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zoey222 rated CrossCode

zoey222 rated a game 2 years ago
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Absolutely loved 95% of this game, while hating with a burning passion 5% of it. I've never disliked particular aspects of a game so immensely as I did this one, while at the same time being overjoyed by the overall experience. 

I abhor the brutal timers on the dungeon races. I competently beat the pyramid one, getting through rooms quickly and solving puzzles usually on the first try, and yet I still lost that one (and ever single other one). Its frustrating, because there is no clear indication of what time constitutes a win, and the timer is obviously very strict, since I still lost even though I got through each room with zero actual struggle, so it just felt like built-in failure for no reason, which was very irksome.

The same "build in failure" aspect appears in the ending, where you get the "bad" ending if you dont talk to a random NPC (literally random, they are never mentioned before or after) within a specific time window near the very end of the game. You could not believe how downright pissed I was to get the bad ending after like, 40 hours of playtime and zero indication from the game that there were two possible endings.

Besides those two things, the game is phenomenal and perfect in every way.