A new RPG for the PS4 from Compile Heart, part of their Galapagos RPG project.
The game is about saving someone trapped in a virtual reality MMORPG by both going into the game yourself and trying to figure out what happened outside of the game. Staying in the game to long will have negative affects as you will be corrupted by the games bugs you have been fighting. It has turn-based battles with the option to add genres to the VR game to create more options for yourself in battle.
Though Death end’s engaging narrative pushes me to reconsider my skepticism of games whose titles include semicolons, this Switch port’s monotonous combat system, cookie-cutter progression mechanics, and serious technical failings keep me from dumping this aversion altogether. For fans of top-notch visual novels willing to tuck in for the hours of tedium...
The port performs well, and I'd wager for 90% of users the state of it will be enough. It's just disappointing that it launched in such a barebones state.
Death end re;Quest is not a terrible game, but it certainly doesn't do much to stand out from a crowded and trope friendly glut of JRPG titles. The battle mode plays like a game of pool and has a lot of interesting features, but the writing is tired, the characters are overly sexualized and mentally deficient as always, and the game is set in a bland...
Death end Re;Quest is good mix beetween an original J-RPG and a visual novel, with two different heroes.
Death End re;Quest is Idea Factory's and Compile Heart's best work to date, with believable characters, a fresh combat system and an interesting twist con virtual reality-themed topics.
