I thought the gameplay and music were excellent. The characters were cool and generally quite enjoyable. However, the standard ending of the game really annoyed me. It’s totally anti-climactic. I really don’t want to go back and do a bunch of side quests to unlock the true ending.
The gameplay is fantastic and offers a lot of variety (especially as you grow your team), and art style and direction, locations, soundtrack are beautiful. I had a lot of fun exploring, looking for treasure, talking to everyone, finding tons of secrets and side quests. The story is very much cliché and mostly an afterthought, but it’s fine (not bad, not good, just fine) and the cast is cute.
Unfortunately, 2/3 into the game, the developers either depleted their budget, or they stopped giving a shit. The story feels super rushed in the last act, and the ending is downright insulting. Half the cast enters a portal at the end of the second act, and you never see or hear from them again. One of the main party members goes like “Oh my, this thing I just discovered changes everything, I need to study this more” but you never see them again until the very end, and they don’t do anything, nor do they say why the thing they found was important or what did they study. A lot of things that were foreshadowed or hinted at, like the legendary sea slug or the Queen that was, are just random optional bosses scattered in the game’s world with no purpose or backstory whatsoever. Most don’t even have a dungeon attached to them. The true ending is a slap in the face.
I loved the game, but the last act and the ending really soured my experience with it.
kromem@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The production of it is excellent. Art is great, combat design was very good, music is good.
But the writing leaves a lot to be desired.
Like, if you could combine the writing of Undertale with the production of this game, you’d have a game that would rival the classics themselves.
As it was I really struggled to stay engaged with Sea when the dialogue felt like it was written by a Disney intern in their first week on the job.
sosodev@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The writing definitely feels very amateurish. Which I agree is a mismatch with the otherwise high quality nature of the game.
I like the overall themes though. It was serviceable enough for me.