I'm on the fence

[Kriya Takagi]

Iv been playing the demo and I do love the open world exploration. And synthesizing is very interesting. However the thing that is keeping me from going in and buying it, is the combat. Just something about it feel off and clunky. I'm not sure if it's just so much going on all at once or what. There are times that I am seeing my health drop from being attacked but with everything going on outside of the AOE highlight that enemies telegraph there are times I can't even see the enemy attacking. I'm not very familiar with this type of battle system iv played some games that had something similar but that kind of system never really held my attention and eventually I lost interest.
I'll mess with the demo for another day or to get used to the battle system. For this game I think that's gonna be the buying factor if I can get used to it's battle system and find it enjoyable.

[Be Aggressive]

You could also wait a few months and pick it up on a discount if you're unsure too.

FF15, its battle system was alien to me and I didn't care for it at the start, and honestly it took time for it to grow on me and get used to it. I never really came to love it, but I did enjoy it in the end.

One of the youtubers I watch about Atelier reviews pointed out that you can totally break the game with alchemy - as you can often do in these titles. So even if you're struggling with combat, just craft some OP gear and carry on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzhlh95NuPI

[Kriya Takagi]

ended up getting the game now that im further in and have access to more skills the battle system feel much better and thus far iv been enjoying the game.

[Be Aggressive]

Yeah, the battle system has definitely grown on me too. That was the only part of the game I was unsure about at launch. I've been thoroughly enjoying this game and am glad I've had the last 3 days off from work and family lol.

[Tully]

My only complaint about the combat system is everything is sort of a button mash and you don't really have any time to enjoy the skill animations. I really enjoyed watching the animations of skills, espcially when they were epic. (ff7 summons, limit breaks, some of the older atelier games, neptunia games.)

[larcek]

yeah, the battle system hopefully will either get a patch on this game, or more love in the next game. yumia is likely gonna be another trilogy so we can hope for some changes there. what confuses me is just the rate at which you level up in this game. i started on normal but quickly changed to hard, might just go with very hard since even the first real boss did not cause any issues.