Brave Dungeon - The Meaning of Justice -

2/11/2023 Update: Developer banned me from the official Discord for this review. 2/14/2023 Update: Developer removed me from the credits for this review. His community is defending him at all costs. 4/16/2023 Update: Developer is banning those who report bugs in the steam forums section of the game from the Steam Forums section. This also applies if you say the game is buggy, incomplete, or glitchy. 4/20/2023 Update: The developer had his sole english speaking members harass me constantly lately. It's been going on for a while now. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND YOU READ THE REVIEW FULLY. While Dark Witch may be a series loved by many, this game is the worst of all. Not only has NAN-A, the main developer, lazily ported the game from Switch, he has single-handedly made as many bad choices as possible in the creation of this game. Let's start at the beginning. The Original Demo for the game, released for the Nintendo Switch as a special bonus for purchasing a Physical Copy of Brave Dungeon 1, was an amazing experience. Though there were some bugs, everything worked amazingly, and most of all, did not horribly lag. It was a difficult but rewarding experience with alot of content for something so small filesize wise. Fast forwarding to today, NAN-A has used bizarre compression and archive files for the game, bogging down performance greatly, but only when assets first load. This is not on any Non-PC version of his game, and they occur as far back as his Touhou Fangames, which he created long before Dark Witch was even a thought. Let's go over the translations, shall we? There aren't really any. Only Google Translations. The entire game, plot, items, and all, are held up by the duct tape that is Google Translate. Not a single translator has worked on this game, and none will most likely. All of the text in the game is stored as image files, something VERY annoying to work with, and it makes me question if NAN-A is even using an engine that supports basic Text Strings or not. NAN-A has made the game incredibly easy, no matter how hard you attempt to make it. Every update either makes the formerly very expensive Combination Attacks cheaper, makes the enemies weaker, or gives players incredibly strong buffs. Al's Absolute Zero is capable of defeating the Final Boss on the highest difficulty in a single use. Something like this would immediately be patched out of the original Brave Dungeon. NAN-A has also repeatedly lied about the development of this game. Nightmare was an area added in Version 0.70, however, it has been in the data of the game since 0.62, and possibly further back. This area reuses maps from the First Game, along with maps provided by the community. Nightmare was never playtested. Once. The Boss of Nightmare was said to be something completely new, but it's just Zizou, with her sister Mati. The Original is Zizou. All that was done is lazily adding in her Sister with 0 new sprites, and not even implementing any music for the fight. BUGS! Tons of them! Nightmare, as stated was never playtested, and had a grand total of 12 softlocks! What's more impressive is this is the only bug reported by the Western Fanbase NAN-A has fixed since 2/23/2022. This is over 30 versions ago. A short list would be enemies failing to spawn, graphics failing to spawn, key item duplication, crashes from skipping cutscenes, crashes from dying, crashes from opening menus, and more! NAN-A has also reused so many sprites it's more fun to see what sprites he reused, and from where! What's notable is that any sprites with a RED Outline are reused from previous games. Many sprites with BLUE outlines may ALSO be reused, only with a new outline color. While it's expected to reused sprites here and there, it gets to excessive amounts. NAN-A loves to ignore any major bug reports, and has used lewd content to advertise this game, while also putting in fanart that is purposefully suggestive, in a game that's normally acceptable for most ages. All in All, Brave Dungeon 2 is not worth the purchase. While it is only in Early Access, the amount of issues and such that cannot be said in just a single steam review speak volumes about the practices of the developer, and his disdain for making a proper sequel to a game many love. Many in the Dark Witch community may not like that I disagree about the game being amazing, but this is my truth, my opinion. While I want to love this game and what it does, I cannot.

