This game is amazing. I'm 32 yrs old, and it makes me feel like i did when i was playing psone games as a kid, the same way mario games always make me feel like i did the first time i played mario 64
I joined the Indiegogo campaign for this game, and I'm glad that I did. The criticisms in this video are spot on, but that didn't prevent me from thoroughly enjoying Lab Zero's first foray into RPG gaming. The unique design of the world, which is inspired a lot by South Asian mythology and folklore, is an absolute joy to travel through. The enemies, characters, and locales ooze such charm and whimsy that you can't help but be excited by every new thing you see. The battle system is fun, but you will eventually fall into maybe two or three set teams that you prefer to play with. There's also a point where you would think the game will be very, very challenging, especially early on, but the difficulty falls down considerably after a few hours. Only the boss battles really give you a tough challenge, and maybe a few enemy types. Especially when they common mobs accidentally combine in certain area. One more criticism to add, a lot of people mention the metroidvania aspect of the game, but it's not really a metroidvania. Rarely do any new abilities really allow you to advance in the game, but just allow you to go back and get to hidden, secret areas to get new ringsels and such. The game is pretty straight forward in it's advancement. Also, I think people will enjoy the story a lot more than anything. The character growth in the later game is really good, and kinda subverts most tropes that appear in RPG storylines. Ajna's character is especially compelling to see in the late game. Overall, this is a fantastic RPG, and one that doesn't require hundreds of hours or thousands of useless quests to keep the player invested. It's very much a modern day update to the RPGs of the PS1 and PS2 era. One that gives you more modern day voice work, animation, and design. Highly recommended to anyone wanting to play a good RPG.
I've been wanting to try out more RPGs and I saw this game on the playstation store on sale and thought it looked neat so now that I've read your comment I feel like it'll be a blast for sure. thanks for the great feedback on the game!
7s are (generally speaking) the lowest scores EZA gives. Doesn't make the game bad, but when theres alot of 8s and 9s around its harder to get to the 7s. If that makes sense. That said this game still looks lovely, although I think it's priced to high, so personally I'm going to wait for a sale.
It has some issues, the plot is irrelevant and boring, the game duration expands and do not add anything new, you just go from one place to another but those places are the same 4 or 5 stages. I think that the best part of this games is the first chapter.
I have been supporting this game since the indie gogo. I gave it a 6. The only salvable thing is the art, gameplay (ignoring the difficulty flop) and music a bit. How can I play the game when the story is everywhere and it sucks.
It's one of those games that is amazing but is also a 7-7.5 and most of all it's really fun. I hope people will like it even though we live in a time where a 7 is often considered horrible.
I think (J)RPG's are in the most difficult spot when it comes to scoring. Because of the nature of the games being very long, people are naturally going to be far harsher on their attitude towards playing it rather than say a mindless generic FPS. It just requires so much more investment from the players, to the point where people aren't willing to get a 30 - 50+ hour game. Unless they can be sure that it will actually even be worth playing all the way through.
slinkyatrest No a 7 = C- which is essentially a fair or average grade in American grading. A B+ = 87-89 and that is well above average. This game got a 7.5 which is essentially C/C+. So it’s decent, but not great. Regardless I’m still very much interested in the game.
And just think of the 14 characters that coming as free DLC: 9 guest characters (Shantae, Shovel Knight, Annie from Skullgirls, etc.), 3 backer-designed characters, and 2 characters (Antoine and Sangmu) that were delayed from the launch because of mechanics complications.
BallotBoxer really wish that some characters (like Tungar) weren’t optional and were part of the main story more, and that some of the cut characters are added later because they had some great designs
@@blitz4506 You should just buy it now for PS4- the visuals will really look great, and you can support the developers right now, which really helps with justifying the cost and effort making the game.
Soooo glad I got this game.. I love hand drawn animations.. this game honestly reminded me a lot of the developer of Dust An Elysian Tail. Looks like an updated version of those graphics & animations. But Indivisible is a good one!!
As someone who finished this game a couple of days ago, I would have to agree with this score. I would like to add that this game has some weird technical issues as well. 1 or 2 party members legitimately cant use their limit break, and you will have to wait for some kind of update to fix it, an area or two also have massive slowdown, and at one point you can even reach an area before it finishes loading and you can be trapped in a wall. But the games biggest issue to me was the tedious back tracking at the late portion of the game. Doing back tracking quest with 20 party members was not fun. Overall though the game has a fun story, gorgeous art style, and extremely fun platforming. So there's definitely enjoyment to be had.
