Masters of Anima

The controls are not perfect but usuable and you can rebind keys. The game is hectic and chaos but imo that is how it is supposed to be otherwise you could just place your army and reposition them now and then. To be honest I was frustrated quite a bit in the later levels (finished it today) but after I beat the final boss i went back to get some collectibles and sudenly I was able to beat these easier monsters with an S rank - so it's all about practice. Okay, I have to admit that those timed sequences the other review mentioned are really trial and error and trying to get get faster and you will die quite a few times before making it. However the sections are quite short and there are only a few of them inside the whole game (I only experienced the mentioned aiming problem of the archer in one of those sequences and you have to position your archers correctly to be able to hit the target and not the stone - slo, don't be too close, that was the secret for me). These sections and the puzzle and search sequences prevent the game from becoming just a game about battle and therefore prevents the game from getting boring. The game autosaves often and at the end of each level - collectibles are saved independent from the chosen difficulty (3 difficulties available) while rank is dependent from the chosen diffilculty. Therefore you can use the easiest level to get some of those collectibles you might have missed in your first playthrough and you can freely chose the level. This gives a bit of replayabilty since some of those. collectibles are well hidden.