We Need To Talk About Crymachina...

[@traytonvanderecken3311]

Can't wait to hear him review Star Ocean Second Story R.

[@jimkirk2527]

As a german I love those weird german names japanese characters tend to get :D! "Leben Distel" translates to "life thistle" and that makes no sense ^^.

[@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898]

xD

[@AdrenResi]

must be future german haha

[@Owl325]

it doesnt make sense if youre doing a literal* translation

[@jaxh4x]

Can’t wait to play it.

[@fatcat1250]

So basically, it's Yuri Automata on hard mode, lol. I'm one of those that beat Nier automata on hard so I probably have enough tolerance for this, but as always, I'd rather wait for a few months for the inevitable updates and discount after everyone review bomb it for being hard.

[@meijinraditya2887]

Yeah Yuri Automata with a mix of Soulslike difficulty. To be fair I do tolerate those stuff (Yuri and Yaoi genre) as long as the story and worldbuilding is interesting. I do interest with Crymachina bc of the story premise (AIs fighting it out in order to restore the human race. Though unlike Nier Automata, at least this one theres no aliens (Machines enemies in Automata made by aliens) in the game just human made AIs fighting amongst themselves with most of them disagreeing with Enoa's methods as the KZbinr said).

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

@@meijinraditya2887 Soulslike difficulty? Either I have become dozens of times better since I played soulslike games back in the day... or y'all throw around that buzzword way too readily. I've met literally one enemy who actually hit me unreasonably hard through no fault of my own(as in I was on level and geared properly) in the entire time I've spent in the game so far.

[@tbz709]

Everything you are complaining about towards the end regarding the systems, have my excited hahah Can't wait to dig into it!

[@Brandon667x1]

I’m gonna be checking this out when it releases. It’s been on my radar for a while.

[@DaReapa]

Been watching this channel for years glad to see your channel is growing. I hope you will catch some big success.

[@xavdeman]

At least NIS America is giving Erick review codes. Always good if publishers don't just focus on the 'big' publications (who actually don't matter anymore) who pretty much hate Japanese games and culture, and instead give experienced KZbinrs early access.

[@ltb1345]

True.

[@Tsukaani]

@@kidrobot. No to what exactly?

[@Tsukaani]

@@kidrobot. Op said publications, not publishers and for the most part they are correct. Japanese games are often blasted by "games" journalists for not being diverse enough, for having female characters that they feel wear clothing that is too revealing, or even for having female characters that are actually feminine rather than adhering to the weird modern western trope of masculine, narcissistic, ugly women in games. They target any game that doesn't adhere to western progressivism, then tear the game to shreds for not sharing their insane worldview. I doubt they even believe their own arguments, as most articles and reviews from gaming publications are obviously designed to farm hate clicks. They haven't been relevant for a long time and I would be surprised if they survive another ten years.

[@led-0185]

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Combat is "souls-like"? Are you serious? I played the demo, and I can assure you, the combat is nothing at all like Souls. I've played all Souls games including Elden Ring and Crymachina was nothing like that.

[@paledrake]

This. The gameplay is nothing like them and the only difficulty this game presents is purely stat/grind-based.

[@keeysOST]

Bro i must be crazy for actually enjoying the combat

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

Nah, guy's just not a fan of games that are anything resembling difficult.

[@paledrake]

The combat itself isn't bad, but everything around it sucks. The game is never balanced, past the first few stages. Around lvl 60 and up you either curve-stomp and take no meaningful dmg or you get one or two-shot while doing piss all damage. Doesn't help that stages are usually just a short corridor to the boss that might have some enemies or not in it.

[@MinhLe19303]

My impression of the game is that it's very reminiscing Chinese hack-and-slash game. Menu design complement with 3D environment, short story stage, simple combat with level and upgrade mechanics, all-female casts trope. It's also have heavy sci-fi setting and gorgeous artwork and character designs, somethings most Chinese hack-and-slash have. Some of the effect works seem to reused from SAO Last Recollection, but the combat control and animation are much more dynamic than that game.

