Why so many negative reviews in Chinese?

[-Lesziel-]

I'm looking at the negative reviews, and I see that 80% are from Chinese people, what's wrong with them?

[597]

Kowloon Nights, the fund that helped make this, is based in Hong Kong.

[Dreaming Prince]

lol, interesting. what about the devs?

[Aegix Drakan]

Originally posted by Dreaming Prince:

lol, interesting. what about the devs?

Quebec City. Hence the rock goat enemies being "Rochévres" (Literally Rockgoat) :P

[ManoutofTime913]

The game features magic and ghosts.

[-Lesziel-]

Originally posted by 597:

Kowloon Nights, the fund that helped make this, is based in Hong Kong.

and what's wrong with that?

[Aegix Drakan]

Originally posted by -Lesziel-:

Originally posted by 597:

Kowloon Nights, the fund that helped make this, is based in Hong Kong.

and what's wrong with that?

There's... some pretty serious drama and beef going on between china and hong kong, with a looooooooot of history behind it. More than can be expressed in a steam forum post.

[Nowa]

So far, I've been seen a lot of subjectives reviews from chinese people that are mainly focusing on these topics: I don't like the music, I don't like the QTE combat system = trash, I don't like the 2D pixel at all = trash, etc., etc,.

[1stReaper]

Originally posted by Nowa:

So far, I've been seen a lot of subjectives reviews from chinese people that are mainly focusing on these topics: I don't like the music, I don't like the QTE combat system = trash, I don't like the 2D pixel at all = trash, etc., etc,.

lol they dont like the combat? XD
god help them if they ever played legend of dragoon and shadow hearts XD

as SOON as i learnt about the "perfect timing on attacks = more attacks + less damage for perfect blocks" i got massive LoD and SH vibes

[romain337]

Better use Google translate and go read them to make your own opinion. A lot says the game is not well translated in simplified Chinese. And gameplay is too simplistic. I've not read graphics or music is trash personnaly.

[Yílõng Má]

Originally posted by romain337:

Better use Google translate and go read them to make your own opinion. A lot says the game is not well translated in simplified Chinese. And gameplay is too simplistic. I've not read graphics or music is trash personnaly.

It's not an opinion, it's a fact. Those Jinping's bootlickers give negative reviews because of Hong Kong's involvement, but they sugarcoat the motive with "I don't like this features, it's not well translated, blah blah blah".

[AFatalPapercut]

Unfortunately, This game is incredibly generic.
I'm not kidding when I say the game's pixel art is the only thing carrying it.


>You never get new skills
>Your sprites never change with equipment
>There's no minimap
>Everything is stupid linear
>Stupid dumbazz 4th wall breaking "haha hi fellow gamers" writing right in the very beginning of the game
>Constant unavoidable enemies that halt forward progress
>Combo skills that for some reason are orders of magnitude worse than regular skills.
>The menus/UI are so god awful it's really kind of telling.
>The kid who got stabbed in the eye in the tutorial is irritatingly happy the entire time...
>Every time you choose to use a skill, you have to wait a second or two for a pop-up at the top of the screen to tell you how to use the skill "Hold attack!" "Tap attack." Every. Single. Time.
>The NPCs and characters, will. not. stop talking. And never ever get to the point. I've skipped through every single dialogue up til now, it's that bad.
>Stupid puzzles with solutions in the next room or 10 feet away, artificially padding out game length for what?
Why should i have to spend an extra 5-10 minutes moving this platform, push that block, or pull that lever when the challenge is literally feet away? Why is that door locked if the key is literally in a chest around the corner on a separate screen? This happens constantly, it's practically the entire map exploration.

It literally feels like every single aspect of this game is designed to waste your time in order for the devs to claim "30 hours of gameplay" or some dumb sh!t.

I'm not being hyperbolic when I say there are RPGMaker games with vastly more depth nowadays, they just might not look as pretty. Once release hype dies out, this game will eventually settle into the low to mid 70% positive review area in my opinion. It's just.... okay. Nothing more.

[romain337]

I'm not affiliated with them but appart from the translation problem I more or less agree with those reviews. I don't mean the game is trash or whatever, just not for me.

