Title: Dragon Fin Soup
Developer: Grimm Bros
Publisher: Grimm Bros
Release Date: November 3rd, 2015
Game Engine: *Unknown*
Number of Players: Single
Genre: Turn-based RPG with Roguelike elements
Youtube Game Review: https://youtu.be/eLzV5pYbaMM
So this was a rather “fun” one to review, video-wise. It almost felt like a ‘Benie Fails At’. This is also the final free PS+ game for the PS4 of November 2015.(actually forgot to mention this in my video)
This game is… well, I can’t really explain it in one word. It’s an odd, turn-based RPG with Roguelike elements (and a very detailed ingame instruction manual which acts as the game’s tutorial). It has a crafting system, inventory… you name it, it has it. The only thing it doesn’t have, is an understandable map.
So the story goes of a great Dragon Turtle named “Azura” with a city on its back (that you eventually name to something hopefully better than its default name “lololol”), that can fly through the universe. I swear its idea was stolen from WoW’s MoP(Mists of Pandaria) expansion. Depending on the year of both of their release dates, would determine who stole from whom. It could had been Blizzard stealing the idea from this game for all I know.
Anyway, the plot is about Robin, a drunk yet cheerful woman who has been trying to drink her troubles away after the loss of her parents and her village, to a guy with leet stats (literally it shows the guy’s health is 1337).
He’s been haunting her nightmares for some odd reason. And you eventually play as this woman.
So as I said, it’s turn based. You move, the enemy moves. If you don’t move, the enemy doesn’t move (or attack or do anything). It reminds me of a game Dan played this year with similar mechanics. And.. that’s all I can say. I’m sorry, I don’t like turn-based RPGs.
It’s now time for the review;
Good
-The town you wake up in, the buildings change positions. That’s kind of neat.
-Hilarious watching my balance be from 0 to -562 from destroying stuff in the town. Also more hilarious is I’m not being arrested for destroying stuff.
Bad
-You can go through a campfire without taking damage.
-You can destroy a rock and a stump with your sword.
-Apparently destroying a stump in the town is “property loss”.
-No autosave, or a quicksave/load option. Though I’m not really against manually saving.
-The map it gives you, sucks. I have no idea where enemies (or anything) are. It looks like a mini-2D game.
-UI/Combat is clunky and not useful with the PS4 controller. It feels like a port from a Mobile Phone game.
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Final Review: I’m going to give my honest opinion here. I don’t like it. I don’t like turn-based RPGs. I’ve said that enough already. I feel I actually want my $10 back from Sony for a bad month.
I’m really, really sorry if this isn’t good for a review. Though my video would explain it a bit better than I can.
To be honest, I think I actually had more fun doing the voice-overs than playing the game. Especially Big Bad. “WOOF WOOF!!”