Reviews - TJF588

First couple chapters blow by, but the third is so expansive, and for all the cussing-inductive challenges scattered about, you're given no more than what is learned in those first chapters, and I'm compelled to push through each one as I encounter them, tricking me at first blush and turning me red with execution, and further pressed to explore everywhere I can, scratching by brain to determine circumvention of obstacles, often achieved by the former challenges.

The story itself, most technically, is nearly bereft of typos. Besides, its simple character art belies their harsh speech and harsher subject matter, which is deftly approached at times, sometimes stating the point rather between spoken lines, with some characters complementing with their own realizations, building each other in the process. So far, I've had Cilia speak on Mi's behalf, and though she fluxes in how crass she is, an interesting little character shows through it all.

On my second play session, I had the game booted up for around eleven hours, and I still have an entirely empty portion of the map. While there are some mechanical snags (on the PS3 version, there is a sensitivity to joystick release, resulting in a poor timed about-face, and Mi has been seen to catch on slopes), this game does some things very rather right, particularly in providing a Metroidvania map experiences without character upgrades.