[@mathewhosier9739]

As long as your playing through every mission on normal difficulty and keeping up with your leveling, skill point allocation, ego point allocation and equipment and only playing missions where your at least the same level as the recommended level then you should have no issues as long as you have decent skill, video games are supposed to be challenging, this is a more gameplay focused title anyways, it definitely leans into it's gameplay and progression systems, which i love, the gameplay loop is addicting and fun

[@nathanscott2871]

Awesome! Congrats dude looking forward to watching your review

[@nanakomatsu7425]

I absolutely love it for these reasons... XD And I wonder what you think about Black Desert and BnS at this point... .-.

[@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898]

It doesn't look at all like a soulslike. I don't know why every youtube creator focused on JRPGs think that everything that is not turn based or hack and slash is a soulslikes. I also don't understand why these same JPRG content creators hate soulslikes. Anyway, this one honestly sounds good enough, if a little cheesy (or a lot). I'll get it when the price drops.

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

Having played through probably half of the game so far, its very fun and is literally only like Dark Souls in that enemies can hit you very hard if your level and gear aren't up to the standard of the area you're in.

[@eternaya]

I finished it. Yes. It's a soulslike.

[@thisisntthewholesomefuture649]

Boss fights and a parry system 😅 Must be a souls-like.

[@thisisntthewholesomefuture649]

​@@eternayaWrong, Jew.

[@eternaya]

@@thisisntthewholesomefuture649 Yes, it is if you play it in default difficulty.

[@jgg86rpgs]

Well, I'm sold.

[@gabrielbr1459]

thank u for the review

[@KramerJones]

Good review

[@aaron6493]

Hi Eric, Tx for your review, I played the demo and loved the game, so a day 1 buy.

[@ThyHarvesting]

"mUsIc Is AlRiGhT"? Bruh clearly you ain't a fan of quality Artcore 🤔 the OST is probably its best features alongside its artstyle and aesthetic. The gameplay itself isn't groundbreaking admittedly, the hack n slash style is dope on its own but the stages are too short with lack of enemies and with repetitive patterns...but to say the difficulty is "Souls-like"? Nah mate I'm pretty sure thats something called "Skill Issue" 😏👌

[@denton713]

was gonna grab this thanks for your rant now I wont cheers you saved me some cash

[@vintatsh]

Thanks for the honest review. I played the demo and quite liked the combat but it being a bit too cheesy and unbalanced drove me away from a day-one purchase.

[@saviordream]

Just downloaded the demo on the PS5 earlier today. I'll try it out when I have the chance, but from the couple of reviews I've seen it sounds like a game I might pick up on a heavy discount if I like the demo, but definitely not worth the full $60 price at launch.

[@destinyhunter1926]

$60? Damn your lucky, its £65.99 in the uk, actually ridiculous

[@DiabolicCrusher]

"Humans are stupid" based Leben. Going to pirate it since i hate Nisa(and they likely ruined translation here, too), shame i can't support devs this time because of publisher this time, loved the predecessor and already like what i see. 5:03 Oh, it's that feature from Monark, that game could literally be cheesed by farming code stages, but chapter lvl cap here will balance it out. Crystar was a bit too easy(even on hard, most of the time) so upping difficulty i don't mind. Oh, and thanks for the tip for true ending, that sounds way easier than having to beat second half of the game 4 times like in Crystar.

[@abrahamlupis9354]

FuRyu needs to improve a bit

[@newby242]

CRYMACHINA isn't a FuRyu's production, it is mostly a game by AQURIA, the developers behind Sword Art Online Last Recollection. A lot of the design elements are similar between the two games, including the core battle system, art direction and level design.@@abrahamlupis9354

[@newby242]

MONARK was developed by Lancarse Ltd. the same devs as SMT Strange Journey. While you might find some superficial similarities, but they are nothing alike. Besides in MONARK, you could input any number to anything to get a stage,while CRYMACHINA only has pre-set options per area, which you find code for as you progress through the game. It is not "random" like the game implies, that's just a bad TL by NISA.

