Astria Ascending

Liked: 1. The "almost" Vanillaware art style Disliked: 1. Everything felt unpolished from walking around to the combat.

It's crazy people rate this so badly. I got it for 90% off and its great.

[h1]Okay, brace yourself guys; this one will be freaking long and honest![/h1] I'm writing this review only after achieving the Completionist Achievement, almost 70 hours later. I'll break this review down into topics: Story, Gameplay, Achievement System, Art, and Overall Score. So, let's get this train running! [h2]Story[/h2] It honestly starts pretty well! You control demigods who protect Harmony, and you need to maintain this Harmony status. You do some missions that are completely related to that; it fulfills its role with excellence during the early and up to the midgame, but then starts to get very cyclical and goes nowhere after the midgame, During the midgame, you need to investigate the Zodiac Temples, and they follow a weird structure in general. The setting of each temple time is just right; the time is so wrong that it seems that they messed up the story hard! For instance, Leo Temple is PERFECT! But Taurus Temple, WHAT IS THAT?! That was supposed to be Scorpion, not Taurus! The setting is FULLY WRONG! And that repeats itself constantly until the very last dungeon! Still speaking about the main topic of the campaign, the temples, they lose their meaning in the …

I bought this as a part of a bundle and got it for about one American petrodollar. It's not worth it. This game is horrible. I began playing and had decided that I'll play it all the way through, since I've made such a huge investment, moneywise. Could have bought.. well, nothing really.. perhaps a plastic bag at the store. So, here I am, soon 14 hours later, and I'm suffering. :( Don't know how much more I can take of this.

I really want to like this game but I find it extremely frustrating and fairly boring. There are a lot of frustrating elements for me, like most enemies being immune to physical attacks when 80% of the characters deal only physical damage. Other things like being locked into class choices is equally frustrating, or not being able to refund grid choices. i think im on chapter 10 or 11 at the moment and the spike in difficulty is pretty outrageous. After the Leo temple in the awisi section my party is getting wiped out in one turn, on the normal difficulty. I know there are options to adjust the game difficulty but i dont feel like any regular player should be struggling on the normal difficulty. Anyways most people can get this game extremely cheap, but honestly there are much better games out there to waste your time on.

This is not a fun game. Even though I got it on sale for $4 CDN, I don't think it's worth it. The writing and story telling is so boring that unbearable that you wish you could speed up the dialogue, but you can't. You can keep the entire conversation though. Everything is voiced and there's a 3-5 seconds delay after every chat bubble. The voice acting is not good. There's no personality to any of the characters. The writing is terrible, but the voice acting is just as bad. All the voice actors have a different way of pronoucing names of places or characters. An example is the fishboy named Eko- some say his name "echo" or "ee-ko". Is it that difficult to decide how to pronounce a name and keep it the same for everyone? I ended up skipping every scene. I don't know what the story is or if there is a story. The combat and difficulty is okay, one downside is that every enemy/attack has it's own animation. Each animation takes roughly 3-6 seconds, and when there's roughly 6-7 mobs that goes at the same time, you might feel thankful that you have time to grab a snack or a drink. There's no turn-order indicator, so you can't really tell who or what's going to go before whom. Just st…