ok so i played a ton of this over the weekend!!
this is maybe the most expensively produced FF13 fangame? you’ve got:
- combat momentum-based enemy stagger necessary to do real damage to bosses
- a crystarium board. pretty much just a crystarium board
- very little RPG Town Stuff to distract from your regicide quest
- surly pink-haired gun lady
- (at least so far) the party can’t stand each other but the bickering is entertaining
all that aside (wow FF13 was really influential for a game everyone allegedly hated) the combat is pretty fun if a little incoherent in more hectic moments and the writing is, well, a tales game? entertaining in a trashy-shonen-anime-punching-a-little-above-its-weight way. i have very little optimism for how these writers handle the political themes they’re setting up but i’m not going to be too hard on something with the core premise of “unkillable himbo + his angry gf tour every anime dystopia trope you’ve ever seen to murder Kill La Kill student council-esque dictators” cuz it’s clearly not going for nuance or subtlety
also also i have no idea how something this pretty runs at like 40fps on my base ps4? namco has some Unreal Engine wizards on staff