Save file is at 103:19, but it probably took at least 10 hrs more with reloads. Normal difficulty. It said something about me choosing the path of thorns.
I enjoyed it, but there are some things that I could easily see pissing off players, which drags down my score. I would have enjoyed it quite a bit more if not for the boss battles, since they all pretty much ended up playing out the same way, just changing the type of magic to protect against, so they were simply tedious. I liked the devil collecting, leveling, and fusing aspect of the game. I also liked how it was basically a straight up dungeon crawler with very little plot and exposition to get in the way.
The battle system where your, or the enemy, party loses a turn if a character misses had me scratching my head since it doesn't make any logical sense why the other members would be penalized. Same with gaining extra attacks for pulling off criticals or hitting weaknesses. This might make sense in 1-on-1 battles where you could say that you were thrown off by missing, or are staggered by a critical/weakness. The possibility of the devil taking a bunch of money and items when trying to recruit it, only to say something like "Oh, gee, I have an errand to run" and then leaves is stupid and I could see this infuriating people (how many people are actually going to use up one of the limited skill slots for the skill that has a chance of preventing this?). I'm not a fan of having no equipment, and this just ended up making the battles rather boring watching the hero punch the enemies over and over and over again. For the vast majority of battles, I put it on Auto Battle. At least the battles go by at a very brisk pace, as there aren't any long animations. I also really did not like only having 8 skill slots and permanently losing access to whatever extra skills you learned or could have learned.
