Fairy Fencer F Advent Dark Force

Pretty fun, a lot of the flags get skewered and some dialogue repeats but the game itself, fun. Cool characters, they do my boy wrong in two of the routes though. Hard or higher difficulty is a meme need to overlevel and trivialize in order to beat most stuff.

Not recommended to play without a game controller. Seriously, if you ever play this game with a keyboard, you'll regret it... I'll make this a negative review to alert those who read this while I try playing this game for real. =============================================================================Update: Okay, I might want a refund... The Keyboard controls were a mess. There's a guide, but the controls are sloppy. For a 3D-like game for dungeons, it was not truly 3D without the actual WASD movement + Mouse's movement to actively change the character's POV/perspective; instead, I always need to right-click the mouse in an inverse way just to move the POV/Perspective, and it's painstakingly annoying to move when it moves up and down, but most of all, diagonally as well. While I do hate the guts of the Main Male Character from the offset, the characters around him is totally likable, especially the waifu girl fairy. I prob stopped playing the game after MC left his [spoiler] cell after being chased by a warmonger dude, who somehow likes MC's growth... [/spoiler] However, the only gripe I have were the controls and the overworld's VN only graphics (thanks for the other reviews stating that your home base is actually just another Visual Novel series and not a real 3D wordview), which I didn't like at all. I bought this game expecting a full 3D interface wherever I go, but not this hybrid VN + 3D Dungeon crawler with bad movement mechanics. Sigh. Speaking of Visual Novel Elements, the VN here at first is actually voiced, but it looks like the voiced VN scenes are only for the main scenes, and most VN gameplay or story is muted with only SFXs carrying the mood which was really disappointing. I expected a full voiced gameplay, not this... SMH. If you want to talk about the only 3D gameplay or combat mode, it's seriously good but at the same time bad. The good is that their skills actually have their own voice and the SFXs that shows that characters have a feel of really hitting the enemies, but for some reason, combat mode is a hassle when you're always stuck watching the characters DO their movements and skills do their thing, and watching it over and over until the enemy dies... without an option to skip those skill scenes that makes this gameplay longer than it should be... what an accursed game... I feel like I wasted most of my time watching the movements' skills just to kill a single mob NPC. Overall a good game if you can stomach the long and cinematic gameplay it brings.