Ace of Protectors

Great Game xD

I'm in a situation where I passed 2h mark and therefore can't refund it, but also cannot persevere in getting to the end of the game. What was I expecting? Graphics caught my eye, and while most people would probably be completely turned off by them, I thought the screenshots had a weird amateurish MSPainty charm to them, so I was like "the person who made it doesn't appear to be a great artist, but they still seem to be dedicated to their game, so maybe it makes up in other aspects and might be pretty fun". Somebody else called it "poor man's Ys", and on first glance it seems like a good comparison. You go from town to town, each town requires you to complete dungeons to move the plot further, until eventually you go to the next one. In dungeons, you move your character across the screen eliminating your enemies, whom you have to defeat to progress to the next screen. Dungeons are very short, at least up to the point I played; they are usually 3, maybe 5 screens long at most, not counting the boss. This makes it feel more like a beat 'em up or some other action based game than RPG, but hey, Ys [i]is[/i] action based after all, so it's all good as long as the combat system is well made. Too bad it isn't, because most enemies move completely erratically trying to ram into you, and the ones firing projectiles are pretty unpredictable too. This brings me to another point, which is the schizophrenic difficulty: I played on normal mode and I never managed to die in this game, so it's not like I think the game is difficult, but it feels weird to go through the first dungeons with no effort whatsoever, then get to a part where I burned through large part of my supply of healing potions, then for it to get easy again. I also have some other, minor technical complaints, such as the game allowing you to discard your potions to the point where you can carry negative number of them, very slow screen transitions in towns (maybe it's related to the 30FPS limit, and they would have been bearable if they lasted half the time), dialogues not allowing you to skip to the next line faster (useful feature in itself, it's there so you don't accidentally skip something important, but here it's annoying if you're not a very slow reader), or clunky UI. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=755528143 Last, but not least, is the plot. From what I have seen so far, it's so full of clichés that I could probably give a relatively accurate guess as to how the story progresses further. There's a guy who finds a book which somehow takes him to another world called Venux which is under attack by demons, it happens there's a prophecy that somebody will defeat the demons, some girl helps him... Characters are really uninteresting and I really can't even give a damn what happens to them, I'm already starting to forget their names even. By the way, the most memorable scene in this game is when Yuri, the girl co-protagonist, is done with interrogating a baddy; when asked where he is, she responds "oh, he commited suicide ^‿^" with expression you can see in the logo in store page. The most glaring issue is the writing. It is incredibly obvious that whoever wrote the dialogues is not a native speaker, and the whole clunkiness of the story is not helped by poor grammar and typos. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=755791023 I cannot recommend it, even with very low base price. It does seem that the dev works on fixing the game and uploads patches relatively frequently, but I have no idea how much they'd have to do to make the game good. I hope they find someone to proofread the script for them, at least.

This game is... alright. It's way too straightforward, you slash your enemy until you win, thats it, the combat is alright overall. The story on the other hand, i couldn't care less about it, the story is dull and boring, all i care about is the gameplay. the segments where you actually get to do something are quite short, like i said 'you slash your enemy until you win'. Grapices are awful, the character models for dialouge look good, but aside from the the sprites look pretty bad, i know grapices aren't everything, but come on this looks sub-par. In short, it's basically a poor man's version of Ys. EDIT: I feel like i didn't go hard enough. This game is pretty bad, there's still some things that are awful about the game. Most of the times the game is way too easy, then suddenly it throws some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at you and actually kills you, making you actually have to be careful in this game. I need to better describe the in-game sprites, some of them aren't bad, but a lot of them are udder garbage. The sprites for the dialouge aren't bad, but with the girl with the eye patch (I forgot her name) sometimes she's wearing it, something she's not, what's up with that? The story, like i said is boring and i didn't care much about it, so nothing much to about that other than it's complete garbage. In conclusion, this isn't a poor man's version of Ys, is something else and it's awful. You would to be very desperate to play indie games if you buy this. There are much, much better indie games than this.

