龙与精灵 Dragons and elves

A conditional thumbs up. Lets address the first issue, the translation. The developer states very clearly on the store page that English is not their native tongue and the translation is done by AI. It's serviceable, but with some holes. You'll get a quest description that is clear and well translated, but the listing of the quest reward is not. You'll go to board a boat to travel to another area and the boat owner will query you with an untranslated query. Common sense says one query will be "Depart" and the other " Not Depart", but if that sort of thing bothers you, then this is not the game for you. Who will this game appeal to? Lovers of old console games and experience grinders. There are random battles galore. Crossing one room consisted of five random battles. Battles play out very quickly, but there is a lot of button pressing - choose this skill, choose that target - for each member of your party. Carpal tunnel is not your friend. The keyboard layout isn't horrible, but a game controller elevates the interface from serviceable to enjoyable. My controller worked fine with the game, but I'm not sure how extensive controller support is. The main quest is linea…

Edit: It's been around a year since my original review, so I thought I'd check what was done with the updates, and there have been several (which is a major plus). The translation issues are still there, but the potential teammate translations have been fixed. All combat pop-ups haven't been translated (i.e. critical hits, misses, abilities, poison, etc.), as well as graphical translations for picking things up (herbs mostly) when moving around, which is why this is still getting a Not Recommended review. I haven't hit the point where I was stuck last, but since the dev has put out content updates, I'm hoping the place I was stuck last time has been fixed as well. The dev seems to be focusing on Chinese translations more so than English from what I saw in the updates, but maybe they'll get the English translations up eventually. Original: At this point I can't recommend this game... There are a lot of missing translations, including potential party members. There is a LOT of saving (in more than one slot because of autosaves) and reloading. The grinding isn't bad. Got to Clovis city and was locked out of quests, or was not given any indication of where to go from there. On…