Three things I liked about this game:
- The auto battle is snappy and eliminates the need to learn how each character's skill set works so I can focus on the animations and broader strategy.
- There is a fair bit of strategy present in spite of it being an auto battler. You have to pay attention to who is struggling and who is doing well and swapping as needed. On the broader scale, you have to push your team's limits and make sure everyone has appropriate gear if you want to spend your time efficiently.
- There is a lot to do. With a little more fleshing out I could see myself sinking several hours into a game like this.
Three things I did not like:
- Player guidance is lacking. I ended up going to the wildlife preserve before I was informed that my main objective was the mine. While there are characters and information points that do explain all of the objectives and what you need to do, it still requires the player actively interacting with them (making them missable) and even when the player does it's still a lot to take in all at once. More railroading would have helped with this.
- Despite the auto battle nature of the game, I still felt pretty overwhelmed by the game. The game starts by dropping me into an already full team, there are multiple shops, and multiple objectives to attend to. It took me a few in-game days before I had a grasp on what I needed to do and what the significance of each shop had
- Niamh and Samira are a funny pair, but aside from Samira's annoyance at Niamh playing the game I didn't really feel like it was going anywhere or added anything to the experience. A couple of ways that this could have been stronger is if we were learning the game alongside Niamh, or our performance in the game somehow had an effect on Niamh and Samira's relationship.