Occidental Heroes 12+

The game is fenomenal, the art atyle, the stories, the choices, the map, everything hit the the right spot for me. The mechanic is extremely easy to understand and get into, your choices does have weight to it which directly affect the outcomes, which in turn help each run unique from another. Though as it is still in developement (I hope) the game is quite "short" as once your team pick up the xps and upgrades, they kind of snow ball almost everyfight as the AI leave much to be desires. I only found this gem ~2 days ago and I already racked quite an embarassing amount of playtime already. One last grief I have with the game though is that once your party all finished their goals, you have to depart with them to recruit new ones to do their quest line which in turn drop the fire power of the team tremendously as the new guy not only is underlevel and geared, but the enemies are stronger as well.

This game has great gameplay, good story arks and brilliant dialogue. It is a jewel of a game. BUT…it has one massive flaw. Occidental Hero’s is way to punishing. If a character drops to zero they are permanently gone. While this may not sound like a massive problem, as this is realistic, it is crushing to constantly have to replace your party members makes advancing impossible. And yes, I know that there is a chance to revive a fallen member if you have a fencer with the army surgeon background, but fencers are almost always the first ones to die in a fight, so the surgeon can’t revive themselves because they are dead.

I think the best way to fix this would be giving the character a major penalty due to injury when they drop to zero HP, but not killing them unless the whole party falls to zero. The surgeon would now have a fifty-fifty chance to now have an injury. Maybe an injury would give a character a 50% penalty to all stats, for 20 moves, or something like that.

Thanks for reading my comment. I hope it proved useful to both devs and potential buyers.

This game is absolutely fantastic. I’m usually skeptical about games like this. With a bit of imagination and understanding of the structure, this can turn into one of the best games you’ve touched. It’s an open world that really pays attention to details. You start off with a small party in a city. Slowly take on small quests until the cities start to trust the reputation of your team. Teams are customizable by firing a team member or asking someone to join your crew at the local tavern in any of the towns. Keeping in mind you have to constantly buy supply for your team, every movement has to be calculated because you burn through your supplies with every step. The world is vast and limitless. I’m an extremely impressed with this wonderful game. I’m buying just to support. I highly recommend to anyone looking for something to get sucked into. ITS WORTH IT.