Sett Starlight 最近的评测

This is the second best hole I've ever been in!

As cool as the game is, I can't rightly recommend anyone play it. There's so little competition that the devs don't care in the slightest about balancing, fixing bugs, or improving the game at all. It's been stagnant for years, and all they do is release new content overwhelmed with poor gameplay or riddled with bugs. I can only hope that some true competition pops up and gives the devs cause to actually worry that people will stop playing the game so they'll actually start fixing things.

So, I will start out by saying that, while similar to the Zero Escape games, it most certainly is not a Zero Escape games. Fans of the Zero Escape series may find themselves disappointed in how dissimilar the playstyle and puzzles are.

However, if you are a fan of visual novel games such as Phoenix Wright or Danganronpa, then this game is right up your alley.

It's more of a detective plot, focusing on a kind of "who is the killer" approach where you spend the whole game figuring out the identity of a serial killer. You do this by going through the normal detective routine of going to places, talking to people, and sometimes performing interrogations. When the main character runs out of options, you go into a person's "Somnium", which is essentially where the main bulk of the game's puzzles are played out. This is where the "game" part really comes in.

As you progress, the Somniums get a little more disorienting and difficult. You only have a certain amount of time to complete the puzzle, although the game does offer retries in case you mess up. Using these, I only had to restart entire Somniums twice in my first playthrough. This takes a decent amount of the stress out of the time limit and allows for a little more exploration.

Since I'm running out of things to say about the game without venturing into spoiler territory, I'll just end off by saying that it is definitely a game worth the price if you enjoy murder mysteries and visual novel games. If it's a game you just want to try out because you've heard good things, but aren't entirely sure about visual novels as a genre, I'd suggest getting it on sale.

Let's just start by saying I have played every other Final Fantasy before this one except 9 and 11. I feel I need that preface so I don't get a lot of crap from crazy FF fans that dislike this game.

With that out of the way, I'll write as much of a review as I feel is needed for this game.

I want to start by saying that with all the hate and bashing going on around this game, I put off playing it for YEARS because I never heard a good thing about it. It wasn't until I saw a stream of it that I decided I should play it. After having actually played the game, I have one question:

Why do people dislike this game so much?

The story is incredible, if a little difficult to follow. The combat and gameplay is actually better than in FFX due to the return of real-time battling, and to top it off the game actually has character development. There is an actual story to this game that keeps you engrossed in it, characters that actually have life, and smooth gameplay and graphics that don't leave you wishing there was something else in it. So where is all of this unfounded hate coming from?

If it's because of the linear nature of the game, maybe you just didn't spend enough time playing it. Without spoiling anything, once you get far enough along, the game opens up to a whole world of sidequests. Until that point, which, to be fair, is pretty far in, yes, the game is incredibly linear and not very open to exploration. People that dislike linear gameplay for lengthy periods of time may be the reason this game has many negative reviews.

Continuing on that point, maybe it's the characters that people dislike? Well, if you continue playing the game, the characters really start fleshing out. One in particular, Hope, is... well, he's a weenie. A really big pansy. However throughout the game he toughens up and actually becomes quite the contributing character. I rather enjoyed seeing something like that coming from a final fantasy game, where the characters are usually figured out at the start and the story kind of revolves around them.

Perhaps it's the systems that people hate? Well, the leveling system is reminiscent of the sphere grid from FFX, which I know got a lot of flak since it didn't follow traditional leveling systems. This system really isn't any different. You gain experience (or CP in this case), figure out where you want it to go, then spend it moving forward in the class of your choice. To that end, the game actually offers some customization of characters, but once again, it takes a while to get to that point, and when you do you're basically already stuck with the main classes you started out with. This is basically the biggest gear that I had to grind with this game. It really wants you to stick with the set out course of character classes it has for you, and if you don't want to, you'll have to do a ton of grinding.

The other system that people may have issues with is the weapon and accessory upgrading system. With this, you can spend items to give your weapons EXP and level them up, to a maximum rating of a star. Once that's done, you spend a catalyst to upgrade the weapon to the next tier. The problem I have with this system is that every weapon becomes the same thing when fully upgraded. The only real difference is the passive abilities, which can be obtained from lower tier weapons. The other issue is that you can't fuse weapons to get other passive abilities, you can only use component items to upgrade. The problem here is actually a huge lack of customization, rather than a fair amount. Those who want to 100% completely customize their character (somewhat like you can do with the expert sphere grid in FFX International [or HD]) should probably look to a different game.

Overall, I absolutely loved this game. I'd rate it probably an 8/10 mostly due to some gears I had to grind with the characters at the start and some of the systems implemented in the game to keep you from going too crazy with character classes. I'd recommend any fan of more recent final fantasies like 10 and 12 to give it a shot. Hell, even fans of the older games should at least try it. I think rather than just relying on word of mouth, people should experience the game themselves. This game gets a lot of flak for no good reason.