Breath of Death VII: The Beginning: Reanimated

Unique mini RPG with good humor. Interesting new take on an old battle system. You'll beat it in a weekend, but you'll remember it for a long time.

Recommended. A brisk, joke-dense retro turn-based RPG about a silent skeleton and a chatty ghost that turns random-encounter grinding into a player-owned choice, and mostly nails it. The capped encounter pools per area are the smartest idea on offer: exhaust a region's battles and random fights vanish, while optional combat stays one menu click away. Full post-battle healing (with partial magic recovery) lets the game raise encounter difficulty instead of forcing potion management, and the reference-strewn comedy writing, fourth-wall narration included, lands constantly. The difficulty curve swings wildly, from a punishing two-party stretch against sturdy ogres to an endgame that falls to unbuttoned basic attacks, and the maze-like dungeons inherit room after identical room from the original. The loose economy leaves gold piling up with little worth buying. Take it as a five-hour comedy pastiche with clever systems rather than a deep strategic RPG, and it delivers.

A fun shorter turn based RPG in which the humor surprised me. Hard mode is far too annoying to be worth the effort and normal is a bit too easy. All the achievements are naturally obtainable (sans buying an item. finding peoples secret weapons, & using the chat command). It would have been nice to be able to change difficulty mid game instead of starting over after an hour. The hidden Dragonduck boss is also the least hidden boss I've ever seen in one of the most straight forward dungeons possible. This game has charm though; fleeced in through doofery. That's alright sometimes.