Recent reviews by CRISTALESCUITE

Tried to play Trails in the Sky multiple times but never got that far, Estelle never really clicked for me, I thought the gameplays was too weird compared to the Cold Steel games to but didn't have any of those issues with Zero, Loyd and the rest of the SSS are such a great cast, I didn't really care about to main plot in this game but I guess this is just setup for Azure and I'm interested to see some of the events that happen in that game.

Probably my Game of the Year, it's not the best action RPG but it's such a great experience, a lot of different characters to play and a really nice campaign, my only issue is the amount of grind for post game stuff but if you play online or with friends is more manageable.

Different from the last entries in the series but still fun, chronologically this is the fourth(third if we only count Adol) game in the series so it a nice entry point too(if you don't want to start playing by I & II) and lastly, the port is really nice, the game isn't that demanding but it's still nice to see good port.

The DEMO save carries over so I actually played the game for around 55 hours, it's a bit less content than Ys IX Monstrum Nox and that game is still my favorite 3D Ys but being a hard entry point into the series.

Best fight in the game, if you liked the gameplay go for it.

Gameplay
The strong point of the game, it does well what FFXV did poorly but despite that the magic system is still inferior to the rest of the series, not as bad as the one in FF XV but VII Remake and Lightning Returns are better action FFs in their magic system, if you liked DMC V and likes FF you're still going to like the gameplay.

Maps
Noting really impressive, the game is actually better in the corridor sections than in their multiple big areas, but nothing quite as good as the secrets or freedom that you have in FF XII, it doesn't help that there are fell dungeons and that they are locked behind the story(you can replay them at any moment).

Story
Despite the good start the story is probably the worst I have experienced in a FF game, it tries to be too serious but the western style storytelling doesn't fit with the themes of a FF story, Clive is an adult that acts like a depressive teenager, the game tries to make you fell sympathy for what the characters had to go through but it just fell forced, like the fact the protagonist was "forced" into slavery for 13 years, and it's not just slavery that felt forced, one moment you are invading a country and another you are helping a ♥♥♥♥♥ protect a city? there is a good lore to make things interesting but they didn't know what to focus and ended up half-assing everything.
If the game didn't have so many side stories and focused more on the main cast like FF XV did it would had been a lot better but it ends up taking the story too serious for what it is.

I would recommend the game if there was less story but because the game has so many cutscenes it's hard to separate it from the game, there are good moments but the bad ones are really bad, at least we the gameplay carries the game for me.

One of the best Digimon games, played the original on Vita and Hacker´s Memory on PC/Steam Deck and I really liked Hacker´s Memory, the game has some frame drops but that's just how I remember it workeed on Vita so think it's fine.

I really hope this game becomes a new cyberpunk 2077, it looks really fun but I can't really recomend it unless you're finne with 30 fps and you have a good PC.

Granblue Fantasy Versus but faster, the game is a bit expensive for an glorified updated(it does change the game quite a lot but i still an update) so the player base is not that big compared to SF 6 or Tekken 8 but thanks to the rollback and crossplay you can still find good matches pretty easy, you can always try the free version too.
But before you buy the game know that the translation in english is pretty bad, thankfully english isn't my main language so this didn't matter for me but if may matter to you.

As an Atelier fan this game is really disappointing, the characters look really good but this is such an soulless gacha, the gameplay is so generic and there's no exploration, if they made a real game with those 3D models the game would be nice but as it is it's just a bad game.

Armored Core with better camera and movement controls, now with matchmaking!
I hope we get more quality mech games after this one.