Thanks, I got defeated on my first encounter in one of the demo versions and bought the game. The game kind of works on low settings on my very old pc so it'll certainly work on yours on high settings. Besides there's no loading time past launching the game which is great.
I was not impressed at first but I'm starting to like the game quite a bit as new types of enemies appear, like strong robots driven by several characters that will leave the robot as you defeat it.
The game is slow, you're walking a lot, sailing a lot, and chaining Final Fantasy Tactics kind of battles. It'll definitely be a game breaker to some people, but to me it's fine at least until now, once in a while I can play a game where the slow character progression is the main point and where pressing a button does not trigger something awesome. So far it's hike and combat and some trading, nothing else.
The game certainly oozes atmosphere. So far I didn't get aware of any overarching goal, you're certainly fighting against the Fog, and in practice a foggy area seems populated with tons of enemies but when one is approaching you then an encounter is triggered and if you win (you can retry or flee to the last resting point otherwise, which is just a checkpoint, characters are fully healed after a battle) then the fog and the enemies disappear from on a big area surrouding you. Now there are also those big spirits, which so far I've no idea about who they are. You can choose to fight the characters following a spirit, but the only time I did I got defeated and not tried again since so I've no idea if something special happens.
You find parts of maps, in towns especially, maps which are very cool by the way. Important things (like towns) close to you are also visible through an icon from afar when you explore.
You start with 4 goblins, and quickly reach a full party of 6. You can change their names and skin (fur?) color. You're playing as your own full party, that's cool.
Combat is deterministic, all hits hit. The stat system is very limited, HP and damage, plus affinities to elements I guess but I didn't really get into those (at all some fire arrows fired some bushes, dealing big damages to the character inside). Equipment is also very limited to two slots where you can put any part (generally increasing HP and damage, although' there's more occasionally like a bonus to affinity to an element). These limitations could really be problems in the long run, but I'm not sure yet.
However there are quite some jobs (at least some whose requirement is a combination of a certain level on one or several jobs, the others I don't know yet) and quite some active and passive skills for each job. You need to choose skills to level up (only for the base job, or jobless in fact, you can change at wil, for other jobs you can't), that increases customization but lowers the choices during fights, I've no opinion about this being good or bad. You can also select one skill (or more with special skills I think, but I've not unlocked yet) from previous jobs.
The combat system works, positioning is important especially, and why I had a bad impression about the game at first is that I faced a lot of finally similar encounters against groups of classed characters (with only the 5-6 first jobs and no difference in equipment these encounters did not feel that different, although' their skills were not always the same). But then I realized that first strong equipment give big bonuses (especially for skills with a big area of effect, I hope I'm not missing something when I say that), at least as important as leveling up in jobs, which only allows to increase skills I think (but I'm not 100% certain, I need to check again) and that by pushing forward instead of turning around then you'll eventually get to face different enemies and get strong equipment (maybe much more XP too but I've no idea about that). Some encounters certainly are fun to play and need at least some retries (I fled quite some times in the beginning but didn't for a while).
The trading system is cool, there's no money, and instead affinity with the inhabitants of the area. It increases when you win encounters there (freeing goblins from the fog) and it also increases when you "sell" an item to the trader. The price in affinity for selling and buying an item are the same (and depends only on the rarity of the item, the game uses a basic colour system) while their power varies, so you'll basically trade items for better items of the same rarity. The thing is that you need to reach a certain rank in affinity to be able to trade items of the corresponding rarity, so you'll need to fight and/or to sell some items first. Some special traders will also trade strong items against mundane items from somewhere else in the world.
Some equipment parts can be used to change the color of the suits (the suit depends on the job, but all the suits get colored) of a character when visiting a dyer. That's cool.
Overall I've got no strong opinion about the game yet, I think people who don't want to walk and chain a lot of quite long encounters should pass their way, but for others and me especially I'll need to play more to make an opinion.
