What I did in the game: Party at LV50 (don't know the cap), Dragon Slain (multiple times), Map fully completed.
The One Picture I have taken: Status screen.
The coziest and simplest dungeon crawler you'll ever play, made by the same team behind Ringlorn Saga, which was a great Hydlide homage. You start off by selecting your party of 4 (even though it will not change much in the long run), then you get your mission to slay a dragon in a maze, and after the town menu where you can't do anything yet, you go in the maze. The graphics are like Wizardry...and I'm talking the first original one, black and white with no detail. You navigate in the maze in first-person, but when a battle starts, it actually auto-play while you can continue to explore! This was so weird. Anyway, before your party dies, you go back to town and if you have gained enough XP, you can level up your characters at the Guild. Or upgrade your characters equipment. But there's no management here. Your equipment is also a level. You pay, and you gain one level of equipment for your character. So after that you go back in the maze, and rinse and repeat.
The game is so basic, it almost feels like it's auto-playing. And yet, it is really addicting, and perfect to chill out since you don't have to think. There's a year system, where normally, all the enemies you've killed in the maze won't respawn, except when a year have passed after a certain number of steps, every monsters reset. And if you manage to slay the Dragon, one year pass, the Dragon returns, and you continue forever, with enemies scaling a little bit every time. As such it feels like it's an endless game. I've beaten it the first time in my low 20, and continued to grind to 50, with no end in sight, so I decided to stop there. There was also a Remix mode, which was surely a different maze, but unfortunately, at the time of this writing, the game crash as soon as you try to save in Remix mode on Switch. And since it auto-save as soon as you enter the maze, it's unplayable. I don't understand how this could have been released like that. But fortunately for now, the Original mode is more than enough if you want a relaxing dungeon-crawling RPG.
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