Certain parts of the game consist of platforming in isometric view. Each dungeon is filled with monsters that need to be defeated and puzzles to solve (pushing blocks, activating switches, etc.) in order to progress. I’m just glad I didn’t end up wasting more time on a game I wouldn’t have liked anyway.Echoes of Time is a hack and slash action role-playing game, that allows the players to create their own character by choosing one of the tribes: Clavats (swords), Yukes (magic), Selkies (jumping) and Lilties (spears). In short, it just wasn’t my kind of game. If you won’t let me save anywhere, then either keep my progress in the dungeon or dole out the save points more generously. I do most of my gaming late at night before bed, and sometimes I get really sleepy. When you come back, you have to do aalllll those puzzles all over again. If you have to save, then you have to go back to town and do so. Once you enter a dungeon, you have to keep going until you’re right before the boss. Don’t fiddle with the basics too much.ġ0.You can’t save at any time. Let’s see, you buy them, then you equip them for a while, then they level up, then you take them off and turn them into jewels and equip those jewels on your new weapons and armor and repeat the whole process. I couldn’t get the hang of the armor and weapon system. Plus you can’t enter their houses and plunder their goods either. Having the NPCs change their lines from time to time was a nice touch, but they didn’t have anything interesting to say to begin with, so it makes no difference. One village, one city, massive wasteland and no room for new cities as far as I could see. I was attracted by the cute characters, but once I got in there, it had no content. I kept falling into holes and crevasses because I couldn’t see properly and the camera wouldn’t let me change the view to a more amenable one.ħ. I don’t know whether it’s an FFCC:ET flaw, or whether it’s more of me just sucking, but the camera is impossible. It’s a wonder I even got as far as Fire Mountain.Ħ. There were all those crate puzzles and block puzzles and set-this-pot-on-fire puzzles in this game, all the things I hate in one convenient package. I get other people to play them while I watch. This is why I can only love Zelda games from afar, i.e. In fact, I hate dungeon puzzles in general, especially ones that involve any form of running or jumping or platforming. I like it even less when the main character has a dream about an evil character, then meets said evil character, then proceeds to do his bidding without stopping to look at the huge, flashing signs saying “VILLAIN ALERT!” “VILLAIN ALERT!” “VILLAIN ALERT!”ĥ. This is my first Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles game (apart from My Life as a King), so maybe that’s how they all play out. Story? What story? It’s been a bunch of fetch quests and dungeon crawls so far. I considered ditching them all, but I didn’t have the confidence to go it alone.Ĥ. I have no idea why they are with you, unless the final boss sent them to sabotage you. Not to mention your allies are characters you create, so they have no personality or relevance to the story at all. Sometimes enemy drops would end up on their heads and they’d run all over the room with them. When I tried to pick stuff up, I’d end up picking them up instead. Jumping all over the place like jackrabbits, falling in the water at random, failing to come to your rescue when you need them the most, doing the same thing over and over regardless of which AI strategy you pick, etc, etc. Your allies are confusing and just get in the way. What if the enemy won’t stay still? What about all the other enemies whaling away at you at the same time? So it’s much faster to just hack away at random.ģ. First you have to select a particular type of magic on the bottom screen, then press a button and align the circle with the enemy, then let go to cast the magic. FFCC:ET was easy enough that I didn’t get wiped out even once, but it was no fun at all.Ģ. The minute I start having to think and plan, I get stressed out and frustrated. When I do play them, I like them to be simple affairs like Rune Factory. I was on Fire Mountain, for those of you familiar with the game.ġ. Well I didn’t get very far before I quit, just about two or three hours into it. I mentioned that I had started Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time earlier.
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