Not_A_Chick

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Just curious as to how people feel about this and whether or not the artstyle helped or hindered your decision to buy this game.

It's definitely not what I had expected. I did watch some gameplay videos beforehand, so I sort of knew what I was getting myself into, but I was surprised at how it's a significantly different experience than the G.U. series.

At this point, I feel like the only reason the game is "real-time" is because it's set in an MMO, but for all intents and purposes, it could just as easily have been turn-based. Details like being locked in placed when you have a skill cast against you (and the same goes for your enemies), not to mention that it seems like there's more time spent in menus during combat than outside of them (which doesn't actually annoy me, because I loved turn-based combat alongside

So with the recent announcement of Last Recode, I've been looking into the rest of the series. I'm currently watching SIGN on Hulu, and I've looked into picking up a couple of the LNs. As someone who has never played IMOQ, I was curious as to how the LNs compared to the games. I was hoping someone here would be able to tell me if the books that covered the IMOQ storyline were a good substitute for the games themselves.