Edge Of Eternity

I finally beat this game, and while I really wanted to like it, I couldn't recommend it to anyone. If I could go back and tell myself to watch a youtube summery of the game, I really would. I also consider myself very much the target audience for this game, too. I'm a Xeno fan and I love the whole mixing of science fiction and fantasy. The game has occasional flashes of quality design, storytelling, and combat, but almost without exception, squanders them all. I have nothing but respect for the developers for trying to make a game like this, but it seems obvious they were out of their depth. Bugs and sloppy work are there right from the start, and they only get much, much worse by the end-game. I constantly had to restart the game to avoid massive slowdowns and glitchy boss battles. All that being said, I will be playing Edge of Memories when it releases. There really is something there for HARDCORE science fantasy nerds like myself, and I really hope the sequel is better.

Put me down for another "I WANT to like this game" review. There's something in here that was worth the attempt. A charm to the world they crafted. But I have seen very few games this jaw-droppingly buggy and downright broken, in a final release. Watching dragons in Skyrim suddenly break and start flying around backwards away from you at rapid speeds has nothing on what this game offers. A list of a few bugs/unpolished/unfinished/etc frustrating moments I've encountered: - crashes - Characters suddenly going mute in cutscenes where they're clearly mouth flapping to dialogue - getting trapped out of bounds and needing to reload - a battle with the spider monkeys result in one of them calling for reinforcements that caused EVERY SINGLE TILE ON THE BATTLEFIELD TO SUDDENLY FILL TO MAX CAPACITY WITH MORE MONKEYS. It was quite literally over 80 monkeys in the screen - sound effects occasionally just going mute, requiring a full restart - crashes, of course - automated ally turrets in some fights suddenly giving me "control" of them, which you can't control, causing the game to be locked in a turn that can't happen - boss fight with a giant mecha mantis (with a cheap suicide move it does …

Don't bother. No joke it's such a boring bland unbalanced clunky game it's not worth the time to write this review. This is the Concord of JRPG'S

So far so good

I think the game has a lot of heart with the story and worldbuilding. The only thing i struggle to give this a recommendation is because how janky the game is. Not even the first 10 mins of gameplay its already confusing and tutorial feel all over the place. I might give this a few more hours to play after this, it just feels like explanation of some mechanic felt underexplained and maybe will get better after a few more hours.

not bad