[@DiabolicCrusher]

@@newby242 Oh, i see, thanks for correcting me, guess my memory's screwing with me again.

[@newby242]

No problem. The whole situation with FURYU titles on Steam is that NISA or whoever sets up the Steam pages does not give the developers credit. In MONARK's case, NISA scrubbed off the Developed by Lancarse Ltd. (present in the Japanese version) from the title screen to put their "Licensed to and published by NISA"@@DiabolicCrusher

[@mookiedt]

Dearest best song

[@gojira4life]

It was love at first glance with this one, and I have to thank YOU for that. I'm getting this game ASAP!

[@deathstick7715]

I am really enjoying that honaki star rail game and it's free

[@deusvlad2.083]

What does that mean move Enoa in the main menu? How do you move Enoa?

[@paledrake]

Probably late now, but for anyone new reading this: Only happens after you beat the final boss. Use the d-pad on the controller, the same buttons that uses the Enoa-menu (heal, laser beam, return to base, awaken).

[@alceidchannel2877]

Absolutely I'm gonna try this game

[@Cam-yy3sh]

Will buy on a sale

[@edl4767]

I might pick it up. Hopefully the meh reviews make them patch the hell out of this game and try and save it

[@InsomniaticVampire]

Might try it eventually. Sounds like Blue Reflection with action combat.

[@jonathansoko1085]

Yes, much more grindy. The game constantly makes you change to a different girl per mission and you never really know which one its gonna require. So that means you will often find yourself going back and having to re grind over and over to get that girl up to the level requirement. They could have fixed this, but clearly its a padding mechanic for game time. It adds nothing of value. BUT if you can get over it, i think its great. At the start the game throws many mechanics at you for leveling up, and gear and due to it not being forgiving for mistakes made, yours gonna be lost as to what to level up

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

From my perspective this game is basically what I was hoping Nier Automata would feel like when I picked that game up (Which Nier Automata decidedly wasn't in basically every way). As for difficulty, I'ma have to be real chief... maybe fast paced action games just aren't for you. I've encountered like one fight in the game that I haven't enjoyed and my only game overs(I don't play on Casual Mode so that's not even a factor) are trying to punch up in level too far, or when I haven't used a character in a while for plot reasons and all of their gear is multiple chapters out of date.

[@Zetact_]

I have to wonder what went wrong, the director's previous works of Monark and Crystar had writing good enough to carry the weak gameplay they had (well, Monark's RPG system was actually okay for what it was, but it had so much grinding). Crymachina strikes me as a "high concept" story where it has a lot of cool stuff happening in the setting, the themes, the direction, etc. but the on-screen stuff doesn't explore it well. I actually thought for a moment the cast being so simple in the way they're written was intentional because the theme of becoming a real human and they'd get more fleshed out across the story but nah, they're just written like that.

[@Deadmare]

Thanks. I watched a few other reveiws and seems every one agrees the combat is a frustrating mess. Neir fast high speed combat does not work with darksouls high damage mechanics. Works better when movement is slow pased

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

Having played a lot of the game, the damage is only that high in one of two scenarios. 1) You're underleveled and undergeared for the fight you're in. 2) You're fighting Logos, because Logos hits way too hard.

[@angryanthony4231]

Game seems up my alley from the demo, but I agree it seems very copy and paste and combat seems easy. May I ask how long it took you to beat the game?

[@eikichionizuka2090]

he said 15 to 20 in the video

[@Brothandelus]

Being difficult doesn’t make a game a Souls-like. Making that comparison just makes you sound like a typical journo.

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

The game also only resembled Nier Automata in the most surface level manner possible. They're both games starring mechanical humanoids set after the deaths of mankind and they're both fairly fast paced ARPGs. The actual stories are completely different and even the manner in which characters fight, gear is handled, levels are handled, and basically every game system are completely different.

