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This game is like Dragon Age Origins on steroids. The care this game got from the devs is unreal. So many things have impressed me. The story with its plottwists, the dialogue choices you can make, the music, the voice acting, the DnD style combat and many more aspects. I can honestly say that this game is a masterpiece and succeded in giving the true spiritual successor of Dragon Age Origins. DA2 and Inquisition failed to deliver big time. DA Dreadwolf is not needed anymore and probably can't compete with BG3. I will enjoy this game many years to come. Playthroughs with friends, Dark Urge and whatever ideas I will get for a third or fourth playthrough.

Warning: Can contain some very minor spoiler but I don't think so. I read Chaos:Head(8) and Steins:Gate(10) before this one. There are many ups and downs with the story and characters. Some very clever plottwists but also very easy to spot mistakes in the script. Simple things like the MC not picking up his smartphone because he doesn't want to be disturbed but buying the same day a new smartphone because he lost his old one a couple days ago. If you read multiple things like these you are starting to wonder if the script was proof read at all. It's not a very big deal but it broke my immersion to much. One plottwist I really liked. It established very subtle horror elements that effects the story in it's very core and reminded me about Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni. A very good horror Visual Novel. But because of this twist it had effect on the development of an other character that i thought became badly written because of it. What Chaos;Head did very good with the murders, Chaos;Child dropped the ball with. Two murders where so laughable and unreaIlistic I thought the MC suffered some delusion or psychological attack. After the plot decided this was not the case my immersion just broke and it took a while before I got absorbed in the story again. The science aspect of the game is weak. just build on what Chaos:Head already was but presented, written to ambitious and became to supernatural and over the top in theme for my liking. 1 character route I found to be the best route. Another character route I found to be the worst route. The common Route started strong but became boring around ch 3 to ch7. ch 8 through ch11 are strong and really picks the story up. The true routes first twist i really hated but slowly started to like the change the further I read. The true ending is pretty good. I Am a bit of a **** for that type of ending. The cast Is also mixed but gets saved by 3 to 4 characters the MC included. For me it gets harder liking Japanese written characters because of the overuse of the typical arch types. But these characters got good backstory's supporting why they have those arch types. Some people say the voice acting in this one was bad but I don't agree with that at all. So yeah there you have it. I think Chaos;Child is good but not a master piece like Steins;Gate and got more lows than Chaos;Head so I rate this one a 7. What you like in the science adventure visual novels is purely subjective of course but If you want it like the more science driven Steins;Gate and the more paranoid/subtle like Chaos;Head this one probably lets you down a bit like it did with me.

I would give this game 7.5 but that is not an option. 1. The plot/characters I only liked the plot in the beginning and the end. Its very lacking and repeats the same events over and over. For example. Asbel obsesses over protecting his friends all the time. I only liked one character named Hubert. the rest was copy paste form other tales of games. We all know the formula. There is the old "veteran" guy, the emotionless loli, the white knight main character and his childhood friend. 2. Battle system This is were this game shines. I only played 3 tales of games. Abyss, Graces F and Xillia. This game got the best battle system by far. Its deep and fast paced. In the Epilogue of the game. It surprisingly gets even better with the introduction of new mechanics. 3. Dualize I always liked gathering different equipment but the game forced me to use the "Dualize system" its an system that lets you fuse "shards" to power up your gear. It can also fuse ingredients to create food. So yeah. There is not much gear overall. You have to fuse those shards in your equipment, then fuse both equipments to create a "gem" a gem is an equipment that boost stats. So if your Shard got an attack property your gem gets attack. Its possible to fuse those gems as well to create a better one. I got 70 hours in this game because the combat was very addicting. played it on the moderate difficulty. Mobs were easy to beat and the bosses were challenging. If you crave a new Tales of game or just a JRPG you should get this one.