@@BigWillTheThrill It actually has been stated that those without Iddhi moves are actually supposed to have Iddhi moves. It's just they didn't have the time to animate them before release. Kushi for example was so demanding in animation due to her different attack forms they actually were considering not having her added in till much later. These characters will in fact be getting the omitted super moves upon later patches and free dlc releases. They already released a patch to increase endgame difficulty so make the difficulty in the game more balanced throughout.
Great to see Lab Zero putting a great game, sadly I can't support it due to 505 Games putting a *baffling high regional pricing* on Steam in many non-US regions. Here, the price is MORE THAN DOUBLE of what is usual regional price for a $39.99 games.
the end of this game has the most insane difficult but enjoyable platforming ive ever seen. never played celeste but others have said its similar to the hard stuff from that game
Worst thing in the game is the writing and the pacing of the story. The protagonist basically gets over her father's death (not a spoiler it happens in the first 5 minutes of the game) in minutes, she discovers the ax her late mother had dumped in a random area, most of the party members don't really have any reason to help her but still follow her around, and except her and another character (who unceremoniously dies later in the game) there aren't really any character development in the other party members. It would really benefit from a Tales Of kind of mechanics where random party members randomly start chatting about various things. They have a hub where you can talk to them but they barely have any lines to say (maybe they change once after every major story event). Combat also is fun but it's pretty easy finding the ideal formation and keep with that until the end with only slight variations. Ginseng is the only healer you will ever need and he is basically one of the first ones you find. Even in the final stages of the game, he can charge his healing ability and then use it to instantly fill everyone's health in a single turn. Also the enemies level scale up with yours so you never really feel that powerful. They will always need a billion hits to die even if you return to the first area of the game.
I've been looking forward to this game for a long time and while 7.5 isn't a bad score, I was really hoping it'd be an extremely well-received game. But, to be fair, I know I'm gonna love and enjoy every second either way.
Finished this last week, score seems correct. Platforming decent, characters likable, RPG systems pointless and tacked on, though I'm a sucker for a Hiroki Kikuta soundtrack so I'll be listening to that for a while. Shoutouts to the backer of the NPC that has the line "Don't forget that tomorrow is all ours. Love and Respect."
I appreciate your review style here. Very fair and you explain your point of view well. Thanks for taking the time to produce this. Your last remark had me thinking when you say, "worth serious consideration". That's not a bad qualifier for review scoring. Pass on It Follow it Consider it Own it
Truthfully I am not done with the game yet (I'm somewhere halfway I guess now), but so far- it feels like at least a 8.. Maybe it will get better, maybe it will get worse... But If I can judge this game strictly on its core gameplay and presentation- "Indivisible" is much better than other 7's /7.5's out there-----Like A Lot Better.... The story is not overly grand, it's fine and serves the excellent gameplay & visuals well... Plus, I love the sense of humor this game has "Obviously Sarcastic" or something. Personally Im happily sold on the combat gameplay, and the animation alone to solidify the game's high quality. Please ignore the mediocre reviews and support "indivisible". Games like this don't come around too often, jump in people!
This game had potential, but it was honestly a bit of a disappointment. Visually, it looks good, but the story and characters are meh. Does not help that the MC is literally a Mary Sue and almost everyone gives her a pass for the bad things she does. The only one who actually points out her problems is the sword guy, yet she acts like he’s the biggest jerk.
@@youtubesuresuckscock Well... No. I loved the backer preview. The gameplay mechanics are fun, that really interactive action-rpg stuff is fun as hell. I adored Naga Rider and the girl with the robot arm, her super fully charged is the most exciting ting every single time and I like the overworld movement. Of course the art is good but god dammit the story is boring, carboard-anime-like, and its EVERYWHERE! Its so annoying no one ever says something interesting, getting new abilities is literally by dialogue. You can't do something? Talk to NPC "Oh just do it" and you do it. No minibosses, no puzzle, nothing. Also a major fucking flaw was the difficulty flop. I swear the cat fight was one of the only nice-ok things in the whole game, the secret hard boss felt like he belonged as a mid game boss. It gets boring VERY quickly. So a lot of things are THERE its just not working as it is :(
The final score doesn’t quite agree with the verbal description of the game in this review. Is the pacing that bad that it eclipses all the good things you’ve listed?
