The landscapes are more varied than my footage would imply; I spent a lot of my time playing this on my Steam Deck and the hard drive where I store all my footage broke (this works flawlessly on deck as long as refresh rate is set to 60 btw).
I’m pretty sure one of the guys contracted to do art was ex-vanillaware which definitely explains the Odinsphere vibes. Also big agreed on the Dust comparison, it was the same thing I thought too but I wasn’t sure how many actually played that game (I never did finish it now that I think about it 🤔)
The description of your trials and tribulations of trying to get a torch is identical to my (and probably many other's) experience. Really spot on review.
This was me, too. I had flashbacks to being a kid on the NES with Castlevania 2. Due to the translation error, you would have no idea that you needed to equip the crystal and kneel against a cliff face to be taken by a tornado to the next zone. With no internet back then, you could only progress if you or your buddy had a Nintendo Power magazine to give you the tip.
@@kevinrieder I mean really ? The puzzle of this game aren't easy, but they are nowhere as cryptic as Castlevania 2's were. His torch issue is actually funny to me, cause logically why the hell would you answer "yes" when a NPC ask you if you are looking for something, that you never even heard of at that point ? I don't know to me when the NPC ask me this my reaction was "The fuck are you talking about ?" and answer no as a result. I'll agree that there is some tough puzzle, but the hints are most of the time right there, and I saw people struggling and complaining on some of the most obvious puzzle like the Sea Serpent Cave one, and it really makes wonder sometime if player nowaday are really so use to games holding their hand that they are unable to think by themselves ?
@@schmiggidy If you time is precious then pay attention to the hints, for the orbs one the NPC in the cave give you a charade that quite clearly tells you to put the Orb in water, I dunno really almost all puzzles have clear hints weither it's from dialogue or visual clue, that give you the solution right away if you pay attention. The only puzzle in the game I actually agree is obstuse, in the one on Chapter 5 with the apples, where you have to guess you need to speak with NPC three time IIRC before being able to interact with the apples, to then give them to the 4 NPC in the room, that's the only puzzle I found dumb and blocked me for a while.
Games like this make me grateful for Steam reviews. Any time you see something 'overwhelmingly positive' it's worth a look. Will definitely be giving this one a try.
From chapter 1-2 you'd thought this'd be some type of generic hero game Only to be blown away by the plot later on after Chapter 3. Also adding on top of great plot, the character growth is the best part of the game with so many weapons/ spells/ upgrades .
Great review Mike. I’m definitely gonna pick this one up 😭 I needed a new game for the switch. You sold me when you compared it to DFO / Maplestory. Those games were the shit when I was younger.
I've tried the demo for this game, which prop to the dev is still available, and is actually not a 20 minutes gameplay where you barely have the time to experiment but the 2-3 first, and I like that allow you to perfectly see what you're getting yourself into, and from what I played I can tell this was fun as hell, and I'm definitly gonna picked it up once my backlog had reduce. And if from what I see on the time people on the steam review the players have put, that game is really an over 70h games and it manage to stay that fun in it's gameplay then I'll say it's price is worth it.
Absolutely wonderful review, your pacing, and tone are fantastic for a game reviewer. I am glad I stumbled upon this game while looking for Metroidvania/RPG games. I was also glad I found your review, kudos, and good luck in the future.
@@Maddmike It's true: I've never seen such a complex plot, with so many new twists and turns, in any game. The scale of events is growing and growing, it seems that here it is - the peak of the whole plot - but no, the most interesting and important begins in the epilogue. And I mean, in the truest sense of the word: it begins! The plot of the epilogue is hardly shorter than the game itself, and even new mechanics are introduced!
@@alexgainsborough4921 Truth being told I pick this game because the Demo was really fun, but the story had me worried at the beginning, now I'm just at 20 hours and I can definitly says that I think the story is really good, but some dialogues are indeed a bit cringe, and on some part the game has an obnoxious sense of humors, but if you can past that the actual story is really good and the characters tough a bit leaning to much toward some tropes for some of them are pretty good.
@@nesoukkefka1741 all the most interesting is ahead: further you will find many surprises in the plot. And most importantly: the scale of events will increase and increase, and current events will be seems like a small detail in the whole picture. This is why I so liked the story.
Thought you were gonna mention the orb puzzle in chapter 1, kinda weird to expect the player to take a dungeon item back to the town to affect the dungeon puzzle. Lol i thought the torch thing was intuitive because you just talk to every NPC as you see them. But I'm sure some of the later ones get more complex.
