But picking apart the one mechanic that really ruined the game for me is the damage calculation, I don’t have numbers to back this up, but judging from my 40+ hour playthrough. And whilst I don’t despise these types of mechanics, they are nonetheless irritating. The game does feature auto KO/gameover moves, items mitigate this but RNG isn’t always favourable. Monsters and boss battles don’t fully scale, running into Dragons never felt like an actual challenge, for the most part, more reminiscent of a differently colour sprite of yesteryear’s JRPG sprites. Wish he had a bigger story arc, oh well effeminate man.Īt the end of the day though, this game is too simple mechanically. A couple guide tutorials will follow detailing some of the mechanics of the game to help shave the extra couple of hours that could go into incessant grinding and running around.
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The classes synergy is decently balanced and even with a rag tag team, the skills and items you get access to can mean running a full team of Samurai is “viable” - again not recommended unless you know what you’re doing. Animation is barebones basic at times when depicting movements and hits, but it knows when to ham up the action when it needs to really well. That’s not to say that the game doesn’t have its positives mechanically, the combat is fulfilling as stated earlier. Granted there are workarounds to this issue, and that it’s possible to run the game with only one team - just be prepared for a ridiculous challenge. Which is terrible when you’ve already sunk 20+ hours and that new team is required to help clear an area containing Lv40+ characters. The rate they’re unlocked is okay, but not brilliant because when you unlock the new class and team set (your B and C team) they start as fresh new team members at Lv1. Starting with four classes: Samurai, Agent, God Hand and Duelist. There are eight classes, nine if you account for single and dual wielding swords skills with one of them, which are unlocked as you progress through the game. This is probably why the game includes the ability to change classes - effectively resetting their skills altogether - at the cost of levels. Since when did cute creatures become such dicks in Japan?Īt the end of the day in this game, skills account for whether or not you win. However, I will add that one boss fight lasted seventeen turns because I wanted to see how long a fight would last if I were underleveled for the area but with the relevant skills. Only a few times did I have a boss battle last longer than five and when they did, they lasted at tops twelve turns. Part of this issues to the fact that enemies die too quickly, I say three turns because majority of battles didn’t last longer than five turns. Pulling a three turn combination attack to decimate that one boss is great, until you run into the issue that running the game without actively grinding can leave you in a tight pickle of not being able to take the hits. Mechanically the game is simple, but can allow for some really great moment-to-moment gameplay that can leave you with a real sense of elation.
So that works for and against as I’ll get into later. This is a relatively short game lasting for the review around 40 hours, which would probably be 30 hours without my constant backtracking and grinding. Is this bad? Not really, since I tend to go into games for the mechanics with sound and story being second priorities. Containing predictable plot points if you’re used to the writing of the classic hero’s journey, nothing will surprise you. With the threat of the 7th Dragon appearing, your task is to find a way of beating it and saving the world. Featuring turn-based combat in a strategy JRPG, you control members of a new team under the name Unit 13 that had defeated the previous Dragon that decimated the planet in 2020. Weird and very Japanese title aside, 7th Dragon III Code: VFD is a game that borderline sits on compelling gameplay and weird mundanity. Reviews // 7th Jan 2017 - 6 years ago // By Owen Chan 7th Dragon III Code: VFD Review
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