and finished! well i haven't much to add to my first impressions
personaly i love the game for all the same reasons i loved ps1 rpg so much,the world is just so full of character what's with the drawed backgrounds and the fixed camera,that video about the junkyard town is all you need to see to know why i like the game
the plot about the game... well it starts out as clichè as it could,the hero is stealing something from an airship and it turns out to be a relic to stop some giant monster and there is an empire (choke full of incompetent soldier™) that wants to control the monster to take over the world and he also rescue the mysterious token person that can actualy stop the giant monster,it's not really creative but it's really well done,character have lot of expressions,they never stop talking,it really feels kinda like brave fencer musashi (the one on the psx,not the sucky sequel)
near the middle the plot takes a pretty sharp turn
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as bebpo said,after finishing the game once,it turns out there is actual more of the game,so the game tricks you into thinking there are only 10 chapters but in reality there are 20,as i said the first 10 chapter play as standard as they could but in the other 10 chapter a bunch of humans invade the furry world and it is discovered that humanity fucked up itself after discovering some tower which leaded to a big war and.... i'm sorry this is where it gets stupid for me here,apparently the tower leaded to a solution to the energy crisis but this lead to a war? and the war leads to someone pushing a "RESET" button that wipes out all the humanity and creates the furry world? that makes no sense at all,apparently this world had nuclear disarmament but when it came to the alien weapon able to wipe the whole humanity everybody forgot about it! WHOOPS! to me it just seems that the developer had a huge boner for "THE GREAT WAR" considering they abuse the trope twice actualy
oh and it turns out the main character is actualy a human turned into beast,so you guys can finaly stop with all the furry joke
the game itself run at 60 FPS and the action is pretty smooth,fights work like this,first you grab the enemy,then you mash A,which lift the enemy in the air,after the enemy is in the air,you can catch him mid air and throw him around... you can also grab enemy projectile and send them back at the sender,the problem with this system it's that it's really easy to just grab an enemy over and over without giving him a chance to attack,heck even some bosses suffer from this!
this combined with the fact that the main character life bar is huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge makes for a really piss easy game which is sad because bosses have pattern,they scream their own attacks and dodging everything is really fun but you don't really need to do so
you can also power-up your robot by installing tetris-shaped piece's in a grid to improve his stat,you can either improve his attack,his defense,his movement or his lifting abilities but truth to be said other than some improvement to his lifting abilities (which makes it so that you have to mash A less) you don't really need to tinker much with,later on,you also gets to buy different robot models which come with different special moves,the standard model gets a piledriver move and a giant swing move,but other model gets health regeneration or extended grabs
the game also has a shitload of quest to take,i said in my first post that they were optional but well... it's an half truth,some of these quests are required to proceed with the game but you can only take them after raising your rank enough,how do you raise your rank? why! by solving optional sidequests!
so yea the sidequests might be optional but you still need to finish a good chunk of them if you want to continue,all of these sidequests comes with their own subplot which shows a lot of care,for example in one of those,the hero stops a team of all-female pirate which act all girlish,another requires to hero to fight a giant fish miniboss
still most of the quest boils down to "go there and murder everything/carry this around" though the game throws you the occasional bone (like there is one racing minigame somewhat similiar to a simplified mario kart) so it kinda counterbalances,as i said already there is TONS of dialogue,every mook fight comes with both pre-fight dialogue ("you won't pass!") and after-fight dialogue ("oww i hope the boss won't be angry with me!") this adds to the charm but sometimes you just wish the character would shut up and let you kill whatever you need to kill
what else to say... it's a clearly japanese game,one of the character acts all sugarly and chance are you probably want to choke it,there is at least one
shower scene which is certainly bound to turn you into a perverted furry and if that wasn't enough one of the quest npc is a merchant that acts all effeminate toward the hero,personaly i didn't like the second half as much as the first,especialy since the first brings you to all new places but the second half,sends you to place you already visited quite often
i saw people on gaf arguing whetever or not this is an rpg and well it might be missing stat and numbers and status effect and all the things that are usual inside an rpg,but ultimately with all the questing and talking that you do,this is still a game that i would recomend mainly to people that play rpg
