Investigating and solving mysteries is more
involved than the gameplay in other visual novels
Not exact matches
The Alliance Alive is a game that relies heavily on nostalgia (and is more
than influenced by Bravely Default), and features a vast world to explore, intertwining story
involving 9 main characters, but also strategic turn - based
gameplay mechanics.
Now more
than ever, I find myself with even less time to actually play games, and so I'm looking for experiences that
involve smaller bites of
gameplay that don't ask me to spend hours and hours at a time on the stick.
As such, there's a little more strategy
involved in the
gameplay than previous installments.
Vostok Inc. fixes the core drawback with the clicker, incorporating
gameplay that more
involved than the mindless action associated with the genre.
Where the
gameplay can get even better is in the ability to switch out characters when dishing out combos or even when about to take damage, which adds a lot more strategy to each fight
involving more
than one character on each side.
Where things get less interesting is when you get to a class, or any other action sequence, where you discover that the
gameplay involves nothing more
than tapping the screen when prompted, to do things like create potions, cast spells, or ride your broomstick.
If you loved the
gameplay from the first Xenoblade Chronicles and can look past a less
involved main story, as well as invest 25 + hours before you even acquire basic
gameplay mechanics (Overdrive, Skells), X will definitely resonate with you more in the long - run
than it did with me.
It does
involve a lot of bandwidth and resources in order to create in full HD, so our directive was to have as many elements [as possible] of
gameplay included in one single world, rather
than having multiple different little worlds with few elements.
As a result,
gameplay is drastically different
than your typical PS3 games,
involving sweeping, exaggerated movements.
It's a very different beast from previousCorpse Party games, with a greater emphasis on story, a much more over-the-top narrative, and far more complex and
involved gameplay than that of its predecessors.
[7] The
gameplay focuses on the theme of parallel worlds rather
than time travel, although the latter is still deeply
involved in the game's plot.