[@neogeo1999]

This is literally the worst RPG I have ever played

[@paledrake]

Honestly same, which is sad because I loved Crystar. This is like 1000 steps backwards.

[@theultimategamer95]

Idk, I played the demo today and personally didn't vibe with it much. Combat felt a bit repetitive and the dungeons were meh. Also wasn't the biggest fan of the narrative tbh. Been done before but feels too anime for me at this point. ...Mikoto is hella based tho. Already had the full game preordered before I played it though, so will probably just give it a shot anyway, and hopefully it gets better for me. Thanks for the review!

[@ashstrat7873]

Hey, why is Caligula Effect "infamous" as you said early in the vid? Comments like that make me want.

[@mickmars8319]

IDK, but chances are Erick has a video about Caligula. Look for it.

[@christineannclerino4008]

In my opinion getting modern japanese rpg in next generation consoles are expensive but when the the players purchased does it worth out of your hard earned money or somewhere else get the physical copies or digital. Unliked the western not so much onto rpg but other genres. So what can the players learned from experienced playing any genre related like rpg and theme.

[@auralynn3862]

It's basically BLAME! but pretty and talkative. And very focused on "becoming human"

[@nahuelmunoz2431]

This is not compared to other anime stuff Like scarlet nexus or astral chain

[@nivelcclg]

That's definitely not for me. There's a lot of games I really enjoyed, but I could not finish at all. That's the kind of game.

[@paledrake]

It's not you, it's the game. It's a mess.

[@cortbelmont]

That's what I hate of this "souls" trend that seems to just never end... you get cheap deaths and damage sponges. Games with great potential end infected by souls

[@grizzlybearking1878]

Good thing it's not a souls game doe right? And that broken difficult hack and slash games existed on ps2 and 3 before Demons souls.

[@TheOttomatic91]

Yeah I had similar feelings after playing the demo loved everything except the gameplay and combat, had to push myself to finish the demo and decided there was no way I was getting the full product.

[@DSG0805]

Shame. Will get it when it drops to 20 bucks on ps5

[@TechnnoTrucker]

I want to play this but Im not sure. I love these types of games. Especially games like NieR: Automata and Scarlet Nexus.

[@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898]

Tell me how you compare Nier Automata and Scarlet Nexus. I hated Nier and Loved Scarlet, one was an embarrassing experience, the other was somehow exciting.

[@TechnnoTrucker]

@@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898 I loved both games. I still need to finish the other routes in NieR: Automata.

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

⁠​⁠@@vagabundorkchaosmagick-use2898 And how was it an embarrassing experience

[@Lucidly_cremated]

I really like the demo so far but I can’t get past the “trinity” group… I guess I’m not great with fighting games but I wish I could lower the difficulty

[@opticgamer3731]

Yu need to play Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten its good.

[@eliotwildermann]

He has already the steam version which came out before consoles by nearly a year 😊

[@tachikoma81]

Give me vibes on old jrpg ps2 games. It might not be the best aa game, but it have heart and if you like sci-fi action, give it a try.

[@AntiGrieferGames]

Im very disappointed because of the ForceTAA, which leads a unfinished game.

[@rossofinale]

I’ve got to say, this was a pretty bad review. Too many comparisons to other games, not really taking the time to actually understand the game (the game tells you what the stats are when you level them up when using Ego on the menu itself), the romance thing adds to the theme of the game and Enoa’s growth throughout the story (she’s acting more human as the story progresses) there’s an in-game reason why the cast is primarily female so it shows a lack of paying attention to detail in the story, calling it a hack and slash when it’s really an action RPG, etc Couldn’t finish the review because of how sloppy it was

[@nanakomatsu7425]

His review just made me like more this game... XD

[@WhiteFangofWar]

Well that's a crying shame. Not everything has to be a Soulslike. If you're going to make your game so mechanics based you'd better have a lot of faith in them.

