Played the demo. Didn't like it. Actually, scratch that: I absolutely fucking hated it. It's not as bad as another rpg-maker asset flip, but that's not saying much, unfortunately.
I will start with the good stuff though: graphically the game looks great. It is clear that a lot of effort was put into creating assets. The cast of characters (once you will be able to collect them all) look particularly diverse relatively to each other since none of them are of the same species.
The synthesis system is kinda cool, I like the fact that you can use it both in and outside the battle.
Unfortunately, that's where the positives kinda end.
Now for the bad stuff, a.k.a everything else.
First off the gameplay. One word to describe it: a grind fest.
The combat isn't particularly bad, but with the limited options available it transforms into yet another "spam attack button to win unless if the enemy has a weakness". This wouldn't be such a problem if battles were as frequent as they are. To add insult to injury, the random encounters are way too high, difficulty spikes are frequent, party members die too fast and deal too low amount of damage. The gameplay is just the worst embodiment of jrpg genre.
Do you know what else is the worst embodiment of jrpg? A fucking weapon upgrade system. Not only do you have to find a recipe, but you also have to somehow grind for resources to make those weapons. I for one am sick of this. Can't we just go back to basics where all we had to do is o find new loot in treasure chests and buy it from the store?
The world of the game looks kinda generic as well; with the only thing that is going for it is “alpha-omega” stuff. In addition, why they are called like that? Like, I sort of get the symbolism, but you DO realize that those are Greek letters? Are you telling me that the Greek civilization existed in this world? I don’t buy it.
The game has no story. I don’t really find it anywhere. The MC is just gets isekaied into a random fantasy world and then random shenanigans ensue. And it’s not like that concept can’t work (I mean undertale have pulled that off somehow) but with the lack of interesting characters, everything feels void and pointless.
Now for the characters.
My favourites are probably Su and Lex. They are just good boys, but that’s all I can really say about them.
Drey isn’t a character. He isn’t even a self-insert. He is just a plot device: a human MacGuffin being pushed by everyone else on the game board. He has no character, no personality, and acts like even he himself doesn’t really want to be in the game. For the majority of the game, he lacks the motivation to do anything, and at times when he DOES have motivation, it makes no fucking sense. Like, you decided to throw yourself into a cave full of bandits to rescue some green weirdo who abused you? What’s WRONG with you?
And then there is Gerat… oh boy. The only character who comes close to having an actual character… and he is probably the worst character in the game and one of the worst representations of Tsundere I have ever seen. I don’t even know where to start with him, other than saying that he is absolutely awful. I hate him and don’t give a single crap about his tragic backstory. The writer thinks that having a tragic backstory somehow justifies the character for being an absolute asshole. No, it’s not. Drey goes out of his way to help him… for some reason… and all he ever does is inflict emotional abuse upon him. Like, are you a fucking moron? Oh, wait, you ARE a fucking moron because instead of sticking to a single person who treated you with kindness and respect you instead decided to go back to captivity. Apparently while being a sex slave he got fucked really hard in his brain because his intelligence is really low. Gerat, please, find your brain.
I don’t have any wish to treat this character with even an iota of respect, and it seems Bara-Diction agrees with me because immediately after being freed from captivity he is used as a fap material right away in an incredibly forced sex scene between him and Drey… all the while being a rape victim beforehand. Not even Ann from Persona 5 was mistreated that badly.
Overall, the game is crap. I have been following Bara-Diction work for a while now, and the only thing he is good at is drawing furry porn. Probably just should stick with it and leave the game industry for, like, forever.