CrossCode Review | A Hidden Gem 

I love Emilie and Apollo as well! Whenever I got that chance, I'd put Apollo and Emilie together in my party. By far the two funniest characters.

I was on the fence for the first 5 hours or so. I thought the combat and story were meh. I can't pinpoint when it happened, probably around the time I had both fire and ice, I was fuckin hooked. Did have to lower some difficulty things but I'm ok with that. Think I'm 35 hours in now it it has its teeth firmly sunk into me.

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And this does make sense as well. Because you get EXP from killing enemies AND from doing quests, therefore you get the ability to choose rather fight endless enemies or just do a lot of quests Both are pretty fun to me at least.

Also, doing side quests and finding treasures return good equipment, which somewhat eliminates the need to buy them from vendors. I rarely buy equipment in the game unless the new equipment is far superior than my current equipment, which is usually not the case. Currently 50+ hours in and found all treasures after reaching Rhombus Square. Could've save some time if I knew there's a treasure tracker device for sale.

@@kyou_on theres a what now. I am SO gonna be using that oh my gosh

Yeah. Doing quests levels you up wayyyyyy faster.

Same! I knew it was going to be good when I played the original demo several years ago, and it surpassed even my high expectations. Great soundtrack, expressive characters, interesting premise and story, great gameplay, actually difficult puzzles, exploration and discovery, it's got everything I ever wanted in an action RPG.

Someone most if them have u fight bosses or follow people around or find things

ANd you don't even need to grind. If you're good enough, you can pretty much go straight to the bosses. You have to be really good though, and I ain't that. I spend SO long trying to get better equipment.

@@rhiannn3416 lol i almost never traded for equipment, i just hunted so many chests.....some chests (very rare) have equipment within them. Did like 3 Trades and i'm Level 48, just finished the last big Dungeon.

@@coredeadman5980 ugh what a legend 😔✊

I've played 66 hours and done 95%+ of the sidequests in ver1.0. I collected all the artifacts and tried to 100% the unique gear and chests. The only "Grind" I've done through the whole game was to get certain materials to craft gear, and even calling what I did as a grind doesn't seem right since I spent very minimal time doing it (probably less than 5 hours in total). I've spent much more time exploring the map and gather secret chests than actually "grinding". I've played the highest available difficulty in that version throughout the game and I still never felt the need to grind (for exp or gear) at all. The grind was purely for collection purposes. I guess technically I was unintentionally gaining levels by trying to collect all the chests before proceeding but I would call that just exploring.

I really wish you had the option to just PAY for most of the weapons. Like it wasn't a fun experience to fight the same enemy on repeat for the *chance* of getting an item or worse, realizing after searching through known monster drops that you just CAN'T buy a certain weapon yet. Like, I would much prefer if each item was just stupidly expensive without the base resources, and you could bring in the resources yourself to reduce the price. All in all, I'd say just because other games do it, doesn't make it fun.

Equipment progression is entirely unnecesseary. Its diagetic difficulty adjustment (in addition to the already very well featured assist mode), not a core part of the game. You 'build' if you can call it that, is made through the circuits, not through gear, so you are safe to ignori it unless you are struggling with combat.

Yeah he mentioned Zelda which I guess I see the comparisons but this is waaaay more Secret of Mana than Zelda to me

Adrian Dion well then they need to release it on ps4...been waiting for years.

This or outer wilds?

@@jasondp3546 CrossCode

Adrian Dion nice man I was going through the summer sale also really don’t c nothing good or if it is good I already have it lol... really slim choices guess I’ll give it a go ty buddy!!

The best part of this game is the music. It sounds just like an old Pokemon game. :D

How is it ?

@@EVILAKUMA It's pretty good, especially with the final DLC having been released. The story is somewhat predictable, but the characters are really likable and combat grows in complexity. It has a good mix of fighting and puzzle solving, side quests are tons of fun, environments are pretty engaging and worth exploring. Endgame is particularly good.

It's out today! on the switch! A year later :) !

Perfect portable game.

@Jason U it...it was a joke....did u miss the /sarcasm bit. also, u cant exactly use hard math to judge a review scale, as there's no formula to say exactly what each rank means. you can say 4 is 33% more then 3, but on a review scale they could be only slightly different, or massively different, depending on the person. the whole point was that anthem is boring, unfinished, bad story, bad characters, unbalanced and every other negative thing from the review, and this game is only 1 point better then THAT. either this game isnt that good or anthems score is too high, hence the second part, "i think the rating system is broken" again its a joke, he even already said the as a game, anthem would be a 2, only gave it a 3 cuz he had some fun.

There's shooting and melee and the two control methods favor one or the other. Personally, using a controller worked just as well.

I used a controller aswell and it worked perfectly fine.