I just finished the game today, and yes, it kind of does. Backtracking is particularly bad, especially if you're trying to finish character side-quests. Also, combat really does become trivial, and leveling felt meaningless because my party became far stronger from story events; more so than any actual leveling through the game.
Loved the game but can't help but wonder what a truly finished version of it would have been like :( Story/writing/world building aside, the game mostly feels like a buffed up prototype than anything else, which is a shame considering the potential on display. Really hope Lab Zero get a chance to refine and add to the game over time. For now, I'll be replaying it every now and then while waiting. Base gameplay is easily enjoyable enough for that.
There acually is apparently plans to take a Skullgirls approach of adding in stuff they werent able to put in or rushed over time. Supers they omitted, characters that didnt make it, likely changing around how the story plays out at parts, etc. They already released one of these patches that makes the final act of the game have tougher fights because it unintentionally could be breezed through with like one-shots and the like.
Playing this game 2 years after the fact and enemies are nothing more than HP sponges and because of that damage values are relatively meaningless. I got the jump on a relatively early group of enemies (not a boss mind you), launched a massive 200 hit combo, did 60,000 damage and barely put a dent in a hp bar. That's not satisfying. It's frustrating.
I would argue the text of the review read/sounded like more of an 8 or 8.5. The score actually caught me off guard because the presented issues seemed more small and genre standard thus having less weighted significance. Oh well. 7.5 isn't shabby still.
The problem that everyone is missing: It's NOT an RPG, it's just an action platformer. Floating numbers, XP and levels are just for show but are actually pointless in this game.
The repeated remarks along the lines that its shortcomings are “difficult to articulate” make me feel like some aspects just weren’t to Ben’s personal taste. I mean.... if you can’t put it into words, it’s likely not a tangible flaw so much as a matter of preference. Which is totally fine but also increases my own hopes for how I’ll receive those same elements, so here’s hoping for the best.
I really loath the post-Final Fantasy 7 “badassery” take on RPG combat, where numbers fly out at porody speeds in order to look “cool” rather than be meaningful.
Impossible to give less than an 8 to this game. Hardcore action-RPG with platformer elements, good artwork, nice character design, decent story, nice music, combat system with a lot of depth, many different characters that increase the RPG aspect of it and a good level of challenge. It has its issues and doesn't hit too high on certain notes but nowhere near being a 7.5.
I disagree, I say the score is perfect hell I would say it's a 7.0 game. The fact that combat is so bare bones when you get used to it make this game boring yo play. If combat had other things going for it than it would be a lot better but literally after a few hours you've seen everything the combat has to offer and is nothing more than switching out new characters just to try them out.
I understand where you're coming from. But even if it was flash animation, that style of animation takes a long time to create and get right. Our society trains people to think the art that was made via flash programs of the past is some display of a lack of skill or quality, when that isn't the case at all. I'm an animator myself, and I just wanted you to know that some of us work really hard to make that kind of content for people to enjoy. Please don't confuse the look of this game for a lack of polish or care. Much respect to you.
Damn dude if these models look like flash animations to you then what is good models and animation in your opinion? When was the last time you played an indie game?
I think the animation is probably the most compelling visual aspect of this game. I think the far greater downfall is in the 3D backgrounds. Some of them just feel really low-detail and uninteresting, and in a lot of cases don't feel super well tied to the artstyle of the characters and their portraits. Don't know if it was a time thing or what, but I think the drawn 2D backgrounds of Skullgirls fared far better than these.
This game is amazing. I'm 32 yrs old, and it makes me feel like i did when i was playing psone games as a kid, the same way mario games always make me feel like i did the first time i played mario 64
I joined the Indiegogo campaign for this game, and I'm glad that I did. The criticisms in this video are spot on, but that didn't prevent me from thoroughly enjoying Lab Zero's first foray into RPG gaming. The unique design of the world, which is inspired a lot by South Asian mythology and folklore, is an absolute joy to travel through. The enemies, characters, and locales ooze such charm and whimsy that you can't help but be excited by every new thing you see. The battle system is fun, but you will eventually fall into maybe two or three set teams that you prefer to play with. There's also a point where you would think the game will be very, very challenging, especially early on, but the difficulty falls down considerably after a few hours. Only the boss battles really give you a tough challenge, and maybe a few enemy types. Especially when they common mobs accidentally combine in certain area.
