Trials of Kokoro

Game was a ton of fun, full of touching moments and fun fights. The story does have some cliche moments, but overall was a blast, and the fights were fun and challenging. Definitely a great game to run through.

I loved it.

This is quite the game. The story so far is very good. I'm not into Visual Novels at all but this one I can't recommend enough. Adding in the RPG genre, the turn-based action is a lot of fun. Making me think and strategize my attacks is good. Art is nice, the music is very relaxing. So far, amazing title and the dev is awesome. Easy purchase.

An amazing game that no one should miss, especially if you like visual novels, JRPG-styled games, or just games with a profound and well-narrated story. This game is a mixture of a visual novel (containing a good amount of dialogues to read, using different characters moving through different locations within the game lore) and a turn-based tactical RPG (where you will control your heroes in very well- designed battles against various types of enemies and bosses) that excels at both. In one hand, the story is perfectly well tied, with characters that you will feel identified with, situations that will immerse you into weird storylines and convoluted plots. On the other hand, the battle system is really good, works smoothly and works on very standard bases (defeat the enemy, use elemental vulnerabilities to deal more damage, buff/debuff...) but with ingenious twists (e.g. specific types of actions needed in certain combats to resist instakill skills from enemies, amazing interaction between party members...) that will delight you for hours. While I initially thought this would be a good game for a weekend, after playing on the second hardest difficulty (out of 4 available), I can really tell that playing it for the story once, and playing it for the difficulty again is possible and will take you more than a weekend. I would recommend playing it in a difficulty other than the very easy one, so that you can experience the thrill of needing to boost your heroes correctly and use your skills wisely to defeat certain enemies, together with the big importance of building/structuring your team's equipment to match your preferred playstyle and also to counter the enemies you are to face. The visual aspect is fantastic, with really well-designed 2D handdrawn-styled environments and chracters, and with fantastic pseudo-3D effects for skills, cutscenes and others. The music is fantastic, and some songs are real earbugs and will stay in your brain for a while. The UI is very smooth, with no bugs and a perfect text and image adjustment, even with the longest texts. A perfect work of testing and adjusting done there, congratulations! If I had to mention stuff that I did not like, that will proably be customization. I believe there was much more room to create different types of builds on each hero that were not exploited completely. Also the fact that, despite the changes due to the story, you play always with the 'same' team, leaves you wondering how else this could have been boosted to actually increase replayability. I do understand that visual novels can have limited replayability and tend to focus on something else, it just felt too good of an opportunity to not exploit it. But I'm sure there will be more about this game developer, and will be as good as this one. I personally miss having this game translated into other languages,especifically to mine (Spanish). Although I know visual novels might lose autenthicity in the process of localization, if the chosen translator is good enough, not only the translation will be good, but it would also immerse the player even more into its story. Plus it would attract people that love visual novels but that do not have a good enough level of English to play it in such a language, which is a fair amount and that usually expose their concerns about wanting a story that feels close to them by using their language. After all, everyone understands UI elements in English nowadays (Attack, Skill, Enemy, Level...), but it is not the same when you write about situations like 'courage', 'respect', 'love' or 'duty', among others, which are very present in this game. Maybe consider it for next one. I'm sure your gaming community will appreciate it. Overall, I think it is well worth it's price, because you are supporting a dev that is deeply engaged with his players, and that keeps developing quality products without the hassles of big companies. In a world where games are not entertainment anymore but just a business (too many games released per month, too little time and money to play them all), this game will allow you to slow down, enjoy a true masterpiece done with the heart, and start loving gaming again. Well done, TD Games! Looking forward for more!

I really liked this game. You can tell the combat was well thought out from the feel of it. Its not another RPG where you mindlessly auto attack. But its also not overly complicated for no reason. And the lack of an open world and more of a visual novel style was pretty nice tbh. No getting lost, just straight to the point. All killer no filler. Likable cast and enough twists and turns to keep me guessing. Really looking forward to what's next from the creator.

Trials of Kokoro ToK is a unique game that blends visual novel and turn based combat well. It has awesome characters and writing. The combat is smooth and explained well. I enjoy the strategy behind the fights as well. If you mess up the game is unforgiving, but if you plan right you will be victorious! The message behind the story is a good one and one I think people should read and learn from. Overall a very solid game and worth playing and supporting the dev!

game good.

A cute, well written game with a catgirl in it. Game is a lot of fun with plenty of modes no matter whether your casual or hardcore.