Castle Xenon

Não entenda errado, o jogo tem qualidades. Contudo, é o JRPG mais desbalanceado que já joguei. Ele pode ter uma forte inspiração nos clássicos, mas carrega o que há de pior em todos eles ao invés do contrário. Algumas escolhas do criador do jogo são estranhas e ruins, mas respeitáveis, afinal o jogo é dele. Jogue apenas se tiver uma paciência acima do normal e tempo para grindar.

Castle Xenon is a classic style JRPG that feels like a cross mash up of Dragon Quest, Phantasy star, Final fantasy 3. Its a wonderful through back with simple concepts revived. The game itself is no harder than any other JRPG. As long as you pay attention and read there really should not be much a problem and some hints are in the digital manual. I am up in the air with this game. Do I recommend it? Yes. It is a decently well made JRPG with good 8bit style sprite work. (At times) The art and the entire game is incredibly inconsistent. The sprites are great and the face art at shops and scenes is a step above right there with Classic phantasy star. Then you have your main characters menu art and it looks like a child drew it. The gameplay is also this way. The game does a great job with explaining where to go, then randomly doesnt, explain sh*t or gives you poor directions. Like saying something is South in to seperate locations when its East to one and South-East to the other. Sometimes they explain puzzles or when you finished something, sometimes they dont. The story follows this as well, the game doesn't know what it wants to be. Has a very serious concept being tackled by assumably teenagers so their light hearted conversations make sense, but then the game will have a very serious thing happening and characters will break the third wall, random adults will crack bad jokes etc. Ruins the mood constantly. The rest of the mechanics are inspired by other great games of its time like the job system and yet none of them are done better, Dragon Quest required you to go to a church to bring allies back to life, thats here but sometimes they come back still poisoned. The job system is cool, but in FF3 you can change jobs at anytime. This game requires you to make a choice and the choices are not balanced for the situations at hand. You could either make your playthrough better or a nightmare for yourself. I love the way the game makes you explore the world making it feel more open but at the same time they constantly want you to backtrack very long distances, the encounter rate makes this annoying. The balance sometimes feels just right then gets really bad or to easy out of no where. Am I saying this game is bad? No. Just inconsistent. I really enjoy the game most times and other times hate it but it keeps me hooked. The characters are dumb af but most the time in a charming way because of their situation. The exploration is open and wants you to go back and find secrets. Sometimes, again even that is inconsistent. For the price, get the game its a great NES style JRPG. If it was any more expensive I could not recommend it.

This game is exactly what I was in the mood for. If you enjoy the artwork and imaginative worlds of NES era pixel art, plenty of hidden items in curious looking spots, etc. This game has those and seems to be doing them well. It even has it's own versions of mini medals from Dragon Quest. There's a job system in the game with branching choices which so far I'm enjoying, I've always loved systems like this in games like Final Fantasy 3/5. This game has the feel of a classic RPG, which means sometimes it's not easy! You can get stunlocked to death if you have an unlucky encounter with things that paralyze or cause sleep for instance. I've only had it happen once so far and you can find accessories to prevent status ailments. If I were to change any small things around I'd make it so you can tell which enemies you've successfully put to sleep, little status icons would be nice. Also a better way of noting which enemy is which in battle would be good. In a battle with 4 stingers that are labeled A, B, C, D I think it'd be nice if maybe the health bar blinked or something like that to note which one you were targeting. And maybe just an option for battle speed. But I don't really mind the grind. I also want to say I'm really enjoying the soundtrack in this game. A lot of the themes are very catchy, and include some really nice back and forth audio panning. Add in that there are several world map themes depending on where you are in the world, whoever the composer is did a great job. The hours listed on this comment aren't accurate at time of posting since I haven't actually been playing the whole time I've had the game running, however I get the sense it will be a lengthy game. Overall I'm really enjoying making progress in this game and yeah I feel like chances are that if you're already looking at a game like this you'd probably enjoy it.

Really hard but rewarding RPG if you like old school games. Brings a lot of nostalgia in the best way possibe.

It's exactly what you expect. Old school rpg with fun story and characters. If that's your thing, check it out :)

Great game but the difficulty can be frustrating at the start. Lack of weapons to deal more damage and anything that restores mp is expensive. Not a big fan when you level up you dont get any more strength to deal more damage its completely tied to the weapons how much physical damage you going to deal. Poisoned again oh sorry but no accessories can be bought early on. The battles seem to drag on cause of high miss chance. Missed 6 attacks in the row. Weill just use magic then mp bottles are like 200 a pop with the encounter rate through the roof you will be burning through them quickly. Yeah im enjoying it but i don't feel that im getting stronger . Im surviving longer but it doesn't help that the mobs still take the same amount time to kill when i was level 4 and now im level 7. Bit more refinement and give us tools to counter status affects either allow us to kill the mobs faster so we don't get poisoned 10 times per battle. It sounds like im bashing the game im not its just the difficulty curve is really weird. Its a good hidden gem but it has its problems