The Use of Life

RPGの面白いところだけをぶち込んで煮詰めた濃汁ハイカロリーゲーム！ 強敵との死闘にワクワクする人間にオススメです。 ただ、ゲーム内の攻略ヒントが他に類を見ないほど充実していて、難易度もかなり下げられます。 したがって、【難しいゲームは苦手だけどストーリーやキャラに興味がある人】にもオススメできると思います。

A fantastic little hidden gem. From the moment I launched it and started playing, I could not put it down until I'd gotten every ending in the game. The Use of Life is an RPG with a combat system designed around dodging and guarding via quick-time events, while you use up to 3 actions on your turn to build up a combo for big damage, or to prepare to use that same QTE to parry and counter the enemy attacks. The game gradually gets you used to the combat system and ramps up the difficulty until you become stunned by how quickly you're managing to parry and dodge attacks, all while doing satisfyingly big numbers back. Its a rather hard game, especially on its actual hard mode which increases enemy speed and the time it takes to kill them. Normal will still give you plenty of challenge if hard's too hard for you, as even on normal it took me 20 to 30 tries to kill the hardest bosses in the game. But if all you care about is the story, you can customize and tweak the game's difficulty in any way you like. You can make it trivially easy if you want, and I still think you'd have a good time with it! The Use of Life is a very story-driven game. Its doesn't have a lot of characters, but the few it has are utilized extremely well and are fleshed out over the course of the narrative to have some really satisfying arcs. The main character, Goshe, is also very interesting; he has some recurring traits in every route, but the choices you make with him will really shape his personality as the game progresses. And I don't mean that as in he has no personality, rather, his personality very clearly reflects the choices you make throughout the game. If you prioritise power, Goshe *will* become more callous, revenge-fueled and cold-hearted, forsaking everything for his quest. If you play him as a kind hearted individual, he'll feel that way too. No matter what choices you make, Goshe is an extremely compelling and nuanced character and a great protagonist for a game like this. To go into detail on any specific aspect would be spoiling the experience, so I'll leave it there for now. But like plenty of other reviews say, the choices you make through the narrative really feel like they mattered by the end, as they play a big influence in the endings you can get. If there's one complaint I would have with this game, its that I wish it had even more to explore- I wanted to stay in this world longer and see other directions Goshe's life could have taken. I wanted more insanely fun boss fights. I wanted to see if the game could spin its themes into even more narratives. But what is here is excellent, and an absolute steal for its asking price. I highly reccommend it.

This is probably one of the best games i randomly came across incredible art, music and story

The game has a bit of jank, but a lot of heart. The combat is sort of like Expedition 33 with the modular defensive options. Block or dodge during the enemy's turn with various arrow prompts. Dodges will always be up, down, or left with a timing window. Or you can press right to block, hedging your bets and taking out the guesswork for less reduction than a dodge. Every stat feels useful, and there are multiple endings and classes to encourage replays if so inclined. The story is part revenge fantasy part power-of-friendship adventure. Your choices shape your ending route and some choices that seemed trivial at the time get callbacks later to tip the scales. There isn't meant to be a right or wrong ending, but I was satisfied with where I landed. My main issue is that the lives and checkpoints system feels out of place for a JRPG. The game is generous enough with the checkpoints on normal, but it can still make some segments more tedious than needed. Also, the final boss for Ending 2 has a really tedious gimmick. It makes sense in the narrative, but it just drags on longer than it has to.

一つエンディングクリアしたので感想を。 私は冒険者（少し影があるタイプ）とちびっ子（ひたむき、健気、光属性)のコンビが大好きです！ えぇ、正直刺さりまくりました。 主人公にははじめ、主人公自身を優先させる選択肢のみ選ばせておりました。 ですが、竜の子ども、コハクちゃんと合流後はその子の成長や気持ちを大切にする選択肢を選びました。だってかわいいんだもんコハクちゃん。ころころ変わる表情にほっこり。おまんが親。 戦闘面ですが、そこまで凝る感じではない気がします。（※一エンディングクリアのみの育成具合なので、もっと色々楽しめるという方もいらっしゃるかもしれません。あくまで個人の感想です。） ボス戦はゲージを削り切るのに時間がかかるので、ボタンをポチポチおす作業している感じでした。 マップ探索はスゴロクっぽい形で、面白かったです。 定価で買いましたがストーリーとキャラが好きで満足し、高評価してます。コハクちゃんと主人公の関係性にコレダヨコレェ！となりました。ゴクゴク 私がどのエンドに辿り着いたか、プレイ済みの方はお気づきかもしれません。 他のエンドも回収するぞ〜 体験版公開されているので、興味を持った方はぜひ〜

全結局過完後算好玩的。米沙線比琥珀線簡單，給的裝備強度也差很多[spoiler] 例如某件讓攻擊變很好躲的裝備 [/spoiler]。雖然是回合制，但靠QTE來躲敵人招式真的是超好的設計。

買ってはいましたが、完成するまで寝かせていました。 一つのエンディングまでゆっくり進めても２０時間ほど。大作ではないです。 ただ、シナリオは自分にはあまり引っかかる所はなく、納得して進められるので良かったです。ゲームブック系ではそこが大事だと思うので。 また、QTEがわりと不評ですが、爺になった私の指でもEASYならそこまで苦労せずなんとかなったので、意地を張らずに自分の腕に合わせれば良い話かと。 まあ、最初NORMALでやったらバー移動が本当に爆速で唖然とさせられたので、そりゃあくまでNORMALで攻略する事に拘ればなんだこれ（怒）となりますわ。 敵の攻撃それぞれでバーの移動速度が変わるのが単純な速さよりも厄介かも。どうしてもperfectを目指したくなりますが、失敗さえしなければ良いと割り切るのも大切です。 各ステータスが割と均等に意味を持っているのでクラスに合わせて成長させると結構戦いがそれぞれのスタイルに沿っていくので楽しい。 総じてとても良いゲームでした！コハクは可愛いねえ。爺はエンディング４は選べそうもないよ。

有人說反應速度不夠，我倒是覺得還好，而且不是給你調難度了嗎？不至於打不過吧？全結局普通難度通關，反正我對每個最後boss都很滿意，也被打死幾次，非常合理的明白是我自己失誤，所以沒問題(某勇者：看好了這是我的絕活！我：媽媽救救我啊！！！！！) 特別喜歡我們可愛蘿莉劇情，不只是她是首次通關路線，對於我自己的選擇峰迴路轉(竟然差4%就差點沒了......但是我成功啦哈哈哈！)，最終來到這個我所選擇的結局，我由衷認為實在是太好了，非常喜歡這個故事的人物刻劃，如果認真好好選擇，在最後的最後那個體驗絕對是最完美的吧？ 我還要看大成功跟部分大失敗的文本，我的天啊特定狀況大失敗真的太好擲了(我居然在沙塵暴活下來了？？？)，儘管掛掉了，但我覺得非常好，畢竟這就是隨機狀況。 非常感謝作者做出這款遊戲，我非常開心！