Conversations or scenes that could be cut to just a few lines are instead extended to last for dozens and it’s honestly worse than some of the bloated visual novels I have read. You get this really cool setting and base plot and then an overall story that moves at glacier pacing and with some of the most overwritten dialogue I have ever seen in the genre.
As a visual novel fan, I am very used to this approach, but at the same time, that also makes me very susceptible to poor writing and that is unfortunately the case with Eastward. You unlock new weapons as the game goes on, but instead of being better weapons, they’re just more gimmicky and clunky compared to the one you started with that does the same job in half the time.įortunately, the gameplay makes up a mere fraction of the experience – the bulk of your time (like 80% or so) is going to be spent reading dialogue and going through the story. You simply hit your one button to swing at things until they are dead. I mean, the puzzles are decent enough, but the combat is laughable. It’s less “good” and more so just “basic”, without much depth or really anything noteworthy about it. In reality, it’s more of a visual novel that just happens to have a little bit of Zelda -like action RPG gameplay and some puzzles too.
Because if you look at the trailer and the screenshots and all that, you might get the impression that this is some sort of Zelda -like action RPG. Okay, first things first – it’s important to understand what exactly this game is before going into it.
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