Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero Review (Shujin)
I was really looking forward to this title, and the concept in itself is fun and enjoyable.
However there are some bugs in the game, that softlock you sometimes:
-The Bounce Physics are ASS. when you drop of a ledge and lend on something/someone you begin an loop of bouncing higher and higher, sometimes the control is taking from you aswell, so you just keep watching someone bounce up and down higher and higher untill the game decides to PAINFULLY SLOWLY, descend at snail speed down to the ground. The longest loop I had with this where I could do nothing was 5 minutes. And it makes moving to certain spots borderline impossible, its way too aggressive.
-The ragdoll physics in this game suffer a similar problem. If an enemy dies and a body part of it for example a tail of a monster clips with a weapon, you can watch minutes how the ragdoll is freaking out without the abillity to do anything about it. Eventually the game decide to move of and let the ragdoll freak out, but its inhumane how long they expect us to watch this.
Also everytime one of those gltiched out ragdolls happen EVERY turn end, takes a few seconds before it ends.
-AI Pathfinding seems too dumb. Often I just watch the AI walk straight against an object for 10 seconds, and then end their turn, when they could have easily just jumped or made a single step to the side to walk around it.
Generally all problems I have with the game come from time wasters like this one time had been softlocked and had to reset. They happen SO often too, espically in dungeons.
then the DLC's are disgustingly overpriced. So I won't really talk about it, but I mention it here, cause apperently they had no time to playtest this, but enough time to ask for more money, while failing at simple quality ensurance. Did no one playtest this? The problems are happening every second battle atleast in some capacity.
The game itself is fine otherwise, good improvements mechanically from the Original, but aslong as this faulty gameplay mechanic is not fixed to work in a way where I do not have to watch some lonely toons bouncy castle stuff to happen for minutes and minutes, this is not a recommend.
Will change once thats fixed cause the rest of the game is actually fun.