REVIEW : LOST SPHEAR (PS4/ PS4 Pro)
Lost Sphear is a love letter to 90s Role Playing games and its really beautiful. Lost Sphear is Tokyo RPG Factory’s second game and shows that the team is going from strength to strength.
Lost Sphear takes inspiration from past games like I am Setsuna, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy and Xenogears. The battle system is definitely an improvement from Lost Sphear.
Combat is still based around active-time battle but now you can enhance attack by pressing square button at the right time. Spritnite can be used to provide effects or strength. The battle system is fairly basic but it still involves mastering it and knowing where to position you character for best defense.
Vulcosuits are basically mechs and provide added complexity to the battle. They increase character stats and provide special abilities but their usage is limited. Vulcosuits use points at a far greater speed than normal and the pool of points is combined, so you have to use them wisely. The points are useful in bigger battles; hence you will end up saving them rather using the special abilities. Be sure to practice the special abilities before using them in high stakes battle.
Cooking gameplay mechanics is a bit off as it requires you to collect ingredients and pay the chef to cook for you. Since these items can be rare and these dishes only provide a temp stats boost, you can avoid using cooking all together.
Similarly, you can either enhance your weapons or just buy new gear at shops as enhancing can soon become a costly affair.
Story of Lost Sphear is about the World filled with Voids with protagonist Karnata the only one capable to heal the world. Comrades along with Karnata, take it upon themselves to bring the realm back to its former glory. You heal the world by collecting memories of that particular area.
The dialogues in Lost Sphear lack emotion and depth, they just fall flat when communicating the story. The story is interesting if you pay attention to it but narration is unable to communicate it.
The soundtrack is beautiful and has much more variety than I am Setsuna. Plus, gameplay is improved from the team’s previous venture with short loading times to add to the pleasant experience.
Sadly, these are the only good parts about the game, the rest of the game feels like mash up of really good individual parts not working well together. The games copies too much from old games and forgets to create its own identity.
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