Stranger of Sword City

I bought this game impulsively after seeing a video about it and liked it fairly well at first. The more I played it though, the more I came to dislike it. My main issue with the game is really just the lives/age/attribute rolling stuff for characters. Characters young enough to have spare lives feel weak, and losing a life feels like a waste worth reloading a save. On the other hand, playing with old characters you get higher stats but you run the risk of losing minutes or even hours of playtime whenever you die, which sucks. It's really too bad because there are parts of this game I do actually like.

新釈プレイ済。steamでセールだったので購入しました。ゲームシステム自体は楽しめたもののがバグ（？）が酷い状況でした。私の環境問題のみでないと思いますが、魔法選択画面でLRボタンで魔法が使えないキャラクターに変えてしまうとフリーズし、また、鉄の廟の怪しい老人に会ってこい、と言われたものの、どこにも老人がいない（攻略サイト確認済）ため、進行不可となってしまい継続断念しました。操作面は気をつけることで何とかできると思うものの、データセーブ済みでフラグ問題は何ともしようがない…。まあ、安物買いの銭（時間？）失いと思い教訓にすることとします。

I finished this game twice. I loved it.

작품자체는 할만한데......후속작격인 물건이 이거랑 합본팩으로 나와서 이거 사기는 좀 괴랄해진 작품. 혹시 지금 구매할 생각이 있다면 사파이어 번들 내에 있는 리비지티드 버전 합본판을 사면 같은게임의 확장판을 주는격이라.... 문제는 이게 사파이어날개의 구원자에 보너스로 얹어주는 개념이라 추가패치버전 하겠다고 평가가 좀 더 떨어지는 후속작과의 합본을 구매해야하는가가 미묘.... 특히 나는 합본 나오기 전의 이버전읋 이미소유중이라..... 자세한 사정을말하자면..... 현재 항목이 원래 게임인 검의 거리의 이방인의 PC판이고 리비지티드 버전이 PS VITA로 나온 검의거리의 이방인-흑의궁전 판이다. 바뀌는 내용은 중입엔딩시에 약간의 스토리 추가사항이있고 흑의궁전이라는 던전이 하나 추가되었다고 한다. .............................................................덤으로 엑스박스판으로는 백의 궁전이라는 버전이 나와있다고 한다. 일단 한국어판이 없기때문에 영어의 압박을 넘을수있다면 던전크롤링의 명작으로 불리는 작품이기에 나쁘지는 않은데 위에 말했듯 이물건을 살거면 차라리 합본판을 사는게 어떨까......를 고민해보자(음냐)

Me da pena pensar que probablemente no vuelva a jugar algo como esto nunca más u_u Musica soberbia, ilustraciones preciosas, atmosfera increible, dificultad absurdamente elevada pero extrañamente justa: a diferencia de otros RPGs aca las victorias son mucho mas sabrosas despues de todas las canas que te hacen salir. La historia se vuelve un poquillo confusa al final, pero aun asi es muy solido. Glorioso. Lo unico malo que quiza le veria (en mi caso no me parecio tan terrible pero lo reconozco) es la cantidad de grinding necesario. Por cierto, cuando no sepan que hacer, usen un Ninja, parece choto al principio pero es una clase bastante OP en utility y mas adelante en daño incluso, y hay un jefe particular que solamente un ninja puede matarlo segun se :V. Ah, y no se olviden de tener al menos un nivel de Giant, es super util.

20～30年前に出会っていたら面白かったかもしれない

Both times I played it separately(years apart) it randomly crashed and I lost a lot of progress. Im good, thanks

