As promised, starting a new game today. Night of Azure is that game, and it's got rather sad reviews on Steam already and a couple hours of playing mostly confirms what the reviews say.
For starters, the game doesn't even scale to 1080p, forcing me to play in either windowed mode or have stretched out pixels. Secondly, while I can play with a keyboard, nothing explains the controls to me, nor allows for rebinding them. The original keyboard controls are listed in some text file that comes with the installation, but they're pretty terrible. I'd need three hands, as I can't use the mouse for looking around.
There's a clear deficit of polygons, as is common for console games, the animations are noticeably robotic, and as far as I've gotten, the story is bad.
As for the game itself... It's pretty much a cycle between cutscenes and levels, with a break for equipping new stuff every now and then. Except the levels are boring, easy, and you just mash the attack key while awkwardly trying to handle movement and the camera, which are on opposite sides of the keyboard. (And the attack key is in the middle.) There's a lack in the variety of your equipment, and it practically changes nothing except for a small boost to your stats.
So, uh, yeah... Game's shit. Again.
Speaking of Action Anime RPGs, I wonder how Dragon Nest is doing. I never really liked it, judging it as an MMO, but as a singleplayer ARPG, it might even be pretty good. I might take a look at some point.
For starters, the game doesn't even scale to 1080p, forcing me to play in either windowed mode or have stretched out pixels. Secondly, while I can play with a keyboard, nothing explains the controls to me, nor allows for rebinding them. The original keyboard controls are listed in some text file that comes with the installation, but they're pretty terrible. I'd need three hands, as I can't use the mouse for looking around.
There's a clear deficit of polygons, as is common for console games, the animations are noticeably robotic, and as far as I've gotten, the story is bad.
As for the game itself... It's pretty much a cycle between cutscenes and levels, with a break for equipping new stuff every now and then. Except the levels are boring, easy, and you just mash the attack key while awkwardly trying to handle movement and the camera, which are on opposite sides of the keyboard. (And the attack key is in the middle.) There's a lack in the variety of your equipment, and it practically changes nothing except for a small boost to your stats.
So, uh, yeah... Game's shit. Again.
Speaking of Action Anime RPGs, I wonder how Dragon Nest is doing. I never really liked it, judging it as an MMO, but as a singleplayer ARPG, it might even be pretty good. I might take a look at some point.
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