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FG: Oh, no that's not what I meant, he did give it a fair shake. Many people who do play it will get that far and assume it's never going to pick up and get anywhere and quit. So it's a totally legitimate review in that respect. I'll try to clarify. I had already played the game obviously so I didn't need to read any reviews of it. It was a Brickroad review though and he's big on puzzles and gameplay. This particular game, gameplay is not it's strong point, so I wasn't expecting real high marks from him anyway since that tends to be his focus. However in the later Chapters there are some things with shapeshifting I thought were pretty creative myself. So I read the review curious to see what he thought about it and he didn't get there. So I was a little disappointed, that's all.

The other part I meant that playing the full game eliminates some of the issues with the story - this game is Chapter based and a fairly lengthy run in total. So a few of the story crits are like reviewing the entire Way series of games based only after playing the first episode. After it does pick up and gets going, it turns out to be somewhere above the average but certainly does take some knocks due to it's slow start. I didn't mean to imply that I think it's acceptable to have your story drag ass for 2+ hours or anything like that though. =(

T Review

I'd have liked to see you play it a bit further. There are several interesting things with shapeshifting mechanics later that I was hoping to see your take on. The story actually winds up being quite a bit above average. His characters become very 3-Dimensional, and have really nice conflict within themselves, Lunair in particular. The pacing is just off, sometimes even way off, particularly the beginning drags much slower than it should. It's also the only RM game that I've ever played that I felt the music was used even remotely close to how it's supposed to be used - controlling the mood (exceedingly well at two specific parts I liked in particular). Almost nobody gets that right, not even in the commercial arena.

I'd rate it higher myself as later on it starts to get a lot more right than it gets wrong, but I don't really disagree with your assessment to the point you played to - it certainly doesn't yank you in very quickly at all.
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