This game is hard and will ensure you that its not gonna hold your hand one indication of this is that every enemy packs a punch, your allies especially in early game is very weak expect to see them get decimated even on the beginner dungeon since every enemy is either very high in level or the same if your lucky and fight easy targets most enemies are higher in level than your party probably level 20 while your whole party still level 5 and very slow which in this scenario you'll see them get attacked by only one enemy in its respective row which attacks for multiple times (depends) in one turn, remember this is only one target in the row the situation will be even more grim when its multiple enemies that are very fast in multiple rows which will definitely encourage some to grind on that sweet,sweet AGI and trying buff every turn which in turn makes the combat slower ( this is a turn based game). However this is not the only reason why this game will be even more slower than normal since it employs a life system which will definitely have permanent death if an respective character/Party Member gets defeated a life point will be consumed. Now then you'll ask how does the life system work, it all depends on the age of an character as older it is the less life will it get however if younger the more life it gets. Age also is an contributing factors of stats, for how old or young they will have a set of bonus stats they'll can attribute to your character for young they are lower for the old characters they will be higher. it all comes down to age whether it will be easier to roll good stat. Another one is that this game also employs a hospitalization system which will force you to rest for few in game days (you need to fight to progress it i think) your party if ever a member is defeated and after that you'll need to make it rest again to recover its life point for an even longer in game day. Still this game does have instant recovery button which will sped up the recovery process the only downside is that prices will scale up with your level meaning the higher you are the expensive it is this stands true for the recover life point this scales up way to high making it very very expensive to even afford to sped up the process since its much more important to buy support items. There are items that heals life points though very rare and items that auto revives a character so just grind away. Due to the life point system you'll probably be forced to create more party members to cycle as a spare if you ever need. Even if not they also give money which will help you gain another source of income in the game. And yes they also give you a save button and load button on the base giving you another option to just save and load at every mistake how its your choice on whats your strategy on it. Another thing is that the shop where you buy stuff does not resupply making it not a go to for buying healing items that much since if you'll get caught off guard and you have no healing magic it will severely ruin the experience this is however not a really massive issue i just don't like it. Good ui though its not bad compared to abyss another game of experience. Regarding everything i have said above its still however a fun game offered a good difficulty trying to finished it and it took quite a while for me to beat it and very easy achievements to get and complete so if you still find it interesting i highly recommend you to play it and if you want more they still have a lot of games that feels like this which is like Operation abyss new tokyo legacy. and if you really want this i highly suggest to really learn more of the mechanics and systems of this game since it can get confusing.

[h1] 新釈もいいけどやっぱりこれよ [/h1] すっごく人を選ぶRPGの代表格ともいえる作品。刺さる人には刺さるが、合わない人にはとことん合わないし合わせる必要性はない。ただ人生において本作を体験できない、それだけのことである。 『新釈・剣の街の異邦人』をプレイしたあとだと、まあストレスフルな作品。しかし私はこの作品じゃないと満足できない体になってしまっている。哀れ。 [h2] 個人的に好きな点 [/h2] まずなんと言っても命中率の低さ。この低さがたまらないのだ。当たってくれ！と願いながらボタンを押す緊張感は最高である。受けるダメージもとんでもない。味方のHPはあってないようなものなので、序盤でも一撃で死ぬなんて日常茶飯事だ。生命点1以外は基本メリットがないのでロストしたら勿論セーブからやり直しだ。UIはお世辞にも分かりやすいとは言えず、こんな機能がこんなところにあったのか、という発見が楽しめるぞ。 そしてこの旧釈最大のおすすめポイントは、やはり蝶の巣狩りだろう。やり方が分かれば何時間でもダンジョンに籠っていられる。そしてミスったら膨大な時間が無駄になる緊張感……素晴らしい。 [h2] 批難されるであろうポイント [/h2] まずなんと言っても命中率の低さ。この低さははっきり言ってストレスフルだ。私のようにゲームにストレスを求める人間ならご褒美なのだが、普通はこれを受け入れられないだろう。受けるダメージもとんでもない。味方のHPはあってないようなものなので簡単に味方が死んでいく。ロストした日にはもう二度とこのゲームをプレイしたくなくなるだろう。UIはお世辞にも分かりやすいとは言えず、なれるまでに時間がかかる。 蝶の巣狩りについては本当に好みが分かれる。正直こんなに簡単に経験値が手に入るなら今までの苦労はなんだったんだ、と思う方もいるだろう。 [h2] 総評 [/h2] やはり最高のゲームだ。私はこの先何度もこのゲームをプレイするだろう。

It was ok, a couple of very heavy RNG achievements but nothing a few hours of farming didnt solve. I dont get why they forced the underwear thing and some thirsty ecchi scenes here and there but whatever, The story started out pretty good but then it dissolved into cliches and predictability, very disappointing but I enjoyed the game mechanics and building up my party to be able to curb-stomp anything the game threw at me. Anyway, Ill give it 6 roasted crab monsters out of 10 painful ninja penetrating assassinations.