Vambrace: Cold Soul

I've never played a game that hid how you have to do every action like a state secret. Nothing is obvious or designed intuitively and the combat feels boring and uniformed. 2 abilities one that attacks a target and another that does 6 true damage to one target. How much is a normal attack for? Couldn't tell you. Is it better than true damage, no clue because I have no idea what true damage is or what it does opposed to normal attack damage. These are not complex concepts and could be handled by telling you what any of those things are at any point other than finding optional scattered codex pages throughout the world.

After playing for a few rounds, I still can't get how to level up the characters. I keep losing them and getting materials to build armor is hard to come. I don't mind the difficulty, but it gets tiring and feels like you don't advance.

attractive women AND fun rpg AND nice story AND decent combat what else could i ever ask for

Good graphics and optimisation, indeed, but many of gamedesign choices, like crafting and using items in certain places only, sudden dialogue choices leading to missclicks, unabbility to see recruit's information before hiring them, little options, arguable upgrades, no recruit leveling, and so on... Are giving a not really good impression. So many things restraining player from getting real fighting improvement, like lack of worthy accessories and slots for them, unchangable skills and little information about everything... It's not "difficulty", it's game not being deep in it's mechanics.

A game world that is held up by it's unusual mythology and the developer's commitment to it.