[b]UPDATE (6/1/23): While the game is """fully released""" now, the game has barely changed since my review, and I stand by almost everything I said here. DO NOT BUY![/b] [b]TL;DR: Don't buy, especially in it's current state. Play the original if you want a good version of this game.[/b] I really wanted to recommend this game, especially with me being a big fan of Legend of Dark Witch. Brave Dungeon 2 makes a lot of improvements over its predecessor. The level up system is cool, the dungeons are actually dungeons this time around, and the partner system is cool. You can run away from encounters. I love the UI as well. But at the same time, there's a lot wrong with it as well. The game is too easy, even on Lunatic. I've only died once so far, and that's because I was playing recklessly. The Capacity Meter refills like crazy, meaning you can pump out strong attacks like it's nothing. With the partner system, it makes it even worse as using a partner move only consumes the user’s meter and not the other partner's meter. One time, at level 6, I challenged a level 12 enemy and won. Battles are tedious. I was in battles for up to several minutes at points. It still takes forever to kill anything, even with the Easy difficulty. Most of it is spamming the A button half the time. The game doesn't reward you for going out of your way to do new attacks. The only time I found skills necessary was in Klinsy's bosses and the final playthrough. That means over half the game, the combat is just brain dead. In fact, Lunatic makes it WORSE, because all it does is increase enemy HP. So don't play on Lunatic, you should probably play on Expert. The translations are literally from Google. And even then, not everything is translated at this time, which is baffling. EDIT 1/1/23: Someone pointed out to me that the game isn't "finished", and they're still adding content, hence the lack of a translation, and that's a pretty fair point. Still, I think everything should've been Google Translated, as it's mildly annoying when you have a screen full of japanese, while other parts are English. The bosses are terrible. The Shady boss is the worst one so far. Attack the wrong one and you get hit. There are four of them. So you essentially can't use revenge magic. EDIT 1/1/23: I found out if you can tank the counters, you can easily spam revenge magic and kill the enemy. It takes forever because of the attack animations, but it's easy. While my experience was pretty stable, there are many bugs. Yeah, it's an early access game, but even then, it feels like this game wasn't even playtested. Klinsy’s story is the worst. Not only are the bosses garbage, but she reverts all of the good changes from Al’s story. I beat Papelne’s story, and while it was fun for the most part, Klinsy’s story made me want to get a refund. It’s THAT bad. Despite all of the issues I've mentioned, the game can be enjoyable. But in its current state, I can't recommend BD2, especially with it's absurd price (seriously, 20$ for an Early Access game? And it's going to be 30$ at launch). There are much better games for this price - might I recommend the Mega Man Zero Legacy Collection? Or Sonic Generations? Or any other Dark Witch game? Or one of my personal favorites: Afterbirth. Now THAT'S a fun game. Overall, I'd recommend playing the first Brave Dungeon over this. It's much cheaper, and more importantly, more fun.[h1]3/10[/h1] ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☑ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☑ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☑ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☑ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☑ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☑ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10 Grab this review template here! 👉 https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template/

This game is a cursed entity that seems to only bring out the worst in people, and I've seen so much toxic positivity and toxic negativity around it that I'm just tired of it and wish this game never existed in the first place. For now, though, all I can do is try to convince people to stay away from this game. I do kinda like it, though, I must admit. Update 4/15/23: It has come to my attention that people are getting banned from the community hub for calling out the game's many technical problems, and now that it's out of early access, I should point out that this is not good behavior. I still recommend you stay away from this game, as even without this behavior, it isn't even worth its price of half, let alone a third, of Pokemon Scarlet and Violet.

The only entry in The Legend of Dark Witch that despite receiving the game, never finished it nor even cared to, yet I'm not reccomending it.. Expect for some core elements from the game to not be in review because of this change: This game wasn't what I've expected it to be. After watching some gameplay of Nightmare and Godshill in this game, something told me that this game just uses a heavily modified Brave Dungeon Switch engine. This isn't too bad, but the engine isn't optimised properly like the Hedgehog Engine. This is even more evident because most of the ports from the games still have the switch control scheme without giving a full explanation on how the PC's keyboard controls are yet. And what's funny is that this is actually rare to come across in PC games in general because of Nintendo's exclusivity on most of their games, so seeing a game directly ported from Switch without any significant changes makes people question on the programming side of things. Next, on top of that, this game reuses and Im not kidding, A LOT of the series assets more than ever. The game features the same pixel artist from 2014's The Legend of Dark Witch, the same artist from 2016's Brave Dungeon (Correct me if I'm wrong about this), the same composer of 2014's The Legend of Dark Witch, and because M2 wasn't here for this, the same programmer of 2014's The Legend of Dark Witch. This isn't really much of a problem to others, but it completely lacks unoriginality within some things about the game. The new music still reuses instruments from previous Soundtracks, The same artist looks the same, and the programming is already off as hell, with NAN-A isn't truly paying to both sides of the Fandom to make the game even better. Now, let's read why the game is in Early Access. Before I would start with this though, need I have to remind you that this game was translated using Google, which isn't a good software to use because it has a while bunch of mistakes within the platform. Anyways, let's begin. First of all, what does, "Due to the large volume of the game, it is inefficient for individuals to solve all problems. I need a lot of feedback" mean? All I can interpret from this sentence alone is that because of the game being pretty large compared to other entries, other people can't solve all the problems? Every game does have its fair share of glitches, but the thing is, is that you can get as much notable glitches outside of the game before releasing it. Even obscure pens that can possibly break the games. And honestly, that's pretty much I have to complain about when it comes to the Early Access build's details. Most of the information is pretty straightforward, but there could be more explanation to some of the stuff mentioned. The reviews for this game are mixed, which Im pretty fine with, but here's the werid issue: For the people I know within the Main Dark Witch Discord, all of the reviews are pretty vague and just give it a reccomend because its simply "good" and "nice." this doesn't apply to the people that I've never seen before. Just wanted to point this out because I've had issues with the Discord Dark Witch Community and seeing tneir vague responses compared to something like this, poses more of am issue to them. Edit: I also forgot to add this here, but INSIDE_SYSTEM doesn't take constructive criticism as a response to make the game better. There's a member in the Early Access Discord who's a well known Modder for other games, and as he approached every nook and cranny in this game, he spotted numerous glitches that the developer himself doesn't show enough care to patch it out. This alone, is just complete ♥♥♥♥ as a developer of an Early Access game should always accept any critisism of any kind.

