@Physician That is a lie. There is absolutely no cosmonaut who won the lottery and has a pro-league baseball player for a son. That's just ridiculousness.
@lolowut, That's the problem. It's not an old man at the end of his life. It's a unrealistically-written munchkin character who did a bunch of improbable things that aren't approachable to normal people at all. That's not a wife, that's a prop, that's not a son, that's just another prop. There's no depth, but the game yells "DEPTH!" at you. Cheap.
Your mileage may vary, but I found the platforming to be overly simple (until it gets totally obscure, like the inuit camp) and the story to be trite and bland. The guy mutually love-at-first-sights his nondescript wife, wins the lottery, adventures, and his son is a major-leaguer? What part of this is supposed to resonate with the human condition?
Really like the game. That being said, Brawler's Guild is waaay too many buttons to click, way too few hotkeys. Allowing auto-talent use at least would help with this.
I have rarely hated a badge game as much as I do this. The control is excruciatingly imprecise, which the computer does not suffer from. Once it's clear you've lost, the AI just taunts you, eating and splitting and eating and splitting, never going in for the kill. I want to punch this game in the face.
This game takes a lot of time to beat and has no ending whatsoever. Turning in the last quest gives the same feedback as turning in any other quest--nothing.
Hotkeys,yes: For spells, for skills, for pet attacks, for potions. Most of the game is spent playing ability whack-a-mole with the mouse. Tab-over from attacks to spells? Yuck.
Egg-hatching time: Is the game trying to tell you to stop playing and go find something else to do? Your leveled slime from Island 1 is now getting 3-shot in Island 3, but a new pet takes...an hour and a half to hatch? Why? Top-area pets take literally hours to hatch, all for no good reason.
The economy is starvation for 4/5 of it and gluttony in the end. Do you want a weapon, armor, a shield, or an accessory? You certainly can't afford more than 1! Most of your income is spent staying at the inn until you're too powerful to care about money at all.
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