One more criticism to add, a lot of people mention the metroidvania aspect of the game, but it's not really a metroidvania. Rarely do any new abilities really allow you to advance in the game, but just allow you to go back and get to hidden, secret areas to get new ringsels and such. The game is pretty straight forward in it's advancement.
Also, I think people will enjoy the story a lot more than anything. The character growth in the later game is really good, and kinda subverts most tropes that appear in RPG storylines. Ajna's character is especially compelling to see in the late game.
Overall, this is a fantastic RPG, and one that doesn't require hundreds of hours or thousands of useless quests to keep the player invested. It's very much a modern day update to the RPGs of the PS1 and PS2 era. One that gives you more modern day voice work, animation, and design. Highly recommended to anyone wanting to play a good RPG.
I've been telling everyone not to sleep on this game cause it's so good. It's definitely in the vain of those great classic rpgs.
I've been wanting to try out more RPGs and I saw this game on the playstation store on sale and thought it looked neat so now that I've read your comment I feel like it'll be a blast for sure. thanks for the great feedback on the game!
Some of you guys act like a 7 is a bad score
7s are (generally speaking) the lowest scores EZA gives. Doesn't make the game bad, but when theres alot of 8s and 9s around its harder to get to the 7s. If that makes sense. That said this game still looks lovely, although I think it's priced to high, so personally I'm going to wait for a sale.
Because it generally is when it comes to videogame scores.
Thomazbr not really 7/10 is good . Upper tier average .
@@iattacku2773 Not really. 7/10 means you didn't go to finals.
You passed with the minimum required knowledge.
7s are good games. c'mon now. And definitely not the lowest we give. easyallies.com/#!/reviews?sort=numscore -Bloodworth
Sounds like this game is swimming in 7s, but has so much love and detail thrown at it that it dragged it out of the 7s and into the 7.5s!
It has some issues, the plot is irrelevant and boring, the game duration expands and do not add anything new, you just go from one place to another but those places are the same 4 or 5 stages.
I think that the best part of this games is the first chapter.
This deserves a 7 lol
@@LimitedEye
Agreed, the game really became a drag after the halfway point (More specifically after the death of a certain character )
I have been supporting this game since the indie gogo. I gave it a 6.
The only salvable thing is the art, gameplay (ignoring the difficulty flop) and music a bit.
How can I play the game when the story is everywhere and it sucks.
It looks like some people don't understand ratings so let me explain:
Well said.
well explained, it´s kind of complex to rate by this standard
I feel I need to point out that
There's no reason to play a game below a 7 though, unless it's one of those "so bad it's good" games like deadly premonition or charades.
It's one of those games that is amazing but is also a 7-7.5 and most of all it's really fun.
I hope people will like it even though we live in a time where a 7 is often considered horrible.
That will always bother me. 7 is above average. It is essentially a B+ in American grading. Hardly anything considered bad by any stretch.
I think (J)RPG's are in the most difficult spot when it comes to scoring. Because of the nature of the games being very long, people are naturally going to be far harsher on their attitude towards playing it rather than say a mindless generic FPS.
It just requires so much more investment from the players, to the point where people aren't willing to get a 30 - 50+ hour game. Unless they can be sure that it will actually even be worth playing all the way through.
slinkyatrest
No a 7 = C- which is essentially a fair or average grade in American grading. A B+ = 87-89 and that is well above average. This game got a 7.5 which is essentially C/C+. So it’s decent, but not great.
Regardless I’m still very much interested in the game.
@@LoomDoom hm. You're right, I've never been good with numbers. I got a 7/10 in math.
They're all just numbers at the end of the day.
And just think of the 14 characters that coming as free DLC: 9 guest characters (Shantae, Shovel Knight, Annie from Skullgirls, etc.), 3 backer-designed characters, and 2 characters (Antoine and Sangmu) that were delayed from the launch because of mechanics complications.
BallotBoxer really wish that some characters (like Tungar) weren’t optional and were part of the main story more, and that some of the cut characters are added later because they had some great designs
I really like the art style.
I love ben moore and his review but I got to say how much I love this game. Don’t skip it guys!
Mr1Luigi I'm trying not to. waiting for the switch version
@@blitz4506 You should just buy it now for PS4- the visuals will really look great, and you can support the developers right now, which really helps with justifying the cost and effort making the game.
