Shae Monroe

I'm so glad this game released to game pass. It's the type that I'd buy on day 1, play for a few hours and regret immensely. The biggest problem is that it doesn't belong on console and there's better things to do or play on a PC. It's a mobile game through and through and completely avoided its ideal platform. The story isn't really unique or engaging, the art is rehashing adventure time yet again and while it feels like a tactics RPG it's a puzzle game in disguise. It would have been a great game if they took a step back and thought about it's strengths and weaknesses, like the pick up and play nature of the levels.

Two great games in fragments and generally awful as a whole. The big problem with these ports isn't that there isn't additional content, it's that there are very glaring game breaking and game ruining bugs that exist. I'm not talking about the japanese dubbed voices being in the completely wrong sections in both games, or maps being mixed around between the story and cutscenes. What I'm talking about are the game ruining bugs like being unable to create new characters after hitting level 100 (first 5~ hours into the game) and decor items breaking and having no effect as soon as cycle 2 in Soul Nomad and persisting permanently. These two bugs are very obvious that nobody ever tested them since you encounter them by just playing the game. Or even worse, they were ignored. NIS hasn't been known for quality in the last decade and it's not surprising that these bugs exist, they hired a third party to do it for them after all. It really is a niche studio that operates off of long time fans and it's disappointing that one of their best titles before the era of publishing over developing was released in such a sorry state.