Reviews for Crystal Story

[LionHeartedLEOS]

Meh...

I am a huge RPG fan, I have played one of atleast every type of RPG and RPG series out there.

The reason I didnt like this so much, even though it is a great game is because... of unoriginality.

Battle system, level system, item system, and character designs aswell as names are all stolen prettty much or tweaked barely.

Level system- Dragon Quest. Its almost exactly like it, some name changes and instead of stat increases you give buff spells. It even has omnislash for some characters.

Character Designs- Tristam looks like goku, and has his outfit just recolored oraneg n red instead of blue n orange. he has similar hair n face expressions and movements except wields a katana.

Kaeli looks EXACTLY Like Tifa in her redone look in Advent Children Cinema. The only differense is one again re colors, make everything black and vwala. also she wilds a bow.

Phoebe is Ramona from Scott Pilgrims twin, even wields a hamemr and has a weapon names ramona. just recolor and take goggles off.

And finally Reuben... he actually looks very uinique actually... but very bland he wears a t shirt with a long sleeve under adn ahoody he lets down like a samurai coat when he fights... im so so for him.

fighting is just like final fantasys/ dragon quests. But thats not a biggy since thast teh genre so. but allot of attacks are names the same.

Some animations are lazy and when ever someone uses a melee skill or spell they so the same animation, even like frost strike and the frost spell stuff like that they looks exactly the saem just different attack variable.

Even though this is a recurring problem in every video game, you use alot of over used monsters even stole some like slimes. skeletons and other such monsters are to corny but thats not your fault. I only blame you for takine monsts like slime and even having slime king and such.

Walkign around looks really lame how it has oen sprite animation.

I do however love the random dungeon and i like the random weapon stats. it is a well balanced game and its fun but.. i think htat because you took so many elements from other games, which every big game developers so now... I want to see something original for once. Newgroudns opens up a new door to endless possibilities to do that and i was hoping for more.

Anyway in conclusion, this game is fun, and i keep playing but its onlyu good because of others ideas... not yours... you seriously just pieced popular video game rpg mechanics into it.

My suggestion is, REDO your character designs, when you change weaposn the weapon actually changes, make spells and attacks of the saem element and power level so different animations, have them do a unique animation for spells attacks and skills, like when Tristam uses his flam strike he does a kamehameha stance and somehow the enemies slashed then fire spurts out. Make that a sword swing animation but different from the attack one.

If it was your truest attention to mimic final fantasy, dragon quest, star ocean etc then thats sad if not thats uncanny but i doubt u didnt. im sorry if i seem to rough with my criticism but that my opinion. It IS a good game though. Obviously many people like it so be proud but I implore you, please be mroe unique and put in diffferent character designs etc.

If you would like I will provide character designs for you that are unique and not from major manga/anime/video games.

[Panachinator]

A resounding MEH

Good game, does nothing to break the mold of "generic RPG" and ultimately falls flat on its face.
It's a bloody bag of grind that you're forced into to get "achievements". Cool, explore every map tile of every floor which i will make increasingly large as you go and i will not reward you. Fight every batch of easy-ass monsters on the way too. Did I mention that you need to explore everything and grind monsters until your eyes bleed?
There are several nitpicks that just wreck the game for me. The characters are pretty lazily drawn and animated to the point where a great deal of monsters look better done. The "humour" consists of references to games, hurf durf 4th wall breaking, or just lame cartoon humour. Some missing menu options hurt your case too, like inability to go to the title screen or flee in combat. your bejeweled ripoff minigame is too muddy, and doesnt respond nearly fast enough to keep up which costs me the match every time i play expert. The tree system is uninspired, with some choices being way better than others (like rocket launcher vs. omnislash) and hamfisted spell entries that rob you of diversity..which begs the question why you'd even bother if they are all the same in the end. Oh and the inability to move the spells around is a real bummer too. I see a lot of items / spells that heal way more then you will EVER get which just makes me scratch my head and some attack spells are super weak in comparison to cheaper options. Chests appear and disappear at random, not that it matters since the contents are usually useless. The Slime feeding system is fine and dandy, but getting orange items is a pain and the stat up items are almost pointless. the random item thing is too expensive, but better than sliming. Attack animations and combat speed is too slow, makes an already grindy game much worse.

Been spending far too long grinding this game and i'm not even finished. it's just such a chore that i had to stop for awhile. This game would have been much better if you had paid closer attention to detail. I really hope that my review doesn't just get hosed because i didn't give you an auto 10 for your final fantasy "and that's why it's the best game ever" references.
Tl;DR It's bloody tedious and a generally mediocre RPG in every way shape and form. Fix it, or improve on the sequel.

Lan14n responds:

Sounds like you played the game at gunpoint.

This isn't meant to be a serious game. I am just an RPG fanboy that decided to make a game. Just chill, you sound too angry. I made the whole game on my own (except for the music). I am always offended when someone calls it lazy.

[9428902]

ehh not that great it could be better.

[bunnilove]

I cant play the game. :( Any advice on getting it to work. It looks like a fun game.

[dildocat]

I like it, but it's kind of boring :(