Soriku said:
The game's two biggest issues of the game were lack of directions and the difficulty.
The game practically assumes you know Tokyo so directions were likely not an issue to people who actually live in Japan but is an issue to anyone else. But this can be easily rectified if you explore enough, have a good memory, and maybe write down notes on where areas are. Or alternatively looking up how to get to areas on Google works fine as well, or looking through the book you get with the game so it ends up not being that big of a deal overall.
Second, the game starts out hard which is cool, but eventually gets too easy. With a build that's really focused on magic by me, the main character can do crazy damage and can decimate bosses. By the time I got Megido (and eventually Megidola) I was just spamming that in each standard battle and I was killing everything in 1-2 turns. The balance in Nocturne was better, but I thought Nocturne was easy too (despite everyone clamoring about how tough it is, which it isn't).
Other than that, the game was very good for the most part. Why did you give graphics/audio a 6 btw? Doesn't really seem to match your review.
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I think the game is easy when you know how the mechanics work and how to take advantage of them. For example, during my fight with Medusa I had a weak electric armor, so obviously I got destroyed. After that horrendous fight I changed my armor and I had a very easy fight. For a new player this won't really be that obvious which makes the game extremely difficult.
It also depends on how overlevel you are, I was doing practically all the challenges but after a short while I was even 4 levels higher than the bosses so I decided to stop doing them, and I'm finally catching up (I'm level 40).
As for looking locations, I only remember the main areas (Ueno, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, etc) but when a challenge ask me to go to a different area I just get lost, in more than one ocation I had to google it. I think the map should have been managed better.
