The worst game i probably played this year was Septerra Core, One of those PC RPG's by a western studio trying to ride on the coattails of FF7 by trying their own hand at anime.
What makes this game bad?
- The game is rediculously difficult early on, to the point where you have to spend the first 5-ish hours running from the ONLY encounter on the world map, back to town and then go back to this one spawn point for 3 new enemies. Once you get low on HP, you'll spend 50% more time in town because you need to run all the way back to your bed at the very edge of town to regain HP.
-The game's combat straight up improves by using a cheat to show healthbars on enemies. The combat as designed is straight up a worse experience, and not just because it's harder without the cheat.
Look, this is an RPG that's all about picking the right attacks at the right time. But you don't get any info about the health status of your enemies, unless you use this cheat. That means that you can't make smart choices about using the attack that deals 5 damage vs the attack that deals 7 damage. Which is kind of the appeal of a RPG right? With the healthbar cheat on, it turns it slightly more towards an Xcom like situation where you can actually treat it as a thinking man's game.
-Everytime you restart, you have to re-enable the cheat code. If you accidently press the wrong function key, your screen might straight up 'go bad' to the point where it's a colourful mess and have to reboot the game.
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