Odin's Fear is so lame.

[Ichirou]

Almost finished with the game.

1. Slowdown is fucking awful and seems to happen in every stage now.  For some reason it's only during bosses in the first ten hours of so of gameplay but by the end of the game the enemies spawn so frequently that the battles move at a snail's pace due to all the slowdown.

2. You can only equip a single item so sometimes you'll have an anti-poison amulet on, and then the enemies will dizzy you...then, while you're dizzy, they'll set you on fire or freeze you, or turn you into a frog, or something...and by the time your dizziness is over, your character is dead.  There's nothing quite as frustrating as seeing your character being knocked around and being unable to do anything for what seems like minutes until you die.  The only thing MORE frustrating is seeing your character being knocked around and being unable to do anything IN SLOW MOTION because of all the fucking slowdown.

2. Once you get the alchemy texts for painkiller (no knockback, HP loss is halved) and unlimited power (your POW bar doesn't go down for a limited time) and combine them with the psypher skill overload (2x attack power), bosses are basically cake.  It's kind of weird how fucking annoying the stages can be with all the status effects only to reach a threatening-looking boss and kill it in a couple of minutes.

The game is completely broken.  I can't understand why.  Vanillaware obviously worked hard on this game's presentation, but then when it came to the gameplay they completely half-assed it.

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I was so amazed with this game for 20 minutes, then it all fell apart.  Never got very far and sold it off.

I hope Vanillaware's next game, the Odin Sphere-looking game with the feudal Japan look for the Wii, is better.

[Ichirou]

Finished it.  I dunno, I think a lot of people felt the same way as you, lyte.  The game LOOKS so good, and the screenshots were so amazing-looking, it was very easy to get hyped.  But the problem is there's very little underneath.

Once you finish the game with all five characters, a new book opens up which has the final battle.  The sad thing is that the final battle has five bosses, and it still recycles two of them from the main story. :/

I will give the game props for one thing, and that's (spoiler related to the ending ahead, don't think anyone cares)

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having the cojones to kill off the entire world in the armageddon instead of finding some bullshit solution to avert things at the last minute.  They even kill off the cutesy fairy princess.

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