Fernz Gate

[h1]Review with accompanying screenshots and videos in Sinical Network[/h1] https://www.sinicalanimenetwork.com/post/fernz-gate-review [i]Fernz Gate[/i] is prolific JRPG (Japanese role-playing game) developer [i]Exe Create Inc.[/i] and publisher [i]KEMCO's[/i] 9th release on Steam. It is an isekai (another world) JRPG where four people, Alex, Toril, Lita, and Kodan are magically brought to the world of Fernland along with many other people from different worlds. Alex realizes this new world is being ruled by an overlord who has seized power from a benevolent goddess. With his newfound companions and many other outworlders, they embark on a quest to oppose the overlord. Along the way, Alex and his companions will have periodic flashbacks of their past. Alex's party will also help a few non-player characters as they complete optional side quests. This game has the usual grinding fare, a main quest, and plenty of side quests that are common in JRPGs, as well as dialogue choices. The di...

not worth even looking at. on the hardest difficulty, the game is easier than your average pay-2-win browser based mmorpg. you auto battle through fights, because they all take 2-3 turns for the entire game, and the game runs at like 5x speed during auto battle, and wombo combo everything in the game. even if you dont use the 1000 gems the game starts you with on the weapon pack, the weapons you get through the game and the frequency of the stat bonus seeds, enable you to just faceroll everything short of a boss. they take maybe 5 turns to kill. not worth anyones time. the writing is meh. the story is meh. the characters are meh. the game DOES NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO FULLSCREEN. and theres no filtering applied to the 2d sprites made of multiple sprites so they all look terrible.

I've played other Kemco games and enjoyed them. They're always a bit on the easy side...usually autobattle thru to the bosses, and the bosses present enough challenge that you'll die a few times in the game. They force you to update your gear, do the extra stuff...so on. As to being in full screen, I just use fullscreensizer and viola, it's enjoyable. NOT this game. It's just balanced all wrong. I'm less than 2 hours in, playing at the expert level, and I literally can't die...2 super strikes and the bosses die. Ridiculous. I wonder if Kemco REALIZES this game is so easy and mis-balanced?? Until they fix it...avoid. Refunded.

Ah Koei Tecmo, time for another 16 bit RPG that was ported from mobile to steam. This game is quite enjoyable, however its also rather short. The primary reason that I've even played 34 hours is due to trying to complete everything. (in fact I plan on writing a guide to part of this game here on steam when I get home tonight.) But this brings up another point I wanted to discuss which is they brought back the record keepers! Well kind of... They no longer are physical NPC's on the map but instead are labelled as trophies in their own separate menu. I've managed to get 18/20 of the gold trophies, and the last two one my playstyle simply put would make it a slog to obtain, and the other I don't know how to get. But this brings up something else I want to talk about since this is a Koei Tecmo RPG. This game and most others made by the company suffer what I call 'Fourth Act Slog' which I will be denoting as FAS from now on. What is it praytell? Well most books follow a three act...

It's a KEMCO game all right. Played this on the Switch to the end and it was pretty ok on there. I really did like the characters and there sad stories but now after 5 years and coming back to play it again it's the same old RPG Maker crap. The story and characters are great but the gameplay is just boring and barely gets you excited at all while playing. Man ehat was I thinking back then while playing this?