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Simple yet enjoyable game

First of my this is just my opinion of the game. So here is the review.

Story:
There's really not much to it other than Akage going after Skull Face for burning her house down. However I feel that the game play, and features make up for it. The best way to describe is that basically you go through a couple of dungeons fighting monsters. My thoughts on the story are I understand it was probably met to be simple, but I feel there should have been more to the story. Did he have a reason for burning her house down? Did she have some kind of powerful treasure he wanted that could put the world in danger?

Graphics:
The monster graphics are mainly from the RTP, but that's not a big deal since character sets for monsters are hard to find. However I really like the graphics for the main characters. I understand it is hard to find character sets for monsters. The mapping is very built, and atmospheric. I liked the fog, and lightning of the maps. There were no graphical glitches that I noticed.

Gameplay:
The gameplay is fun actually. I love the ABS. It is also helpful that enemies drop power ups. I do feel however that enemies should have been placed farther apart. The reasons I feel that the enemies could be farther apart is because they tend to get stuck between obstacles, and such. The item bags they drop should have been picked by player touch. Sometimes after killing an enemy they get stuck behind the item bag icon, and can't do anything until I pick it up. I also liked it that you could enchant equipment with stones. It really helped against fighting certain enemies. I really enjoyed the gameplay other than the few flows I mentioned.

Sound, and Music:
The game has battle voices for Akage. The battle voices for Akage were high quality in my opinion I really liked how her voice sounded. I wish there were battle voices for the bosses as well. The music in the game is actually great, and fits the dungeons. Although I do wish there was music for the boss battles, so I would at least know when I am in a boss fight. I really liked the music for the final boss, it had an interesting tune.

Over All
Rating A -
No spelling errors that I have noticed. It has only has a few flows. It has fun characters, and gameplay. This game is defiantly worth playing if you like games like Zelda, and Secret of Mana. I overall enjoyed the game. My advice for future games is, if using an ABS, please try to keep enemies farther apart. My reason for the 4 out of 5 is because it is good game, with just a few things keeping it from getting a higher score.

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Linkis
Don't hate me cause I'm Cute :)
1025
Nice review overall. Too bad your 4 stars were downgraded by the first reviewer:(

Actually, after I realized the monsters got stuck behind the dropped bag I liked that aspect since I could talk to the stuck monster and make fun of him :) Also, I got to play with my timing on picking up the bag and attacking the new monster :)

"Although I do wish there was music for the boss battles, so I would at least know when I am in a boss fight."
But Rose, you know when you're in a Boss fight....WHEN YOU DIE :)
The first one drove me crazy until I found a little strategy :)

I wish there were more games like this using ABS. Many games say "action" but they are not realtime battles :(

nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
11099
Rose I know this is your first review so a bit of advice, you should run this through a grammar checker before posting it. There are no spelling errors but you've used the wrong word in places, such as flow when you mean flaw, defiantly when you mean definitely and met when you mean meant. I'm not quite sure what "The mapping is very built," is meant to be however.

Other than that you raise some valid points for the developer to look at, which is what feedback is all about.
Linkis
Don't hate me cause I'm Cute :)
1025
See, and here I just chalked it up to being really tired or had been out with friends and closed the joint :) haha
author=nhubi
Rose I know this is your first review so a bit of advice, you should run this through a grammar checker before posting it. There are no spelling errors but you've used the wrong word in places, such as flow when you mean flaw, defiantly when you mean definitely and met when you mean meant. I'm not quite sure what "The mapping is very built," is meant to be however.

Is that grammar though? Seems more like spell check gone wrong.
It's wrong word usage. Spell check doesn't pick up on words that are incorrectly used - only those that aren't spelt correctly. This is a famous poem that illustrates it:

A Little Poem Regarding Computer Spell Checkers...


Eye halve a spelling chequer
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.


But yeah, it's not quite grammar either, since grammar dictates more syntax and how words work in sentences instead of the actual words themselves. ^.^;
nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
11099
Incorrect word usage is a grammar error. The words are not spelt incorrectly, they are used incorrectly. What's more in most of the cases above the words cannot be parsed correctly, which is indeed Liberty the 'how words work in a sentence' meaning. It falls under acyrologia though not as a malapropism but perhaps as a catachresis in this instance.
pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
@Liberty, That poem is a big mondegreen waiting to happen--or one that's already happened; I can't decide.

@nhubi, Speaking of acyrologia, these errors would probably be called "eggcorns".
nhubi
Liberté, égalité, fraternité
11099
An Eggcorn tends to still be plausible in the context, so the defiantly one would qualify, but the flow/flaw wouldn't...and this has really gone off topic :). It was fun though.

pianotm
The TM is for Totally Magical.
32347
Hmm...we've probably traumatized Rose, now. Anyhoo, I've downloaded this game because I'm interested in any game that gets a .5 star review from one player and 4 star review from another.
CashmereCat
Self-proclaimed Puzzle Snob
11638
Yup. Also, developers, it's good if you reply to all reviews, not just the good ones.
Thank you everyone for commenting on the game. I'll consider all the critique and will put more effort in my next game.
Linkis
Don't hate me cause I'm Cute :)
1025
Believe me, considering the above conversation by all you English teachers,
Rose ain't the only one who has been traumatized :(

On the other hand, my checker does let me know if to or too, then or than, and a few others are right or wrong.
On the other hand, how the hell would I know if my checker is lying to me :(
I was referring to when you spell a word so wrong that spell check doesn't auto correct it, and you right click on it to pick a word from a list, and you pick the wrong word in haste. "Spell check gone wrong"
I really expected a recent review with 15 comments to contain some drama.

All I got was grammaring.
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