Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice

I'm really torn about this game. On one hand you have a love letter to JRPGs of old. The development team designed characters and battle system that are inspired by Chrono Trigger series. The music is charming but none of the tunes stuck with me, these are not pieces you will be humming in the shower. My biggest gripe with this game is the lack of polish. There are tons of game breaking bugs in the game. Put a monster to sleep to capture them. Game crashes. Try to record footage and exit the game. Game crashes. Fight a trivial monster after a boss fight in a specific location. Game crashes. Then there are the minor bugs like walking through walls and getting stuck. Meeting goals for achievements that don't actually unlock the achievement. Bugs happen but what's frustrating is that the developers don't care! Look at the discussion board on Steam, a few bugs are listed with no comments from Muteki! I emailed their support email with a link to a private video of the steps to take to br...

Hello Friends! I am writing a review for the game DRAGON FANTASY: THE BLACK TOME OF ICE. Unfortantly, im stuck in the game because of a game breaking bug and cannot continue any further into the game because of the bug. Please see game breaking bug here: https://steamcommunity.com/app/328000/discussions/0/1769259642876453023/ So how does this bug break the game? Basically, i cannot get further into the game because the game still thinks it is nighttime and it is supposed to be during the day. In ramona's quest after the split up quest, you are supposed to go to a coliseum where a guy blocks the path to get there with a password. The password is supposed to be available from the plunder thief's area, but when i go there, they say they are sleeping since it is nighttime. I found a youtube video about this same section, and it shows it is daytime during their video, so im guessing this is a game-breaking bug. I have already emailed the company that made this game and asked them what to ...

Holy @#$% Music ++ Gameplay ++ Story ++ If you like chrono trigger and FF6, Or like any retro game from the 90's and have 10bucks(cnd) to spare do yourself a favor

Dragon Fantasy: The Black Tome of Ice is a love letter to Squaresoft's SNES-era RPGs. It clocks in between 10-15 hours long (my played time includes some AFKing). The overall story is above-average and the game is packed with homages to games both classic and contemporary. There is a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor and goofiness, but it doesn't get in the way. The combat is turn-based, but quick, and you can get by without much grinding if you approach the battles tactically or turn down the difficulty. I recommend turning message speed up to max. Also, there are no random battles; all monsters appear on the screen. They can be avoided and sometimes even baited away from their pack for an easy kill. They even stay dead for as long as you are in the area, often allowing you to backtrack to a campfire to recover hp/mana and save. Graphics are so-so. There are some clipping problems here and there, lots of resused NPC sprites, and a few common special effects for skills. It has some charm ...

While this game is passably fun, it crashed far too often for me to be able to recommend it. Though there were MANY frustrating moments while playing this, I will almost certainly buy the next one when when it comes out.

I really, really wanted to like this game, but after several attempts I just... don't, and can't. I'm an old JRPG lover, my two favorite games are Earthbound and Lufia 2, with other games and series like Chrono Trigger, FF, DQ, Suikoden, Pokemon, etc. under that umbrella as well, so naturally I should very much love this game. But unfortunately it falls quite short: to me, it is at best dull and tedious, and at worst obnoxious and frustrating. I played the first "Book", and while I'm not as big a fan of the older NES-style JRPGs, I found it to be a quaint and decent enough homage to DQ1, FF1, and its own thing for Chapter 3. Not particularly deep or complex, but its inspirations were hardly not such themselves, so it was fine. But this game touts inspiration and homage from much more refined sources, and it fails to live up to them. The story feels meandering and listless, characters just going from place to place with the thinnest of reasons and explanations when on-rails and littl...

From what I have played, this game is a fun version of Chrono Trigger. And I would recommend it normally if you like this style. But it will get a thumbs down for a massive, massive reason. I went the wrong way in the game, and the way this was programmed it is impossible to go back. Worst of all, because I when the wrong way without having the right (or any) people in my party, the game locks on a specific scene. So yea....because of crap programming, I get to start all again. I would be forgiving if it was my error that caused it...but to allow me to go to an area I shouldn't be able to get into, and then trap me in that area by placing someone to block my way back...and then having no way out of not getting locked....that one is on Muteki. So sorry..no sympathy. Enjoy you thumbs down for not play testing this.

Such an awesome game and better than the first. However, game breaking glitches ruin it.

I don't understand why the review is bad my experience is good so far. The music is really nice really like the battle theme

This game is wroth very penny. It\'s so much fun and I love the chrono trigger and final fantasy feel of the game. If you are a fan of jrpg it\'s a must buy!