Recent reviews by sylvain_ch21

Pals with guns are the best pals!

pokémon-like game with crafting and guns; it's a magic combo :)

the graphism are not the best and the tutorial is rough on the edge, but if you can go past that you'll find a very fun game.

first review after 18h of gameplay:
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For my first run I failed lamentably! (well at least I got some achievement that you only get when failing)
Got deep into red, making loans after loans to reimburse previous loans. (lesson learnt, need to better manage expense depending on my income)
I didn't care enough for the stamina of the girls, working them to the bone; well that backfire because they got injured and went on 3 months hiatus (unlike 19% of players who never got the achievement for building the required break room; taking time to care for their stamina is a must) I also was realizing singles after singles without waiting for the earning malus to ware off.

Second run, first build after my office was the break room. I didn't hire a choreographer nor music producer until much later, working almost alone with the marketing staffer to make the single until unlocking the concerts. And only once making real money did I manually raised the girls wages. Also worked on realizing the girls wishes. Worth it ! Got the award for best employer ! I'll have to work hard to get the other awards :)
I'm 50M in the black, but wasn't all the time so smooth; manage to have a critical failed single that put me 10M in red.

Also now I have 9 scandals points, that put me at some disadvantages (-20% singles sales, -20% concert attendance, -60% popularity bonus) honestly it hurts, like before I was making 4.5k new fans for a singles with half the sales, now I barely made 900 new fans for my last single. But having to fire the "scandalous" girls in the team after all they have done feel so wrong XD

Happily planning to play more... to get more achievements, finish the story mode, and try to max my performance and promotion levels

update, after 37h of gameplay
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Ok resolved my scandals troubles and I finished the story mode with 6B; unfortunately I didn't succeed in getting my girls to sing at the end ceremony for the summer games :'(

Story mode add nice objectives to achieve to unlock the stories and cutscenes that give a welcome distraction from the grinding for fans and the game loop of releasing singles and concerts. At one time you have to commit to one branch of story. (honestly I'm not sure I want to reload my saves to try all the branches...)

Once you unlock the biggest concert venue, the earning are insane! So you'll have all the time and money you want to take care of the girls with physicians and all the coaches you can have.

Also I finally experimented bulling. One time I was able to find the bully and confront her (had enough influence with her to stop the bulling). The second time I failed to find the bully before the thing resolved itself and the bulling ended. XD (had a doc to take care of the mental health of the bullied of course).

Finally, let's talk about the bugs I encountered, which you'll encounter too as dev has left the game:
- the game getting lock in paused mode,
- or the mouse getting stuck with the drag&drop icon.
They are easily solved by saving the game, quitting, launching and reloading. A bit annoying that's all, but nothing that prevented me from continuing the game.

If you know the french web serie it's based on there are a lot of nice references.
Else it's still a nice JRPG.
but wish you could choose your class or have a tracker for the main quest.

Sales of Dwarfheim have already been halted, and server support will be ended on November 30, 2023.

Dwarfheim actually has a singleplayer mode, but even that won't be available once the servers go offline. -_-"

A wonderful world. Great graphic. Fantastic atmosphere and story. Nice music. Perfect narrative.

BUT

Boring platforming. A shame.

It's barely a thumb up.

In term of ambiance game does well,

BUT
Quality of life features are really missing here.

You can't throw item in your inventory; so in the prologue, found a board full of keys, sounds like a good idea to take them all... yeh, no, know my inventory is full, can take an important item for the next objective; I had to use all the keys on their target lock to get rid of the keys.

Seriously to save you need to synchronize your pocketwatch with a pendulum clock available around the hotel. Guess what if you are stuck on a puzzle locked in a room, you can't save your progress and quit...
In 68min of playing didn't seen a savepoint. I did quite struggle with the puzzles until then, and replaying those doesn't feels right with me.

So hey I'm done with the game; dev seriously in 2022, you should be able to do better in term of saving.

Sadly a dead multiplayer game with no bot.
So except if you have friends to play with locally or online, don't buy.

^_^ programming your adventure is a real thing ^_^

An example of bad practice; after tutorial game asks to download 5.12 Gb of data, without a way to stop the music, no way also to pause the download and go on later; if you quit it just restart the download from the beginning -_-"