For starters, I want to say that I didn't finish The Technomancer. I ended my playthrough when I got to noctis. The experience I had before I got to noctis was so disappointing that I couldn't keep playing for the sake of my mental health. The main character sounds like he has no willpower and wants to end his life, this combined to the extremely repeatative backtracking and running around the same pathways made me start to question my sanity. Like I started to feel depressed playing this game. Then I read about a glitch in the second chapter, which the developers never fixed, that prevents progressing and this added anxiety to the mix of negative emotions. After the experience I had I just can't give this game a better score. I was excited for The Technomancer as I know that Spiders is a talented studio and I enjoyed their previous games, mars war logs and bound by flame. It's like the team, after showing progress in their games, took 4 steps behind. and didn't even bother to fix the game breaking bug that plagues the game to this day. -Slinger91
Ara Fell: enhanced edition is a fantastic 16-bit RPG that follows in the footsteps of the classics like final fantasy 6 but adding it's own flavor to it. The graphics are spot on and the artist did a great work on the sprites. Really nice, colorful visuals that charmed me from the beginning to the end. The battle system is unique in that you replenish your mp every turn which was a nice thing. You could keep using special abilities, which the battle system was clearly designed around and it changes the formula of just attacking and saving the special attacks against bosses, which made the battle system more engaging. Story wise there was plenty of things going on. You meet a lot of different characters with many with their own agendas so the story wasn't a clear cut good against evil setting, which made the story more interesting to follow. Where it falls short being a classic was the character development. There wasn't a deep growth ark with any of the characters even though they were "good enough" for the sake of the story which keeps Ara Fell from being a classic. The game's pacing was good and the game kept introducing new things all the time to keep the adventure fresh. The ending left kinda more to be wanted and it's like the developers left the doors open for a sequel but at this point they are not developing a sequel to my knowledge. All in all,l the developers of Ara Fell created an example how to create something new with something old and I recommend this game to anybody who is even mildly interested in this game. -Slinger91