[h1] --{Information}--- [/h1] Ace of Protectors is a small RPG/Indie Game developed by xPathfinder and here is a little Review for you. [h1] --{Graphics}--- [/h1] ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad [h1] ---{Gameplay}--- [/h1] ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ It‘s just gameplay ☐ so lala ☐ Starring at walls is better [h1] ---{Audio}--- [/h1] ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☑ Not too bad ☐ Bad [h1] ---{Difficulity}--- [/h1] ☐ Easy ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls [h1] ---{Story}--- [/h1] ☐ Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely [h1] ---{Game Time}--- [/h1] ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ to infinity and beyond [h1] ---{Price}--- [/h1] ☐ It’s free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money [h1] ---{Bugs}--- [/h1] ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ see Rust [h1] ---{Achievements}--- [/h1] ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about achievements ☑ Isnt necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding [h1] Trading Cards [/h1] ☑ Yes ☐ No ☑ Its only my Opinion ☑

Изначально, как начал играть, игра вполне зашла. Но чем дальше играл, тем больше разочаровывался в ней. Но обо всём по порядку: Сюжет: В неком фэнтезийном мире Венус произошла беда. В мир вторглись демоны, которые хотят возродить своего тёмного лорда, и люди не смогли дать им отпор. Однако, согласно пророчеству, придёт спаситель, который спасёт Венус от нашествия древнего зла. С этого момента и начинается игра. Геймплей: Жанр игры, ролевой экшен. На карте мира есть определённое количество городов, доступ к каждому из них будет открываться по мере прохождения. В каждом городе есть сам город (хотя тут больше подходит название деревни), и подземелье. У немногочисленных жителей можете брать квесты и выполнять их. Главная же задача брать сюжетные задания у главы города или мастера (вашего наставника, следующего за вами). А сводится всё к одному: зачистить подземелье, которое состоит из трёх комнат и комнаты с боссом. И так из раз в раз. В каждом городе зачищаете три-четыре подземелья и далее, в том же духе. Всё строго линейно, никаких ответвлений или тайников с секретами. Играть будете за двух персонажей. Девушку Юри и парня Эстель. У каждого из них, соответственно, свои характеристики. После зачисток подземелий будете зарабатывать валюту и очки опыта. Всё по канону жанра. Прокачиваете характеристики персонажей и покупаете амуницую с аксессуарами. К анимешной графике особых претензий нет, инди-проект, как никак. С музыкой то же самое. Ни чем не запоминается, но и не раздражает. В игру можно играть, но объясню, что с ней не так: Во-первых, управление. Почему-то оно реализовано в разброс. И я не про управление персонажем. Точнее так... Персонажем вы управляете одними кнопками, а интерфейсом и игровым меню, другими. А это очень неудобно, постоянно путаешься. Во-вторых, игра крайне однообразна. Ходите из города в город, зачищаете до боли одинаковые подземелья, которые отличаются только визуальным фоном, да новыми врагами. В борьбе с недругами нет какой-либо тактики, задалбливаете их одной кнопкой, и ничего от вас больше и не требуется. С боссами то же самое, закликиваете до смерти. Только вот ХП противников и их сила увеличивается с каждым новым подземельем гораздо быстрее, чем прокачивается ваш персонаж, что вынуждает неоднократно посещать уже пройденные подземелья, чтобы подготовиться к посещению следующего. Всё превращается в тупой унылый гринд. В общем, игра неоднозначна. Может кому-то и понравится. Меня лично она сначала затянула, но с каждым последующим проигравшим часом, начинала раздражать всё больше и больше. Долгий и нудный гринд, вкупе с бесконечным однообразием выполняемых заданий, убивают весь интерес к игре.

進行不能になるほどの致命的不具合はないけど、必殺技発動時に操作キャラが消滅して移動不可能になったり、キャラ切り替え時にクラッシュしたり、会話中にキャラとキャラが重なったり分裂したり、数えるあげるとバグの数が思いのほか多い。 ゲームの雰囲気とか全体的な流れも王道を行くRPGなんだけど、結構な味方キャラが用意されてるのに、実際に操作できるキャラは主人公二人だけなのがちょっと残念。 それらを考慮に含んでも開発者のゲームに対する愛情が感じられたので、個人的には良いゲームの部類に入る。 定価200円で購入できると思えば、お買い得なゲーム内容だじょ。

For the price of the game, it's worth a thumbs up. The visuals aren't that great and the writing needs work, but I can see the developer improving on this in the future.

Good game with a long and interesting story.

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From the short time I've played, I can say that it's worth the money. Now, I'm not saying it's great. It's nothing special. The story is pretty generic, and the grammar is a bit off. The art is alright. The AI is pretty dumb. However, the combat does its job and doesn't feel clunky or annoying, and the game still manages to capture a bit of a subtle charm. Generic doesn't mean bad, and if you can get past the grammar, the story is alright. For 2 bucks, I can definitely say it's worth the money. I got it in a game bundle though so I paid even less, and I definitely feel that I got my money's worth.