3 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 68.4 hrs on record (22.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 3 Feb @ 2:28pm

Came for the action, stayed for Lyria. Great game, absolutely worth paying the full price and one of my favorites for 2024 for sure.

I never played the original GBF gacha nor am I a fan of the Monster Hunter series. Yet this game scratches a specific a itch I have: fast-paced action RPG that's not a smash button. It also doesn't have any "modern" BS like micro-transactions, gacha, timegating or any other stupid stuff. Its a full game for a honest price.

I'm quite impressed with the day-1 game that Cygames pulled off here. It runs with rock-solid and stable 60/120 FPS even during the most hectic fights. Graphics and art is unique and quite good. Controls are responsive and pleasant to play. Sports a great OST that really matches each moment in the game. All of this coming from a company that mostly worked on browser and mobile games since their foundation in 2011. This game alone puts triple A game studios to shame with such polished product, hands down.

Story is short with 20h tops, and has the usual tropes you'd expect of a JRPG. Yet its quite well written and designed. The MH-inspired end-game is where most of the time goes.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☐ Decent
☑ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☑ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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