Dragon Star Varnir

Dragon Star Varnir is my favorite Compile Heart game, and in my top 10 RPGs of all time. I have already played through it twice on Playstation and decided I hadn't had enough yet, this time playing on PC. Without spoiling too much, the narrative has an interesting take on the idea of making the best of a bad situation, and has lived rent free in my head since my first experience with the game. The story follows Zephy, a knight of the Empire, on a crusade against witches. When his life is nearly ended by a dragon, and is subsequently saved by two traveling witches, existences he is supposed to hate, Zephy's world is turned upside down. Zephy finds himself caught between his duty as an imperial knight and his newfound compassion for the witches that saved his life. This kickstarts an emotional adventure that has highs that few games can match. If party member interactions and character development are what draws you in to an RPG, you will not be disappointed with Dragon Star Varnir. Combat has a fun twist on the traditional turn-based RPG system as well. There are three tiers to combat, and allies and enemies can fly to one of three altitudes to find an advantage to combat. Als…

They've really designed the perfect system to force you to grind through RNG hell with this game. Imagine you have 4 pokemon, right? And every time you want to get a new pokemon you need to throw a pokeball (which can fail). Except here, all FOUR of YOUR pokemon need to throw a pokeball. And sometimes you need to catch the same one multiple times before you can even use it! That's how skills work in this game. It's an absolute nightmare. And, unfortunately, it's literally the entire hook of the game. And to make things worse, if you use features that help in this endeavor? It gives you the bad ending of the game! Who thought this was a good idea!?

Bad points: 1. Needing to switch character to traverse the area. ---------------- 2. Plot and Flow Play halfway, some of the dialogue makes no sense. The plot is that, you eat dragon meat, you can prevent yourself from turning into dragon, which is fine, but what the characters does, is mind boggling. Character A likes the party, character A sees her friend turning into dragon from not eating dragon meat. Character A still refuses to eat dragon meat because she likes the party. <<<What?! Character B felt like she's turning into dragon, party need to go through a barrier which they must eat the boss dragon's meat, else they will turn into dragon. Character B secretly skip on eating the meat, and go through the barrier, only to say 'Get away from me!' Why? Why not just NOT go through the barrier? Why choose to go through, then tell the party to get away from her? Party met Character C, character C assumingly killed party's families. Party let character C join them and help character C. Even though this is a fantasy game, and there are magics and fictional monsters, atleast make the plot and flow make sense! ------------------------------- 3. Devour mechanics: Every single …

The balancing is still completely out of whack, as usual.

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