[h1]概要[/h1] 『魔神少女』シリーズのスピンオフ作品『ブレイブダンジョン』シリーズの第2作。 [u][url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712820]前作はこちら。[/url][/u] 前作の正統続編としてゲーム性は大幅にパワーアップ、 シリーズお馴染みのキャラクターたちも可愛く作り込まれており、非常に楽しめました。 クリア後要素や引継プレイも含めるとボリュームはかなり多め。 [b]『魔神少女』『ブレイブダンジョン』シリーズファンはもちろん、 自由探索型RPGが好きな方にはオススメできる作品です。[/b] 2023/1現在アーリーアクセスとなっていますが、 [b]本編及びクリア後やり込み要素まで全て完成されています。[/b] 一部ゲームバランスが悪い部分がある(後述)ため、 このあたりの調整が残っているのかもしれませんが、 プレイする上での致命的な不具合は特にありません。 ただ、現状ではバランス調整不足な部分は否定出来ないため、 正式リリースを待ってからのプレイでも良いかもしれません。 [h1]システムの異なる3つのシナリオ[/h1] 最初に3人の主人公のうちから1人を選んでスタートしますが、 主人公によってゲームシステムが大きく異なります。(ストアページ記載の通り) 各シナリオはそれほど長くはないのですが、 パペルネ編は終盤で異常な数のアイテムを要求されるため、若干作業感が… 3人全てのシナリオをクリアすることで、「最終編」がアンロックされます。 [h1]本ゲームの面白さの真髄「最終編」[/h1] 「最終編」は、3つのシナリオ全ての要素をごちゃ混ぜにしたものになっています。 いきなりラスボスに行くことも可能ですがまず勝てないため、 各地に散らばった仲間を探したり新たに開放されたマップを探索していくことになります。 やれることが一気に増えて良い意味で忙しく、クリアまで時間を忘れて没頭してしまいました。 [b]この最終編こそがこのゲームで最も面白いところ[/b]だと思いますので、 最初(特にパペルネ編)が辛くても是非ここまで頑張ってみてください。 [h1]作り込まれた可愛いキャラクターたち[/h1] 『魔神少女』シリーズのキャラたちが多く登場しますが、 全員に新衣装2着＋クラスチェンジアニメーション、 さらに必殺技カットインやドット絵も2種類用意されているという作り込みっぷり。 [b]新衣装・髪型も非常に可愛らしく、『魔神少女』シリーズのキャラが好きな方には嬉しいものになっています。[/b] ポニテのストイちゃんとボサ髪ツーサイドのブラッドちゃんが個人的にはクリティカルヒットでした。 [h1]調整中？なのか大味なゲームバランス[/h1] アーリー版で調整中ということなのか、[b]全体的にバランスは大味です。[/b] ・最終編では多数のキャラクターが使えるものの 　控えのキャラには一切経験値が入らないためメンバーがほぼ固定になってしまう。 　(前作もそうだったが、今作はキャラが多いため余計に不便に感じてしまう) ・アル編で拾えるシェガーの欠片にかなり偏りが有り、一番左のものだけが全然拾えない。 　更にどのアイテムを作るにも全種のシェガーが要求される関係上、 　ほとんどのアイテムを作ることが出来ないまま終わる。 ・街作りで要求される知名度が多すぎるのに対し、 　各施設の知名度上昇量が製作難易度と割に合っていない。 　結局簡単に作れて知名度上昇効果の高い「テント」を 　大量に設置するだけになってしまう。 ・パペルネ編でのクラフトに必要な素材数が異常。 　（最終編ではアクセサリ製作も出来るようになるがこちらも同様） 　それだけならまだいいが、素材アイテムの所持上限が99個しかないため 　ストックが出来ずにすぐに溢れてしまう。 　（自動で素材を集めてくれるシステムもあるが、すぐ上限に達してしまう。 　　余剰分は問答無用で削除。999個まで持てたらどれだけ楽なことか…） なお上記の要素は引継周回プレイである程度は改善されるため、 最初から引継前提で調整されているだけかもしれません。 (ただパペルネ編だけは仕様上何度周回してもあまり楽にならない…) [h1]迷うかもしれない箇所[/h1] ・アル編で何を作ったら良いかわからない 　→ドアツタ破壊は要らない。 　　カギクサはよほど無駄遣いしなければ最終的に有り余るためシェガーの無駄でしかない。 　　「一方通行逆走」が超便利なので、まずはこれの取得を目指すべきかと。 　　あとは最終編でも役に立つ「毒沼ダメージ軽減」や「弱い敵を即撃破」。 ・パペルネ編で3人目の仲間どこ？ 　→マップ左下の方の村で情報を聞いた後、 　　マップ右上の方の海岸に行くと仲間に出来る。 ・パペルネ編で大橋作ったのに先に進めない 　→ゲーム内でも指示されるが、大橋を持った状態で大橋のところに行けばイベントが発生する。 　　(キューウェルに報告に行く必要はない) ・「水入ビン」が作れない 　→まずは知名度を上げて住人からレシピをもらう必要がある。 　　「ビン」はクラフターで作れるが「水入ビン」は焚き火で作るため注意。 ・最終編のキャラの居場所 　→アル・マリ：ケルティックフィールドの海岸 　　シィーマ：ケルティックフィールドの忘れられた街 　　クリンスィー・ネヴィル：カスカートフォレストの2番目の大ボスがいた所(アル編の最終地点) 　　パペルネ・パティ：ケルティックフィールド左の橋を渡った先、上の方のほこら 　　ルディ：ケルティックフィールドの海岸(パペルネ・パティを仲間にした後？) ・最終編のキャラオススメ 　→基本的にどのキャラを使っても特に問題はないかと思いますが、 　　クリンスィーが明らかに頭一つ飛び抜けた強さなので、オススメです。 　　（単体攻撃・全体攻撃・全体回復・キャパ回復・バフと一人で何でも出来てしまう。 　　　特にダイヤミサイルとエアリアルスペシャルの威力は圧巻です。） ・実績が解除できない 　→前作でもそうだったが、一度エンディングを見てからでないと 　　条件を満たしていても実績が解除されない仕様になっている。 　　(ゲーム内の「プレイングレベル」と連動している都合だと思われる)

