Recent reviews by Ferrox

Combat & Exploration? Solid 10/10

Quests & Story? Well... they exist (in some shape and form, I suppose)


Most quests are boring but thats actually fine. They make you run across the map, leading you to eventually completely forget you've been on a quest to begin with cause you start exploring the map instead.

Dialogues are horrible and most of the time don't make any sense. The english vocalization is abyssmal and I changed it to Japanese after 5 minutes of playtime, which made the game way more enjoyable instantly.

Tl;dr: If you enjoyed exploring in games like Skyrim, you gonna love this game.

I really hope there will be a dlc eventually, hopefully with a new area to explore!

In short: This game is meant to be played with a big guild. It's unfun and basically unplayble on an official server for solo players or in a small group. The gathering rates are atrocious - go chop the same tree/rock for 5 minutes to get 5 branches/rubble - while everything costs a ton of resources to craft.
The combat is janky and going 1v1 against ANY kind of enemy thats your same level will simply get you killed.
The skill and taming systems are good and fun but the rest of the game is just plain awful!
I got the game when it first released on steam and was really hoping they would address some of these issues with the re-release but nope, the game is still as grindy and unfun as back then.

This game has definitely the BEST quest designs I've ever seen in any game!
All the (side) quests are different and really pull you in. My personal favorites so far are River Ward's and Jefferson's questlines, those two really pulled me in like a good movie or book would.

The world is great, the story and characters are interesting and well done. Only minor negative thing to pinpoint so far is that the game sure does like to crash a lot - but thanks to the auto save function it's not that much of a big deal imho.

This game is the most buggy mess I ever played.
Everytime after restarting steam the games save file's gets corrupted. When you start the game the training failure for pooping will play, then the digimon will go sleep (when its the middle of the day) and afterwards they die.
Fine, you get the eggs and chose the new digimons but after doing so, when trying to save, the game will completely freeze, leaving you with a even more ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up save file.
I restarted once at around 10 hours cause of this garbage and now my 18 hours file got corrupted cause of this ♥♥♥♥ and I for sure ain't gonna start over AGAIN.

Stay away from this buggy ass mess!

Gonna keep it short and simple: amazing game!

The story part of the game is really good and fun but once you finished it, the game turns into a unfun grind-fest.
Basically all the Tems you use during the story line can be thrown in the trash cause to do ANY of the endgame stuff you need perfect SV Tems and not only that you can only use specific ones ontop of that which also have to synergize with eachother.
You like a specific Tem but its not meta? Though luck! You won't be able to "win" any of the pve endgame stuff with non meta. Which is basically the only way to make money once you finished the main story line unless you like to catch and release 200 of the BiS Tem for the "release Tem" mechanic - F U N.
So once you finish the story and threw away your current Tems and got yourself new meta ones, you have to TV lvl them which means beating the same wild Temtem ~150 times+ PER Temtem. After that you gotta grinding them to lvl 100 as well cause only max lvl is useful in endgame.
Oh also you enjoyed the story with a friend in co-op and wanna do some dojo rematches with your friend now? Though luck cause they use the same competitive rules as PvP matches - so solo only! Which is great in a multiplayer game, right?!

tl;dr: the story-mode is really fun but everything considered "endgame" really is not.

The devs need to stop smoking crack when brainstorming "balance" ideas.

UPDATE:
The statement on top is still valid - solo queue is still atrocious! Just on top of that they are also pulling 'themed' cosmetics that have been in the shop for YEARS (winter collections/ugly sweaters) to put them the following year in the store again and since this years 'themed' outfits aren't for sale for shards at all, I bet the outfits that are available for shards now won't be anymore when they re-release them next year LMAO

And they want people to vote for them for "Labor of Love" Award 😂


UPDATE OF THE UPDATE:
The new player experience is still atrocious and the community of this game sucks other than that the devs definitely try to improve the game.

Actually voting for this game in the 'Labor of Love' category this year.

The only thing that is good in this game is the combat which is actually really fun. Everything else is just bad.
The story is trash and you can basically finish it in 5 hours playtime. The maps are super small, linear and boring, so are the different game modes where you basically fight the same 5 bosses from the story mode over and over again...

Who ever made the 3 difficulty ratings has NO clue what the word "difficulty" even means. The difference between "easy" and "normal" is basically non-existant but oh boi if you decide to go on hard mode. I played the game with 2 friends. Normal mode, all enemies died in 2 seconds. Hard mode? Every attack from the minor to boss enemies are a 1 shot (don't even get me started about the devs loving stuns) + the devs thought it was a good idea to make the people port back in the base after 3 deaths so the group has to endure another 5 minute long loading screen where someone might not even get ported.
The game modes are made to have a unfun experience. If you wanna upgrade your Valorplate you need to unlock different shards. The requirements are just dumb and frustrating. Reach lvl 15 in Ascendend Tower - die at room 13 and you just wasted 1+ hour on NOTHING cause you gotta redo the whole thing from floor 1.
Finish a Lightbringer after sealing 3 Dark Tears. All easy until you reach the very last wave where its 5 yellow bar enemies spawning that all perma stun the player.

The game could be very good but sadly it really is not and I am glad I only spend 15 bucks on it. This game is defo NOT worth 40 bucks!