There are a decent number of interesting things about the world, but it just doesn't go anywhere with any of them ever and has the most bland and superficial possible story with no real depth. Good news though! Astria Ascending's story and writing is a lot like FFX, only a lot worse. By the end it had just been disappointment after disappointment for a few dozen hours, and it remains one of my least favorite RPGs I've ever played, and definitely my least favorite I've actually finished. So I'd readjust my speculation based on the new information, and then a few hours later I'd be disappointed again. It started out with a bunch of interesting stuff, and I had tons of ideas of where it might be going with it, but every time they revealed something significant about the world or plot it was less interesting than everything I'd thought of. I only finished it out of spite and because my laptop was in for repairs that week. And even though I haven't played them myself, I kind of had the same reaction to the KH games he's worked on.Īnd then there's FFX, which I kind of hated. I liked the worlds and characters and stuff enough to get past that though. Like I had plenty of fun with FF7 and FF8, but I'm not going to pretend the stories weren't a complete mess, especially in 8. I know Tetsuya Nomura has worked on lots of good games, including ones that I've really liked, but I kind of have a long history of not getting along great with his writing. The writing was not a good call, and it was one of the things that was consistently not good in the game. The music was a good call, and that was one of the things that was consistently pretty good in the game. It's obviously heavily influenced by various older FF games in a lot of ways, especially 12, but mechanically I actually liked this more than most of them.Ĭoincidentally, and despite being made by a non-Japanese indie studio, they had a couple people who've worked on FF games contribute writing and music. The art style and music are generally pretty good (although some NPC designs are kinda iffy, but at least the artists were less horny on main than for XC2), and I thoroughly enjoyed the job system and combat.
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Ok before I forget about it completely now that I've moved on to other stuff for like a week already I should probably say something about Astria Ascending.Īstria Ascending is a trainwreck, but it's one that I spent literally a hundred hours on.