[597]

It's similar to our western cancel culture. Miserable people who think being a part of a bully mob exercising power over others will make them feel better. They gang up on WeChat and search for victims and opportunities to signal their zealotry for the CCP's ethno nationalism or just attack any critics of the regime, get them fired, etc.

It reaches quite large scales. Like a fashion model can get millions of comments "you're ugly" "kill yourself" simply for not looking stereotypically Han.

Originally posted by romain337:

Better use Google translate and go read them to make your own opinion. A lot says the game is not well translated in simplified Chinese. And gameplay is too simplistic. I've not read graphics or music is trash personnaly.

FF6, FF7 and Xenogears have some of the worst Enlgish translations in RPG history and their gameplay is simplistic and I have a whole bunch of other criticisms. Hasn't stopped them from being on my all time top 10. These are just bad reviews or WeChat cancel gangs. You decide.

[SuperBearCat]

Originally posted by AFatalPapercut:

Unfortunately, This game is incredibly generic.
I'm not kidding when I say the game's pixel art is the only thing carrying it.


>You never get new skills
>Your sprites never change with equipment
>There's no minimap
>Everything is stupid linear
>Stupid dumbazz 4th wall breaking "haha hi fellow gamers" writing right in the very beginning of the game
>Constant unavoidable enemies that halt forward progress
>Combo skills that for some reason are orders of magnitude worse than regular skills.
>The menus/UI are so god awful it's really kind of telling.
>The kid who got stabbed in the eye in the tutorial is irritatingly happy the entire time...
>Every time you choose to use a skill, you have to wait a second or two for a pop-up at the top of the screen to tell you how to use the skill "Hold attack!" "Tap attack." Every. Single. Time.
>The NPCs and characters, will. not. stop talking. And never ever get to the point. I've skipped through every single dialogue up til now, it's that bad.
>Stupid puzzles with solutions in the next room or 10 feet away, artificially padding out game length for what?
Why should i have to spend an extra 5-10 minutes moving this platform, push that block, or pull that lever when the challenge is literally feet away? Why is that door locked if the key is literally in a chest around the corner on a separate screen? This happens constantly, it's practically the entire map exploration.

It literally feels like every single aspect of this game is designed to waste your time in order for the devs to claim "30 hours of gameplay" or some dumb sh!t.

I'm not being hyperbolic when I say there are RPGMaker games with vastly more depth nowadays, they just might not look as pretty. Once release hype dies out, this game will eventually settle into the low to mid 70% positive review area in my opinion. It's just.... okay. Nothing more.

sounds godawful. and here I was expecting a 2nd Chained Echoes

[fade2black001]

Originally posted by Beruang Fighter:

Originally posted by AFatalPapercut:

Unfortunately, This game is incredibly generic.
I'm not kidding when I say the game's pixel art is the only thing carrying it.


>You never get new skills
>Your sprites never change with equipment
>There's no minimap
>Everything is stupid linear
>Stupid dumbazz 4th wall breaking "haha hi fellow gamers" writing right in the very beginning of the game
>Constant unavoidable enemies that halt forward progress
>Combo skills that for some reason are orders of magnitude worse than regular skills.
>The menus/UI are so god awful it's really kind of telling.
>The kid who got stabbed in the eye in the tutorial is irritatingly happy the entire time...
>Every time you choose to use a skill, you have to wait a second or two for a pop-up at the top of the screen to tell you how to use the skill "Hold attack!" "Tap attack." Every. Single. Time.
>The NPCs and characters, will. not. stop talking. And never ever get to the point. I've skipped through every single dialogue up til now, it's that bad.
>Stupid puzzles with solutions in the next room or 10 feet away, artificially padding out game length for what?
Why should i have to spend an extra 5-10 minutes moving this platform, push that block, or pull that lever when the challenge is literally feet away? Why is that door locked if the key is literally in a chest around the corner on a separate screen? This happens constantly, it's practically the entire map exploration.

It literally feels like every single aspect of this game is designed to waste your time in order for the devs to claim "30 hours of gameplay" or some dumb sh!t.

I'm not being hyperbolic when I say there are RPGMaker games with vastly more depth nowadays, they just might not look as pretty. Once release hype dies out, this game will eventually settle into the low to mid 70% positive review area in my opinion. It's just.... okay. Nothing more.

sounds godawful. and here I was expecting a 2nd Chained Echoes

This game is a masterpiece