EVERING

I definitely don’t understand the negative reviews. I loved almost everything about this game, and you can tell how much hard work went into everything about it. Its gorgeous pixel art is pleasing to the eye, and the story is interesting enough to carry you through the length of the game (and it’s a pretty lengthy game…not Chained Echoes-lengthy, but certainly long enough). Most of the battles were fair, and although I personally had to grind some to keep up with the increase in enemy difficulty as the game went on, the game does actually give you a more-than-fair “flee” option that always works—even on bosses. If you like pixel JRPG games, you really should check this one out too. I came across it purely by accident, and it was MORE than a pleasant surprise to me.

Evering es un buen juego JRPG. Se notan las influencias de ciertas sagas muy queridas del mismo género y de épocas doradas de los videojuegos. Nos encontramos ante un mundo de fantasía con una trama interesante y buen estructurada con buenos giros. Por desgracia una trama poco explotada y demasiado corta. Hay personajes con encanto y carisma igualmente poco explotados. Reseña completa:https://errekgamer.com/2024/03/15/analisis-evering/

Would be a mixed recommendation if allowed, but I can't really give it a thumbs up. POOR: EXPLORATION, PACING Restricts where you can go + doesn't allow backtracking + doesn't provide any warning before its frequent points of no return = frustrating Map design is decent, but they are all full of generic enemies where you perform repetitive generic fetch quests as sidequests I started to feel like a rat in a very boring maze NOT GREAT: MOST COMBAT, CHARACTER ADVANCEMENT, GAME FLOW, SOME BUGS Generic abilities + slow pacing Generic, predictable equipment progression Spell levelling is painful due to the slow pacing Little pauses inserted everywhere make a lot of things take slightly too long Keyboard remapping option is there but doesn't work, a few other small bugs DECENT: BOSS COMBAT, STORY Decent boss design ATB system with CT and autopause is good, even if the game doesn't take advantage of it with how it can interact with abilities or equipment at all Good visual/conceptual variety of characters even if mechanically they aren't that distinct Writing is decent, if plagued by some translation problems (the oil status effect "impregnates you with oil" and makes you "inflammable" so you take extra damage from fire) GOOD: VISUALS Good choice of visual asset packages Scaling is a little funky in windowed mode but actual rendering size (1104x624) looks ok, as do much larger windows, including fullscreen