Edge of Eternity

“It's very clear from playing this game that the graphics (specifically the environments) were prioritized over all else.”

“The graphics and animations are a pathetic joke.”

“The game is very glitchy and the graphics are terrible.”

“The gameplay is extremely boring and you'd be better off spending your time elsewhere.”

“The game starts with a cinematic that has visual bugs, drops you into a port town where exploration is immediately painful due to the general map design and terrible minimap; talk to the first NPC who immediately reinforces how bad the UI is (no portraits to easily discern who's talking, have to scan names every textbox) and writing is; gets introduced to the first skill mechanic, which I assume is machine translated or something from the quality of explanations; you walk past a weather changing crystal in town (mechanic of how weather affects combat isn't well explained, also it's placed on one side of the town square, sticking out like a sore thumb, which means any towns person can change the weather as they like, whenever they want??); get out of town to see how barren and lifeless the world is (genuinely resembling a bad & dead MMORPG world), as your MC slides like an MMORPG character, picking up random plants on the way (a crafting mechanic that wasn't explained yet); eventually get to your first combat encounter, and alongside the lack of any strategic depth in the extremely basic turn-based system (the hex positioning wasn't integral to these battles), you find out how long battles take to conclude, and have to experience the uncommunicative combat UI (with a hotbar thing reminiscent of MMORPGs); after killing one slime you get a mount (again, reminiscent of MMORPGs) for free (because any kind of sensible worldbuilding is ignored) from the ranch and travel.... somewhere(?), to experience the empty world again, I assume to talk to the next poorly written NPC that is highlighted on the terrible minimap in order to continue the frustrating gameplay loop.”

“Gameplay is incredibly boring.”

“Dialogue is often layered under the music track, making it difficult to hear; dialogue that plays during fights cuts off before finishing, and sometimes audio cues like purring or lightning crackles will play continuously.”

“The OST for this game put me to sleep, so I just muted the music and put on an OST from a different JRPG.”

“The music... it was so quiet I had to go into the settings and turn everything else to 20% and have the music at 100% to even hear it.”

“The game itself is also very buggy with random freezing, strange characters popping in and out in cutscenes, mismatched or incorrect subtitles, and overall instability in the environments and performance.”

“It's a buggy mess, and definitely not finished in any way.”

“Still buggy, I lost several hours of progress because of a game-breaking bug when I couldn't open any menus/interact with anything on both the auto save and two manual saves.”

“The game is visually amazing and has all the pieces, but ultimately the story, the tedious fights, and the flood of side quests and grinding make it a chore to play.”

“The combat is monotonous and tedious.”

“The merging of the gems is a neat way to customize and upgrade your characters, but the whole randomization of a set stat range and range of abilities is very tedious.”

“It is poorly optimized, and has far too many bugs to be considered a polished product.”

“The game itself is also very buggy with random freezing, strange characters popping in and out in cutscenes, mismatched or incorrect subtitles, and overall instability in the environments and performance.”

“The combat is nice, the game is nice too; I mean it has potential, but I don't think it's playable at the moment. It's terribly optimized and there are still bugs. Maybe when it's not as buggy and optimized, it's worth getting.”

“Some of the voice acting is bad (not funny bad, just bad bad), but I don't care.”

“I would rather have stoic and rigid characters (that anyone can write) than a bunch of unfunny catastrophes.”

“It's supposed to be funny, but the humor falls flat in many similar situations.”

“As a few other people have stated, the character designs are a bit uninspired, but I'm sure it is difficult to make a lot of unique looking NPCs and people.”

“The dialogue and character development is similarly a mixed bag.”

“Other than that, their dialogues were not interesting and somewhat badly written in my humble opinion. I wasn't interested in the lore that seems to be extremely generic, and the characters I've seen until now are very uninteresting.”

“The combat is neat and the environment looks great, but none of that could save this game from its boring characters and even more boring story.”

“This game unfortunately has a boring story with boring gameplay.”

“These reviews are kind of weird; this is a super amateurish JRPG, nothing to see, very mediocre graphics with a pretty boring story without any real hook to begin it.”

“It hits me hard and all the atmosphere is gone - will uninstall it and wait until it.”

“Atmosphere: while earlier I said the game was pretty, so far it doesn't feel very alive.”

“Fast forward more than 3 years and look what we have here....this thing actually exists....quite matches their depictions they've put since Kickstarter, is a thing of beauty and atmosphere.”

“It takes you for a fun ride for a while, but it will probably be a one-way trip since I don't see much replayability in the game for me personally.”

“It is a ride for the story and world, which is satisfying, though I don't see much room for replayability.”

“Few replayability.”

“I'm sorry I have to give it a thumbs down because the photos and advertising made the game worth it, but it really is not.”

“Not some cash grab like those cookie cutter multiplayer games.”