After 250+ hours, I still can’t fully recommend this game. There’s a lot to love—intense turn-based combat, interesting heroes, strong art, and great progression systems. But for every high, there’s a serious drawback.

The grind is real and often tedious. Progress is slow, and backtracking through dungeons is a chore with no fast travel. You’re soft-locked out of endgame content unless you grind upgrades, which quickly gets repetitive. On top of that, a lot of the “quirk” mechanics feel pointless, since their benefits are so minor and hard to track.

The biggest issue, though, is healing. Out-of-combat healing is absurdly limited and expensive, which means you’re basically forced to run a healer (usually a Vestal) in every party, killing any real team variety. Worse, optimal play devolves into keeping a single enemy alive just to patch up your party, which destroys any immersion or tension the game builds elsewhere. It’s a baffling design choice that undermines everything else the game does well.

Some updates have improved things slightly, but the core problems remain. This is one of the most frustrating “almost-great” games I’ve played—so much potential, but so much wasted.

I used ChatGPT to condense this to just 30% of the original size. AI-assisted editing: making long rants readable since 2023.