Yeah it wasn’t just to illustrate their challenge but the fact that you kinda gotta play the game on it’s terms. You can’t just do the thing, you have to follow a very prescribed path on how to do the thing. The puzzle that had me stuck for hours was collecting the orbs in chapter 6…with the one where you gotta fill the jar with water? That one was a doozy
Wait a second, that part with creating a torch in ch.1 was a puzzle? Huh? Also why would you answer "YES, you are looking for scales| when it was the first time you even heard about them and that wasnt your goal to begin with. Its just natural answer to say NO.
you get wood straight at the start whit luck by accidentally breaking trees while fighting, when going to the village you ask this woman on the shop for a torch and she tells you to get "a bundle of wood and resin", you get lots of wood to make it a bundle, now is the resin, oh wait actually i talked whit the girl on the tavern, the one i didnt want to talk since maybe she would promot me another mission and already i have one. She told me that there is an item literally called "bundle of wood" and then i had to ask for resin the same girl i promised i would save his dad, that ol man would have died if i took so much time, still she didnt give a crok and told you that you had to cross a river from the STARTING PLACE, btw you COULDNT cross the river before. That sounds like a puzzle for me, i usually play things like baldurs gate 2 or morrowind. The game needs you to explore and thats amazing and sometimes answers are just outright impossible to get for an old school gamer that has no idea of this new puzzles ppl make nowdays. Its incredible.
I think I’m 30hr in, love this game but it does have some pretty jarring issues. 1. Enemy scaling is all over the place. I can just mention the boss at the volcano area and everyone here probably know what I’m talking about. Then the bosses after that boss is easier. Then the difficulty ram up when fighting these super soldiers. 2. The resources(aka money, exp, color skill orbs) doesn’t scale the same way enemies and the zone are scaling. Gears get more expensive but you earn almost the same as 2 chapters ago. There’s no indication of whether you are ready for the current chapter you are in or not
I agreed. I recommend playing first on normal mode unless u want to grind alot. Though doing all the optional activities (leveling up all your armor for abilities and crystals) and doing the arena Coliseum every chapter helped me alot to clear it on Hard. Took me 70+ hours to finish main story. 9/10 game amazing story especially chapter 4-5
Bro... karon LITERALLY tells you that the enemies there are WAY stronger than you are and that you should come back at a later time. This is why you don't just mash A on dialogues 🤦♂️
The torch complaint just seems really weird to me. Why does it not make sense to you to answer no when asked about the scales? Pretty sure you as a player and your character is currently not looking for it so why would you answer yes? Is it just jrpg brain where you have to answer yes to everything to progress?
The idea is that I couldn’t explore the cave because I needed a torch, and rather than doing anything logical to find light…I needed to do weird video game abstraction stuff like talk to someone who had nothing to do with torches. For the record, I loved the game…it was just despite these esoteric point and click-logic puzzles and not because of them
@Maddmike Fair I guess. I just didn't have your issue because my experience was get into town, enter house, talk to girl. Say no then every other npc after her was very smooth sailing haha. It isn't the first time I heard people have issue with it. I'm just wondering when talking to all npcs and answering truthfully became weird and esoteric. I kinda get it though I guess.
Funny I didn't get that issue cause when the girl ask, I was in an RP mindset and since nothing prior to that mention the Scales I was like "The fuck are you talking about ?" and answer no avoiding this all "issue". In all honnestly tough I don't get the puzzle issue at all, nearly all puzzle have either a NPC giving you hint or a visual hint that point you toward the solution if you pay enough attention, the only exception that I would considering obnoxious was that puzzle in Chapter 5 where the solution was to give apples to each of the 4 heroes revealing a Red Globe needed to open the door that one was really stupid.
The level in the clouds and how you needed to interact with that Barrell/water, that one was a doozy too. I played pretty early before there were a lot of concise guides, I recall being stuck there for like 6 hours before I figured it out. Great game, but there are definitely parts that made me wanna rip my hair out
This is like a flash game that started on Newgrounds way back in the day ... that finally got around to being released ... well after the world moved on. The only other comparison I can think of is the old Ys games on the Sega Genesis / SNES. They had the same "RPG Maker" looking UI and really nice parallax scrolling backgrounds with episodic pacing. The really awkward / frustrating mind reading puzzles though .. big oof.
