Playing Senren * Banka!

Slow progress, still going through the second chapter of the "common" route.

Playing Unicorn Overlord!

I've been bouncing from game to game the past few weeks trying to find something that catches my attention and helps me relax because my usual RPGs and VNs haven't been working, I'm having a hard time focusing on them due to real life problems.

I think this one is the best candidate so far. Battles are usually short so it's good game to play in quick bursts (and you can save mid-battle in case you hit a longer one), there's plenty of story but it's fairly standard fantasy stuff so you don't need to pay too much attention.

It's a bit grindy, which could be a problem on other moments but works well right now, just going around doing short missions and unlocking more characters and sections of the map has been really fun so far.

A couple things to comment: First, as usual for a Vanillaware game it looks beautiful and it's generally well polished. I think a few menus are a bit clunky, but nothing you can't get used to after a couple hours playing.

Second, the game has an absurd amount of customization, so much that it's almost overwhelming:

• You can have up to 10 active battle parties
• Each battle party can have up to 5 characters, so you can have up to 50(!) characters active at once
• There's a ridiculous amount of classes (more than 60 IIRC), all with different strenghts and weaknesses
• Each character has multiple equipment slots, and those not only can provide status boots but also add new skills
• You can configure the skills and its usage for each character, similar to the Gambit system in Final Fantasy 12

As you can see above, that's a LOT of stuff to fiddle with. So far I've been only doing basic stuff, balancing the parties and keeping everyone minimally equipped and it's been working, but I can see myself at some point later in the game just sitting down and spending a whole afternoon tuning everything to the max.