Rime Berta

Rime Berta is a 5 hours game with 30-40 hours of tedious busywork. It's an RPG with a bland and uninteresting, not to mention barely present, story. It's a strategy game where the prevailing strategy is almost always "Have more level". It's a tactics game where you can't have a frontline and the enemy doesn't know how to pick targets or walk properly. The final boss is absurd, not because it's "difficult", but more because it essentially forces you to grind *even more* in order to beat it, because it will do damage to you that far exceeds your own, and has health several times higher than yours. THis is a poorly balanced, barebones, unappealing husk of a game that serves only to make me wish it was something better. In the time it's taken me to go through the rigmarole of its barely present content, I've been bored almost the entire time. At first, the gameplay was interesting, and the story novel enough to maintain my focus - but after spending hours after hours casting the same skills at empty squares, telling units to wait so that they can all use up their power points to gain 10% of a level, to then repeat again, and again, and again - all the while farming levels for classe…

40/80 is my cheevo rate for this game *and* my rating of this game. My complaints: - Got throug the campaign and still not sure what difficulty level slider does. - Was never able to class change into a bow master, despite meeting the criteria. Thief or Archer, that's it (Thief did have options to change, though). - The last battle is brutal even on easy: insane HP on the boss, move-canceling reactions on support. Plus the [spoiler]VOLCANO MAGIC[/spoiler]. - Story is as "meh" as they say. My compliments: - Designing and actualy making a playable battle system without items. - Multiple classes to change to with *straightforward* requirements. - Every ??? skill ( one that's not been unlocked yet) also has deducible requirements. YOu *can* put 2 and 2 together to know what exactly to do if you want to unlock a skill. - Dungeons are different enough and make certain classes shine more than others on certain maps. - The game's not pretending its story is something grandiose and elaborate. It serves its purpose - just like in those days of CRT RPGs. P.S. The art has been bashed enough times, I won't do that. The only place the art matters is battle. And those "battle …

This game is ok. The game design and class/skill system is good with a lot of variety. Requirements for advancing through classes is a bit harsh and forces you to grind if you want to progress through them. It felt like the game was originally meant to be longer, based on this. Story/graphics/music are all very basic and cutscenes longwinded. Playing on a controller requires you to jump through a few hoops to get it working properly; it's clearly designed for mouse control.

A fun old game when you played with the cute fairies and exploring the story about Rime Berta. I have fun with that game for the first 4 hours since I was a kid.

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Rime Berta is a cute little SRPG with just enough complexity to make it fun. None of the systems are overly complicated, though it can get a little grind happy. That wasn't a problem for me as it isn't nearly as grindy as the Disgaea franchise.