has anyone in here played Chained Echoes?
I enjoyed altho it has really awkward localization (game made by 1 german guy) and isnt a quirky earthbound game, but more of a high scale war game like FF. Most people hate the ending (and i dont blame them) and the story was rather convoluted with magical nuclear bombs, dimensional gods, corrupt church, evil kings etc.
good
+It's fast paced, you do a spell and it goes, you can run from fights for free, once you're strong enough you can blitz.
+You get rewarded by exploring and farming drops with next tier gear, i dont think i ever bought more than 2 weapons on the shop except when i missed it. This means gold feels kinda useless tho.
+Looks and sounds good for a 1 guy game.
+Technically some decent customization with class emblems, crystals and skill tree, some stuff is obviously better but there is potential to mess around
+You only level up with story quests and achievements so the game has an actually ok difficulty curve, at least until you get the broken final skills.
+Lots of sidecontent with very secret optional bosses to hunt that are kinda fun to find. One boss requires you to run in circles so it thinks you're "lost" and attacks you, then once that boss dies a different secret boss spawns and you must get there without flying.
bad
-No exp means you're only doing random encounters for monster drops or skill tree points, and if you want to farm you're better to go to specific cluster spots and run from fight until you get a shiny enemy who ensures drops
-You get healed between fights, meaning there isnt much long term management and random encounters have to be annoyingly tanky until you upgrade.
-Combat is kinda unbalanced, speed and hp+ is broken, some characters are memes while others are too good to not use, half skills are mediocre so you pick stat upgrades instead.
-Mecha combat gets repetitive once you solve it (multi shot + status is broken) and final dungeon wants you to do a ton of it.
-The overload or whatever system adds an RNG layer to moves that either increase or decrease a bar you need to balance but it can feel very forced and artificial at times.
-The lizard character is nonbinay for no reason?? It's just one throwaway line.
It's a good game, i didnt finish causei lost my save at the final dungeon but i definitely enjoyed it more than sea of stars that i couldnt get past the second dungeon out of boredom.
Also what's everyone's opinion on pirating indie games? I'm just curious
Call me poor but i live in south america where taxes are comically evil and after steam updated the prices it's straight up lunacy for me to buy games. A ps5 goes from 500 dollars to +4500 reais, a 60 dollar ga,e somehow becomes 350+ reais, even a pixelart indie game like Last Faith is 100 reais digital.
Our culture is also used to pirating and i've done it for years, so i dont feel bad at all for it.