Tegan Combatti don't have a PS4 sadly
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I'll try to get a ps5 tho
Soooo glad I got this game.. I love hand drawn animations.. this game honestly reminded me a lot of the developer of Dust An Elysian Tail. Looks like an updated version of those graphics & animations. But Indivisible is a good one!!
Dust was awesome!
As someone who finished this game a couple of days ago, I would have to agree with this score. I would like to add that this game has some weird technical issues as well.
1 or 2 party members legitimately cant use their limit break, and you will have to wait for some kind of update to fix it, an area or two also have massive slowdown, and at one point you can even reach an area before it finishes loading and you can be trapped in a wall.
But the games biggest issue to me was the tedious back tracking at the late portion of the game. Doing back tracking quest with 20 party members was not fun. Overall though the game has a fun story, gorgeous art style, and extremely fun platforming. So there's definitely enjoyment to be had.
Some simply so not have Iddhi attacks. Lelani amd Kushi for sure, and a few others.
@@BigWillTheThrill It actually has been stated that those without Iddhi moves are actually supposed to have Iddhi moves. It's just they didn't have the time to animate them before release. Kushi for example was so demanding in animation due to her different attack forms they actually were considering not having her added in till much later. These characters will in fact be getting the omitted super moves upon later patches and free dlc releases. They already released a patch to increase endgame difficulty so make the difficulty in the game more balanced throughout.
It was fun for me for 2 hrs or so. Found it tedious and gave up
Great to see Lab Zero putting a great game, sadly I can't support it due to 505 Games putting a *baffling high regional pricing* on Steam in many non-US regions.
Here, the price is MORE THAN DOUBLE of what is usual regional price for a $39.99 games.
When you say non-US regions? Because in Europe it's 39.99 euros which is what we always get (I mean dollar to euro rate is always 1:1).
As soon as you said Valkyrie Profile - my 2nd favorite game of all time, I purchased it immediately
Did you regret it?
the end of this game has the most insane difficult but enjoyable platforming ive ever seen. never played celeste but others have said its similar to the hard stuff from that game
I'm sure you've already been told this but you should absolutely play Celeste lol
This game was Mighty No. 9ed thanks to the MikeZ thing.
Indivisible is such a great game. Played it and got the platinum an enjoyed every minute of it.
Worst thing in the game is the writing and the pacing of the story. The protagonist basically gets over her father's death (not a spoiler it happens in the first 5 minutes of the game) in minutes, she discovers the ax her late mother had dumped in a random area, most of the party members don't really have any reason to help her but still follow her around, and except her and another character (who unceremoniously dies later in the game) there aren't really any character development in the other party members. It would really benefit from a Tales Of kind of mechanics where random party members randomly start chatting about various things. They have a hub where you can talk to them but they barely have any lines to say (maybe they change once after every major story event).
Combat also is fun but it's pretty easy finding the ideal formation and keep with that until the end with only slight variations. Ginseng is the only healer you will ever need and he is basically one of the first ones you find. Even in the final stages of the game, he can charge his healing ability and then use it to instantly fill everyone's health in a single turn. Also the enemies level scale up with yours so you never really feel that powerful. They will always need a billion hits to die even if you return to the first area of the game.
I've been looking forward to this game for a long time and while 7.5 isn't a bad score, I was really hoping it'd be an extremely well-received game.
But, to be fair, I know I'm gonna love and enjoy every second either way.
TheDemonPirate well some other reviews are giving it an 8
getting such a nice Breath of Fire feeling from this!
Finished this last week, score seems correct. Platforming decent, characters likable, RPG systems pointless and tacked on, though I'm a sucker for a Hiroki Kikuta soundtrack so I'll be listening to that for a while. Shoutouts to the backer of the NPC that has the line "Don't forget that tomorrow is all ours. Love and Respect."
I appreciate your review style here. Very fair and you explain your point of view well. Thanks for taking the time to produce this. Your last remark had me thinking when you say, "worth serious consideration". That's not a bad qualifier for review scoring.
