Lost Dimension

Lost Dimension by Atlus is unique in terms of gameplay. I am on my 3rd playthrough and each time you ahve new conversations and new situations. What leads to this? The unique traitor system. The traitor system is a unique system in which one of your "allies" is actually an enemy and you must weed them out through various means. Thats not to say the system is flawed as some tricks become more obvious but it is still an extremely fun mechanic. The gameplay plays out like your "modern" tactical JRPG. You don't move around a map like in Fire Emblem, but more you have a circlar area you can move in, and you have your basic RPG elements, your abilities or "gifts" in which each character has a unique set so not everyone can learn pyrokensis or things like that. While the game felt short to me, (Compared to other JRPGS on the vita like "Tales of hearts" it was still worth the buy and a play

What I love about Lost Dimension is the non-linearity of it. Climbing up a labyrinth like tower to stop a terrorist, while you have traitors in your midst, makes every decision about who you spare and sacrifice a crucial one. And with each playthrough, you are very highly unlikely going to have the same traitors each time. I feel Lost Dimension does struggle to make its central antagonist special, and somewhat repetitive combat makes the game a bit of a slog at times. But once you master the gameplay, the game is genuinely fun, and tense to play.

Very entertaining game, with a somewhat different combat system than usual. Graphically it complies, I liked his music a lot, and his characters are interesting. The only bad thing I saw is that you must know English yes or yes, especially by ear, because if not, you will end up VERY bad in the end, since the game tries to find the culprit, and you can be wrong with its consequences in the end. For my part, a recommended experience.

An RPG with a unique vision for its gameplay and a lot of ambition that is held back by the reality of that very vision. Because no character (aside from the protagonist Sho) is immune to the possibility of being eliminated, the story is also constructed in such a way that no character aside from Sho contributes anything of importance to the plot. Similarly, because a traitor is randomly generated every chapter, there is excitement in the potential for future repercussions and trying to figure out who dunnit, but the process and actual impact of there being a traitor is also drastically lessened compared to other games with a similar premise and fixed baddies (i.e. Danganronpa, Zero Escape series). But for all of its shallow elements, Lost Dimension has a fantastic gameplay loop that never grows stale and is easy to lose yourself into into.

Lost Dimension is an attempt at a different kind of turn based strategy game, one where your allies and enemies change with each playthrough. In each chapter of the game, one of your allies becomes a traitor and you have to find out who otherwise at the end of the game, they will join the last boss and fight you. It becomes a task of grinding through an easy stage and switching out your allies until you narrow it down to 3 potential traitors. Then, you have to use the main character's special ability and enter the suspect's mind in order to see if they really are the traitor. Afterwards, you have to manipulate the votes so that the traitor does die. This can get tedious, but there are stages that you can finish in one turn to make it a little easier. One of the interesting things in the game is that you can pass a fallen comrade's abilities onto another character. Some abilities can only be unlocked by using specific combinations of abilities. For example, if the main character takes on the abilities of the teleporter, they will be able to use a teleporting bullet that guarantees both a back attack and a critical hit on the enemy. This was quite a nice feature. The problem is that the fallen comrade's abilities cannot be improved. They are stuck at the point in which they died. In the case of your first playthrough, you're basically stuck with one near useless Fate Materia because you never even get a chance to level the traitor up. One problem is the enemies. They more or less try to rush you and gather in a straight line, giving you a chance to just wipe them out with line attack focused abilities. Late game, enemies either kill you in two or three critical hits or you kill them in a similar number of hits with the exception of the large enemies. At the last two chapters of the game, enemies receive a significant boost in health and damage. Getting the best Vit focused armor makes it so that literally only boss enemies or the giant robot enemies can actually deal significant damage to you. There are also a few very annoying stages because there are enemies that spawn other enemies. Each playthrough changes because of the difference in traitors. It is nice to see that, but the story is fairly thin and basically condensed into first five minutes and the last five minutes of the game. The other characters besides the main character and final boss don't do much other than make a few comments after someone is killed at the end of a chapter. during the opening battles of the last floor, or if you do their special quest.