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

Its not Soulslike in the slightest. The closest resemblance is that enemies hit hard, but even that's mainly down to being underleveled or undergeared. The only enemy I fought where I felt they hit too hard despite being properly leveled and geared for it was probably Logos.

[@paledrake]

It's not even close to being a souls-like. It just has artificial difficulty by constantly forcing you to grind because you are constantly under leveled and underequipped, but it also doesn't provide a proper way to get better equipment. It's a RNG pray-fest.

[@tchitchouan]

never heard of it

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

I remember seeing this game in a GameStop once

[@mathewhosier9739]

Omg, why are JRPG enthusiests always completely dense and clueless about other RPG sub genres, this game isnt even close to a soulslike, 90% of soulslike mechanics are completely missing from this game, you would need your exp to drop when you die, you would need a bonfire like system where both you and any enemies you have killed respawn , also when you rest at said bonfire like the enemies also respawn, not to mention soulslikes dont have multiple difficulty modes, dont yall get annoyed when ppl who dont play JRPGs are completely ignorant about them and dont understand them? This is exactly the feeling im getting about yall when it comes to soulslikes, difficult combat, stamina and parrying does not make a soulslike, you need the mechanics from the genre as well, its like every third person action RPG with a stamina system is a soulslike to you ppl, these types of games existed long before soulslikes were ever a thing

[@Hank49716]

It really is emulating nier automata

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

In only the most glance at the game on a surface level manner. The most zoomed out view of the story concept and genre are similar, but the similarities effectively stop there.

[@michikyah]

So its great then

[@JustKurusu]

​@@kidrobot.What's wrong with enjoying this game? And how does that mean it's made for people with low standards? The challenge and high-speed Combat similar to soulsborne can sound attractive to many people. Including myself.

[@JustKurusu]

@kidrobot. Based on your other comments, you consider it to be "typical weeb trash." And even insult anybody who may enjoy it by saying that you have "low standards" for enjoying it. What a way to quickly contradict yourself. Furthermore, I'm taking that info from the video. Dude even said it himself. So we're getting two answers. One saying it's "easy" while the other is saying that it's way too hard. Which is it?

[@JustKurusu]

@kidrobot. What do you mean "nice try?" I've recently downloaded the demo. Planned on playing it tomorrow in the morning. But that isn't the point I'm trying to make, because whether or not I played the game doesn't matter. I've asked you a question based on the video I've just watched. You considered it to be a game that's for "weebs" who has "low standards." Yet you don't explain why with any of these things. And you even said things that contradicts what the video itself says.

[@JustKurusu]

@@kidrobot. I'm not getting butthurt by an opinion. I'm just pointing out the fact that it's uncalled for to just insult others for their personal interests. It's silly.

[@keeysOST]

​@@kidrobot.Played the demo and it was fine. I don't see why you need to call it "For weebs with low standards" and then delete the comment once you're called out.

[@philosophyoftrucking]

Here’s a review code. Now, please roast our game.

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

Its funny because if they actually watched any of his reviews they would have known sending him a code for this game wasn't a good idea. He really struggles with ARPGs and hates any game that's remotely difficult. The Nier Automata comparisons are kind of laughable since the resemblances are so superficial and don't hold up whatsoever once you actually play more than a few minutes of the game.

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

Lol

[@Sam_Hue]

I had said for months that Crymachina is going to be emotionally heavy when it comes to its dialogue. And don’t forget, we have just the perfect composer for everything here :)

[@Zeroantagonist88]

The game isnt that difficult if you basically change the gear after battles, they show you stats for new gear you get for christ sake. You were probably just playing without switching up gear and its why you were dying alot.

[@martinenriquezruelas8698]

I did that too and I had no issues either

[@Zeroantagonist88]

@@martinenriquezruelas8698 exactly, that's all he had to do. Instead he's whining about how difficult it is when it really isn't.

[@martinenriquezruelas8698]

@@Zeroantagonist88 thats the part I always skip in his videos when he complains

[@Zeroantagonist88]

@@martinenriquezruelas8698 don't blame you bro, it's annoying

[@tryingtobebetter7235]

As a yuriist, I believe that I may be interested.