@@ZoidbergTES Oh yeah, I'm sure it works, but he keeps saying how difficult it is. I can only imagine a controller would raise the difficulty by being less precise than a mouse.

@@JimPanzeeEsq It wasn't an issue for most of the time for me. There are a few puzzles with very tight timing but i managed them all just fine with a little practice. Of course i can't say if they would give you any troubles but as he mentioned in the review you can also adjust the difficulty of those puzzles somewhat if you struggle too much. Aiming wasn't really ever an issue in combat either, you get used to it very quickly.

Unfortunately, according to developers, there won't be a Switch port. steamcommunity.com/games/368340/announcements/detail/3410812292167245946 The second half.

@@qasderfful Nah, it's on switch pretty soon. Or it might already be.

@@rhiannn3416 One more month baby

It's out today on the switch !!!!

XUI280 like almost every steam store page no ?

@@felliu7785 Not every steam store page, but I get what you're saying.

The old Final Fantasy games maybe?

Phantasy Star

@@Vintasticvin Thank you

@@utisti4976 True

Chained Echoes 😂

Keep in mind you can change the speed of puzzles. No shame in that. But if this game isn't your cup of tea, not an issue!

Luckily it's not an online game at all.

Me too

@Captain Reset ...What? The reasons it's so much is because it takes a lot of money to produce these physical cartridges. What exactly makes CrossCode not worth the money? The special edition comes with a load of shit, including a steel book. As far as the switch itself goes, it's cheaper than every other console current gen console at launch and it has some incredible games on it. I genuinely don't get what you're trying to say.

@Captain Reset let's just agree to disagree because, truth be told, I really don't care about how much the switch is in the UK or whatever you have to say. Have a nice day.

@Captain Reset bruh what the actual fuck are you on about? Why bring politics into it you loon? I paid for the switch because I like its library, that's why I didn't mind the $300 USD price tag. Also, current gen consoles tend to launch at $500.00 USD are are not portable. Hell, I don't even own an iPhone. What the fuck is your actual problem?

As others have been saying, this review absolutely overblows the grinding aspect of this game. The most you’ll ever do is maybe go back to a previous area for a little while to get materials for a piece of gear, and even then most gear pieces can also just be found around in the world with no need to get materials to trade for them. The game still clocks in at around 50 hours, but it is an RPG and it’s all worthwhile content. Side quests also are really solid, while a bunch of early ones are simple most involve unique bosses or gamemodes. One involves you playing a tower defense game, one involves you ‘breaking the game’ with an NPC and accessing a dev area, etc etc. it’s all really good.

Nope that's just the fictional setting the story takes place in, if that makes sense. The character just happens to be in an MMO but it isn't actually multiplayer.

Revlar Milion how was it rushed ? You realize that a lot of people wanted to see only the story and complained that it was too long

@@felliu7785 It's a matter of consistency. The game paces itself very well early on, it maintains a slow pace for many, many hours. Then you hit a turning point and it loses steam. That turning point is the Vermillion Wasteland, which increases the tension dramatically, only for the game to go back to dungeon-delving afterwards and slow down again, wasting all that tension. Then the game contrives a way to get all the characters involved in the finale without really giving them a piece of the stakes, other than their relationship with you. If the game had spent more time developing the supporting cast and giving them reasons to go on this final mission, instead of just assuming that they would, the ending would've been paced more consistently. Personally, I would say the easiest fix would've been to have every character be in the original Vermillion Wasteland bit, and have those characters join you in the finale instead. Doesn't help that to this day the postgame is not there. The epilogue is still incomplete.

​@@felliu7785 a game is an interactive medium, if you are playing a video game for just story you arent human nor do you matter in thus world whatsoever. FAKE GAMER just want games to be movies booooooring

You probably won't like animes xD

what do you mean childish?

@@MattEBF5 Maybe that's not the right word? Like, Chrono Trigger for example, is also childish in a way, but it works for what it is. I may be meaning that it kind of apes that style, but an Americanized version of it? Mostly the portraits shown in conversation and the actual character sprites in the game proper. Environments and enemies look good though.

You should've watched the video before commenting. He doesn't contradict himself, he said he went back after beating the game to record more footage from earlier levels and that that's why he looks overleveled in some clips.

Yeah, I think you misheard.

I don't understand, where do you have to grind? Sidequests and Chests is enough for leveling and getting gear

What he said. Game seems to made in a way that 2 types of people can progress the way they want. Those who love grinding and those who love questing. And for those who aren't keen on either, the difficulty probably isn't too high and the puzzles can be real fun head scratchers.

Just your friendly neighborhood time traveler here to let everybody know that a Switch port now exists, and has been patched too! It's good!

Do your custom characters in games always look like you?