Which is why I say I’m most likely done with Chaos Rings III and the rest of the Chaos Rings series. I don’t know if I want to do all that for a nice but very ordinary RPG. Though, this being a mobile game, the way to get good stuff is clearly to earn it through daily login bonuses, grind for it in the Coliseum (no, please, no) or grind it out in quests. Or if I can get enough money to buy some good equipment so I can do real damage with regular attacks. Either way it sucks.Īll that said, there’s the definite possibility that things might improve once I get more powerful Genes and a higher MP cap. Or you shoot everything off in the first two or three battles and do scratch damage for the rest of the stage. You get all these cool Genes and abilities but can’t use them freely because you’re conserving MP. But the result is still an awkward mix of regular RPG and irritating time-gating for time-gating’s sake which interferes with the simple fun I’m trying to have. I understand that this game came out in the early days of mobile game development when developers were still fumbling around for a monetization method. It’s just that the MP thing is a near deal-breaker. Even the music and voice-acting is above-average. The stages are very colorful in an anime kind of way and all the characters I’ve met so far have been very nice. It’s a very charming, by-the-book RPG and they’ve got some good combat ideas like chaining combos and joint-casting magic and stuff. either spend money or grind, there’s no way around it.Ĭhances are high that this is the first and last post I’ll make about Chaos Rings III, so I’ll say everything I have to say once and for all. Even more cleverly, instead of your MP cap rising as you level up, it only rises once your party unlocks a certain number of “Genes” (summon cards) – i.e. And of course, since MP is majorly time gated, they made the game so magic attacks and hitting enemy weaknesses does much more damage and ends battles much faster than trying to auto-attack your way out. I’ve heard of workarounds like resetting your VITA clock for coins and stuff, but I’m not into the game enough to bother with all that. Seems like originally you were supposed to pay real-life money or grind for in-game coins to get around that but 1) You can’t pay money in the offline VITA version and 2) Grind? Me? Don’t you know 2019 is my Year of No Grinding? There are a few MP refilling items but they can’t be bought in stores (yet?) and I have no money anyway. There’s just one small problem – Chaos Rings III was originally a mobile game, so it has some unpleasant mobile game characteristics left over that make it a chore to play.Ĭhief among them is the fact that MP only recovers at a rate of 1 MP per minute. I really like the super-generic “Boy wants to go adventuring” story, and the idea of teaming up with like-minded buddies to explore an unchartered planet is right up my alley. When I say “not impressing me,” I don’t mean it sucks. Except not really because CRIII isn’t impressing me so I’m not motivated to play the others. Normally I like to play games in release order, but I’ve heard very mixed things about the earlier Chaos Rings games so I’m starting from the end and working my way backwards. If the battles weren’t so sluggish and the music was actually good like you’d expect of a music-based SRPG I might stick around, but LAI doesn’t have any of that so it’s time to bail.Ĭurrently playing: Chaos Rings III. “There’s this guy and all these girls are gonna fall in love with him and then they’re going to save the world.” Aight, I get it. Everything it does has been done better by Stella Glow, Ar Tonelico, the other Luminous Arc games and basically any other harem RPG in existence. With my new “It is enough to play a little bit” motto, I don’t see the need to force myself to play the whole thing when I’m not really enjoying it. I did say Luminous Arc Infinity wasn’t that bad, but it’s not that good either.
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