Pass on It
Follow it
Consider it
Own it
Truthfully I am not done with the game yet (I'm somewhere halfway I guess now), but so far- it feels like at least a 8.. Maybe it will get better, maybe it will get worse... But If I can judge this game strictly on its core gameplay and presentation- "Indivisible" is much better than other 7's /7.5's out there-----Like A Lot Better.... The story is not overly grand, it's fine and serves the excellent gameplay & visuals well... Plus, I love the sense of humor this game has "Obviously Sarcastic" or something. Personally Im happily sold on the combat gameplay, and the animation alone to solidify the game's high quality. Please ignore the mediocre reviews and support "indivisible". Games like this don't come around too often, jump in people!
Did it get better or worse?
This game had potential, but it was honestly a bit of a disappointment. Visually, it looks good, but the story and characters are meh. Does not help that the MC is literally a Mary Sue and almost everyone gives her a pass for the bad things she does. The only one who actually points out her problems is the sword guy, yet she acts like he’s the biggest jerk.
saw the title and thought for a moment, 'Invisible Walls', ah my nostalgia
Is it available for Switch? Tried to search it on the store and I can't find it.
They said something about releasing it at the end of the year. I'm also waiting for the Switch version.
Wow. You are generous. I gave it a 6 and I have been supporting this game since the indie gogo.
Yeah it's a mess. They spent way too much effort on the art assets for a game that just isn't that fun to play. Huge waste.
@@youtubesuresuckscock Well... No. I loved the backer preview.
The gameplay mechanics are fun, that really interactive action-rpg stuff is fun as hell. I adored Naga Rider and the girl with the robot arm, her super fully charged is the most exciting ting every single time and I like the overworld movement.
Of course the art is good but god dammit the story is boring, carboard-anime-like, and its EVERYWHERE!
Its so annoying no one ever says something interesting, getting new abilities is literally by dialogue.
You can't do something? Talk to NPC "Oh just do it" and you do it. No minibosses, no puzzle, nothing.
Also a major fucking flaw was the difficulty flop. I swear the cat fight was one of the only nice-ok things in the whole game, the secret hard boss felt like he belonged as a mid game boss. It gets boring VERY quickly.
So a lot of things are THERE its just not working as it is :(
That's pretty much where I would across the game. I'm enjoying the combat but the story and the exploration aren't grabbing me much.
Yeah, I was riding on the story and characters to grab me but nope
The final score doesn’t quite agree with the verbal description of the game in this review. Is the pacing that bad that it eclipses all the good things you’ve listed?
Yeah, I honestly expected at least an 8.
I just finished the game today, and yes, it kind of does.
Backtracking is particularly bad, especially if you're trying to finish character side-quests.
Also, combat really does become trivial, and leveling felt meaningless because my party became far stronger from story events; more so than any actual leveling through the game.
Combat become trivialize, one note character, not enough build up for key moment, sound like a 7 to me, i bet it got 7.5 bc art style and music
7 means it's good you know
When's the switch version coming out?
5:08 ZA WARUDO?????
I think I’d swim in this 7
Loved the game but can't help but wonder what a truly finished version of it would have been like :(
Story/writing/world building aside, the game mostly feels like a buffed up prototype than anything else, which is a shame considering the potential on display. Really hope Lab Zero get a chance to refine and add to the game over time. For now, I'll be replaying it every now and then while waiting. Base gameplay is easily enjoyable enough for that.
There acually is apparently plans to take a Skullgirls approach of adding in stuff they werent able to put in or rushed over time. Supers they omitted, characters that didnt make it, likely changing around how the story plays out at parts, etc. They already released one of these patches that makes the final act of the game have tougher fights because it unintentionally could be breezed through with like one-shots and the like.
interesting game love the art style
Playing this game 2 years after the fact and enemies are nothing more than HP sponges and because of that damage values are relatively meaningless. I got the jump on a relatively early group of enemies (not a boss mind you), launched a massive 200 hit combo, did 60,000 damage and barely put a dent in a hp bar. That's not satisfying. It's frustrating.
I would argue the text of the review read/sounded like more of an 8 or 8.5. The score actually caught me off guard because the presented issues seemed more small and genre standard thus having less weighted significance. Oh well. 7.5 isn't shabby still.
hope yall review Crosscode
Not going to lie I expect more or actually better there just somethings about this game that just drag it down for me 7 is a perfect score
Disagree with the score but I respect Ben's opinion even if I'm personally more fond of the combat, and storytelling than he is.
ay first review to saw valkyire profile
You’ve won me over with phoebe 😍
I wish you could teleport to the gates area from your inner realm
This game reminds me of the Shanti or Monster world
The problem that everyone is missing: It's NOT an RPG, it's just an action platformer. Floating numbers, XP and levels are just for show but are actually pointless in this game.
