DragonSword : Awakening

Overall I enjoy the game. I do have a few gripes that are mostly personal preference but I feel would be nice quality of life upgrades in the future. I'll still say I recommend it because to me, the pros make it worth it. At least, if you can get it on a sale anyway. The pros: - Not gacha. It had the opportunity to be a gacha game, and it's not. So for that alone I wanted to spend money on it. - Beautiful artstyle. The cutscenes could use a little more of something, but it's a beautiful world overall. - The combat feels fluid overall; however swapping can feel a bit clunky. - You can get all characters in the game without paying for them; and relatively easily imo. Save your invitations for a team comp [3 total] and you can be pretty strong early on. - The mount system. Really cool, and movement with them feels great. The cons: - Grindy. It gets bad around level 30; at this point you're needing to level up skills, armor, karma [if you can get one for the characters you need]. I stopped playing [for now] around 50 because I was broke and didn't feel like grinding for money. - The story is nothing impressive or emotional. Johnny makes every scene he's in unbearable with his constant laughing and screaming for no reason. A terrible character, and it sucks he's such an integral part of the story. - Running and moving as a character. This is kind of a niche complaint, but the running is wonky as hell. How each character has their own weird "roll" or "slide" before they start actually running drives me crazy. - Fanservice from hell. I am not surprised, but the bikini skins are...a choice.