The gameplay kept me involved, driving home through the 30+ hours I had. I didn’t find all the optional things to truly complete the section, but I enjoyed drawing out the powers and playing with them. I decided to focus on the demon, because I was tempted to call the game’s bluff and see if things weren’t quite so black-and-white (to little avail). Their greatest use is for the ‘Godly Revival system’, where you use them to draw swords out of the bodies of a giant demon and a mythical goddess for stat boosts, and allows you to stab them into the world map to modify areas. I especially liked the combo system and the battle layout, and completing sequences keyed to enemy weaknesses is satisfying, as is transforming into your techno-magic hybrid forms to do more damage.Ĭollecting the other Furies and their Fairy inhabitants also grants the ability to use them for stat boosts and passive abilities, represented in illustrated cards that display text boxes hinting at your current events. The E, F, and Enter keys govern all three combo lines, and I managed to get used to the menu using only the keyboard fairly quickly. I used a keyboard to play this game, and had little trouble with the controls. The actual gameplay, fortunately, was rather engaging. Nobody’s clothing is destroyed in a fight, and while there are alternate costumes for some characters, there’s never a point where you need them. Most of them are pretty blatant and fairly cliche (obviously, sexy hot-springs. There are several other sexy scenes that just kind of happen, such as a hot springs scene. She takes off her clothing abruptly at one point for little reason. It does have a significant amount of fanservice-pretty much every shot of Harley, the well-endowed scientist, zooms in on her chest. The main character looks too much like Kingdom Hearts‘ Sora, and there’s a girl who just looks like she walked out of Black Rock Shooter. I couldn’t shake that I’d seen a lot of the character designs before, sporting a modern-fantasy style prevalent in lots of JRPGs. Everything’s colourful, and the backgrounds are detailed. Gameplay cutscenes incorporate character images with the almost-CG mobility seen in a lot of visual novel games, which actually doesn’t look too bad. Some of the boss themes are quite fun, particularly for special bosses, with some taking a wonderful baroque theme. Nobuo Uematsu composed the score, and aside from the optional dungeon song that’s nearly identical to a My Chemical Romance track, it’s engaging and exciting. This is unfortunate, as the music is actually rather good.
Many dramatic scenes lost their musical accompaniment, becoming silent, save for the voices. The voice acting and writing is actually alright, though it can sometimes be hard to hear over the ambient soundtrack-when the latter doesn’t cut out when the voice-clips struggle to load. There are few twists in the plot of the revival of two opposed divine beings, and the transition from collecting Furies to confronting the main antagonists seems somewhat abrupt and lacks build-up, with a lot of telegraphed outcomes taking away from the plot’s impact. The universe seems largely an excuse, lacking in explanation, often with contrived reasons provided, and with a large plot line mostly abandoned halfway through. This is unfortunate, as the characters are mostly archetypes, ranging from the excited scientist girl to the strange mascot character.
This kind of fades out as the story progresses, and while it maintains a tongue-in-cheek attitude, it continues to drop a lot of meta-humour. Early on, there’s a lot of blatant references to this being a game, and protagonist Fang’s nature as a version of the traditional brash JRPG protagonist (taken in the direction of just being utterly selfish and amoral rather than actually heroic). I feel like this game’s plot is a deconstruction that forgets that part-way through.
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