#I AM SETSUNA WORLD MAP TOO SLOW FULL#

Interesting stuff does eventually happen in the story. You spend a lot of the game just gallivanting around helping people just because youвЂ™re nice and you have nothing better to do while waiting for something important to happen. Character development is few and far between, and other than a few exceptions such as Van, most of them stay one-dimensional and uninteresting. Hours will go by and things will happen, but so much of it doesnвЂ™t feel that relevant to the overarching narrative. The pacing of Lost SphearвЂ™s story is at вЂњslow painful crawlвЂќ for most of the game. Where Lost Sphear really struggles is in its story and characters which, for some JRPG fans, might be a deal breaker despite how fun other parts of the game are. Throughout the game youвЂ™ll rack up a pretty large list of artifact bonuses and it serves to further enhance the gameвЂ™s excellent combat. You can either get a wide variety of different boosts, or stack (up to three) of the same bonuses such as an increase in critical hit damage and increased momentum for moving around. You can choose the bonus provided you have the memories for it, and customize them to fit your battle strategy. This is much appreciated.Д¬ollecting certain memories is needed to move the story along at times, but you can also optionally restore sections of the world map which reveal new land, and reward you with an вЂњartifactвЂќ that grants you different bonuses of your choice. Common memories you find through killing monsters can be traded in to unlock new abilities which is one part of what appears to be an effort to streamline the item management in Lost Sphear versus what it was in I Am Setsuna (it was a mess). Lost SphearвЂ™s story, which weвЂ™ll get to in a moment, sees the world slowly fading away, or as the game refers to it, becoming вЂњlost.вЂќ Kanata, the main character, possesses a unique ability to gather memories either through combat, or through dialogue, and restore parts of the world.

#I AM SETSUNA WORLD MAP TOO SLOW FULL#

I largely ignored them for a good portion of Lost Sphear, which was disappointing because when you do actually reach their full potential they add yet another layer of strategy to the gameвЂ™s excellent combat. YouвЂ™ll need to progress through the game to unlock the mechвЂ™s special ability, and until you do, they arenвЂ™t that much better (if even at all) than just fighting without the suit on. You get the suits pretty early on, and they are hyped up as being these powerful weapons you can use in battle, but they are incomplete. The Vulcosuits on the other hand are fine, but are a little awkward for a lot of the game. However, boss battles up the difficulty considerably, and asks the player to be much more thoughtful and tactical with his/her decision making. You can overpower easier enemies by taking advantage of the combat functions available to you such as momentum and spritnite abilities (both function very similarly in this game). It features a battle system very similar to I Am Setsuna which is both fast-paced and tactical. LetвЂ™s start with what Lost Sphear gets right. While there might be less snow this time around, and there are aspects of gameplay that are definitely better, there are also some areas where Lost Sphear takes a few steps back. My expectations were much higher for the second game from Tokyo RPG Factory, and I was looking forward to see how they would improve on a solid first effort.

Sadly, that honeymoon is over with Lost Sphear. Admittedly though, a lot of that love I had was anchored on the novelty of I Am Setsuna that it was a game designed to tug at the nostalgia heart strings of PS1-era JRPG fans. I thought it was a modern, polished JRPG that respected my time and successfully delivered on its promise of channeling traditional JRPG gameplay back onto home consoles in a way that made sense. When I wrote my I Am Setsuna review back in 2016, I was actually genuinely surprised to see my fellow reviewers didnвЂ™t cozy up to the first effort from Tokyo RPG Factory as much as I did.

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