[@Crimson_Root]

are you sure pronunciation is "crymakina" not "crymashina"?

[@Free_speech_is_dead]

Crystar was alright. Just got annoying at the end where you where forced to play chapter 6, 7, and 8 over and over 3 times because of the story

[@demoniummacuarum7486]

The combat of this game has more similarities with the past two SAO games than automata and ds, not similar at all imo

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

The actual company the writer and director worked with to develop it made those games.

[@Dwellerinshadow]

Which is exactly why this is a "buy on heavy discount" game for me, I hated SAO AL's end game and imo Aquria is utterly incapable of balancing anything.

[@justhappy7269]

Only female cast? Ok, so what's bad about this game?

[@kidrobot.]

it's typical cheap anime trash

[@justhappy7269]

@@kidrobot. "it's typical cheap anime trash" - like many anime jprgs and I don't care. It's hard to find something really original, many of those games look almost the same if we compare their combat system and lore. "Something bad happened x years/days/minutes ago and you, THE CHOSEN ONE, have to save our country/world/universe." Cliché as f*** but it's typical even in western games where MC is presented as some kind of hero.

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

@@kidrobot. Wrong

[@kidrobot.]

@@RavenGamingOverLord sike

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

@@kidrobot. You sound like a crybaby lol

[@overleveledgames]

Really glad I wasn't the only one who was disappointed with this game!

[@kidrobot.]

well that was dumb

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

@@kidrobot. No

[@kidrobot.]

@@RavenGamingOverLord yes

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

@@kidrobot. No :)

[@alexlehrersh9951]

So one of this is wrong Either a grindfest or 15-20 hour shourt both is not posible

[@ltb1345]

Yeah, that confused me.

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

@@ltb1345 to clear things up, the game is short if you just want to beat the story, but there's a lot of optional grinding you can do to unlock extra lore entries from bosses/minibosses, do all the password dungeons, etc. That said, take this review with an entire shaker of salt, the man is talking out of his ass about a type of game he isn't good at while making a bunch of surface level comparisons that don't hold up for 10 minutes once you have your hands on the game.

[@cdavid0715]

I was on board for the most part until you mentioned the problems with the difficulty, hopefully it gets rebalanced otherwise its a hard pass from me

[@suxdonti]

Sorta agree. But how would you know if the update it or sm?

[@danhalo1405]

I would not listen to much to Ericks criticism of supposed "unbalanced difficulty" he usually absolutely hates Souls like games and really really sucks at them. It isn't to unlikely that he just really sucked at this game and that why he thought it is unbalanced Erick usually doesn't like difficult games in general

[@yass3425]

​@@danhalo1405 I was about to say the same thing he latterly complained about Altier Rayza being hard before which is supposed to be a casual and relaxing experience lol

[@xavdeman]

​@@suxdontiPatch notes? Lots of games get rebalanced after release based on player feedback.

[@TheeDeathCaster]

@@yass3425 Bruh

[@abrahamlupis9354]

the girls should fight with their robot body fully exposed

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

No

[@nesoukkefka1741]

Hmm funny I've played the demo and thought the game was extremly easy, don't really see the comparaison with Souls game, can we stop dropping the Souls name whenever people find a game hard, even when there is little in common please, also don't really dig the Nier Automata comparaison, yeah it's a fast paced action game.... just like a LOT of game that came before even Nier, but controller in hand it really doesn't feel like Automata to me. Anyway, played the demo and honnestly, thought the gameplay was a bit easy and boring, can't really judge the story obviously, but the characters didn't make it for me, I found all 4 of them annoying, graphics and music are decent tough, but clearly the game is asking 60 bucks, and that demo already makes me feel this is overprice, if I don't forget about it and there's a good discount, maybe I'll considerer taking the full game, but for now I pass.

