Fairy Knights

ultimately i have to come out saying it's not recommended for a few different reasons the puzzle-based ability mechanic is kinda fun for a second but quickly gets tedious and doesn't really reward thought. because of the relative ease of setting up large areas to eliminate on the grid in comparison with the size of the grid itself, your "combos" rely a great deal more on the RNG throwing new blocks into the grid after you eliminate them that randomly happen to line up than any planning or skill. also, it's very difficult to make your strategies actually pan out - you can have a gigantic area carved out to get a big "slash" attack off of but the presence of a single gem on any of the blocks will confirm your attack as a weak magical attack instead. this makes it so that sometimes getting your new powers actually proves to be a *liability* more than an asset. despite the amount of thought that appears to have been given to different element types, you don't get most of them until toward the end of the game, so it's hard to get into the intricacies of this system. getting combos sometimes isn't even *good*, because it can mean a bunch of randomly-generated blocks enter the grid over and over again just racking up level-1 attacks and causing your character to deplete their BP on ineffectual actoins. ultimately, it feels like the puzzle-based action system is more a hodgepodge of different ideas that don't interact cleanly than a polished system. i feel like if the game had a better thought-out idea of how different elements interact in the puzzle, a timer on turns, the option not to exclude actions from your sequence once it's determined so you don't waste BP, and maybe gave you all the basics of the puzzle game from the start with some enhancements that let you tweak things toward the end of the game, the whole thing might play more fluently. also, despite being a casual game, there are some very awkward difficulty spikes in places - when you first encounter the forest fairy, you're likely to get suddenly game-overed after a series of pretty easy encounters because her level 3 forest elemental attack will probably one-hit your characters. this is assuming you don't get some messed up combo on turn one and likely ruin her on the spot in a single turn, a tendency that seems to be more and more common as the game progresses. as for storyline, it admittedly seems mostly aware - almost too aware - of how derivative it is, which i guess is fine. the demon king (or rather the devil) is resurrected, you're the mild-mannered unlikely hero who has to save the day, the same old song and dance. so it's a little weird when [spoiler]all of a sudden it tries to get poignant with character deaths with that in mind - it mostly misses the mark and i'm left feeling like the characters weren't even *supposed* to be well-developed enough for me to care. and this is coming from someone who cries at video games really easily[/spoiler]! there are also some unfortunate bits, such as a group of indigenous racial stereotypes who "all look the same" (i think this is supposed to be a repeated lampshading of the developers' limited art assets, a joke they make multiple times and in this case looks pretty bad!) and whose attack is a damage-dealing war cry. whoof. the ending is alright all things considered, though. i get the impression it's one part that the writer(s) actually had figured out, but much of what happens throughout the plot leading up to it is far weaker. it's not bad and i did manage to get through it, but there are a lot of other indie RPGs at a similar price point with more depth, casual appeal, memorability etc.

まだ序盤ですけど、絵柄が可愛いし、パズルも楽しいです。 振動OFFにできないので、苦手な人間には辛く、マウスとキーボードでプレイしています。 日本語訳が少し変なので少し引っかかる所はありますが、機械翻訳並みのゲームもあるので、それに比べれば質は高めだと思います。 武器防具は、同じ物を合成してレベルアップさせる事が出来ます。ただ、合成機能が解禁される前は、装備している武器では出来ないと言われるので、装備を外せばいいと思い、しかし外す項目もなく、どうやって装備を外すのか分からなくて困りましたw　紛らわしいですね。 解禁された後は、装備している武器を選べば出来ます。

So, I'm normally quite biased against "fighting" style games in general when it comes to my gaming. They're normally just not for me. That said, I really like this one. It's adorable, it's fun, it's not stressful, and it's pretty much 100% family friendly! Those traits are what earned a good score from me. The puzzle aspect is also great. Honestly, I recommend it. Even if you don't like rpg or fighting games or so on normally, give it a try. I enjoy it, and you might, too!~

ネコです、ねこ。少年少女の話かと思ったが最初に主人公の仲間になるのは猫でした。主人公について歩くのが可愛い。パズルで攻撃する方式のスマホ系RPG。14時間ほどでクリア。猫は途中で退場してしまいますが、ゲーム自体は面白かったし終盤はちょっと感動しました。セール時価格の安さを考えるとかなりの良作。 クリアするとレベルは1からですがアイテムとお金と魔法と熟練度そのままで最初からやり直しできます（どういう状態でやり直すかはクリア後に選択肢が表示され、強さを引き継ぐ選択をした場合はニューゲームではなくコンティニューから始める）。普通にやっているとレベル80になるより前にラスボスを倒せるので全実績解除するにはレベル上げ作業が必要。自分の場合はバグなのか強さを引き継ぎしたせいなのか、水魔法の熟練度MAXまでいってるのに実績解除されてない。掲示板に同様の投稿があるが1年間返事が無い。 Steamdeckで動作しています。スマホゲームの移植らしく、操作方法の説明にスマホ用説明がそのまま残っている部分があるし、メインメニューに終了項目がないので（スマホゲーにありがち）強制終了しています。日本語の翻訳はやや直訳気味でだいたい意味はわかりますが、主人公の職業の「道理人」というのは聞き慣れない単語でちょっと違和感があるかも。

Highly recommended very fun little rpg 8/10

As much as I liked this game, I can't recommend it. This game has nice idea and mechanics, art is also adorable. However whenever there was cutscene, camera went up to the sky, making me unable to see what's happening. Sometimes this happened when I was supposed to move my character to get to the next place and I had to just guess which way and hope there wasn't anything to miss. Finally I got stuck in game... literally. Character got stuck every time after specific cutscene and I was unable to move. I hope they will fix this game. It's a good game but technical difficulties makes it unplayable.

사람은 때려도 고양이는 때리면 안된다

画面比较简陋，故事虽然似乎有点意思但没中文，战斗模式一成不变，升级和换装备也只是增加数值而已。