Tower Song

Hidden Gem

Note: Somehow, I forgot to post me review here. My apologies to the dev as I did play this game and streamed it, finishing my run for the review on 5/13/2025. Tower Song is an interesting game. The story and the world building was enjoyable from start to finish. The ability to move about the map and between areas felt rather rewarding and it was interesting that certain items or paths were blocked out completely as the hero that you chose to play as determined what was available. This adds to a large level of re-playability, but can also make it feel like the player is missing out on things because they are not able to explore as much without going back through with a different hero each time. The use of Milestone levels versus grinding/exp levels is certainly an interesting touch not really seen in video games these days, and it is rather refreshing. Crafting doesn't feel like it is too much, and while it is the best way to progress equipment wise, it also doesn't feel like it is reaching its full potential. The maps are well done and fun to navigate through, and the world at times does feel lived in with either NPCs or just how things are laid out. However, it does have a gla…

Very fun and interesting game for the most part, but it suffers from map design. Specifically later in the game when revisiting the fire tower-an interesting mechanic with poor implementation and an incredibly obtuse map to navigate around. I could not get through that section and it killed all prior enjoyment of the game.

Old School

I really liked this game, but this is a a clear example about how you can well make a good thing less good by over-complicating it. First off this is a very combat-centric games. Every encounter requires serious strategy and enemies hit hard. It has a story - a rather interesting one in-fact - but combat is key. At the start to around mid-game combat is great it's tense, but you have options to deal with it. Items are also consumables that refresh after every encounter so no item hoarding. However at some point enemies get like a thousand buffs and status effects they can apply and your limited in doing anything to them - more importantly bosses can't be stunned, which is the main status effect at your disposal - you just don't have much else. And enemies also gain the ability to basically attack the entire party with their attacks - but you don't have heals or status fixes that effect the entire party - it's the same consumables, but that's just ok entire party skips their turn you're back again next one (one character has a really ♥♥♥♥♥♥ all-heal ability, but that's it). And that's beyond all the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ status stuff of various buffs the enemies get on themselves that aren't even…

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