Pietris

Single player can be beat in an hour, and the story focuses on characters I don't know but the game clearly expects you to recognize. Was this an anime tie in, or perhaps a sequel to a game that never made it to English? Either way, this is intended to be a faster paced online competitive game. This means this is not a good game to travel with, since you'll need constant internet access. Furthermore, the switch is just too large to comfortably hold in one hand while the other uses a stylus.

60% menus 25% dialogue heavy cutscenes (fairly good ones I think) 15% clunky combat The game suffers heavily from a huge lack of actual combat and dungeon crawling. There are effectively 2 dungeons you can enter: the first is the boss battle against the titular boss Trillion or a training dummy that has his moves that you can enter once every in-game week, the second is a tiny randomly generated dungeon that is small by rogue-like standards and has a limited number of moves. This second dungeon can also only be entered after completing 5 training commands, which means effectively spending a few minutes entirely in menus in order to spend 2 minutes tops in a dungeon where you have to finish very quickly or lose everything gained there. The overall result is that the game feels very slow, especially compared to other titles by Idea Factory and NIS games with similar art direction that a large majority of this game's audience would be used to. I could forgive the lack of combat and combat variety if the combat itself were well polished. It is not. It handles very clunkily and slow, with large pauses after each turn. The animations aren't much to write home about either. Also the story progresses when Trillion defeats and then consumes your current overlord who the game has spent the last dozen or so hours endearing you to, accompanied with fairly graphic text such as "Oh god, why does it hurt? Make it stop!". While thematically appropriate, it can be a huge turn off for some people.