Rainbow Moon Review (Nintendo Switch OLED)
Rainbow Moon Review, Cursed by his arch-rival, Baldren is warped to Rainbow Moon. And to make things worse, Baldren isn’t only stranded in an unknown place; he has also opened a dimensional gate out of which troops of monsters are crawling, turning this once peaceful planet into a real hell. There’s only one thing for our brave hero to do: He has to seal the gate and warp himself back to his home planet.
Rainbow Moon Review Pros:
- Bright cheerful graphics.
- 1.8GB download size.
- 20 save slots.
- RPG gameplay.
- Two difficulties – normal and hard.
- Four playstyle choices and these determine what items you start with or the adventuresome gives you nothing.
- Simple menu layout. Easy to read and understand.
- Turn based combat.
- Animated and voiced cutscenes.
- Battles are in the same vein as Final Fantasy and Disgaea. Move and use items, heal, and fight within a set of moves.
- Huge varied locations from the depths of the jungle to the cold snow-capped mountains. Areas unlock as you progress through the game, You are then free to go back and forth.
- Tutorial pop ups as you play.
- Craft weapons and upgrade at the many vendors found throughout the lands.
- Earn exp and level up to increase your stats.
- Huge open areas and you can explore freely.
- Day/night cycle.
- Team attacks can be unlocked.
- Earn power tokens to upgrade weapons and add new abilities.
- Massive game world taking in many terrain types and weather effects.
- Boss fights plenty.
- Full stats screen.
- Bestiary fills in as you fight new monsters and creatures.
- Optional side quests.
- Unlock and use battle plans. Battle plans determine where your party lines up in battle.
- DLC is bought more to be used as shortcuts instead of adding new content.
- Food mechanic where you need to keep eating otherwise you start losing health.
- Unlock warp gates to make traversing the land quicker and they act like fast travel points.
- Random encounters are a choice so you can have as many or as few as you like, Thanks to being able to see the enemies walking about so not random but optional encounters.
- End of combat breakdown showing exp earned and any found items.
- Treasure chests can be found around the world for loot.
- Buy and sell items at the vendors.
- You have quite an open world so you can go off and do what you want in a way.
- Isometric view.
- Friendlies can be interacted with for optional side missions or they might sell something.
- Fast loading times.
- You can save and load when you want.
Rainbow Moon Review Cons:
- No touchscreen support.
- They got rid of the leaderboard upload system to show off your completion.
- Unskippable opening cutscene and it goes on for quite a while.
- The first hour is slow starting.
- The music is average, bordering on repetitive.
- A lot of grinding is needed, More so later on.
- Doesn’t use any Vita unique features like a touchscreen.
- DLC is shortcut micro transactions.
- Food mechanic is more of an annoyance than a move forward.
- The story is a bit cliché and tired in places.
- Can be hard to navigate the world with no camera control.
- The map is too small in the menu, and making out icons and navigation is awkward.
- Parts of the menu, text in particular look a bit smushed up.
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Rainbow Moon:
Developer: SideQuest Studios
Publisher: Eastasiasoft
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