Battle Chasers: Nightwar

Everything about the game was great, it takes about 25-30 hours to finish the main story. Hope we get the sequel.

Just a couple hours into the game and the story is fun, the art style is simple and creative, and the music is fantastic. Easy to pick up and really has the OG Playstation vibe for JRPGs of that time.

I played this a long time ago and just realized I had no review for it. Yeah play it it's great for fans of the genre.

I enjoy team based RPGs, and I think this game has a fair amount going for it aesthetically, but I can't recommend it to anyone that respects their time. The grind in this game never felt worthwhile, and that's an absolute death sentence for something like this.

You have better games in your library that you've yet to play. Why bother with this one?

This game is probably the SLOWEST dungeon crawler I’ve ever played. And I played a lot of them.
The artstyle is exceptional from the character design to the world, everyone and his grandma say this in the reviews, we get it, but this is, first and foremost, a videogame.
The fact that the devs did not include some basic features of every dungeon crawler since the Famicom, like skip animation, auto-actions or fast moving or… at least running instead of walking, is dreadful. I mean I am not asking for the moon, right? You move SO slow in the map and inside the dungeons, it takes too much time for something basic as going back to town or teleport between floors. Tie this with a very bad placement of teleporters in the overworld and in the dungeons and you’ll have to do so many slow unskippable encounters even against enemies way lower your level.
This is also that kind of dungeon crawling which makes you repeat the dungeons at higher difficulties for better lootboxes, yes, lootboxes, or for the chance to drop better equipment. Combine this with the excruciating slowness of everything it’s not the best experience of the genre.
At the current time I haven’t finished the game because the slowness has become dreadful so I can’t speak about plot. I just know the Battle Chasers franchise comes from a comic.
The review is positive because this is a game where the devs did an honest good job. The slowness part is really hard but not critical (this time at least).

Fast, fun, and easy to pick up and put down!

Amazing game. Got me through some tough times.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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Conclusion:
I took the time to perfect this game because I naturally unlocked most of the achievements and enjoyed the grind and gameplay. If you follow a guide, you can save a lot of time and likely perfect the game in about 60–75 hours. The grind is fairly typical, involving lore, the bestiary, and a required fishing minigame. The RNG can be frustrating at times, but overall, it's not a bad game. I’d recommend it on sale if you like JRPGs—it’s that style of game

mantap

Such an Underrated beautiful game....Love to play on the Go

Muy buen juego RPG clasico

Pros; art is pretty. Voice acted characters seem cool.

Cons; Combat is sluggish, and the animations are repetitive. If the dev(s) add a way to speed up or skip the animations, I'll come back to this.

Oh, I never reviewed this game?
Buy it
You will enjoy it

Good game :)

Very fun, very cool, time well spent. Slapped me on the bum and I said thank you.

Maybe get it for 1 dollar. Devs couldnt be bothered to put in a speed option so have fun with all the 'dead air'.
The amount of choices you make vs the amount of time you wait while things happen is stupid. Its like every battle sequence take 4 times as long as it should. Not to mention the walking speed on the world map. I saw the devs reply "we cant change it , it will not work with the game engine."

Within 1 day someone posted a guide with CheatEngine on how to fix.
I am barely recommending this.

I had really high expectations for this game. From the trailer, I thought this would be a somewhat unique, if not new, playthrough on the turn-based combat genre. Instead I got an insane XP-based grinder system. Oh and for the sheer lack of content? I also got some astounding graphics (which I didn't mind) and character backstory (which I also didn't mind) with voice-acted dialogues thrown here and there.

Overall, my experience with this game was a solid 5.5/10 if I'm being generous.

Battle Chasers: Nightwar

This game kicks ass. I can't believe it sat in my library unattended for so long. The art style is awesome, right down to the badass loading screens. It has a similar badass art style like the first Darksiders game, combined with a WoWish aesthetic.

The gameplay is fun and the combat is engaging. The abilities are really well thought out so far. Wholly enjoying some turn-based gameplay for once. A definite must have for any library.

bleh, meh even

Extremely well made turn based RPG / dungeon crawler. Tons of replay value.