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

The Souls and Nier Automata comparisons in the video are pretty cringe inducing, since it makes it seem like the man knows basically nothing about any of the games in question. The only things it has in common with Souls are being an ARPG and that enemies can hit you pretty hard if your levels and gear aren't up to snuff. The only things it has in common with Nier Automata are that you play as mechanical humanoids after the death of the human race.

[@level12fighter]

Why is that robot in a wheelchair?

[@TotallyCluelessGamer]

To explain: The girls minds are stored as data and the completely human looking bodies they have when not in dungeons are visual recreations of how they looked when they were alive. Meanwhile when they're sent out into the game's dungeons their minds are effectively uploaded into mechanical bodies.

[@rossofinale]

@@TotallyCluelessGamerto add to this as well, Ami has said that she technically CAN walk when she’s in the Imitation Garden, she just chooses to stay in the wheelchair because it’s what she was used to when she was alive.

[@VidiverseExplorer]

All girl jrpgs are rarely any good, especially a action rpg.

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

Okay

[@kidrobot.]

@@RavenGamingOverLord dang, i see you defending this game everywhere. how much is the company paying you?

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

@@kidrobot. Ok and?

[@JustKurusu]

"If it was a straight couple, I'd say the same thing." Yeah, that's an outright lie. In Trails in the Sky 1, nearly every girl they encountered from the start of the game was thirsting over Joshua. Even his own mentor was thirsting over her underage former student. If you replaced Joshua with a female character, that would’ve been one of your first complaints about the game.

[@paledrake]

This game sucked ass. The soundtrack is amazing (thank you Sakuzyo), but the story, the gameplay, the writing and the characters are....... really bad. It has some cool twists in the story, but it goes nowhere with the themes it presents us with except "Cherish the family we create around us". Also this review I couldn't disagree with how it slanders the OST. The only part that I found valuable was the music and this review basically just goes "eeeeh it's alright" when it's actually outstanding. Anyway some other thoughts: - The story has interesting themes that it never explores and the characters are paper-thin. We have the machine-loving girl, the movie-loving cool girl and the family-loving secretly scary girl. And of course Enoa, the AI/machine that I can't say more about. There are other characters, but none get more depth than these 4 and that's pretty sad considering they're all collectively a shallow puddle. - The dungeons do in-fact NOT get more interesting, it's the same affair all the time with the occasional platforming segment thrown in. - The combat literally just boils down to spam attack and occasionally counter/perfect dodge to force the bosses into a weak/down loop. This game is NOT a soulslike! I can't stress it more enough, it's a hack-and-slash similar to something like Drakengard 3. - The visuals are fine, but the cutscenes are basically just the character models standing or sitting around talking, besides like... 3-4 actual cinematics which actually had good effort put into them. - The character progression is a mess, as the majority of the stats aren't even explained in-game or anywhere else. Doesn't help that you have to resort to puuuure RNG to get new gear. Doesn't help that the game is a huge freaking grind, that the review said at least. This game has absolutely no balance. - You can actually respect Enoa's EGO upgrades, lvling them up and down. However you can't reset character scalability and stats, so be careful there. Game is still a grindfest even if you can respec slightly to dump them into exp gain up and equipment drop lvl up. Do yourself a favor and buy Crystar instead. Fantastic game, one of Furyu's best. Crymachina had a lot of potential, but the game is a plane crash. If you can stand the fire and suffocating smoke go right ahead and try it, it's a freaking pain. At least it made me want to replay Crystar.

[@Vulpas]

The yuri stuff is no good. At least it ain't dudes...

[@deusvlad2.083]

It's another one of those ecchi shit games that has a high difficulty in exchange for 20 hours gameplay lol game should be 10-20$

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

I’m pretty sure it’s not too difficult though

[@deusvlad2.083]

@@RavenGamingOverLord Trust me I cheated in the game, and still the 1st dungeon bosses will 1 shot you lmao yeeeeah no that's unbalanced.

[@Testimony201]

Can’t wait to play it.