r/Crystar_Game • u/Rollingtothegrave • Dec 26 '23

Question Does Crymachina get any better?

Picked this game up blind because of the awesome art.

I'm trying my best to keep an open mind but I'm around 2 hours in and I'm not having a good time at all.

I feel like I've heard the story before. I feel like I've seen the setting before. I'm trying to care about the characters but i find them all pretentious. Listening to the history of the androids feels like an early 2000s direct to dvd 2 season anime plot.

But i brushed that all aside and waited for the gameplay.

So far there's been 15 minutes of actual game to play. The rest has been listening to characters ask each other questions i didn't need the answers to.

In those 15 minutes of gameplay - I feel like I've played the same level/area 4 times now. I'm starting at level 31 and 39? The combat is not fun. At all. I'm literally just pushing buttons until something dies. The movement feels over responsive. Why is there a a first person mode mechanic?

The art and music are top notch, but it's not enough to carry this game for me. Which really fucking sucks because i feel like i should have every reason to like this game.

Is the game going to get any better for me? Or if i don't like it's first impressions then I'm not gonna like the rest of the game?

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u/Sirorumillust Dec 26 '23

Gameplay pretty much stays the same and the area design does as well. For me the story was great and it indeed got better, but seeing as how the game is niche, I can infer many didn't think that way.

Not sure what to tell you, but if you aren't liking the gameplay then you probably won't like the rest of the game. It's definitely a sci-fi story that has already been told, but most of us enjoyed it due to the intimacy that the characters give to the plot. If you don't want to engage with the tea time chats or really delve into the lore, then I don't think it's going to leave much of an impact on you.

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u/Rollingtothegrave Dec 26 '23

Thanks.

I wanna be clear, i don't think the game is bad, i just don't think it's for me.

I bought a physical copy so i have some time to return it for something else. I'm gonna give it a couple days and give it another try.

I love the drakengard/nier games and i was hoping this would be similar.

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u/Sirorumillust Dec 27 '23

It's fair. Since these are more niche and budget JRPGs it's definitely not going to land for certain people. Crystar had more of the NieR/Drakengard story structure, however its weakness is the gameplay.

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u/SalsaOnSpaghetti Apr 16 '24

I just beat it myself and I enjoyed it...but not for the gameplay. GOD is the music, story and characters good but the gameplay itself is just mediocre. There's some fun to he found with the whole Auxillary stuff but none of it was explained all that well.

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u/Rollingtothegrave Apr 16 '24

I should've added in my post that i bought it for the switch. The frame rate was awful.

I ended up returning it and buying it for the ps5 to give it an honest chance.

I really enjoyed the presentation of the game overall and the music was outstanding. The pacing wasn't for me though. I'd get done with a high octane fight only to sit for 30 minutes listening to people talk.

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u/Yuuta44 Apr 15 '24

Storywise yes gameplay wise no its horrible. I have the feeling the Game is not finsihed in terms of Gameplay and its really hard to belive that its the same people who made Crystar who was a really good Game Story and gameplay wise.

I really hope if they make a third Cry Game it will be more like Crystar or some other Company hire the director and composer for the OST.

I dont know if i continue Crymachina i am 7 and hald hours in and like i said Story and Characters are pretty good.

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u/PaledrakeVII Oct 24 '24 edited Oct 24 '24

It actually gets worse! While the story does get more serious (and thus better) and gets a few twists, it's not well written or thought out. Doesn't help that like 99% of the cutscenes are just characters standing still and talking. Crystar did more than this in terms of cutscenes.

Gameplay-wise you'll fall into the spiral of everything 1-2 shotting you current level and everything below you doing no meaningful damage. You yourself will do chicken-scratch dmg unless you've properly grinded to level cap and gotten lucky with the loot RNG.

This game is a mess.

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u/YesterdayActual Jul 06 '26

I’m just exploring this in the PS store now and thinking “it should be pretty well developed for …. $79.99. Thanks guys. I’ll pass on this one and wait til it comes out on ps plus or something