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Published on March 25, 2024 3:38:18 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH7Q7472CiE

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Demon Lord Reincarnation (2023)

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I was so excited to play this game! It's totally up my alley in so many ways... but I quit after half an hour, and would never have bought it had I known certain things about it.

I loved the old-school feel with dungeons you had to explore, map out or learn by heart. I love the turn based combat. I actually quite like random encounters, and the way it worked here with keeping near walls would lower the rate etc. I love how you don't progress level ups by just getting exp etc. I actually love the atmosphere and the art style and everything. How you move around. All the secrets and whatnot! Awesome! I found the perma death and keeping stats for new characters etc to be interesting.

So why did I quit? I learned that you don't really progress in this game, you just learn to squeeze by using the correct skills and whatnot. The enemies get stronger as you do, so there's no real leveling. You just have to get good RNG with your party and the enemies you encounter and whatnot. Just a lot of learning quick and safest paths to bosses etc. I just absolutely hate this. It then goes from a game I would love to relax with to a try-hard game. I bet I can do it, it just sounds awfully boring and annoying.

I also learned that end portion of the game is made more difficult if you have a decent team before getting to that portion, so you really just wanna restart the game once you got decent enough at it to get there.

One major issue is that the game is turn based, it makes no sense for the enemies to get stronger with me. It's not like I really learn to play the game that much better, so everything will always be a struggle. I don't like turn based RNG battles. It just plain sucks to me.

Again, I was super excited to play this, so I'm saddened by these game mechanics. I can't think of a single game that was made better by doing this, and I know some massive titles that rightfully gets so much flack for doing it. It removes an essential part of RPGs, that you progress and feel stronger.