Great game to pass time.

Fun game, it's lacking some QoL features. It was really a bummer that sidelined characters don't get EXP, which makes switching party comps nonviable. I also wish the game moved faster, I honestly think 15% of my playtime is just from slow animations.

But this game has tons of style, a great soundtrack, and a really cool world. Combat is fun, boss fights can be tough, but nothing was overwhelming. I really hope this game gets a sequel.

Combat is the meat of the game. It feels very good thanks to very engaging mechanics, as well as excellent animations and sound design. I especially like that every single ability has at least one build that makes full use of it and that each character has synergies with all the others.

I always had problems getting into turn based combat games.
I prefered the fluid combat of Devil may cry -or- God of war type games.
This game kind of reminds me of the older Final fantasy games...and that's a good thing.
The game has A LOT of lore and I enjoyed exploring it so I'm not gonna be too long...BUT this game was very very fun.
It's a good game for turn based combat beginners like myself and has so much content that in my 55 hour long gameplay i unlocked maybe 70% of achievements and lore...
I will come back to this game eventualy it has a very good replayability.
Try it out you won't be sorry.

I can't get the game to work. Stopping virus scanner, installing and running via DX9, and disabling Xbox controller are all recommended to stop CTDs. I don't have enough of a desire to play the game to keep troubleshooting these problems. Seems like Windows 11 may also be a culprit.

As you might tell from my play time, I have played this game quite a bit. For a party based rpg, it's actually really well balanced. The story is relatively average, but I think is meant for a early/mid teen audience. The music, to me, is where it shines actually. Pirate themed music, done well. Probably not a game for achievement hunters, some are tricky. Tactics are needed, but it is closer to finding the right pattern of attack/abilities for the characters in your party. There are some bugs mostly in the last dungeon area, but nothing game breaking, and dungeon map layouts are semi-random every time you enter. A playthrough could probably take as little as 20hrs if you attempt to speedrun it and have good tactics, but there is Newgame+ that does add more challenges. Graphics are comic style, Borderlands style.

Overall, I'd say it's worth full price, because it's a really well done party-based rpg. Something that is hard to come by for the last decade or so.

Coming back for a second play through after a few years and it's just as fun as I remember

Fun turn-based game, satisfying to play through a second time for achievements but not so long it felt like a chore.

A serious gem with some nice modern touches

Espectacular RPG, el arte es tremendo, se juega perfectamente, ojala los comics salieran mas seguido, hay una linda historia aca

good

Very nice game, I love it. The characters are great, so the music and the graphic!

4/5 stars

Solid game, takes a bit long to "start" but I love the world, I want to go back.

It's a little game brim with charming art style.
That enough for me.
This is my first finish turn base RPG so can't comment much on gameplay.
But for me it worth the price.

ALL

[12.10.2024 - 19.10.2024]
So, I've finally finished the very first playthrough of the game, since it's designed for double play, regular and then new game +, which I'm gonna do I think so.
It's really good game, not anything amazing, too simple, too repetitive with sometimes awful RNG stuff, but it's amazing to chill with and I'm had that, also really good soundtrack.
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Good story, huge potential for sequels, sadly with a cliffhanger for now, hoping for a sequel to come.
To end this review, I'd rate this between solid 7 and a strong 8.
I enjoyed it, finished the game in 59h.
Enjoy, have fun!

PS. Have played and tested the game on the Steam Deck OLED.

Fantastic game!

