Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark

Depois de ver os dois finais, hora da análise. Faz anos desde que me diverti tanto com um jogo de estratégia. Fell Seal é um jogo incrível, que merece sua atenção. Vou colocar os pontos positivos e negativos: + Altíssima personalização de dificuldade; + Várias classes trocáveis; + Recompensa por usar várias classes; + Sistema de nível; + Grande quantidade de habilidades; + Boa quantidade de monstros; + Boa dificuldade geral; + Personalização de personagem; + Vários tipos de equipamentos e builds; + Várias missões extras; + Tesouros e desafios nos mapas; + Ótima história; + Belos gráficos; - Pouca variedade de músicas de fundo; - Sem dublagem de voz; - Tradução levemente falha, mas OK. No todo, é um jogo incrível. ALTAMENTE RECOMENDADO.

That took a long time. I would like to be able to say it was because I was enjoying myself, and… eh? I mean, the battle system itself is pretty solid. Synergizing different classes and builds works well. A couple of my favorites were a custom mana-walking sorcerer and Reiner as a high-crit chance crossbowman (I wish I’d thought to make my status-afflicting gunner high-crit), but Anadine as a Reaver-Demon Knight was absolutely broken when it came to damage. The character customization is a plus, but it’s afflicted with several limits and caveats. Cosmetically, I wish there more options for the sprites. It’s not a huge problem, but the decision to make two sets of gender-exclusive options really cuts down on the number of combinations you can make. I went free-form and portraitless for three, but managed to pretty closely replicate two of the portraits. I tried replicating another one just to see if you could theoretically recreate all of the portraits. Nope: no close-to-matching face, no close-to-matching hairstyle. The real issues come with the character [i]building[/i]. First, I really screwed up by missing that class affects level up stats, which can really cause problems since leveling up also increases the enemies’ levels. However, even if I had paid attention to that, I think it would make character building even harder. Characters gain classes with AP, but you mostly only gain AP for a character’s primary class. Other classes passively gain AP, but at a very slow pace. Wanting to get this counter or that secondary ability requires grinding certain classes up, but your primary class determines half your abilities and weapon choice, so you essentially have to nerf your characters for a few battles in order to move them through the class tree, even more so when you want to give your character a class that has unmet prerequisites. You’d want to keep switching classes to gain more options to experiment with, but you’d want to avoid that to control your stats and keep a build you’re comfortable with, creating such a headache. I wish I lessened the difficulty much earlier. In the early game of “veteran” difficulty, I was breezing through fights until my big damage-dealing characters got a bit overleveled, and I had to grind the other team members to clear the tournament, which took hours. It’s nice that you can more quickly catch characters up by having them heal and buff your stronger characters, but I don’t think it scales quite enough to keep things balanced. Then things were smooth sailing in the mid-game before I hit another wall and had to grind again. Then I think I got stuck at the last fight in the starting town and decided to just cut all of the enemies’ stats and cruise to the final boss. It’s very nice to have granular difficulty options that can be toggled at any point in the game, but It also feels like a very awkwardly placed bandage on the choppy difficulty curve. As for the story? It functions. I didn’t really find anything engaging about it; the characters play off each other very stiffly, the backstories are perfunctory, the setting feels generic, and the plot turns are very “SpongeBob and Patrick on the kiddie coaster” levels of intrigue and shock. It’s especially disappointing because I played Final Fantasy Tactics Advance as a kid, and while it’s an unfair comparison, that game had an amazing story that even tied into the gameplay. Fell Seal has interchangeable discussions of the same tone and urgency about what the team has to do next, how Kyrie feels about justice, how Anadine feels about her Mom, yadda yadda yadda. I was waiting for the game to “open up,” and it never really did. You can blame part of that on me mistaking the DLC achievements for late-game content, but for as well-crafted the game is at its core and on its face, and for how mediocre a strategist I probably am, the content tying it all together is bloated and repetitive, even at 200% speed, even when you’re not grinding, and the grinding and amount of thought you have to put into character progression to not trip over yourself makes it even longer. Once you’ve unlocked most of the classes, if you can while properly managing your builds, all that’s left are a few secrets and challenges, but the idea of having to do more encounters to get those does not entice me. There IS a good core to this game, and I want to be more lenient to these small developers, but while this might be a $30 effort, it is not a $30 game, and it took way more time from me than it gave me happiness.

I like this game, but the shopkeeper looks like a Reddit moderator. And yeah, the aesthetics are a bit weird at times...

