As many people already know Mirror moon has released the much awaited Utawarerumono translation release. I bought the game around christmas time when I learned all they had to do was set up the installer so I was ready for it when it came out. I just recently finished it which is why I havent had many posts for awhile a it takes quite a bit of time to finish.
On to the review the translation and editing is fairly well done pretty faithful with a few harmless localization things included in the script overall I give it a A. I myself did not have any problems running the game with the translation others had some issues but the forums seemed to help those who had issues fairly quickly. So on Mirror moons end everything looks perfect.
On the actual game aspect the story was good the battles were what is to be expected even if that timing aspect to the fighting was kinda hard to get used to since they all attack at different speeds making some characters much harder to use then others aka. Oboro and Touka. After you get that part down it becomes fairly easy whenever you enter a battle placement is more important on the harder difficulties(a nice bonus to the game itself most eroge SRPG don’t include varying difficulty levels.) Now if you play on easy you can easily beat the game, but if you are having issues I reccomend maxxing technique then making a few characters that have 3 atk to every 1 def and maybe 2 characters that are 3 def to every 1 atk this gives you good enough balance for the game and the rest you can do whatever you want with you usually only control about 5-7 characters at a time and when you get to use all your characters the ones you havent been using are pretty much just to use to buy time or be a distraction.
Now onto the story aspect and its choices. Not much really you get to pick where to go for the day during the non combat roles. The choices really don’t matter as i believe you can see it all in the first run as it pretty much requires you to. This means it actually is a very linear route while you may see them in a different order it is all the same. The h-scenes are a little subpar and don’t really feel earned kinda more of just a gratuitous service its not that they are bad its just not very detailed or anything each scene lasts maybe 2-5 minutes at the most pretty short for eroge title.
In short good game worthy of the translation but I could think of a few other games that I would have rather had translated but its still good glad they did it, Overall translation and game itself i give a Fairly strong 8/10
Edit: Touka FTW
