Tower Song

Just getting started but so far so good. Very cool battle system and interesting story. Can’t wait to play more and level up my party. Definitely recommend!

Note: Somehow, I forgot to post me review here. My apologies to the dev as I did play this game and streamed it, finishing my run for the review on 5/13/2025. Tower Song is an interesting game. The story and the world building was enjoyable from start to finish. The ability to move about the map and between areas felt rather rewarding and it was interesting that certain items or paths were blocked out completely as the hero that you chose to play as determined what was available. This adds to a large level of re-playability, but can also make it feel like the player is missing out on things because they are not able to explore as much without going back through with a different hero each time. The use of Milestone levels versus grinding/exp levels is certainly an interesting touch not really seen in video games these days, and it is rather refreshing. Crafting doesn't feel like it is too much, and while it is the best way to progress equipment wise, it also doesn't feel like it is reaching its full potential. The maps are well done and fun to navigate through, and the world at times does feel lived in with either NPCs or just how things are laid out. However, it does have a glaring flaw in it. Tower Song is far from a bad game, but it does have some pain points that hammer at the score the most. Ignoring the few moments where you clip through or bypass a spot entirely due to a mapping error, the main issue with it tends to be the combat. Combat does have some nice, flaring animations on the screen for spells, abilities, etc. However, the image of the enemies you are fighting do not react to the damage or change after their health gets below a certain point. Instead they remain rather static throughout and while this is often seen in 8bit, 16bit, and 32bit retro games, it does not work as much here. With the higher definition of graphics, a part of you expects the image to change, but it never does. Additionally, while the battlebacks look nice, they don't always sit well as sometimes it feels like enemies are just floating there. Combat also has an issue with scaling/balancing. Sometimes you go into combat and wipe the enemy team out in 1 to 2 actions, but then the fight shortly after is very difficult. This makes the combat feel skewed one way or the other, which can be dangerous of either making your players bored or frustrated depending. The times it is skewed against you it is increasingly frustrating. One combat I spent the first few rounds doing nothing and just watching my party being wiped out because almost every enemy had stun locked each member two times in a row. Other times the enemies just had a very annoying AoE that they spammed almost every round, combined with some enemies that get 2 to 3 actions per round. Some of which are just automatic heals/shields/AoE damage. In short, the game has a good story and for the most part is nice to play through. However, the combat needs some heavy rebalancing.

I enjoyed the many different mechanics and the strategy involved in the combat. I got Chrono Trigger vibes mixed with the old Lord of the Rings for SNES. Great game!

A fun game with some great visuals. If you are looking for something with a PS2 era, JRPG feel with some robust combat mechanics, I think this is your game!

Haven’t had a chance to get too far in the non-demo version, but I played the crap out of the demo. I’ve been following this game since its super early conception, since the dev is a Discord friend, and all the work that’s gone into making it into a fully realized game world is incredible!

Old School

Surprisingly fun game.