まだクリアしてないけど、初期設定（難易度ベテラン）のゲームデザインが雑すぎてオススメ出来ない。 オススメしない理由は、レベリングが必要だから。 このゲームは味方が6ユニット位が出てくる感じだが、6ユニット以外の使ってないユニットはまともに成長しないので、ユニット間のレベル差が生まれやすい。そして色んなユニットをステージに合わせて使ったほうが良いので、スキル傾向を考えて複数のユニットを運用する必要がある。チームには魔法系、直接型、間接攻撃系で10ユニット程度いることになるんじゃないか。 一方でステージの敵は常にプレイヤーの一番上のレベルのユニット＝常時出てる主人公に合わせてステージ設定レベル事に敵が出てくる事になる。 レベリングをしない場合、同レベルですら敵のほうがパラメータは良いので、多くの味方よりも常に強くて、速く動くユニットばかりになるし、敵は有利な位置で始まり色んなスキルを使いこなして初手から状態異常祭りになるので、まぁまぁ強いAIだと思う。結果として、歯ごたえがあるというよりはウンザリする戦闘が連続することになる。常に状態異常で先手を取られる強さとウザさを味わうことになる。 とまぁ、ゲーム難易度を大きく下げない限りチーム内のレベル平均化を常に必要とするので極めてダルい。 戦闘してないユニットも戦闘したユニットと同じ様に成長する感じだったら良かったなと思う。チームレベルみたいな感じで同じユニットレベルと共有アビリティポイントと自由な振り直しができればレベリングしなくても戦えるデザインになるのになと言う感じ。 本作はそうじゃなく常に使わなかったユニットもレベルを平らにするために成長させないといかんという。まぁ戦えなくはない、良く言えば歯ごたえがあるとは言える。 だが、なんでこんなダルいデザインにするのか理解できんくらいの作業ゲーです。レベリングダルすぎ。

Los combates no son suficientemente divertidos, no está bien diseñado el progreso/dificultad, te ofrece muchas clases/habilidades, tenerlas a tu disposición podría hacer más divertido el combate pero como los personajes sólo obtienen experiencia combatiendo, tienes que grindear fuera de la historia, en combates aburridos, para subir a los personajes. Es cómo si no hubiesen testeado la jugabilidad del juego acabado, con algunos pequeños cambios de diseño en la progresión, habría podido ser un buen juego (aún así probablemente demasiado corto)

This is a great tactics-like game. I have a huge backlog, yet I keep finding myself back on this game. I love duel class systems like this...

I found this game, while searching for something similar to Final Fantasy Tactics online. I absolutely love it! The class System is awesome. There are also some hidden classes to find. The abilities are very well rounded and every class has obvious Pros and Cons. With the dual Class System, it's possible to craft some cool synergies for each character. This is an absolute recommend!

I got this game on sale for about $5 and am now feeling like I stole this game. I feel like $40-ish for the bundle is also fair. Final Fantasy Tactics is my favorite game of all time. This game is basically slightly worse than it on every metric (in my opinion) besides the flexibility you have with monster classes. Though I do feel like perhaps I have a stronger than typical bias there, considering FFT was my childhood. I'm just gonna mention a few things that stood out to me: Cons: -I'm so sorry to the character portrait artist(s), but they're so uncanny they often pull me out of the narrative. Some are ok, but many - including the actual main characters! - are just proportionally awkward. -I dislike not being able to rotate the maps. There is a mechanic built in where you can scroll through tiles to make sure you can reach whatever you need, but I just feel like being able to rotate the map as well would be a great help. -The class wheel - especially for the monsters - is too crowded. Not a huge problem, but slightly annoying. Pros: -You can move to a space and look at your attack options without that movement choice being locked in. Thank you! I now don't have to constantly remember everyone's ability attack ranges before making a move. -All other art beyond the character portraits. It's actually a really nice looking game! The maps, the character models, the abilities. -Choosing when to grind. There's no random battles. I always liked them in FFT, but it just feels good to start up the game and KNOW I can do what I was planning to do without having to worry if I'm gonna "waste" 15 minutes on a random battle. -Sending people on missions actually MEANS something. AND the timer counts outside of the game as well. Again, it's another mechanic that respects the player's time without detracting from gameplay. General: -Character development/story is good. -Pacing is good. -Leveling and class changes/manipulation feels good. I feel like I keep downplaying this game because I love FFT so much. But the truth is this game has kept my rapt attention for over 70 hours (and will likely have it for nearly 100 by the time I'm done) and I didn't get tired of it once. It's a great game and I've had a ton of fun with it.