Shattered Hourglass

*Some fixes are added after the review was posted [b]Playing status:[/b] 100% achievement, 3x playthroughs [b]My first playtime:[/b] 72.7h [b]Grindy Achievement(s):[/b] No. [b]Optional Achievement(s):[/b] Yes (79 achievements). [b]Difficult Achievement(s):[/b] No. [b]Guide:[/b] [url=https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/809304-shattered-hourglass/faqs/79747]Click here[/url] [h1]Intro[/h1] [b]Shattered Hourglass[/b] is an RPG Maker game that offers multiple choices. Different choices will lead to different routes, promoting different playstyles. It also boasts a lot of optional content, providing you with rewards that can help you to finish the game easily. [b]Pros:[/b] - Optional dungeons that can be tackled anytime you want - 3 routes with a slightly different story and playstyles - You can change the difficulty anytime you want [b]Cons:[/b] - Replaying the game at least thrice to see all endings can feel repetitive - Leveling a new job makes that party member useless for a while - Random encounters can be too high [b]Specs[/b] Intel Core i5-9300H 2.40GHz, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 [h1]Should you buy this game?[/h1] [b]Yes.[/b] [i]If you like to play lengthy RPG Maker game…

Enjoyed my time playing this JRPG, grab it whenever you can.

What a wonderful game! It`s always very hard to find a RPG game to my liking among enormous amount of generic, standard and non-interesting boring clones. But this game is not like that. There are many surprises and secret treasures to find (you have to explore everywhere), many quests and some of them are time sensitive and may change the path and the ending via good, neutral and bad karma. For now I`ve played only once and I `m going to replay this game in the future again to find another paths and achievements. There are many-many weapons, armours, accessories with interesting properties and you have a huge amount of choices for your every characters. The maximum level is 40 but you have 3 or more jobs for everyone, every 10 levels you learn a passive skill ( you have to equip it though and you can have only one passive skill at a time). When you choose a new job, characters return to level 1, but there are many items and accessoires to speed up the process. You can find 9 characters in the game (my absolute favorite is Mio) depending on your in-game choices but only 5 characters maximum can be in your party. The game has many additional features as bounty hunting, fishing, the…

I haven't played for real long yet; gameplay seems fun, graphics and music both good. The combat style (enemies in the whole screen, your characters not displayed) is a real throwback to the NES. The only thing I'd say is "wrong" with it so far is that the dialogue could really stand to be redone by a professional English writer. The story seems pretty compelling so far, but the dialogue is _very_ rough around the edges, and it does take something away from it.

Really liked this game at first, but as i unlocked new classes and realized playing them meant resetting down to level 1, with the large stat loss this involved, i realized this game was asking for hours upon hours of grinding, if you can bear with that it seems like a great game, but that one fatal flawed sours the entire experience for me, even so i'm looking forward to future projects by this dev!

It was fun at first but quickly got boring with the karma BS and having to traipse back and forth to fix your house or even know what the path up the mountain is for. The hints needed for steps to get the robots away from the door and the guy from blocking the path on the same island were vague and finally just too frustrating to finish the game. If you like frustration in backtracking a dozen or more times unnecessarily, this game is for you. If you're like me and want to progress naturally, don't bother. Calling the boat or ship? They only go to certain parts of the map. Oh, and while I'm thinking about it, the most boring and frustrating part of the whole game is getting poisoned over and over and over and over and over and over infinity. Plus, as you get stronger, all of the monsters do as well no matter what part of the world you're in even if you're backtracking.