Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero

As much as I am a fan of the series and similar games, this one I cannot recommend. Ignore the story and just talk pure gameplay this game is full of frustrating elements and some that are utter deal breakers, if I knew what this game was before buying I would not have bought. First, QoL aspects that it is missing. In games going way back in Nippon Ichi history there are features like skip attack animations you can turn on to reduce the time you spend grinding, this game? No. You have to watch every animation completely. Why a step back? Surely they already have the code from practically every previous game. Second, sometimes when you are moving and doing things the menu will default to end turn. Why? I can't say how many turns I lost this way. Third, the game doesn't give you any help with positioning for attacks, meaning sometimes you have to fiddle with where your unit is a bunch to make sure your attacks land. Previous games you could have it bring your unit to the right place for you. This one? No. But by far the worst and I mean deal breaking feature is this game crashes. In Dungeons. Let that sink in. If you're new to these games, a lot of the power building and scaling comes from running dungeons, which are multi floor levels that YOU CANNOT SAVE DURING. You can quit and the have a quick resume spot, but it's not the same as saving because if your game crashes your quick resume is gone and all your progress wasted. Dungeons can take -hours-. The game does give you an option to leave the dungeon to properly save but that comes at the cost of bonus which is another feature the game uses to incentivize you not to save and to do the dungeon without leaving. Let that sink in. Worse yet? The devs know about this. They suggest you limit your dungeon sessions (remember the bit about the game incentivizing you not to do that) or to go out and save freqquently (remember the gave incentivizes you not to do that). Sure they could have added the ability to save in your dungeon run so you are not stuck in a situation where you lose your progress, but no. Like the above reasons this game was rushed, they didn't care, they just didn't care. They have QoL features in many other titles they left out and they have what I consider a game breaking bug in this one that they won't give us a reasonable solution for, even if it is just a work around. DO NOT BUY.