Crystal Project

A great idea marred by poor world design and trial and error combat.

Seems much like a super-fleshed out version of FFV with all the QoL perks one would hope for in the meantime. So, yeah, voxel > pixel (to see if it charms) and just playing FFV in it's ubermensch form.

Have you ever thought, "man, I wish the original Final Fantasy NES games had no storyline, precision platforming, and random encounters which can't be run from"? No? Me neither, but apparently the developers did. This is more of an awkward platformer with JRPG elements. Supposedly there's a storyline somewhere, though I couldn't find a shred of it in 3 hours, which is generally not a good look for something that sells itself as an RPG. The extremely fast and agile monster encounters which appear as flames on the map will constantly chase you. You can bait them into drowning, but some of them can swim, are faster than you, jump higher than you, and will immediately stop all your momentum if you touch them, dropping you to the ground mid-jump. 90% of traversal in this game is platforming, but the enemy design seems to actively discourage it. As a platformer, it also lacks fast travel, which is unfortunate as it highly touts its exploration (even having its opening monologue being about how exploring should be hard, which is MAYBE valid, but doesn't make for a smooth gameplay experience), which ends up being a lot of tedious repetitive platforming. So not really adventure, more of a button-mashing experience. I was thinking this trouble I was having with enemies might be because the starting classes I picked for my party were bad, but after unlocking one, no, they're all just that bad! Skill trees are short and lack depth, and you WILL run out of both mana and mana restoring items CONSTANTLY if you use a casting class. Tutorials explain things which are obvious, and do not explain things which might actually need explaining, such as the taunt 'danger' system which two of the starting classes rely on as their main gimmicks. Healing items are capped, but not usable in battle for some reason, so if an enemy ambushes you (as is VERY common) and you forgot to heal, tough luck! I see the vision, and why so many people like this game, but this game trips over the hurdles in its game design and relies too heavily on a shoddy platforming system which is fundamentally just not enjoyable.

It's called crystal project because it gets FFV players hooked

nice :)

This is one of the best hidden gems of indie RPG's. The base game is fun, and the modding community is STELLAR.

Astley gommaged me 3 years before clair obscur

Too good

Go on an adventure they said. Discover the world and find Crystals they said. End up pondering what fun is and if you're truly adventuring if you don't take risks. Seriously though, this is an amazing game. Gorgeous, interconnected world with lots of secrets and a solid soundtrack to compliment it all. Would recommend if you've got several hours to put into exploring and levelling up your party. Combat is the usual turn based, so you're mainly here for the adventure.

This game has: FFV job system Deep turn based battles Lots of items to find and jumping around trying to find the one block that is slightly higher than the rest. Actually, that's about 90% of the experience. I've restarted this game 3 times and cannot find the way forward as nothing is straight forward. I see the place i need to get to, but the one block that is high enough is miles away somewhere and i have to find it and somehow find my way back to where i needed to be, one square higher. This is every single area, you cannot just progress, you must find the one tiny block. it might even be behind something and you cant turn the camera. have fun! if there were a high jump option in the assist settings, that would be great, because i actually want to play the GAME parts of this game. finding a roundabout path is fun sometimes but not when its EVERY SINGLE TIME i want to progress.