This is a really fun, turn-based RPG and I'm really glad I took a chance on an unknown (to me) title. I'm still working towards platinum-ing this (we'll see if I follow through), but having finished it, here's a quick bullet point review.

1. Graphics are nice. Characters and environments are your standard 3D fare, but I love the water colory backgrounds in towns and some locations around the world.
2. I like the mix of characters and how each have unique strengths, but can be customized any way you want if you want to use a person but not the package they come with, so to speak. It's like SaGa minus the tedium and difficulty.
3. Story is okay, but really fizzles out in the end. Last few bosses were way too easy. Mobs leading up to them were harder.
4. The music, by Masashi Hamauzu, is very nice, some even great. You can hear bits of his style established in FFX throughout.
5. Combat is pretty fun. I appreciate you can fast forward for more palatable grinding. I'm tending to go with a tank, a healer, and three attackers. I tried making sorcery a thing in my first run, but it obsolesces pretty quickly, so I changed to a weapon user. LP from SaGas was replaced with max HP going down, so if you keep your team alive, you're good to go. A pro is, no one can perma-die, the con is that if someone does run out of HP, it's game over, even if everyone else is still kicking and you're doing fine.
6. The guild system scratches that Suikoden-ish itch, and it's nice you can't really miss anyone except a couple, unless you kill the killable ones, that is.
7. Items work nearly identically to SaGa Frontier, which is a pain, but not unbearable. This becomes easier once backpacks or whatever become available, but instead of giving you access to ALL items, you have to pick one pack per function. So if you want to use projectile attack items, you need a "toy box," and then food consumables use a different one, healing items a different one, and so on. Not the greatest. I could have ignored all of that, though, if this game just had some kind of group heal. It really needs it.

I'd recommend this to anyone who likes JRPGs, specifically turn based, and those who liked Romancing SaGa/Frontier, with a bit of the grindy difficulty turned down and wished for more story and character development.

i'd never heard a peep about this game, so i picked it up completely blind after seeing its name on a list of games grezzo had contributed to. i was in the mood for some jrpg and generic 3ds stuff was gonna do just fine.

as it turns out, despite the painfully bad name (and with this studio's previous project being "the legend of legacy" this seems to be a running theme of theirs) and fairly generic-looking box, this was really not a game i'd call generic, and i had a really good time with it!

overall i'd describe it as somewhat adjacent to bravely default in flavor and aesthetic, but without the final fantasy flavoring, and with a much more unique take on its mechanics. the game is really based around giving you a lot of room to do things the way you'd like to do them, with a ton of customization options. you have a ton of tactics options to pick roles for party members and add modifiers to their skills, everyone can wield every weapon type, most skills are available to everyone (save sorcery being unique to demons most of the time). if you want to have all 5 of your active party be double-shield tanks, you can. it rules.

plot-wise i found it interesting enough to keep me going but not much past that, it's fairly standard "world is screwed up, get backstory, find culprit" flavor, even if there's a couple interesting stops on the way. the world-building is already a notch above that, where things are just unique enough that i found myself curious to discover new areas. unfortunately, the plot slows down a bit hard around the last chunk of the game, and with it the pacing and gameplay dwindles a little bit also, in my opinion. it's the type of game where you have a great time for the vast majority of it, but the last 5-10 hours leave you wishing you were still in the middle of the game.

that said, the characters is where this really shines for me. you have a whopping 12 party members (though 3 are optional and figure much less) and they're all interesting and compelling characters, and with great visual designs to boot. i might not have cared about the plot all that much, but getting to see all the characters interact and go on their quest was an absolute delight. shout-out to robbins for being a literal penguin and the strongest party member (self-proclaimed). outside the party members, there's a non-negligible amount of interesting npcs and antagonists, with again some really great design work.

one thing quite unique with this game is that there's a really large amount of sidequests, many of which have different possible endings with both story and material consequences. one of the mechanics of the game is called "guild towers", which are towers you build on the overworld to give different combat effects when in range. these towers need to be staffed with recruits that you frequently get from sidequests, sometimes as a reward mutually exclusive from say, loot.

overall i really loved this game, even with its faults, and i'm planning on starting ng+ soon to play through it differently :3 i hear that for this game the devs took into account a large amount of criticisms of their first game, so i'm also really curious to see what they decide to do next!