I liked the general overarching plot/story but the text box to text box writing was pretty terrible at times and the humor really is otaku pandering. Solid review overall. cheers man.
I think the way you articulated it here is super on point. The places it went were cool and it had its moments, but the prose required a level of tolerance for this style I just don’t think I have.
Funny the amount of positive reviews this game has garnered. This game should only be recommended to those who forego story/dialogue for gameplay. I like this review, but I think your failure to mention the weaknesses of the textual dialogue and the way the story is presented is a problem. You did mention it briefly, but you overlooked it to shower the combat and progression systems with praise. I think if you're a fan of anime type storylines and dialogue like @Maddmike described then this game won't be a problem for you. For me, I'm not a fan of this type of story and it was so awful I had to drop the game midway because of it. If it was a one off thing then I can understand it as a lewd joke or fanservice, but the entire game is filled with sexual innuendos and cringe storytelling. I'm all for ecchi and sex jokes in the proper context, but when a game is trying to be serious and present the story as such, I do not want the entire game to constantly barrage me with how pretty and sexy the characters are or how a character will "stuff her used panties in my mouth". All in all your review was great, but I do think you should've highlighted the negatives of the story and dialogue more... especially when you yourself said that you didn't like how the story was presented and the dialogue. This would be a selling point for some people, especially people like me.
This is completely fair feedback, and I appreciate it. It's funny you bring this up, as I was writing this review I was mentally grappling with this exact problem and trying to solicit advice from my friends... the conversation went something like this: "Guys... the gameplay in this game is completely amazing and I'm hooked for hours on end, but the story might be the worst stories I've ever consumed across any medium ever, how do I position that in the review?" I think I sort of landed on a 'be transparent up front that the story is terrible, but spend commit most of the script real estate talking about the stuff that's actually compelling.' Not a perfect formula... and in hindsight I may have let the game 'get away' with it's story more than I should have. I'm always trying to find the right balance of sharing what I dislike about a game without turning it into a whine fest; I appreciate that it feels like I may have overcorrected in this particular area, and I'll keep that in mind for the next game where it's peaks and valleys have such a wide gap.
There isn’t that many lewd jokes or a lot of ship teasing what are you on about? And those are mostly exclusive to chapter 4 there are some after but overall i think it was done in fitting times aside from chapter 4 Are you sure we played the same game or is it because of translation changes
I think this game looks beautiful. The layered pngs moving along with the parallax scrolling and the extremely atmospheric skies just looks incredible.
Wow... did you really like it? looks horrible... :S weird phisics, weird combat, nothing understandable on combats against "flash" enemies. Do they even attacks you? Also every stage looks like a flat line full of walking enemies around it.
You might think that this game looks old because it's 15 years old... but odin sphere came out 15 years ago. There's absolutely no excuse to some of the janky shit they put in the game.
@@TonyTonyRedgrave Yeah and also the original Odin Sphere on PS2 was IMO far more janky than that game, this dude has clearly only played the Remake of Odin Sphere.
I like it, it adds to the charm. To each their own though, but personally if it was pixel art I don't think I'd like it as much as I do. It's current art style adds to it's uniqueness.
The landscapes are more varied than my footage would imply; I spent a lot of my time playing this on my Steam Deck and the hard drive where I store all my footage broke (this works flawlessly on deck as long as refresh rate is set to 60 btw).
Thanks a lot for your review, man! The Castlevania, Odinsphere and Dust: An Elysian Tail vibes I got from watching the game hooked me in instantly!
I’m pretty sure one of the guys contracted to do art was ex-vanillaware which definitely explains the Odinsphere vibes.
Also big agreed on the Dust comparison, it was the same thing I thought too but I wasn’t sure how many actually played that game (I never did finish it now that I think about it 🤔)
@@Maddmike Odinsphere, that explains a lot! I couldn’t work out where the combat felt comfortably familiar. We need more games in this kind of genre.
The description of your trials and tribulations of trying to get a torch is identical to my (and probably many other's) experience. Really spot on review.
This was me, too. I had flashbacks to being a kid on the NES with Castlevania 2. Due to the translation error, you would have no idea that you needed to equip the crystal and kneel against a cliff face to be taken by a tornado to the next zone. With no internet back then, you could only progress if you or your buddy had a Nintendo Power magazine to give you the tip.
