Lost Vision is an RPGMaker game where all of the work seemed to go into the graphics, but the rest is bad. The battle system is a complete pray to the RNGGoddess that anything goes your way at all. Here is a list of the issues I ran into in the game:

-The starting area is way too dark. There is no need to make the game so dark that even on max brightness on my monitor I can't see where I'm going.
-The first mandatory battle is too hard. Its 2 vs 3 (you got 2 they got 3) and if the RNG hates you prepare to do it again and again. My first attempt I missed 5 of 7 attacks.
-The first boss spams a skill which grants whomever it is on 8 turns where you cannot hurt them or inflict any status aliments at all. I only won by inflicting poison on him when the state was not present and then turtleing up for 50 turns or so.
-The 2nd boss if you don't have a certain skill is impossible. It will do more damage to you than you got max HP. And it loves to spam it.
-The 3rd boss you are expected to run from, but there's no clue to do this.
-The Old Castle dungeon ghosts are too OP. They can only be hurt by one skill and if you don't have it you are out of luck. Plus the EXP reward is pathetic for the time and trouble it is to defeat them
-The skeletons in the Old Castle have magic reflect and will do damage to the caster for any Dark Spells. Sadly Selene has all Dark Spells so she is useless here and if you try to put a status ailment on them it's pray to the RNGGoddess that it doesn't get reflected back to you. Which happened to me more than 50% of the time before I finally quit.

You seeing a pattern here? Basically you have to read the developers mind AND hope the RNG likes you to even proceed. And if you don't select the correct skills, sorry you can't grind either, start your game over.

In summary, the game has potential. But the battle balance needs to go back to the drawing board and started over from the beginning, as the current system is not fun, just frustrating.

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- First impressions
- Neutral review

Summary: a short-length RPG with fantasy/ adventure elements made in RPGMaker. Features good story, good artwork.

About:
- Game: Codex Temondera: Lost Vision is a short-length RPG with fantasy/ adventure elements made in RPGMaker.
- Story: Play as Rayk (MC) where his parents were the victims of 'Case of the Lost Vision', which the victim just vanishes and reappears already dead with eyes missing. After 15 years, this case is happening again, and Rayk swore to find the truth behind this mystery.
- Gameplay: rpg with exploration, turn-based combat, grinding. Drag and drop inventory system is a good call for avid rpg players.
- VA: N/A.
- Artwork: not bad
- Text/translation: typos were spotted, still playable.
- Soundtrack: good
- Performance/cons: over 1 year without updates, probably is already a dead game; typos still present; the map could be improved, just a misstep and you'll return to the world map, maybe useful (since you can leave anywhere) or not (make exploring harder).

Conclusion: Codex Temondera: Lost Vision is a short-length RPG with fantasy/ adventure elements made in RPGMaker and featuring good story, good artwork, the game UI, battle/ equip/ loot system is pretty interesting, but with typos, bugs, make it frustrating, so I would not recommend it now, but wait for a better version (fixes for the bug and text).

Overall pretty okay RPG maker game, the system that being used is interesting, but there are some other aspect that might be a turn down as well.

Pros :
- Good character art.
- Interesting loot mechanic & skill system for RPG maker game.
- Kinda difficult but still manageable.

Cons :
- Starting area and other area that with less light actually truly almost pitch black (almost can't see anything, kinda annoying).
- Some area way too big (Like norwich & the wilderness), which turn into wasted resource since don't have much content inside the area.
- NPC filler in town literally crowded and the movement kinda random like a rat rather than a normal human. xD

Minor Cons : [Solved by using Nvidia driver GPU rather than integrated one]
- Kinda unoptimized (for example : when the character going into Inn in Norwich for some reason it feels heavy to move not sure why, sometime Selene char blinking when player interact with some interactive item)
- FPS drop when some animation in battle (poison for example)

I think that's all I can said for now. It is recommended for the person who is patient in playing rpg maker game.
As for the price, it is better to grab one when on Sale.

Played it for 3 1/2 hours, here's my take.

Solid RPG mechanics, a good hybrid of JRPG and ARPG (the inventory reminded me a bit of Diablo & Victor Vran). The story starts out pretty well and there's a somewhat decent tutorial phase although an explaination of how to search things should be way soon than it is since there are multiple things to search and you don't learn it until after a particular interaction.

The turn-based combat system isn't bad, and the positioning system in battle offers a change to strategy from your standard RPG formula. The game requires mouse/keyboard but that's not a bad thing considering the way inventory works. Combat is fluid enough and easy to understand. In my first playthrough, the first real dungeon/combat area seems to be pretty expansive. I am hoping that the game overall is equally expansive and it's just 2 or 3 of these areas mixed in with lots of back-and-forth on the map. Also, there is a lack of overworld map travelling, sort of like Legend of Dragoon but this could be a good thing as it takes out the tedium. Also battles aren't RNG, you can see them and make efforts to go around them if you want.

The knocks on the game? Interacting with the environment is really awkward and the character hitbox in towns gets stuck on things you don't expect. The buildings are solid hitboxes as well, which means no sneaking behind things to get at what you think are secrets or bonus items. Also there's dozens of interaction items in the maps with no rewards: plan to spend a lot of time searching for nothing or taking damage at random while looking for 1 or 2 items. Also too the battle difficulty is a bit high for a 2-person party at the start and you can easily get overwhelmed, which can deter some people from even making it past the first couple of battles.

It left me with a good impression for the most part. I won't say that I particularly liked the changes to the battle system over your standard JRPG formula, but it does help you focus on the game differently. I believe that it is more accessible to most players thanks to the design. For the price of $14.99 USD I hope that the scope of the first dungeon matches the scope of the game and that you will get plenty of areas to explore and you get appropriate epicness at the end. From what I've seen, I feel like I could enjoy playing through it.

Check out my video of the first couple hours of the game at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aG-MkdPLd5Y

Good JRPG with new mechanics for skills checks and a well-developed inventory system. If you are not intimidated by RPG maker, then you may really like this game. See the video for more details.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5upYtOxswA

A great game but honestly one i feel which is more suited to us old school style gamers who grew up with the old 8-16Bit consoles. A much more detailed review can be watched here

https://youtu.be/Vx6EeSxcytg