The quality of this game, from the story to the art and what it leaves behind in my heart and mind-- I have nothing but big praises for this game. It's solid, it's full of unexpected turns and the last time I felt this intrigued and invested was when I tried Dragon Age 1, for the first time. You won't expect a thing and I love that, and there's so much to discover. I'm 16 hours in and I still haven't uncovered all the secrets this world has to offer. I wish to make this review as spoiler-free as possible, so I'll be careful on my next wording here: The replayability of this game, is insane and the 'next chapter after the final chapter' feels like a whole different story due to the choices you made throughout!
You know when you watched a spectacular movie, and you don't know where to start, when your friends ask you, "So, how was it?"-- You want to talk about so many things and in the end, you just ended up mashing everything good together because it was just that fun of a journey.
Oh, and I was never a fan of management games, even if I play some of them. Not because I hate them but usually during the 'management' part, I feel like I get slowed down and my inventory ends up getting too messy, etc. etc., but this game made me feel like a jerk for thinking management games are sluggers. The consequences and outcomes are so fun and interesting to witness, and it's making me open up my heart to this genre tenfold. It rewards your careful planning, second thoughts and hard-work.
You love beautiful knights from a rich world, and intriguing stories attached to those knights AND your character, the sovereign? Management game that got a lot of depth to it? Consequences and rewards that will widen your eyes to new outcomes? This game, you can't miss.
Hmm, as for if anything bothered me or that I wish to see improved?
It wouldn't hurt for the training and the armor repair areas to have 'repair all' or 'train all' or 'train available knights'. And I do think the categorization of the items should be improved. It was way too tedious for me. Why not those UI filter checklists, where if you're looking for MAG items, you open a filter checklist and click a tick at only the MAG items so that ONLY those items will show up? I just feel it will be quite helpful than just scrolling to the right and having to face the pop-ups constantly, until you come across the stats you're looking for.
Also, this is my greed talking, don't take this seriously, it's just me being so in love with the characters: I would love individual ending scenes with the knights we chose to romance, and more of the knights interacting with each other. I LOVE THEM. THEY'RE ALL SO GOOD.
Other than that? IT'S ALL AWESOME.
