The occasional boss took longer to take down because they had a massive number of hit points, but with those fights I would simply adopt a rhythm of attacking and then using the healing ability and still wouldn’t break a sweat.Īside from the main story games, if you find yourself in need to get more experience then you can head on over to complete some side quests (which play out the same way as the story levels) and grind up some more levels. Because of these drops I found myself constantly using powerful healing items on characters that had literally lost 17 hit points (out of thousands) because the game limited me to 10 of each healing item, and my inventory was maxed out.īecause the game is so easy I flew through it doing the same button combinations over and over and over again. Because this all plays out in a turn based fashion in theory it would be quite a strategic system, whereby players need to carefully consider which enemies to attack, whether to go for the kill or use the less risky light attacks that have a greater chance of connecting and building up the super meter, and so on, but unfortunately this is all let down by the game being ridiculously easy.Ĭase in point – enemies often drop loot when hit especially hard. In theory it could be interesting players select from two different types of attacks (a light and a heavy one), and with each attack that connects they earn points, which can be used on a range of super attacks. This would be tolerable if the combat was engaging, but unfortunately it’s not. There’s nothing more to the game than progressing to the next cut scene. They’ll wander through these environments fighting the occasional band of enemies that pops up in front of them, and opening the occasional treasure chest. Players are dropped in environments that are entirely comprised of either curved paths, or straight paths. When the game finally cuts to gameplay, the experience doesn’t really improve. This is broken up by the occasional moment of animation from what I assume is the anime, but those animations are brief indeed and when we’re talking about cut scenes that can literally last a half hour, it’s hard to justify Romance Dawn’s poor narrative pacing.
For the most part a cut scene is two little picture boxes with character profiles chatting to one another in unvoiced speech bubbles. The cutscenes might tell a story that I found useful and somewhat interesting, but they are extremely long and singularly dull.
Taste in anime and manga is of course entirely subjective, so let’s get on to the flaws of Romance Dawn that are immediately apparent and will test the patience of even the most hardcore One Piece fan.
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