Posted on: April 3, 2015

TyanmirRise
Verified ownerGames: 344 Reviews: 3
I so desperately wanted to love this
BUT.... The absolute tedium when it came to battle. The cookie-cutter story that doesn't seem to do much more than rehash old story beats from more famous JRPG greats. I got Pier Solar of a deal fairly recently after a LONG time of eyeing it on my Wishlist and have been quite disappointed. Especially coming off of something a tad similar like "The Legend of Heroes - Trails in the Sky" (I realize that this may not be a fair comparison but is the only one that comes to mind from the games I've recently played. Pier Solar has some good bits. The music both HDified and otherwise possesses a certain charm that is almost on par with the classics. The art style is actually pretty good when in HD visuals. Even the ambient sound design on FM or PCM are quite great. Again, sadly, that would be about it. When you have a lengthy adventure with a story that shows so many missed opportunities to shine. When your combat system is too tedious for its own good coupled with an atrocious random battle encounter rate. And when you're ONLY great characters are the main three that you meet early on (dependent on the flawed story of course).... Then there is a problem. Coming from a generation that enjoyed older JRPG greats like FFIV that Pier Solar was clearly trying to emulate, it's a great shame that it comes short at all.
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