I didn't even gain access to this feature until I was a solid eight or more hours into the game, despite the main characters teasing me with it the entire time. Monster TamingĪnd then there's Monster Taming, Rainbow Skies' most anticipated new feature. Hours would pass in the blink of an eye and it wasn't because I was having fun, but rather because the battles would take way longer than I ever expected them to. This may be exciting to some players, but to me, it just made the game feel like it was dragging on. Every battle ends feeling like a battle of attrition, just trying to stay alive until you can finally whittle down the enemy's health.

On top of that, enemies that are around your level take so little damage, even if you're sure to always hit them with attacks that they're weak to. Sometimes the game shows a shortcut for skipping an animation but I've tried pressing that button in every way I can think of and I've never managed to get it to work. Every attack animation is slow and it just takes forever for the battle to actually be realized even after the commands have been made. This wouldn't be so much of a problem if there were a speedup or animation skip feature. Some of the easier fights can take as long as 10 minutes while some of the harder ones could take you the better part of an hour - and sometimes you'll spend all of that time struggling, wasting all of your hard-earned resources just to lose and be forced to start over from the beginning. Playing through any combat scenario is like trudging through a swampy mire. It's probably for the purpose of making sure you're strong enough to head into the next area, but these walls pop up so often that it barely feels like you're making any progress in the actual game. There are several points in the game where it feels like you're hitting a wall. And difficulty spikes are insane and seem oddly frequent. Your regular characters are just weak as heck unless you spend hours grinding - even if you play on the easiest difficulty setting. Your skills barely do any more damage than a regular attack, which means they basically just bring a little bit of versatility and variety to the field. I sort of enjoyed it at first, but it quickly became a slog. Your characters are arranged on a grid alongside enemies, and you have to get into the right positions in order to properly attack. It's turn based, where the character's speed stats determine how often they can act.

Let me say one thing right off the bat: the combat in Rainbow Skies is sort of draining. All the same, though, I was pleasantly surprised that the dialogue was more jovial and entertaining to read than many RPGs. I'm not going to sing too many of its praises because it does some questionable stuff at times, such as forced flirting, a few odd instances of gaslighting, and an unfortunate knack for reusing the same jokes over and over again. However, despite my reservations here, I would like to take a second and say that the writing is actually pretty good. Which I guess is cool if you're into that. As you make your way further into the story, it gets to the point where it feels like there are a ton of battles just shoehorned into the game for the sake of battling. It's really just there to get you from one battle to the next. It's nothing to write home about, but it gets the job done, I suppose. It's all about finding some way to undo the Spell of Binding so that your party can finally separate and so that the characters from the floating island can find their way back home.

Rainbow Skies is the type of game where the story takes a back seat to the gameplay. This doesn't sound wholly dissimilar to most RPGs on the market, so what makes Rainbow Skies stand out from the rest? And is it worth spending your time on? Rainbow Skies Is a Few Shades Off This journey takes them across several continents and through many terrifying lands that are home to many terrifying monsters.

They must travel together with a spell caster from the surface to try and puzzle out a way back home. Two of the three aforementioned characters are from a race of people that reside on a floating island in the sky, and they have to keep their identity a secret lest the denizens of the moon find out and crucify them.

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