn't work, deleting all of the files i your Sunrider/game folder ending in rpyc might solve your issue, or at least improve how the game runs a bit.

As for selecting your units, pressing the middle mouse button will select them for you. It won't help much for actually clicking on a target, or selecting someone to heal/buff, but it would at least make it easier to select your units and start commanding them.