While i did enjoy this game overall, i can only barely recommend it. The main two issues i had with the game are the balance and the story.
Lets get the good things out of the way first. The art is fantastic and the gameplay is pretty good. I am not really a fan of turn based games, but i did enjoy this. The game is full of creative ideas and interesting mechanics. The overcharge mechanic is something i really like.
Now the bad. Firstly, the story is almost non-existent. You get a brief introduction and then get dumped into the game. From there you get about 1 story beat per hour. (assuming you dont need to go grind, which you will.) The story basically exists to give you a reason to go to point A to point B. The plot line is competent enough, which makes sense considering its based on a comic. But there is almost no character moments at all. The only real time characters interact with each other is when you rest at the town, but there is only about 10 of these moments in total throughout the entire game. Overall it feels like they just did not know how to incorporate the story into this game, and it ends up feeling very tacked on.
Now the balance. This game suffers from severe difficulty spikes and just generally awful balance of enemies. I did not struggle with any mandatory bosses in the entire game except for the final boss which kicked my ass. But there was some random enemies you would find in dungeons or in the overworld that i was scared to fight even when i was 1 or 2 levels higher than them. But the absolute worst part was the grind. You are basically required to do every dungeon twice in order to keep up, otherwise you will end up under leveled for everything.
I did still like this game, but it did leave me very frustrated at some points. Still i do recommend it, especially if you are a fan of turn based games or of Airship Syndicate games. Though maybe wait for a sale if you are hesitant.

Very enjoyable RPG! I enjoy the depth of the combat, and the ability to build each member of the party according to your playstyle.

Much fun. yes yes

Pros

• Cool, comic-book-like graphics.
• The combat is pretty fun.
• Juicy and weighty sound effects.

Cons

• The overworld map is just a grid of linear paths, making it very constrictive.
• The gameplay is too simplistic: "Go here, fetch a thing, go back, and put it there to open a new path."
• Dungeon exploration feels like tedious busy-work.
• The whole game looks like an elaborate Flash game and could have been made for a browser.

Total: 5/10

yes and yes

Interesting game. Cool characters, really solid graphics, and it's fun. The fishing is really fun. The difficulty was solid in my opinion, and I did really enjoy this game when I played it.

A solid 8/10. It's a very good game. I might just go and replay it now, but kind of on a roll with reviewing all of these games I should have reviewed a long time ago. We'll see.

fun game

At first glance this game seem short and poorly balanced. That was at least until I realized that the developers seem to expect you to go through each of the dungeons multiple times. Each dungeon has multiple tiers of difficulty and if you try to go straight from one area to the next you will find yourself under leveled. Some of the combat choices seem odd as well with most of the skills seeming to favor doing damage over time versus direct damage. Once you get the hang of combat though it's a fun game and absolutely beautiful artwork as well.

good

yes

TL;DR: Classic JRPG mechanics with Joe Mad art. Love it! A few kinks, but definitely recommended.
Pros:
+ I haven't played a jRPG in around 18 years and this felt like reliving a bit of my early gamer days.
+ I am a big fan of Joe Mad's art in games. Darksiders FTW!
+ Grinding - this is the main complaint I've seen, but at least on a regular New Game, it didn't bother me at all. It really felt like a part of the jRPG experience without dragging waaaaaay too long or being that boring (again - for a classic jRPG).
+ Combat mechanics - for sure they could have been more complex, but they felt just right to me.
+ Characters - cool and recognizable silhouettes with awesome animations
+ Game length - just right for my taste. May be one more dungeon would have been OK, but one more zone - no.

Cons:
- Combat experience can become repetitive as with any jRPG. I wish that there was a way to do run of the mill battles just a bit faster - may be with faster animations.
- The story is nothing to write home about
- Crafting is kind of boring
- Game manual is OK-ish, but I had to experiment and read online about several mechanics to understand them (attack, haste, heal being directly affected by Att stat, etc.)
- Installed a mod that lets off-party characters passively gain experience. Sure, I could have carried one or two during dungeon runs, but this helped me get things done faster and just saving time without feeling that I'm cheating. Otherwise this is a decision of the game design that I don't agree with.
- Combat logging and overall info is lacking. Even if you see numbers, usually they are not final so you either do calculations in your hear OR you just decide with a margin of possibility/error.
- NG+ starts slow and goes slow so I recommend it only for people who want more challenge and are willing to put the time and effort in repeating content just to get the best out the heroes and combat challenges.