Agarest: Generations of War Zero

Agarest: Generations of War Zero has some different flaws. One of the bigger flaws is one of the core-features of the game - the Extended Areas-Feature. Extended Areas means that you can link Character-Attacks with each other. The problem with that feature is that the linked characters randomly and uncontrollable jump from one Map Panel to a nearly enemy panel to attack the enemy. There's no real control behind it and that has certain disadvantages: fragile chars like magicians waste an AoE-Cast which normally could hit 3-4 targets at once on a single target cause the placement of the AoE-Cast is random, too. This way the fragile magicians waste lots of MP and are standing wide open for counter attacks - AND the enemy uses Extended Area-Links as well. Also there exists a lot of enemies who have passive skills which activate when they've only a certain amount of HP left. From that on they dodge any kind of physical attack with a 100% chance - which also makes the Battles quite long-winded and which also questions the extended-area system, cause the outcome by random-placing casts and chars isn't very reliable. So, all in all the Extended Areas have more disadvantages than real advantages: it's easier to lose a char like a magician permanently by Extended-Areas counter than to gain anything with it. Other features have their flaws. too. For example at the main char creation there exists at least one Tarot Card-Combination which can crashes the game at the first tutorial fight. Also the "Generation-Concept" is something you can love or hate, cause it includes that you permanently lose your own created main char and exchange it for a 2nd or 3rd generation main char later on, which is interesting, cause no one warns you earlier on, that this would happen. BUT HEY! *SPOILER* ;-)

I am not a frequent player of Japanese RPGs but I do like them from time to time. This one is definitely the worst I've played. I liked the game for several hours but after that it started to become more and more annoying. - The game is far from being complex. You could say it doesn't get any simpler than this. You read dialogues without making any decisions and you fight the very same fights over and over again. Yet there is so much I didn't know about for hours and probably still don't. For example abbreviations are not explained at all. I had to find them in a forum where people were guessing what they could mean. - The fights are very simple, always the same, and yet you could probably write an essay about which monster can be defeated best by which combination of the thousands of unnecessary techniques. So of course you could fight the battles using great strategies but you have to invest hours into research just to give this game some form of meaning. - The fights can only be won because of a very limited AI. The most important strategy in this game is to exploit the gaps in the AI and hope that the AI does not, by chance, make a random move and wipe you party out. - In case your party was wiped out you will probably want to reload. This usually happens during major battles. Preceding major battles are major dialogues which can last for minutes. You can fast forward them but it will still take a minute or two because characters moving still move at the same pace. Diaglogue cannot be skipped. - Choosing a mate seems to be one of the goals. It is probably a Japanese thing that all the candidates are girls who are/act like they are between 8 and 12 years old. So my guess is you either have to be younger than 15 yourself if you can listen to them without gagging or you...are into this. The game is better than one or maybe two stars. The first few hours are ok if you like fights and improving your partystats. But after that this game just becomes annoying + boring

This game is extremely broken. The character models in the Visual novel portions completely break. Their skin deletes, their bodies detatch, they end up with 5 different faces. They have no eyes. It's terrifying. This game is nightmare fuel, and no options in the game fix it. Unfortuantely I bought this on sale and can't refund it cause it was too long ago, but I'd suggest not buying this unless you plan on trying it within GoG's refund window.

Tried all possible compatibility modes in Advanced Settings but no way to make the game start... theoretically there is a any way to get refund?

This game is trash.