Re: [RJ120635] [Eclipse works] Ariadne
Also I found this game to be grind heavy like no fucking tomorrow, this is what bugs me the most, since grinding to make any meaningful progress is utter bullshit and people would know how much time it consumes as well as how difficult it gets to deal with if you're doing the same mind numbing shit over and over again. I say this since I had to do this for three hours to get my character to any level high enough to make it through the first 2 boss battles without dying, also you can't afford any decent gear thanks to the cost of it all being so expensive.
I do not kid you, cost of equipment in this game is retarded in the sense that it costs a lot of money, even the basics aren't cheap, and the waitress job is frustrating at times since the NPCs keep bumping you or restrict movement to attend tables so you lose lots of time and money because of this. If the designer had any godly idea how annoying that these NPCs are and how much it is a struggle to even get basic gear for the character is, I think they should have reconsidered this.
Mini games are meant to be fun, not become a the standard for earning the money you need for any meaningful progress in the game. As for enemies, well that's another story, low level enemies are easy to deal with, but when you face venom slimes and higher tier enemies, this becomes annoying beyond belief, as enemies spam tons of poison attacks and other status effect attacks which fuck you up within moments. Let's not forget that the mansion ones can deal tons of damage fast as you can't avoid them, which makes this job even more difficult since you're slammed with burning, poison and other assortments of status effect damage which turn the battle into costly battles of attrition.
To explain the above, if you're constantly being burned and poisoned, not to mention the enemy steals your PP points, you have to replenish them very slowly or not at all since all the enemies are a heavy drain on resources which you have to scrounge up carefully. When I meant carefully if you've got only a few extra gems to replenish your PP points and comes along a spirit which suddenly drains 25 points repeatedly then this becomes a problem. Also the suicide bomb spirits deal tons of damage, which puts a huge strain on health potions which cost 700 freaking gold. Why do the health potions cost so much?
If anyone thinks that's "FUN" you've got no idea how godly annoying that is and it takes the fun away quickly.
Besides this, solid H-scene works and interesting story plot, which I like overall.