Jessu

Strangely addictive. It's a really nice, casual yet casual kind of game. It scratches your idler game itch (even though the game is not necessarily an idler). Runs perfectly on Linux as well.

The game is surprisingly good.

I really enjoyed the story for the most part. After playing previous Sherlock Holmes games that I just can't stick with due to the frustrating outdated gameplay, this game addressed most of my complaints from those games. It's still not perfect, but it is still the best one yet looking at it chronologically. When I can look past these issues and excusing the age of the game, the game is really enjoyable. Shame the fps is capped at 60.

I truly enjoyed how the game gives you choice to play it in 3 different perspectives: first person, third person, and classic point and click. I really liked the idea and the implementation. There's only one specific point in the game where I overlooked an item because it was quite well hidden if you are playing it on third person perspective. Other than that, everything works well.

One thing to note though, I don't know why but I have experienced this issue since the past Sherlock Holmes game that already implemented the first person perspective, whenever I play on first person it makes me want to puke. There's something in this game that doesn't sit well with me and every time I use the first person perspective it caused motion sickness. I am not sure why as I have played hundreds of games using first person perspective since I was a kid.

Most puzzles are good, really fun and satisfying. Some can be really challenging and make your brain gear moving. Although there are moments here and there where the puzzle felt arbitrary and/or explained poorly. I think this is yet another thing that were just overlooked at the time. I hope the next game I play in this series are better at it.

Voice acting in this game also has its own charms. It's not great, but it felt perfect for the game. It's just quite charming and make the game richer.

If you can live with some of the old game design this game suffered from, it's a really fun experience.

Decades of playing JRPG, countless of remastered and remake, and thought I have seen it all. Proven wrong last year with Trails 1st Chapter, and proven wrong yet again by 2nd Chapter.

This is the best game Falcom ever made. I still can't believe that a remake would become one of, if not, the best JRPG I have ever played. Amazing throughout, from top to bottom. What an amazing game. The quality of every single aspect is just so wonderful. Animation, music, voice acting, story, gameplay, all of them crafted with so much attention and love. It truly felt like a love letter for the fans.

For those who have played the original game, we already knew the story, but the game just perfectly retell the story and even if you have played the original game it still hits you nevertheless. One of the biggest aspect on why it works is that now we are relieving the story with a full blown 3D animation and also dubbed by amazing performances by the Japanese voice actors.

The original music was great, but now retouched with rearrangement and it became an amazing masterpiece.

The gameplay is as creative and tight as always. Using their staple of orbment system, but also mixed with newer quick battle system, truly brings out the richness of the game. I genuinely think that this is the best gameplay in Trails entries. I love this combat system the most. QoL is also a huge point of the game as a step to modernize the game, although I am still missing one feature that I think Trails game should have which is orbment presets as we might want to tweak our orbments setup throughout the game.

Masterpiece. One of my favourite JRPG I've ever played. A remake that's so easily loved by fans of the original series and new players alike. I am truly happy that more people are getting into this franchise.

It's a fun little game. It scratch the itch of having idler game running on your PC and it can be finished in one sitting.
It's far from perfect but at the same time it does what it was supposed to do.

I am not sure if it's worth the price, but I got it on almost half the price and I feel content with it.

This is one of those games where I really had fun with but hesitant to recommend, especially on the current state of the game + full price.

First, the good stuff. The turn-based tactics is just the bread and butter of games like these. The gameplay is really enjoyable. I enjoyed the ever evolving mechanics throughout the game. But what really surprised me is the crewmates. Ever since the first few hours of the game, I keep thinking about Mass Effect and how this game really make me feel the same way to some extent. I think they are inspired by it because you can feel the DNA throughout the game. I wish we could've gotten more core teammates that has their own stories though. I enjoyed the side stories more than the main story. The main story is okay, just not great. I did enjoy the final 20% of the game though, I think it has more interesting late game story. I also enjoyed the voiceover.

Now, the cons that makes me not recommending this game.
- Poor performance. It runs heavily even on decent PC.
- Weird face animation for the main character. I think they should've used a pre-made character because everyone looks fine except the main character. The best way I can describe it is it looks like Mass Effect Andromeda facial animation.
- The game can feel PAINFULLY SLOW on some parts. Some animations are dragged on for too long like when you defeat a Coil enemy, they will transfer their stuff to the others but it takes a solid 10 seconds EACH, and that's if your game is not randomly stay still like it's thinking what to do next because it does happen sometimes too.
- As said on my previous point, the game sometimes just stay still. It's not frozen, the game is running and the idle animation is there, but everything just stay still. The game is like struggling to think what to do next.
- The game could do with some QoL features, such as fast forward or skip animation, or undo move because sometimes you unknowingly do what you don't wanna do because the game can be weird with the control.
- Inconsistent camera. Sometimes you can see the playing field amazingly, then the next time you are ZOOMED IN and can't zoom out anymore because apparently that's how the intended experiences are.

