Hyperdevotion Noire: Goddess Black Heart Review (CrunchyToast)
Bad...Just bad....From the typical "we invented a skip button for stories like these" banter to the massively dragged out battles with way too many repeating animations, super annoying map layouts which only work against your units and don't affect the cpu opponents (i.e. conveyor belts dragging you off and cancel your move once you even just step on it, but the cpu enemies can just stand on it as if it's normal floor...okay...), paired with a really terrible pathfinding system, where you have to manually adjust facial directions before walking to hopefully get a better straight line path to avoid some traps (spoiler : you don't) and chests you need the right affinity for to open them, which is the most terrible idea ever...Ice chest ? Don't have a character for that, hahaha...lightning chest ? Same thing, buddy, too bad, replay the damn map if you want it...
Oh yeah, you will replay the same maps over and over, because you also need to grind stuff...
I was doing relatively okay beating all side maps and still got wiped in 3 turns on the next story mission because the 2 main enemies do more damage than my characters even have..Can't also get any new equipment, because I lack all the stuff needed to craft something, yet I have like 200000 credits to spend on nothing..fun times...If my options are just to replay the garbage maps I was glad to beat, to harvest crap or slowly level my characters by them getting like 1 xp per defeated enemy or to just outright quit and never touch this game again, then it is an easy choice :p
And to close this review, the game crashed twice on me, lost its sound once and generally runs a bit sluggish at times for absolutely no reason. There's way better tbs games out there, good luck :o