Anima: Gate of Memories

What if NieR Replicant was 100 times worse? This game answers this and then some The Bad: - Looks like a ps2 game (but released in 2016) - More stock sounds than original ost, from what it felt, with sound levels being inconsistent - Combat is mind-numbingly one-dimensional - Very few enemy designs that constantly get reused throughout the game - Boss fights that range from boring to gimmicky to straight up breaking the rules for when you get to hit them and when they get to hit you through your dodge - Characters range from being blander-than-white-bread to vile, with horrible voice acting to boot - The singular story "twist" is telegraphed so hard you wouldn't be able to miss it even if skipping every single dialogue and cutscene Probably wouldn't be this harsh on an indie title if not for the distinct feeling that the dev team tried to make a statement of how much they hate anything good and/or fun in video games by making an uninspired copy of a cult classic play this horrendously. Do not bother with this, there is no fun trainwreck here, just a poorly made game

A PS1 game in 2016 damm an it Just got a remaster for who ? lol, but yea the game feels like its a homework for a new game developer.

Its has good combat mechanic and customization. The game give you freedom to challenge the bosses in any order, I think it's an interesting design to make the game less linear. The story also good, even it has no shiny AAA cut scene. Overall this game is good.

A fun game with an interesting backstories for each characters. decent game with many flaws. Bearer of "Calamity"... in its own name. not that bad to say no. worth to try it out. looking forward to the remastered.

I want to like this game. A somewhat colorful action-RPG with platforming elements sounds great on paper, and the story has its moments. But the combat, intended to feel like a cool mix between melee and ranged combat a la Devil May Cry, doesn't really flow that well, and mostly devolves to using ranged combat unless you're forced to engage, and several encounters feel either frustrating where one hit means you then get comboed again and again and again because you can't recover fast enough, or tedious, where the enemy isn't really doing anything and you're just mashing the B button to slowly deplete its health. There are neat ideas and puzzles here, but the execution just doesn't carry the weight it needs to. The camera is an issue. Animation priority becomes an issue (I fell off a moving platform because when I hit the switch my character stopped moving with the platform, therefore fell off and I had to do the entire section over again). The cool abilities are completely useless due to casting times when you get swamped by enemies or a boss that just rushes you, meaning all you're doing is dodging and trying to get in a few hits with basic abilities. By the end, I was more happy …

One of my favorite games when it comes to fantasy RPGs. It's rich with the history, characters and everything else. If you love fantasy rpg games from ps2 or a lowest console, you will love it.