[h1]Exploration, Battles, and a Rewarding Journey.[/h1] [code] Check this fantastic game and more on [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28519188-Hardcore-Reviews]Hardcore Reviews! [/url] ⚡[/code] [b]Brave Dungeon - The Meaning of Justice -[/b] is a fantastic turn-based JRPG with lovable anime artwork and great character design. It offers an engaging gameplay with great battles against a whole variety of peculiar enemies and great boss fights, the fast-paced level grind makes it very enjoyable. The exploration is key, and the order of which door you open with the keys matter, don't rush the map and go step by step!. The music fits perfectly with the game's art, adding a unique and memorable touch that makes the experience even better. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3427578809 Thanks for reading <3 [b][Ñ] - Brave Dungeon - The Meaning of Justice -[/b] es un fantástico JRPG por turnos con un estilo artístico adorable y un gran diseño de personajes. Ofrece un gameplay atractivo con grandes batallas contra una gran variedad de peculiares enemigos y grandes batallas contra jefes. El grindeo de niveles rápido hace que sea disfrutable. La exploración es clave, y la orden en la que abres las puertas con las llaves, ¡importa!, no rushees el mapa y ve paso a paso!. La música encaja perfectamente con el arte del juego, añadiendo un único y memorable toque que hace la experiencia del juego aún mejor. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3427579917 Gracias por leer <3

Don't let the franchise die...

I don't know if I would recommend, because it want let me past the title screen. What can I do or is this a controller only game?

・良い点 前作からのゲームボリュームの大幅アップ ゲームのテンポの良さ どのキャラクターもかわいい クリア後のやりこみも豊富 ・悪い点 価格 各所で処理落ちする箇所がある 少しバグが目立つ ・総評 価格が少し気になってたけど、買ってよかった。RPGと可愛い子が好きなら楽しめるはず。ドット絵の動きも非常に多彩。

Wow... This... Is the WORST GAME... I have ever played in... LIFE... I cannot believe it... The actual BS..... And let me tell you, I have played other bad games.... This is is the literal WORST INDIE GAME EVER MADE ALSO, THIS GAME COSTED A ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ FRIENDSHIP OF MINE DO NOT SPEND $30 on this horrible game To any upcoming Indie Game Developer: If you have a game but it doesn't turn out the way you want it to, or people say it isn't good... remember that THIS ABOMINATION exists To the L Dev: You don't care about criticism, you don't care about anything, do ya?