It is a neat simple idler/auto battler game. I like the roguelite aspect of building the team. Clearing levels with what you have felt satisfying. The skill/ascension tree is also quite expansive.

My complain though is that the incremental part is not as smooth as I think it should be. The bosses' difficulty on every 100 levels is poorly designed and/or adjusted. You can sweep the floor with anything up until that level and then everything just stop. It forces you to ascend to keep up. I know that's the loop for idler game, but the experience in this game is not smooth at all. It felt like it's a forced and unfun way to do it.

I can't really recommend this game as this game is a priced product, and the thing is there are better idler games that are available for free. It should be at least cheaper in my opinion.

Actually a really fun small and simplistic incremental game. It truly invoke your dopamine. Bite-sized, yet fulfilling.

Sadly the game is too expensive for 4 hours of experience, especially since the last hour will be spent by redoing the same level again and again to get over the incremental spike.

Another game that I really enjoyed but can't recommend because it's not being updated anymore and there are some glaring issues that should have been fixed.

I really enjoyed the gameplay loop especially when everything goes smoothly, but it turns frustrating when someone is being a Karen and refused to pay for service fee, and then you chose to reject the customer, and your supervisor told you that you are wrong because you should have sold a new phone. Where's the logic in that?

Fun core gameplay, unfortunately not maintained.

What an amazing game! Capcom is on a roll this year and I am here for it.
This is such a great effort to reboot this franchise in modern gaming era. I love the game from start to finish.

First things first, the game runs amazingly and it runs on Linux without issue. RE Engine probably is one of the best proprietary engine we've seen in this era. And it looks really good too! It looks pristine, pretty at times, and got that cinematic style going on. What I really liked too is how they are putting a lot of work in the main characters face animation. They look very alive and expressive without it being uncanny or forcing hyperrealistic. It's just a really good looking game.

I truly enjoyed the story ever since the beginning. The writing and storytelling is pretty neat and, as said before, cinematic. It doesn't suffer from narrative exhaustion that a lot of games fall victim to. They know how to write a character, pushing their personality, and make you emotionally affected by them without forcing it in your face. I am also quite suprised on how they portrayed the main protagonist as both having depths while also being whimsical at times.

Gameplay wise, I think they have done it amazingly. I don't really have a complain about the difficulty as some people who are saying the game is "too easy". In my opinion it only comes from people who are expecting a soulslike experience from an action RPG game. By putting the game on this level of difficulty means it will streamlined the experience for most players so people can experience the story with the intended pacing. For me, I think this is the perfect balance between challenging and smooth experience. Although they could have mitigated this complain by giving us the option to play on harder difficulty from the get go rather than make it unlockable after beating the game.

Voice acting is amazing in this game, particularly the Japanese dub version. It makes the story very rich, nuanced, and immersive. It's not that the EN dub is bad, in fact it's actually good. But my suggestion is just play on JP dub as I think listening to British accent in medieval Japan setting can be a bit jarring. Just give it a try.

While I didn't experienced technical issues, I did get stuck on a loading screen once while I was fast traveling. Luckily loading up the game and then getting into the game is very quick. I love that Capcom games do this thing where you can just button mash your way into the game rather than some other AAA devs who wanted you to know who make their game and let you sit there looking at their company's logo for 2 minute before you even got into main menu. And while I am talking about technical stuff, I will also mentioned that I appreciate modern games that let us skip cutscenes or conversations, and also let us pause the game whenever. It's just one of those QoL thing.

GOTY material and I am not exaggerating.

Amazing little game. The best way to describe the game is it is more than meets the eye.

Of course the gameplay loop is satisfying by itself as a simulator game. I really enjoyed how you are running the shop to repair people's stuff. But what surprised me is the story they put into the game. It was quite a curveball for me as I don't expect how much they invest in the story. I really enjoyed them. I like the characters in it that has their own unique stories and personalities.

As this game came from an indie dev and I played it day 1 though, there are few downsides like minor bugs like how you can't interact with solder tool after cleaning some devices unless you put it down and take it up again, or how you can easily double clicked through a conversation, and by the time I finished the game they only have one save slot (now they have multiple through patch update).

All in all, I really like this game. Lots of heart, lots of fun. Would strongly recommend especially if you like simulator games.