Slant community chat on DiscoursePro Familiar Zelda feel
With some puns and jokes aimed at the original game. Like "ew are you eating that heart?"
Pro Tons of puzzles
Lots and lots of puzzles, and multiple ways to finish the game. Comprised of mainly block moving puzzles to progress room to room in the games dungeons. While there are a few other puzzles throughout the game, mainly block moving is what the player will be doing.
Con Puzzles can feel repetative
While there are a lot of puzzles to solve in the game, there are only three objects that are used to solve them and after a while it can feel repetitive due to how limited the puzzle solving can be.
Pro Visually impressive environments
The environments of the game use bright colors and are rendered in a pleasant looking birdseye view 3D. The forest sections of the game stand out with light shining through the trees as well as the water in the sailing sections stand out the most.
Con Combat is too easy
The enemies in the game, including bosses have obvious attacks that are easily anticipated making for what is pretty easy combat that does not offer much of a challenge.
Con Tons of grinding
Like a lot of old school RPGs, Ys features a lot of grinding in order to defeat boss's. This can become tiresome after some time as it is just doing the same thing over and over again in order to progress.
Pro Updated features over the original
With new features like keyboard controls, user adjustable resolution and screen frame to go around the 4:3 viewing area make for the optimal release of the tile.
Pro Original combat
Ys I and II uses a combat system known as "bump combat" where the player just runs into their enemies in real time, bumping into enemies attacks with ones equipped weapon and has to be done repeatedly in order to defeat them.
Pro Offers a good bit of nostalgia
Starting the game one is playing something very reminiscent of a classic Gameboy game, many elements borrowed from famous franchises of the time. As the player advance the game changes it's graphics to match all of the popular consoles from the last 30 years and each change resembles many other
Con Too generic
While trying to pay tribute to the great classics in the RPG genre the game itself lacks any feeling of "soul" or personality making for a tale that is just too familiar and obvious.
Pro Seamless switching of game mechanics
The gameplay changes from action based combat resembling Secret of Mana or Zelda to turn based (when fighting bosses) that resembles Final Fantasy or Chrono Trigger. This switchng back and forth fits with the theme of the game where it covers years of RPG releases of different genres.
Pro Large amount of content
Over 10 hours of gameplay.
Pro Can be played in portrait or landscape view
Depending on what the users preferred rotation scheme is to play games, Anodyne allows for both to be used, portrait and landscape.
Pro Easy to learn how to play
With simple intuitive controls it is easy to get started playing Anodyne.
Con Story feels unresolved when the game is finished
After finishing the game there are still many elements that feel unanswered.
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