For a Vast Future

Estou amando este RPG até o momento!

Very nice little jRPG style game. It fills a distinct niche, with sci fi/post apoc so rare in the RPG genre these days (outside of CRPGs) Rather than spells you use different ammo for your guns and attack items to deal damage. It works well enough, though toward the end game there's enough stuff that's basically immune to anything but Pierce it takes a little fun out of it (though you can use other items temporarily to create exploitable weaknesses, you're usually still better off with Pierce). Also I likely missed it but I'm sure there's a few ammo types you simply can't buy (Ice specifically sticks out to me given it was a frequent weakness) The graphics nailed the gameboy inspired style it's going for and the art style is perfectly suited to the setting and story. The story, however, is probably one of the weaker aspects. Not that gameboy style RPGs were ever really known for compelling story but the game does a lot of 'tell' and not enough 'show'. It does okay setting up the bad guys as bad guys (besides the main villain who is.. just some guy), but the main cast relies on a lot of 'we're just going to tell you things'. Chel goes from 'money money money' to pretty quickly 'eff those guys, lets just beat them up' as her default modes. Darris never really seems to struggle with his past as much as the game seems to think they make it seem to (the reveals seem very underwhelming). Tarnstrom is mostly there as a perspective from the military side (despite only being a schlubby gate guard for years). Though Penton is probably the most guilty of the game just telling you what to feel about her. She doesn't really do much but just tag along and occasionally tell you something, but the game acts like she does a lot more. None of them are bad characters, but like the characterization is kind of weak, a few more scenes of development would help, like maybe Tarnstrom was more involved in some of the military goings on, or Penton gives the player reason to doubt her. The plot does have a decent enough twist and ending. A little more nuance beyond 'government bad' would've been nice but eh, it's a sci fi action game, fair enough. The only other thing I really, absolutely didn't like was the inventory in combat. The icons look great, but a way to rearrange or sort the inventory or being able to display as just a standard list would go a ways to making it much less tedious. The character progression was fine, skill points and the gun upgrades feel decent, though a number of the gun upgrades feel a little pointless, to the theme of 'there's little reason to ever choose this one over the other' Overall though a really decent little game, got my money's worth out of the playthrough and I hope to see the developer do more, this is a great building block and I think there's a lot of potential here that could be expanded on. Direct sequel would be great but another RPG in general from this team would be good too.

Sometimes a game is exactly what it advertises. For a Vast Future is a bite-sized RPG with Gameboy inspired graphics, interesting gameplay, and a decent story and characters.

Short RPG but very fun. If you liked the Final Fantasy Legend Saga from 1 to 3, you will certainly love this. RPG's don't have always to last 80 hours. This was a short but very pleasant experience. Go for it

This game is dope as hell! Its like if fallout was a retro turn based RPG! Love the fast paced battles and the soundtrack is as fresh as it gets.

If anyone likes "war" games and 8 bit style stuff I say go and try it! I'm not into "war" stuff but this was really good for sure =)

Phenomenal JRPG with great pacing for those of us who lead busy adult lives. Also that battle UI is a freaking masterpiece of pixel art!