Reviews - Reikooters

This was a good game. However, several flaws keep it from being a great game.

While the story as a whole was good, the dialogue could have been better, and some more development on the story of the main character would've been nice.

Aside from cheesy dialogue, the biggest issue with the game is its imbalanced stat system. Vitality is a useless stat, giving less than 1 max HP per point; and just going all strength from start to end will let you kill almost every enemy in 1 hit (I played on Normal). This also meant that boss fights, although they were fun, were also very short-lived.

While the game's maps were good, some puzzles added to dungeons (flipping switches and such) would have been welcome. The charge orb was given to the player at the start, telling us we can activate switches from far away with it, but this mechanic was never needed again after the beginning of the game, because the dungeons never had switches.

The final outside map and final dungeon were needlessly large. Rather than adding complication via puzzles, it seems they were just made really big instead, making it easy to become lost, and the sense of progress you felt in all other areas, by revealing the entire map on each floor, disappeared. Most of the final dungeon did not even need to be explored to complete the game. This leaves the best dungeon to be, in my opinion, the castle.

With that said, the game was still extremely enjoyable and fun to play. The beginning dialogue made me have low expectations for the game, but once I got into the actual gameplay, I was hooked. The art style reminded of games of old and was great, and sound effects were good too.

I suggest these improvements:
- Rebalance stat system
- Allow saving when sleeping at an inn
- Fix truncation of overhead text when multiple things happen (eg. picking up gold and healing yourself at the same time)
- Perhaps larger variety in music
- Volume of spells of the last bosses were VERY loud, please reduce the volume.

Enjoyed this one a lot!

Enjoyable game. Lots of fun.

Overall, looking away from the issues with this game, it was enjoyable to play. The music was actually pretty nice, which for me is a thumbs up because I generally don't like that type of music.

The gameplay was also okay. It's simple and easy to get into. The controls felt pretty smooth as well. Automatic saving after every level (while the levels only take a few minutes each) also meant that you can pick up and put down the game easily whenever you want to kill some time.

However, the game is not without its flaws. There are several things that could have been done better.

- As mentioned in another review, the text speed could have been faster or a way to skip text would've been nice, since text goes rather slow and you always have to wait for it before proceeding.

- There are also levels where you need to need to wander around the level and look at a number. The game however doesn't explain to you that you need to type in the number - for example in the first level of this type, you need to press "8". I noticed several comments saying that they couldn't get past this level cause they don't know what to do. These levels feel strange during play, but do make sense once you reach the end of the game.

- Also, when pressing escape to pause the game, the pause menu would only appear some of the time - most of the time the game simply froze until you pressed escape again to resume play.

- Some sort of animation/rotation to the player ship would've made its movement feel more realistic, rather than being a static image in the middle of the screen, with the rest of the game moving around it.

- More options, at least being able to set the resolution, would've also been good.

In all, these issues make the game feel like a high school student's class project. I rate this game a 6 - above average - because I did enjoy playing it, but I feel that the games flaws hurt the experience a bit. With some improvements and polish though, this game could have been great.