Shards of Eradine

Pokemon meets RPG sprinkled with lewd, brief but fairly accurate description. Sounds like a good mix, so why I can't recommend it? The game looks more or less like a typical RPG maker type title despite taking more original approach to design. The main hero is very much like a pokemon trainer but with nymphs instead of pokemons. Even your starting nymph is of electric type. Yes, nymphs have one of 7 types/elements: earth, water, fire, lightning, light, dark, fantasy. You can recruit new ones 100% during any battle just by selecting appropriate command. It is also rather easy to find them all but random encounter spots are sometimes not obvious. Unlike standard RPGs there are no armors or weapons but there are accessories and consumable items. Story is rather simple and for the most part predictable. There is pretty good maps variety and design but locations are mostly small. You can easily complete all under 20h. Not bad so far so where is the problem? Bugs, bugs, bugs. Bugs everywhere. Man, this is possibly the most buggy title I have ever played. Some that are quickly visible are: - walking outside maps and getting stuck - unequippable items when you stand in a wrong spot - NPC chat not activating in many locations - equips disappearing when new one is equipped before unequipping the previous one - bugged achievements and quests - 18+ patch not working - some art not shown at all (just blank screen) - bugged archived story menu - bugged maps preventing going back - bugged skills - bugged nymphapaedia displaying only Frea's skills - badly displayed menu windows ...and that is not an exhaustive list of issues. It is seriously bad and often annoying. Also, badly designed saving system not showing you which save is which. Navigation controls are also more unintuitive and cumbersome than they should be. This mountain of issues spoils fun too much to enjoy this title. Art choice is rather unique. Characters reminds me of bubbledolls from Funko Pop; weird choice if you ask me. I can't say I like this style. Also, nymphs art is very uneven. Few look relatively nice but a lot of them look simply bad. I'm pretty sure several artists worked on this which would explain the differences in style. I have no complaints about maps design though, they were done pretty well. Music is fine. Nothing outstanding or memorable but tracks match most events well. Still, the moments when track don't fit are a bit grating though. Also, some audio bugs are here as well. Eh... Overall, a Pokemon inspired RPG with some lewd art of average length. While there are few nice design choices the collosal number of bugs kills most fun you could have here. I simply can't recommend this 'bugs collection': 3.4/10