Long Gone Days

Fight difficulty is always a joke entire way through sadly. Battles are also super tediously unoptimized. Why do I have to shoot the turrets down after killing the boss? How come if I increase the stats of every party member, I have to sit through a message for every one?... and a message for every single one losing said buffs? If you don't guess what the dev wants you to pick during boss fight convo you get the bad ending. Said bad ending also just doesn't make a lick of sense in context of world. The sniper sections felt so underdone they probably should have been cut. Like you shoot three people and the last person just... stands there watching them? I finished hoping game would improve, but just felt like some more thought needed to go into certain things

Unfortunately a pretty toothless and ineffective story wrapped in repetitive, barebones gameplay. Pretty art, I guess?

This game is a total rugpull. If you thought you were going to play an exciting RPG about soldiers on the modern battlefield, guess again… it’s basically an angry leftist simulator with all the basic talking points you see in every “anti war” story. In short: Military bad War bad Authority bad Hierarchy bad Questioning authority good Rebellion ALWAYS good Normal family bad Found family good Imagine playing Call of Duty, or Metal Gear Solid, basically any military themed game, but after they set the scene and you have all this cool military type stuff going on, it quickly switches to a Bong Rip simulator where you have to waste time talking to disgruntled leftists who are living out their fantasy of being chased down by the military? It’s crazy how RPG players will eat this slop up and imagine it’s deep and meaningful. As if ignoring the importance of conflict in human history, even its importance to the human soul, is somehow less important than being an angry anti-authoritarian goofball with no direction in life. Thanks but no thanks. What are the chances that this is another fake “indie” game getting tons of money from NGOs and government sources? Do I even need to take the time …

Long Gone Days wonderful game with beautiful art and a captivating story. To be honest, I don't think the story is going to surprise anyone, but it's a story excellently told and thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless. We follow Rourke, a young man bred from birth to be a sniper for a secret military group. Rourke learns about the reality of the outside world and the truth of his upbringing, and goes on a journey to essentially find peace. Unfortunately, conflict is unavoidable, but I think a key part of the story is that some things are truly worth fighting for, and anyone is capable of fighting for those things. I loved the story and the characters, and the game had me hooked from start to finish. Rourke is a more interesting protagonist than he looks, and the game executes the "stranger in a strange land" aspect of him and his buddy Adair excellently. Every character is endearing (and their designs are gorgeous), and I loved how they were all able to find commonality in such hard situations. The fact that characters come from different countries and are unable to understand one another is a neat hurdle to overcome. Atiye is probably my favorite character, but I won't deny that part …

Story is fine , short jrpg , too much yapping at times , no voice acting which is a big minus for me , overall 6/10 buy on sale.

Long Gone Days is an old-school, grounded RPG story, with just as much old-school, grounded RPG gameplay. Sadly, that also makes it feel a bit lacking for the modern day. This is perfectly shown by the game's archaic resolution limit of 1080p. The whole game really feels like it isunapologetically about going back to an older way of playing video games. There is very little tutorial, although to be fair, the game doesn't necessarily need a lot of it. The way its systems work can definitely feel quite old, though. Health and action points don't regenerate at save points, and instead have to be recovered through items, defeated enemies, or the environment. It's a very old-school approach that can take some getting used to. The turn-based combat system itself is very standard, but it does its job. There is a good, moderate challenge, with managing resources like health, items, and action points being a big part of the game. That said, I would say the game is overall pretty light on combat. It's often spaced out, with sections of more and less combat, which gives you a bit of time to breathe and recover your resources. All of this points towards the biggest strength of the gam…