Recordkeeping: LiEat COMPLETE
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xyzzysqrlA trilogy of short (45 minutes to an hour each) RPGs about a wandering con-man and his adopted daughter, a dragoness who feeds on lies.
I'm sorry, Steam, can you sell me a ladder? I need help reaching the HIGH CONCEPT shelf where this one's stored... okay there we go. I say they're RPGs but even that's somewhat inaccurate. There's "combat", but it's pretty easy, particularly if you rustle around. Every one of the games has some equipment upgrades that are super-ridiculously-overpowered (get a guide) so you can just handwave the combat away as a narrative concern and focus on the story.
The story is pretty good. A little confusing at first, but they're like miniature mysteries: Get dropped in, figure out what's going on, solve the "case", the end.
These are of course Japanese. If the Japanese narrative style grates on you, don't buy these. But I thought this was worth my time and I was correct.
I think my favorite aspect of the game was the Dragon Anti-Crime Unit and their trio of members: An immortal who keeps resurrecting himself if killed, a shadow dragon who can teleport anywhere it's dark, and (in episode 3) a dragoness who knows all the information there is to know about something just by scanning it while "making a face like a cat about to sneeze". I love these three. I want a game or short story collection about THEM next.
I'm sorry, Steam, can you sell me a ladder? I need help reaching the HIGH CONCEPT shelf where this one's stored... okay there we go. I say they're RPGs but even that's somewhat inaccurate. There's "combat", but it's pretty easy, particularly if you rustle around. Every one of the games has some equipment upgrades that are super-ridiculously-overpowered (get a guide) so you can just handwave the combat away as a narrative concern and focus on the story.
The story is pretty good. A little confusing at first, but they're like miniature mysteries: Get dropped in, figure out what's going on, solve the "case", the end.
These are of course Japanese. If the Japanese narrative style grates on you, don't buy these. But I thought this was worth my time and I was correct.
I think my favorite aspect of the game was the Dragon Anti-Crime Unit and their trio of members: An immortal who keeps resurrecting himself if killed, a shadow dragon who can teleport anywhere it's dark, and (in episode 3) a dragoness who knows all the information there is to know about something just by scanning it while "making a face like a cat about to sneeze". I love these three. I want a game or short story collection about THEM next.
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Date: 2016-09-19 05:56 pm (UTC)The graphics are also really weird. Somehow I can tell people apart by their sprites more easily than by the icons they use when talking. There's this weird circular pattern they all have that makes them too busy and keeps me from seeing any details.