NIN8HALOS'S PROFILE

Just found this game. I'm gonna check it out!

author=Fugue
i still killed plenty that were just minding their own business.

just none that begged me to spare them.

if i am a moral paragon your bar is mad low son.

(i don't feel bad at all about killing mr. williams man. he needed to die.)

They all needed to die!

The hard part for me wasn't figuring out that I need to kill things, but figuring out that I needed to

What really struck me as odd was that

author=Fugue
how do you summon all three chakra in one turn?

how do you learn skills for the summons?

I don't think there is a way to summon all three in one turn. They learn skills just by gaining levels though. What I don't know is if they scale to your level every time you summon them or if they actually need to gain experience. Once you learn how to use them though, and start leveling up the Nomad, the battles become much easier. I've reached the point where I can kill every creature I come across with very little trouble.

author=Fugue
unfortunately, while i appreciate the poop out of its diction and aesthetic choices, this game does not play as well as it looks.

battles are quite slow and difficult; enemies, even the "easy" ones have too much health to prevent severe tedium. while full heals from save points are nice, they're not enough to prevent some serious frustraiton. i'd recommend any of the following:

1) a way to tell how tough a given weird looking creature is before picking a fight with it.
2) more numerous healing items at the beginning.
3) substantially lowered enemy health. enemy attack power is high also, but i'm fine with that.
4) this one's important. more combat options for the protagonist and his three summons would make the game more fun to play.

also i have to question the veracity of the assertion that every fight is a unique boss fight. i have encountered multiple non-unique, duplicate foes. most of them have pretty boring attack patterns, also (like just spamming attack).

if there was a game that combined the art style of this game with the battle depth of a crazegame, i might be in heaven.

finally, a bug that caused me no small frustration. if the main protagonist is killed in a battle, and yam, lam, and on prevail, the player receives a game over screen upon completing the battle. this should be changed either so that the player is revived, or so that the game over screen occurs immediately upon the protagonist's death.

I've managed to get around the unpredictable difficulty levels by saving between every battle. Unfortunately, that means you have to play very cautiously and can't wander around fighting things.
You do get a lot more combat options as you level up. I'm at level 16 now and each combatant has several abilities.
Aside from the Thrones encountered near the beginning of the game, most of the enemies I've fought are unique.
I agree that the game doesn't play as well as it looks. I love the art style and the bizarre creatures. However, I'm one of those people that needs an objective to get enjoyment out of a game. I find this more enjoyable than Yume Nikki, though.