Recent reviews by EmberSynth

Extremely good. The art style is absolutely beautiful and the lore of the world is fascinating. The gameplay is simple but enjoyable.

At the point of writing, I have completed the main island and the Endless Realm portions of the main quest and done most of the side quests they have to offer and I always enjoyed myself.

What particularly stood out to me in this game was the storytelling regarding The Endless. During the first third of the game, your hear about The Endless here and there, but don't really interact with more than 1 or 2 and they really just seem like a normal fantasy race with some past history that doesn't really affect anything, but when you get to the Endless Realm, all the background lore you've been taking in really hits you and the way that the morals and history of the Endless really hits you. RPGs these days are often really sanitized and are afraid to do anything interesting with their quests, but there were two quests here that had me going "Oh sh*t... what do I do..." and "Oh my god thats so sad... I'm so sorry..."

There are some negatives I would like to bring up as a form of constructive feedback before I go:

1. There aren't very many weapons. I understand that the combat system is pretty simple and it would be hard to differentiate the gameplay, but after 8 hours, I have only found 2 swords and a bow to play around with and I wish I had some wiggle room.

2. I wish that the faction reputation system was a little more nuanced. I'm playing a charlatan in my run and I've really been trying to play both sides between the templars and the outlaws, but between the templars sometimes just psychically knowing when I took an unlawful action in a quest and the regular bandits looking kinda like dark star mercenaries from a distance, it makes it really hard to keep both faction affinities up. The biggest offender I have noticed was it seeming like the other factions can tell when you turn in a squirming godlet to another faction. I was trying to distribute them evenly, but it just ended up making the other faction not like me, even when I was turning in godlets to the SECRET BLACKMARKET THIEVES GUILD, the Templars somehow knew.

Now that seemed like a lot of ranting, but I was genuinely just trying to be thorough in my feedback so that if the developer reads this, they could actually get some sort of actionable feedback. I really love this game and I think its incredibly beautiful, fun and interesting.

memmer impaler..........

Game is filled with awful awful people with little to no moderation.

I signed the EULA without reading it and now I'm worried a Blizzard employee will molest me

Personally, I like the part where you click on the mushrooms

Will not recommend until they add a "Mark All As Read" button. Sorting through the inventory is most of my playtime.

$50 game yet somehow still pay to win and gacha.

I actually really like this game, however, there are several things I simply can't overlook.

SERIOUS PROBLEMS:
-Extremely expensive microtransations with a currency that expires.
[Edit: Devs put out a statement that the expiration date thing is false]
-Best Gundam in the game locked behind paywall or over a week of grinding.
-Losing connection to the servers causes you to crash to desktop???

MINOR NITPICKS:
-Time to kill seems way too high for a giant robot game. Idk I wasn't expecting Call of Duty and its hard to get used to.
-Some of the abilities are extremely underwhelming.
-In my opinion, loadouts would make this game very fun. Gundams are kinda inherently customizable so its kinda weird not having a way to do so in game.

Overall, I think the game is very fun and honestly I hope it succeeds, but I don't think I can recommend this game in good conscience.

This game absolutely goes hard. It's a 100% recommendation from me. Some of the tightest gunplay I've ever had the pleasure of taking part in with an incredibly arsenal of weapons, from sniper rifles to swords.

Edit: I played more after 1.0 and honestly the game only got better. The devs haven't lost their vision. I still have a great time. I'm at Reincarnation 2 (Like Slay the Spire's Ascension mode) and honestly the game still feels fair and fun to play.

I won't go into much detail about the gameplay since everyone else has already said more than I could. It's unique and fun. Other than that, the story is great and I found myself liking all the characters, even getting emotional at certain points during the latter half. The music is truly phenominal and makes emotional moments even more emotional and makes the rest of the game world fun to walk around in. All in all? ♥♥♥♥ yeah this game is worth it. I beat it in about 12 hours and it left me with something. That's all I can really ask for.