Reviews - jcassano

The game is excellent. Nice, unique style of artwork, great gameplay, and perhaps most importantly, an entirely unique setting, world, and storyline. I won't discuss the semiotics & symbolism of the game here, but rather the gameplay.

If you enjoy tactical RPGs a la Fire Emblem then this will be up your ally, as the battles are obviously very heavily influenced by it. But there is also city/town exploration with (as far as I can tell so far) branching storylines depending on how you interact with people.

I do have a handful of small gripes that I want to list:

1) I don't really consider Adobe AIR to be Linux supported. It might work right now, but in a year it might not even run on the latest versions of Ubuntu or Fedora. Despite that I bought the game because I love the series and wanted to support the developer, who I think is doing unique work in all of indie gaming.

2) Part of the battle screen user interface is cumbersome. The battle controls shouldn't cover part of the battlefield and it's annoying to have to keep juggling them around in order to get the full picture. The controls should just have a separate designated area on the screenn, without obscuring the battlefield.

3) The ability to save from the world map would be nice.

Other than those issues, I don't really have any complaints with the game. I haven't played all the way through yet, but I've enjoyed it a lot so far. I'd highly recommend it to anyone looking for a good tactical rpg with a great story. 9/10

Giving this a 1/10 until it works properly on Linux. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04. Would love to play the game. But if it's sold to work on Linux through Desura, it needs to just work.