CrossCode

title says it all, it is shockingly good got it as an experiment, thinking worst come to worst i would just refund it. now i have told pretty much everyone with an ear and vague interest in gaming specifically puzzle, platformer, action combat with a nice coating of rpg to try it out. it is adorable and controller keyboard snapping hard and i love it! have not tried to see how it is to play it with reduced difficulty but the option is there combat feel chunky and impactful, nice use of camera movements and sounds with visual effects puzzles incorporate the gameplay so your "basic attack" is part of the puzzle and the art. the art is amazing

The battle system is very good. The story is very very good. I loathe the puzzles. For the first 20 hours the puzzles are okay. At around the 30 hour mark I turned the puzzle timer down to 50%, the minimum setting. At the 40 hour mark I had had enough, I began using Youtube for all puzzles. The worst part of the puzzles is you always feel like an idiot. The puzzles introduce the most basic of concepts to you, ie this block does that, this power does this to that block, then in the next room proceeds to completely catch you off guard by shuffling the deck. What I'm trying to say is that the puzzles do not build off of each other making you feel like you're learning, getting smarter, and are in control. It's more like aceing a physics exam, then being immediately thrown into an english literature exam. Or perhaps...going from playing Tetris, to playing Bejewelled, to playing Myst. Even worse...if you're an acheivement hunter, the puzzles are timed. There are also puzzles to defeating the bosses, especially the final boss. These puzzles are not difficult as long as you have the stats to survive the battle to figure them out. If your stats are high you will not need a second try or Youtube to figure it out. I like those kinds of puzzles. There is one other bad facet of the puzzle system that extends to the rest of the game. Frequently you do not know if you have the ability to do something. Can you get that chest on this screen with your current power set? No way...it's too far away. However, in actuality you could, you just needed to enter the screen from 3 screens ago. Can you find and talk to an NPC and his NPC friend in the city in order to further the plot? Well I went all over every inch of that city exploring and I never saw him or his friend. Oh...I got the bad ending...so...he and his friend WERE there!?!? DAMNIT!!! I'm giving it a 4/5 because the battle system, world, and story are good enough to make me power through the 500 obtuse puzzles.

大型MMO怎么能缺了你呢（雾）啊，确实有种MMO的感觉 我起初是被画面吸引来的。但这款游戏的优点绝不止于画面之独特。 写该评论时，我的游戏时间已经超过98小时。游戏里最吸引我的几点是：画面、战斗、剧情。而最劝退人的几点是：解谜、收集。 画面和音效或许是我个人偏好，但仍可以看出整个游戏在这两个方面下了很多功夫。如果你喜欢像素风、16bit，那这款游戏应该不会让你失望。 战斗过程非常流畅，这应该算游戏卖点之一。一方面，有很多炫酷技能可供使用，战斗也只需要在野外即可随意触发、脱战；另一方面，没有很高的死亡惩罚，游戏甚至偶尔会在你失败的时候安慰你，我在各种意义上都玩得很开心。感觉很轻快、自由。 剧情方面，游戏主线剧情完整，主角的朋友们也有很丰满的形象，甚至支线都非常不错。 本来我觉得对话形式的剧情引导并不能给玩家带来很大沉浸感，我错了。主角团的人物都有种奇妙的活力。小队成员会主动发言就很赞。 解谜和收集或许是这款游戏最劝退玩家的部分，因为这两个部分靠的是操作实力，而非数值。各种定时机关要求时间卡得很准，不少重要的收集品都要经过一连串平台跳跃、限时机关才能够到。这或许也是游戏引入辅助模式的原因之一吧。强迫症得小心，全收集肯定得花好久。好在游戏最后还提供了找箱子的道具，也不用满地图一寸一寸找。 在地牢中解谜与战斗的穿插有点像五花肉，有相互协调的作用。要是从头到尾都是解谜或战斗，我估计就要疯了…… 不得不说，游戏有一定难度，但我还是在正常模式下通关了。希望大家都能体会到这款游戏的乐趣。

And that's not to say that this review is based on the nostalgia factor. Actually, as a game goes, it's extremely well designed and fun. It was clearly designed with the sights and sounds of games like Brainlord and Secret of Mana. You do get party companions, and the premise of Cross Code is super cool. It isn't based on 1990's thinking. It's based on 2015 thinking. Modern day elements drive the story arc and getting to know the storyline and characters has been enjoyable to say the least. In the game, there are in-game NPC's, that the game actually tells you are NPC's, and then you have npc's that are presented as actual people within the game. I won't spoil it too much here, but the concept really is genious and it's an absolute pleasure to get to know what's going on in with the storyline. Whether you play on keyboard or gamepad, the control system is tailored to your gaming play style. Playing with a gamepad is INCREDIBLE, as it utterly has that SNES feel, but MAN your options with the gamepad are robust. Also, instead of the up-down-left-right gamepad style of SNES, the gamepad style of Cross Code has your toon running around in a 360 degree analogue fashion. Like every other modern game in there. Playing Cross Code has brought be back to playing SNES, except with all of the upgrades and improvements of not only modern day hardware, but with incredibly well thought out game world and storyline. If you're sitting on the price tag, don't bother. Other games like oh, ACTUAL secret of mana, even on android, runs you close to $30, and that's just a re-hash of an ages old game. This one is 100% worth the purchase even at full price, and that's saying a lot, I've spent over 150,000 hours of my life playing video games over the last 35 years. I know what I'm saying, and this is one of my top RPG's of all time. And yes, I've played them all! JUST BUY IT!

I got this game through a bundle on Itch. The best way I can describe it is like Legend of Zelda on Steroids. The dungeons and combat are excellent, while also being quite difficult. The only real criticism I have is that the story kinda ends on a cliffhanger and you need the DLC(which I haven't played yet to get a proper conclusion. So keep that in mind before you get it.