@@kevinrieder I mean really ? The puzzle of this game aren't easy, but they are nowhere as cryptic as Castlevania 2's were. His torch issue is actually funny to me, cause logically why the hell would you answer "yes" when a NPC ask you if you are looking for something, that you never even heard of at that point ? I don't know to me when the NPC ask me this my reaction was "The fuck are you talking about ?" and answer no as a result.
I'll agree that there is some tough puzzle, but the hints are most of the time right there, and I saw people struggling and complaining on some of the most obvious puzzle like the Sea Serpent Cave one, and it really makes wonder sometime if player nowaday are really so use to games holding their hand that they are unable to think by themselves ?
@@schmiggidy If you time is precious then pay attention to the hints, for the orbs one the NPC in the cave give you a charade that quite clearly tells you to put the Orb in water, I dunno really almost all puzzles have clear hints weither it's from dialogue or visual clue, that give you the solution right away if you pay attention.
The only puzzle in the game I actually agree is obstuse, in the one on Chapter 5 with the apples, where you have to guess you need to speak with NPC three time IIRC before being able to interact with the apples, to then give them to the 4 NPC in the room, that's the only puzzle I found dumb and blocked me for a while.
Games like this make me grateful for Steam reviews. Any time you see something 'overwhelmingly positive' it's worth a look.
Will definitely be giving this one a try.
From chapter 1-2 you'd thought this'd be some type of generic hero game
Only to be blown away by the plot later on after Chapter 3.
Also adding on top of great plot, the character growth is the best part of the game with so many weapons/ spells/ upgrades .
Great review Mike.
I’m definitely gonna pick this one up 😭 I needed a new game for the switch. You sold me when you compared it to DFO / Maplestory.
Those games were the shit when I was younger.
I've tried the demo for this game, which prop to the dev is still available, and is actually not a 20 minutes gameplay where you barely have the time to experiment but the 2-3 first, and I like that allow you to perfectly see what you're getting yourself into, and from what I played I can tell this was fun as hell, and I'm definitly gonna picked it up once my backlog had reduce.
And if from what I see on the time people on the steam review the players have put, that game is really an over 70h games and it manage to stay that fun in it's gameplay then I'll say it's price is worth it.
Great vid mate. You were very articulate, i like your voice too!
Something feels magic about this game and I can’t work it out.
playing this game on the steam deck is just absolutely is so good this is one of my favorite action rpg game on the steam deck
Absolutely wonderful review, your pacing, and tone are fantastic for a game reviewer. I am glad I stumbled upon this game while looking for Metroidvania/RPG games. I was also glad I found your review, kudos, and good luck in the future.
Thank you, your comment means a lot to me.
I try to create the style of reviews I like to watch, and will continue to do so for as long as I can.
Story is unironically the best part of the game, this nbba smoking
We’re on different planets but I respect you buddy
@@Maddmike It's true: I've never seen such a complex plot, with so many new twists and turns, in any game. The scale of events is growing and growing, it seems that here it is - the peak of the whole plot - but no, the most interesting and important begins in the epilogue. And I mean, in the truest sense of the word: it begins! The plot of the epilogue is hardly shorter than the game itself, and even new mechanics are introduced!
@@alexgainsborough4921 Truth being told I pick this game because the Demo was really fun, but the story had me worried at the beginning, now I'm just at 20 hours and I can definitly says that I think the story is really good, but some dialogues are indeed a bit cringe, and on some part the game has an obnoxious sense of humors, but if you can past that the actual story is really good and the characters tough a bit leaning to much toward some tropes for some of them are pretty good.
@@nesoukkefka1741 all the most interesting is ahead: further you will find many surprises in the plot. And most importantly: the scale of events will increase and increase, and current events will be seems like a small detail in the whole picture. This is why I so liked the story.
@@alexgainsborough4921 Yep it has a good progression in regard to the scale of the events.
stumbled upon your channel and you're quickly becoming one of my favorite reviewers.
thanks for the review, it was very helpful
Thought you were gonna mention the orb puzzle in chapter 1, kinda weird to expect the player to take a dungeon item back to the town to affect the dungeon puzzle. Lol i thought the torch thing was intuitive because you just talk to every NPC as you see them. But I'm sure some of the later ones get more complex.
Yeah it wasn’t just to illustrate their challenge but the fact that you kinda gotta play the game on it’s terms.
You can’t just do the thing, you have to follow a very prescribed path on how to do the thing.
