Crystal Picnic

Crystal Picnic is another retro inspired game that is full of both charm and colourful SNES styled detail. Join a sarcastic gardener and a wannabe knight as they journey across the kingdom chasing after ants who stole magic crystals from the castle. With hours worth of exploration, RPG stats, platform style combat and crazy enemies, this is one Action RPG I'd recommend.

Controls arent explained, most items arent explained, and either no or poor explaination of what you are supposed to do. Meandering, complex areas with no local map system. The view feels too close, causing it to further complicate while navigating. Pointless (and unpleasant to me) combat system with the illusion of avoiding fighting enemies, except you slip on banana peels every three seconds forcing you to fight all enemies on screen. There is no xp to and only the chance to get a couple coins rarely dropped, where the only things to buy are a couple different healing items you probably wont need anyways, so it really is pointless. I honestly cannot see why people have found this so appealing.

This game is a tedius slog of huge featureless areas full of obnoxious and ungainly combat with a crappy AI.

Crystal Picnic is a 16-bit JRPG. The story focuses around a sarcastic gardener and a wannabe knight as they journey across the kingdom chasing after ants who stole magic crystals from the castle. The main story is linear and quite simple and I haven't found any side quests in two hours that I've played. Items don't tell you what they do neither what is their purpose in the game. They don't show any stats and you must try it to know if they affect in some manner to the result of the battles. Fight mode is strange. The game turns into a 2D platformer where you can hit and run ants, sunflowers or birds but you've no idea how much damage could you make with your weapons or how affect every hit in your stamina. You also see the main characters on the screen but I don't know how to change between them. The map is full of empty space and empty of life. There are some key npc if you need to talk to them, some pots with potions inside the buildings and some decoration. There isn't any zone map to know where you are in the world . The main character is easy to control using four arrows and some other keys but you must discover them, because there aren't keyboard settings neither somewhere where they are listed. Graphics are japanese SNES style. It's seems that the only resolution available is a fullscreen 800x600 because the game have no options to change resolution and there is no window mode. Music and sound are quite normal. It has achivements but not trading cards.I encourage to developers to add them in next releases. In my opinion, there are a lot of games better than this to play. PD: Thanks to Shade00

a pretty good rpg 100% worth 3$ but at the same time this bring up the old shxxxy time when i play old rpg game and forget to save (cry) buy it and try it out if you are still think character are cute <3

[h1] Genre [/h1] Ein Old School Side Scroller mit RPG Elementen [h1] Story [/h1] Wir spielen eine Ente Namens "Egbert" der gerne ein Ritter sein möchte. Eines Tages werden aus dem Königlichen Schloss ein paar Kristalle von Ameisen entwendet. Nun müssen wir, gemeinsam mit unserem Kumpel dem Frosch Gärtner "Frogbert", diese Kristalle zurück bringen [h1] Gameplay [/h1] Wir laufen durch verschiedene Level und sammeln Schatzkisten & Items ein. Wenn wir einen Gegner berühren oder er uns dann kommt es zum Kampf. Die Kämpfe sind in der 2D Ansicht wo wir nach links & rechts laufen können. Man muss alle Gegner besiegen um den Kampf zu beenden. Die Kämpfe selbst sind total unnütz und bringen außer ein bisschen Geld nichts. Es gibt 3 Spielbare Charaktere die man mit jeweils Einer Waffe, Rüstung & Accessoire ausrüsten können. Zwischendurch finden wir auch Kristalle mit dennnen wir unsere Charaktere Neue Fähigkeiten kaufen oder ihre HP erhöhen können [h1] Achievements [/h1] Es gibt insgesamt 10 Erfolge. Die meisten bekommt man während des durchspielens automatisch. Das schwierigste ist wohl alle Schatzkisten zu öffnen aber durchaus machbar auch ohne Guide. Das letzte gibt es fürs beenden des Bonus Spiels (was absolut ätzend ist) was man nach dem Hauptspiel freischaltet [h1] Pro/Contra [/h1] + Story OK + Achievements + Sammelkarten + XBox 360 Controller Support - Die Kämpfe sind Unnütz - Charakter Menü ist unnötig kompliziert zu steuern - Das Bonus Spiel ist echt ätzend [h1] Fazit [/h1] Ein "OK" Spiel. Es hat ein paar Nervige Elemente wie z.B. die Unnützen Kämpfe oder die unnötig komplizierte Steuerung im Charakter Menü. Nur für Achievement Hunter zu Empfehlen 👑 Powered by HoI 4 Deu Kuratorengruppe auf deutsch/englisch 👑⠀⠀⠀🎉 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/30388691/] Folgen [/url]

There's a lot of potential here, but I just can't recommend it until there are some critical quality of life improvements. Looking forward to these Dev's next attempt. For a more in-depth look I have a full review (w/ screenshots) here: http://www.aybonline.com/2015/11/23/red-light-greenlight-crystal-picnic/

It's not Undertale. [i]That's what makes it good.[/i] Crystal Picnic is a very short (yeah, short-short) game, styled to be like 16-bit games. I'm tired of looking at games that claim to be "8-bit" or "16-bit" and turn out not to be. That's why I was hesitant to buy this game. However, Crystal Picnic is different. The graphics (while the color pallete might be off a [b]bit[/b]) do, for the most part, represent 16-bit perfectly. The controls really feel like I'm playing it on a Sega or something, and the music is probably the best. It just [i]feels[/i] like I'm on a Sega. The game is cute, so are all of the characters, and their world is just built so perfectly, everything is so humble. The soundtrack is good too. It's a very lighthearted game with fairly nice combat. The combat is my favorite part. You adventure around like classice RPGs in a tile-based (I assume) world, but upon entering combat, you're suddenly tossed into a platformer-like game, which I loved. My only problem was the lack of direction at the beginning of the game. I had the hardest time figuring out where to go, and that you could actually walk over that dark grass that previous RPGs taught you that you can't. Another thing this game needs is a MAP. It has a world map, but nothing for the specific area you're in. You can't pull up a map while you're lost and go "Alright, I'm here." That was my only main problem because the last two areas in the game REALLY need a map. ------------------------------- I only have one heart-breaking problem... On the world map, there are areas that are very detailed and look as if you could go to them somehow. You can't. It breaks my heart because as a child I would always dream about being able to go to places you're not supposed to in games. I would dare myself to go beyond, to believe, to dream that one day I'd find some secret in the game that would actually take me to these hidden places. But you just can't. It's not physically programmed into the game. I'm not asking the developer to add these areas, but I was just wondering why they decided to detail the map so greatly in certain areas you can't go to, but then make it so plain in others...

This game brings back alot of feelings of Secret of Mana and Tales of Phantasia. The musical score is really well done. The game features wonderful dreamy tunes that would have been right at home coming from a SNES rpg circa 1994. Graphics are cutesy and fairly good for a 16-bit style game. Each character you discover features their own unique ability to help you out in different situations. The characters and plot are fairly basic. Help restore the Kingdom by gathering the magical stones back from an evil Ant kingdom. The main things I dislike are the combat areas. They tend to be a bit of a sprawling mess. The lack of control you have over your NPC companions can be annoying at times. While in battle they tend to just run straight foward to attack, and take alot of damage in this way. Luckily you tend to come across plenty of chests that contain health vials and you're able to stock up on items wherever you come across the helpful Flea brother merchants. All in all I'd recommend this game if you're looking for a touch of old SNES era action rpg fun. The game is fairly short, but for such a cheap price it's worth buying.