Steam Community :: Qwas

23.3 hrs on record (17.0 hrs at review time)

First and foremost the bulk of the content should be taken more as a puzzle combat game, and less as a sheer mechanical skill check. I thoroughly enjoyed routing each encounter and pushing the times below the challenge benchmarks, and hope to continue my time perfecting every encounter to reach 100% completion.

There is mechanical skill, but it honestly is much of a side factor compared to the strategy and planning each encounter demands you do. The move set of each weapon is individually simple, but combined with the large quantity of different active and passive abilities to choose from it leads to many interesting approaches for each combat encounter.
-- Temporal Beacon in particular is worth calling out, as once unlocked it opens up huge depth to how you can interact with the time-loop mechanic. It was my go-to active for the majority of the game.

Other elements of the game are serviceable for what they are; the story gets fairly predictable, the characters are tolerable enough, and the environments look good, albeit slightly irritating to navigate at times.

The largest disappointment with the game I had was the "Motes of Magic" system, which are collectible items you can pick up throughout your whole journey. They are entirely useless until around half way through the game, when you recruit a smith.
-- I expected these to be another form of character upgrade to reward diligent
exploring, but ultimately they ended up just being purely cosmetic. The game already had completely separate cosmetic collectibles. Why bother making two entirely separate and conflicting systems for cosmetics?

Overall, I highly recommend Lysfanga.

Posted 15 February, 2024.

Was this review helpful? Yes No Funny

Award