A hat in time switch review?
We've already reviewed it. No plans to review the Switch release. -Bloodworth
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The repeated remarks along the lines that its shortcomings are “difficult to articulate” make me feel like some aspects just weren’t to Ben’s personal taste. I mean.... if you can’t put it into words, it’s likely not a tangible flaw so much as a matter of preference. Which is totally fine but also increases my own hopes for how I’ll receive those same elements, so here’s hoping for the best.
No he said the positives were difficult to articulate, that it was easier to put his finger on flaws.
This game has been in development for like 20 years
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I miss Valkyrie Profile with a proper game :(
Great review!
Razmi best grill.
maybe it couldve worked better as a hack n slash metroidvania??
Are you guys going to do a Cold Steel 3 review?
Sorry, no plans at this time. -Bloodworth
7.8
When is this coming out on the switch? I wanna play it but think I'll wait for the switch version!
This honestly looks like an 8 to me at the lowest. I’ll probably trade in Code Vein for this.
Valkyrie Profile
10/10
Should I be worried that Ben gave a JRPG style game a 7.5? lol. He usually boosts those games.
It's not really a JRPG though.
It's an action-RPG platformer not a JRPG.
A 7 isn’t a bad score
@@iattacku2773 Until they give Fifa or Ghost Recon an 8.
i was expecting a much much much higher score, oh well i guess this is a depth sale then.
I really loath the post-Final Fantasy 7 “badassery” take on RPG combat, where numbers fly out at porody speeds in order to look “cool” rather than be meaningful.
Impossible to give less than an 8 to this game. Hardcore action-RPG with platformer elements, good artwork, nice character design, decent story, nice music, combat system with a lot of depth, many different characters that increase the RPG aspect of it and a good level of challenge.
It has its issues and doesn't hit too high on certain notes but nowhere near being a 7.5.
I disagree, I say the score is perfect hell I would say it's a 7.0 game. The fact that combat is so bare bones when you get used to it make this game boring yo play. If combat had other things going for it than it would be a lot better but literally after a few hours you've seen everything the combat has to offer and is nothing more than switching out new characters just to try them out.
1:39 - OH CHRIST! Uhh... Wasn’t what I was expecting from someone named Phoebe...😳
Never even played an RPG so I think I'll enjoy it...
Trying hard find this for Switch, failing hard as well. Some places say: 'It lauched!', others say: 'Nope!' :/
Now i'm just really worried Ghost Recon Breakpoint is gonna get a better score...
I think you missed one part. It’s a complete game. Which makes it automatically better than most AAA games.
I have been a fan since GT, this is one of your worst reviews 🤷🏾♂️
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7.5. Ouch.
Erlaxis that's not a bad score
A seven, this game, a seven, utterly ridiculous.
Friendly reminder that review scores are bullshit. And also 7 is not bad.
Yeah, thats the point, a 7 is not bad, and this is.
@@spellcastergeorgamesh2522 oh lol. If you say so.
The art style looks so bland and uninspiring just like most of these indie games.
yet the animation is superb.
Yes, the animation is really fluid. Shame the creativity in the artstyle department is not up to the same standard.
@@NetConsole I agree.
The flash looking animation is a killer for me. It looks like an iphone game.
? But are you ignoring how smooth the animation is? It's not in flash, and even if it was, wouldn't take away how gorgeous the artstyle is
Interesting. I feel like the art style and the animation are one of the game's main appeal.
I understand where you're coming from. But even if it was flash animation, that style of animation takes a long time to create and get right. Our society trains people to think the art that was made via flash programs of the past is some display of a lack of skill or quality, when that isn't the case at all. I'm an animator myself, and I just wanted you to know that some of us work really hard to make that kind of content for people to enjoy. Please don't confuse the look of this game for a lack of polish or care. Much respect to you.
Damn dude if these models look like flash animations to you then what is good models and animation in your opinion? When was the last time you played an indie game?
I think the animation is probably the most compelling visual aspect of this game. I think the far greater downfall is in the 3D backgrounds. Some of them just feel really low-detail and uninteresting, and in a lot of cases don't feel super well tied to the artstyle of the characters and their portraits. Don't know if it was a time thing or what, but I think the drawn 2D backgrounds of Skullgirls fared far better than these.