/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Finished the Aritz (Alitz?) route of 珊海王の円環. Overall not great, fairly disappointing. Doesn't feel as terrible as Kami no Rhapsody, just disappointing and mediocre. The gameplay was incredibly simplistic and tedious, storyline was almost non-existent, replaced with minor character interactions and sex scenes. None of the characters really had the time to be fleshed out, probably a problem with having so many protagonists. The difficulty started out annoyingly hard at the start with low levels and Sonya never leaving me alone, then faceroll easy at the end once you outlevel everything else. For the final battles all I was doing was timing the skill activations and letting everything else auto fight.

If I had to say some good parts it would probably be the tempo of the gameplay and personally I liked Aritz. For Aritz I thought he was a better rendition of Eushully's recent "good guy protagonist", having more of a personality of naive, active kid which worked, instead of just "I need to help everyone even though I'm a pirate". I thought the voice acting also nailed it and helped the character. The second part was that while the gameplay was incredibly simple and required almost zero interaction, it did go by quickly enough. For most of the map phase turns went by at a good pace, though at the end you had some kind of MMO raid boss grindfest which was awful.

Overall the biggest problem was the almost non-existent story, and limited character development. It just felt like playing a bare-bones version of Civilization. The character designs were nice I'll give them that, just need to wait for a full save at this point.