The puzzle that had me stuck for hours was collecting the orbs in chapter 6…with the one where you gotta fill the jar with water? That one was a doozy
Beach village in chapter 4 was brilliant game design combined with story! Game started out strong but peaked for me around this point Ch 4-5
Just got announced for a Switch release with updates and dlc added
This is a great game for handheld, was awesome on the deck.
No way
Wait a second, that part with creating a torch in ch.1 was a puzzle? Huh? Also why would you answer "YES, you are looking for scales| when it was the first time you even heard about them and that wasnt your goal to begin with. Its just natural answer to say NO.
you get wood straight at the start whit luck by accidentally breaking trees while fighting, when going to the village you ask this woman on the shop for a torch and she tells you to get "a bundle of wood and resin", you get lots of wood to make it a bundle, now is the resin, oh wait actually i talked whit the girl on the tavern, the one i didnt want to talk since maybe she would promot me another mission and already i have one. She told me that there is an item literally called "bundle of wood" and then i had to ask for resin the same girl i promised i would save his dad, that ol man would have died if i took so much time, still she didnt give a crok and told you that you had to cross a river from the STARTING PLACE, btw you COULDNT cross the river before. That sounds like a puzzle for me, i usually play things like baldurs gate 2 or morrowind. The game needs you to explore and thats amazing and sometimes answers are just outright impossible to get for an old school gamer that has no idea of this new puzzles ppl make nowdays. Its incredible.
I think I’m 30hr in, love this game but it does have some pretty jarring issues.
1. Enemy scaling is all over the place. I can just mention the boss at the volcano area and everyone here probably know what I’m talking about. Then the bosses after that boss is easier. Then the difficulty ram up when fighting these super soldiers.
2. The resources(aka money, exp, color skill orbs) doesn’t scale the same way enemies and the zone are scaling. Gears get more expensive but you earn almost the same as 2 chapters ago. There’s no indication of whether you are ready for the current chapter you are in or not
I agreed. I recommend playing first on normal mode unless u want to grind alot. Though doing all the optional activities (leveling up all your armor for abilities and crystals) and doing the arena Coliseum every chapter helped me alot to clear it on Hard. Took me 70+ hours to finish main story. 9/10 game amazing story especially chapter 4-5
Bro... karon LITERALLY tells you that the enemies there are WAY stronger than you are and that you should come back at a later time. This is why you don't just mash A on dialogues 🤦♂️
Bring this to the switch
how you block in the game? I just got it
Have a shield equipped and hold down.
can you play this with keyboard and mouse?
Yeah, but I wasn’t a huge fan of them. The game has a demo if you want to see how it feels.
The torch complaint just seems really weird to me.
Why does it not make sense to you to answer no when asked about the scales?
Pretty sure you as a player and your character is currently not looking for it so why would you answer yes?
Is it just jrpg brain where you have to answer yes to everything to progress?
The idea is that I couldn’t explore the cave because I needed a torch, and rather than doing anything logical to find light…I needed to do weird video game abstraction stuff like talk to someone who had nothing to do with torches.
For the record, I loved the game…it was just despite these esoteric point and click-logic puzzles and not because of them
@Maddmike Fair I guess. I just didn't have your issue because my experience was get into town, enter house, talk to girl. Say no then every other npc after her was very smooth sailing haha.
It isn't the first time I heard people have issue with it. I'm just wondering when talking to all npcs and answering truthfully became weird and esoteric.
I kinda get it though I guess.
Funny I didn't get that issue cause when the girl ask, I was in an RP mindset and since nothing prior to that mention the Scales I was like "The fuck are you talking about ?" and answer no avoiding this all "issue".
In all honnestly tough I don't get the puzzle issue at all, nearly all puzzle have either a NPC giving you hint or a visual hint that point you toward the solution if you pay enough attention, the only exception that I would considering obnoxious was that puzzle in Chapter 5 where the solution was to give apples to each of the 4 heroes revealing a Red Globe needed to open the door that one was really stupid.
@@nesoukkefka1741 I'm sorta mad about that one cause I never thought to keep an apple for the fucking LIBRA.
The level in the clouds and how you needed to interact with that Barrell/water, that one was a doozy too.
I played pretty early before there were a lot of concise guides, I recall being stuck there for like 6 hours before I figured it out.
Great game, but there are definitely parts that made me wanna rip my hair out
This is like a flash game that started on Newgrounds way back in the day ... that finally got around to being released ... well after the world moved on.
