Tristia:legacy

I never thought that one of my childhood favorites, Tristia of the Deep-blue Sea, would receive a remaster and be released on Steam. This is one of the games that I played through multiple times during my childhood, and I enjoyed every single bit of it. Although I wish they could add more story, features and better dialogue voice acting sound quality in this remastered version. Nevertheless, thank you, Kogado studio for remastering one of my favorite childhood game !

On my anime/hipster journey to find an obscure relatively unknown game to brag to my friends that I've played it... I found this. Gameplay-wise it's very dated, clunky and overall boring I'm gonna be honest. Basically you have these types of actions: go to places to view scenes and visit shops, buy/sell stuff at shops, craft and research staff in the workshop. No JRPG fights, no exploration, no city builiding. It's just research, craft, sell, buy materials, earn money, research, craft, sell - nothing more. Even more, this whole thing is not working that great. I mean for the love of God Nanoca how can you attempt crafting a pizza using food ingridients and an oven, fail at making it and require to craft a new oven to bake another pizza?! Or why the hell do you need to write a book on explosives materials, then use its content to make a dynamite, and during failure of crafting an item idk burn the book with the bad result (because book is a consumable item instead of stationary). Characters and story are not bad, personally I endured the daunting gameplay simply because I was curious what's next thing this little war criminal called Nanoca Flanka is going to do: forgery? fraud? weapon manufacturing? bribery soliciting? sexual offense/harassment? It could be anything! Jokes aside... I've spent 42 hours in this game, I even made a simple event guide for it because I genuinely enjoyed Tristia:Legacy. Mostly because of the vibrant-yet-typical characters and simple-yet-effective story (well, for the most part it's still a VN). This game was perfect for my break between Trails of Cold Steel 3 and 4. Another thing - the price. Dear God, I don't get it why it's so high and under what circumstances I've bought the game. Clearly not worth the full price so please buy it only with at least 50-70% discount. Definetelly I won't recommend this game to everyone and not gonna tell you it's a masterpiece. It's a bummer that this game doesn't have a demo because that would solve the problem of buy/don't buy way better. But if you don't expect much from it and play it like a little game to get some rest from gameplay-focused or story-rich games - you may enjoy it just the like I did. Also, please listen to the original opening song to this game on IGN youtube channel - it's a certified banger with Nene's (side character of this game) VA on vocals.

cute crafting / town managment game really shows its age in gameplay, but the art is great price is high, but its a high quality translation of a large script and a niche game, so i would say its fair. oh and nanoca is adorable