Well I started playing this RPG game because I really liked Advance Wars and someone said if you loved Advance Wars you would like this too because it's also strategy. It's fun but it's also got major frustrations and disappointments. I started playing the game and thought: I don't like this game but maybe it will get better. It did get better and I started to like the game but I was never satisfied with the gameplay.
Ok first what's good:
It's got a lot of different types of characters such as humans of various classes and fairies, dragons, monsters of many sorts both male and female. It also has quiet a few spells to choose from for the different classes that use magic. The graphics are decent but not great. The fighting sequences are fun but get boring fairly quick and require a lot of clicking through confusing menus.
What I don't like: The battle navigation is too long and requires you to make too many clicks to get anything done. You even have to point your character in the right direction after moving him or her to a spot. Even turning off some display options like the useless experience points notification doesn't speed things up enough. Now experience what a mess that system is! Every single battle you face the enemies will always be within 1 or 2 levels above your highest character and the same level or 1 level below him. Everywhere throughout the map. It's like everyone in the world keeps up with you and your training. You get more experiece for attacking someone a higher level and very little for attacking someone the same or below. So your characters are always advancing at the same rate throughout the game(except new weak characters who rapidly jump up in level until they reach the level as everyone else) So going up a level is worthless because you never meet whimps who provide quick battles and you only use it to grow enough to use new spells, change classes, or use new weapons or armor. This is not a game to really explore. The routes are preset. There is no walking across the country side but rather just select one road from one city or site to the next. Many times you find yourself just moving back and forth from one city to the next and back again waiting to be attacked so that you can get more money to buy something or convince someone to join your team.
I played all the way until the very last end boss. GRRR. 5 battles each an hour long or more and you can suspend the game but never save it to a slot or go back to a city and get more supplies. Then the very last boss hits your guys and does trememous damage. I can't kill him and I don't want to even try again after 5 hours of battle just to get to him. And I had to create two teams to get through parts of the game I didn't like having to do that. Advance Wars I plan to play again because it was fun. This game is going into a drawer to collect dust.
Well I started playing this RPG game because I really liked Advance Wars and someone said if you loved Advance Wars you would like this too because it's also strategy. It's fun but it's also got major frustrations and disappointments. I started playing the game and thought: I don't like this game but maybe it will get better. It did get better and I started to like the game but I was never satisfied with the gameplay. Ok first what's good:
It's got a lot of different types of characters such as humans of various classes and fairies, dragons, monsters of many sorts both male and female. It also has quiet a few spells to choose from for the different classes that use magic. The graphics are decent but not great. The fighting sequences are fun but get boring fairly quick and require a lot of clicking through confusing menus. What I don't like: The battle navigation is too long and requires you to make too many clicks to get anything done. You even have to point your character in the right direction after moving him or her to a spot. Even turning off some display options like the useless experience points notification doesn't speed things up enough. Now experience what a mess that system is! Every single battle you face the enemies will always be within 1 or 2 levels above your highest character and the same level or 1 level below him. Everywhere throughout the map. It's like everyone in the world keeps up with you and your training. You get more experiece for attacking someone a higher level and very little for attacking someone the same or below. So your characters are always advancing at the same rate throughout the game(except new weak characters who rapidly jump up in level until they reach the level as everyone else) So going up a level is worthless because you never meet whimps who provide quick battles and you only use it to grow enough to use new spells, change classes, or use new weapons or armor. This is not a game to really explore. The routes are preset. There is no walking across the country side but rather just select one road from one city or site to the next. Many times you find yourself just moving back and forth from one city to the next and back again waiting to be attacked so that you can get more money to buy something or convince someone to join your team. I played all the way until the very last end boss. GRRR. 5 battles each an hour long or more and you can suspend the game but never save it to a slot or go back to a city and get more supplies. Then the very last boss hits your guys and does trememous damage. I can't kill him and I don't want to even try again after 5 hours of battle just to get to him. And I had to create two teams to get through parts of the game I didn't like having to do that. Advance Wars I plan to play again because it was fun. This game is going into a drawer to collect dust.