The only other comparison I can think of is the old Ys games on the Sega Genesis / SNES. They had the same "RPG Maker" looking UI and really nice parallax scrolling backgrounds with episodic pacing.
The really awkward / frustrating mind reading puzzles though .. big oof.
Oh my god, that demo...and that torch nonsense. But if you make it past ALL of that, then it gets to be pretty mindless fun.
I really don't understand the appeal of this one. That "hit stop" is INCREDIBLY off-putting and the overall impression is "jank".
I liked the general overarching plot/story but the text box to text box writing was pretty terrible at times and the humor really is otaku pandering. Solid review overall. cheers man.
I think the way you articulated it here is super on point. The places it went were cool and it had its moments, but the prose required a level of tolerance for this style I just don’t think I have.
Funny the amount of positive reviews this game has garnered. This game should only be recommended to those who forego story/dialogue for gameplay.
I like this review, but I think your failure to mention the weaknesses of the textual dialogue and the way the story is presented is a problem. You did mention it briefly, but you overlooked it to shower the combat and progression systems with praise.
I think if you're a fan of anime type storylines and dialogue like @Maddmike described then this game won't be a problem for you. For me, I'm not a fan of this type of story and it was so awful I had to drop the game midway because of it. If it was a one off thing then I can understand it as a lewd joke or fanservice, but the entire game is filled with sexual innuendos and cringe storytelling. I'm all for ecchi and sex jokes in the proper context, but when a game is trying to be serious and present the story as such, I do not want the entire game to constantly barrage me with how pretty and sexy the characters are or how a character will "stuff her used panties in my mouth".
All in all your review was great, but I do think you should've highlighted the negatives of the story and dialogue more... especially when you yourself said that you didn't like how the story was presented and the dialogue. This would be a selling point for some people, especially people like me.
This is completely fair feedback, and I appreciate it.
It's funny you bring this up, as I was writing this review I was mentally grappling with this exact problem and trying to solicit advice from my friends... the conversation went something like this:
"Guys... the gameplay in this game is completely amazing and I'm hooked for hours on end, but the story might be the worst stories I've ever consumed across any medium ever, how do I position that in the review?"
I think I sort of landed on a 'be transparent up front that the story is terrible, but spend commit most of the script real estate talking about the stuff that's actually compelling.'
Not a perfect formula... and in hindsight I may have let the game 'get away' with it's story more than I should have.
I'm always trying to find the right balance of sharing what I dislike about a game without turning it into a whine fest; I appreciate that it feels like I may have overcorrected in this particular area, and I'll keep that in mind for the next game where it's peaks and valleys have such a wide gap.
There isn’t that many lewd jokes or a lot of ship teasing what are you on about?
And those are mostly exclusive to chapter 4 there are some after but overall i think it was done in fitting times aside from chapter 4
Are you sure we played the same game or is it because of translation changes
Dang, thought it was gonna be a proper JRPG, but seems like it's just 90% hack and slashing with no story or character focus. I'll pass.
game had a deep rpg system but goddamn does the art style look ugly, it's literally JPEG art
To be fair the game was in development for years by mostly one guy from what i read. So for what's worth it fairly recent graphical wise
@@Dante1282 yeah, I mean the guy has been developing the game for 14 years 😮😤
I bought the game specifically for the art style ! I think it’s awesome and refreshing. Different strokes tho !
I think this game looks beautiful. The layered pngs moving along with the parallax scrolling and the extremely atmospheric skies just looks incredible.
Wow... did you really like it? looks horrible... :S weird phisics, weird combat, nothing understandable on combats against "flash" enemies. Do they even attacks you? Also every stage looks like a flat line full of walking enemies around it.
combat in this game is infuriating
You might think that this game looks old because it's 15 years old... but odin sphere came out 15 years ago. There's absolutely no excuse to some of the janky shit they put in the game.
the excuse is that it's one guy who made the whole ass game for free before some no name chinese company offered to publish it with a coat of paint
Right, because they clearly had the exact same budget and the same number of people working on the game.
@@TonyTonyRedgrave Yeah and also the original Odin Sphere on PS2 was IMO far more janky than that game, this dude has clearly only played the Remake of Odin Sphere.
I like it, it adds to the charm. To each their own though, but personally if it was pixel art I don't think I'd like it as much as I do. It's current art style adds to it's uniqueness.