Seed of Pandora: Legend of the Gaia Tree

Sorry folks, this one is a stinker. It starts out fine. But soon you'll find out that you can't upgrade your armor and your weapon can be upgraded from 10 to 11. Meanwhile your enemies go from 100hp to 400hp. It's still quite playable, but now you have to throw out any strategies you've developed so far, because the rules have changed. I mean, I fought my way through several tough foes to get to a chest with one 50hp potion inside. I actually laughed out loud when I saw that. It gets worse from there. I have tens of thousands of skill points with no skills to spend them on. One of the characters has over 100 magic points, but can't use magic. And on and on. Buy it if you like, just know it's nothing like the demo. That was the first trap.

Played and finished the full game, Unfortunately it is overall a let down, unpolished and rushed. Positives [list] [*] Animated Cutscenes (Mega Man X4 like) with decent voice acting. [/list] Negatives [list] [*] The Story, starting from mid-game, is rushed. Everything goes from conflict to conclusion in a few minutes. This will be more apparent in the late game. [*] There is a learning skill system implemented, yet you can only learn like 2-4 skills per character (magic & tech). This is odd as skills are one of easiest thing to implement in a RPG Maker game. [*] There is a weapon shop but you can only buy one weapon that increases your ATK by 1 only for 3 our of 4 playable characters. [*] You can not upgrade your armor to improve your defense as there is no armor shop or anything that drops them. [*] Dungeon design will be mostly the same as the first one minus some puzzles in some so don't expect much. [*] Combat is repetitive - there is no strategy involve other than defense break then attack. Same enemy formations in dungeon and overworld encounters and most enemies spam only one attack. This also includes most boss fights. [*] Unrewarding loot - you will fight an army of enemies for 5 minutes just to get a potion from a chest at the end of the area. [*] Input delay in QTE Events - sometimes unresponsive or requires you to mash the button. Thankfully there are only a couple of them and are not mandatory. [*] Performance issues - I am running a Ryzen 5600G machine yet the game will start to lag after one hour then become unstable after two hours. I have to relaunch the game to get it fixed. [/list]

Just finished the game. A lot of things started in developpement are not finished ( no other armors, even if there is a menu to change them, three weapons,... ). Totally unbalance in every level : damages, life, scaling of spells. You can play it for the story, it will be an average aventure for 10h. I can't recommand this game.

Chained Echos at Home: I was hoping things would get better after the demo, but they honestly didn't. 1. Nearly 6 hours in, there are barely any equipment upgrades, none if you count the +1 weapons from the ONLY shop on the continent. 2. Quests offer you little to no clues, forcing you to talk to every single npc on the map for many quests, if they offer any advice at all. I had to comb areas blindly tapping the action button hoping to find something noteworthy to interact with. 3. Enemies scale up, while your characters barely advance at all beyond HP. Monsters are swiftly becoming HP sponges. The starting pair haven't learned any new techniques beyond what they gained at around level 7.

Unplayable on steam deck, 5 crashes in 1 hour.

I’ve been really impressed by Seed of Pandora: Legend of the Gaia Tree. As a longtime fan of classic 16‑bit RPGs, I immediately fell for its nostalgic pixel art and overworld map that feels like a nod to SNES classics. The game follows Bastian on a journey fueled by mysterious, vivid dreams—a refreshing hook that sets it apart. The combat system is engaging, with cool tech point mechanics and an auto-battle/fast forward mode that keeps the pace lively, though I did notice some minor hiccups like dialogue interruptions during combat and a somewhat grind-heavy progression system. Despite a few technical quirks on the Steam Deck, (which it sounds like the developer is working on,) it’s clear that the developer poured their heart and five years of passion into this project. Overall, Seed of Pandora is a charming indie gem that, while not perfect, delivers a memorable retro-inspired experience with plenty of modern quality-of-life touches.

love the anime scenes!!!!!! so far im drawn to the story line and seeing what the characters have to offer! got side tracked doing some side quests! cant wait to explore more. id definetly check it out, its not often you get cute anime as well as a fun game.

Boooooooy howdy did I really wanna enjoy this game. Player advancement is so painfully slow and the enemies are such HP sponges that every battle is a test of endurance until you've way WAY outleveled it. But even so, Though it's nice to not have a zero brain RPG where u click attack and win there has to be a happy medium and this misses it by a long while. Every encounter you better bring your A game and stratgize well even on random mooks. It gets exhausting epecially in the beginning of the game where it's incredibly stingy with item-curatives . Sure you have your magic but once you're low MP you've just got to grit down more. And there's hardly a reason to heal in a fight as doing so is a losing proposition until you have first aid + . Bad, boring, hard in an uninteresting way

Test Play Video : https://youtu.be/U-x11_SZ_OQ Turn Base JRPG Style with Mecha

[h1] 小而精的像素冒险 [/h1] 《Seed of Pandora》是一款像素风格的，2D类的rpg游戏。 故事的开端位于潘多拉大陆最南端的加尔达王国，这里原本有着伟大的盖亚树，是世界上的生命之树，据说盖亚树的种子产生了世界上所有的生命，而原本负责保护盖亚树的僧侣，他们被指控滥用从盖亚树的魔法种子中获得的力量，进而被加尔达的第一任国王放逐到无边无际的男孩，而我们的冒险即将从这里开始。 游戏的画风是我所比较喜欢的像素风格，游戏的战斗方式是基于角色敏捷值的回合制战斗，当游戏内TP获得一定数值时可以释放技术技能，此外游戏的战斗动画也可以快速跳过。 合理利用守卫这个战斗方式来储存tp点用于技术技能是获得战斗胜利的一个好的方法。 在战斗中获得的技能点可以用来学习技能选项卡中的技术技能，新技能一般在角色升级后解锁。 这个游戏一开始体验还是很好的，但很快你就会发现你不能升级你的防具，你可以升级武器，此外游戏内的一些任务也比较的离谱，让人感觉到莫名的好笑。 在推进到后面的剧情中后，我们空有一身技能点，但却没有技能可供学习，这是一个非常糟糕的体验。 希望制作组能慢慢优化前面的一些问题吧，这些对于游戏体验来说是影响比较大的，游戏初期是非常好的，开始游戏还有一段不错的动态CG，希望后续能有好的优化吧！ [quote]关注鉴赏组：[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45134494]浮生评测[/url] ←"浮生若梦，一鉴倾心，邀您共赏人间烟火" 加入Steam组：[url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/LLFLLFF]浮生评测[/url]←“一起追寻'浮生若梦'般的游戏体验” 开始“浮生若梦”鉴赏组的奇幻之旅！[/quote]