Review: Rainbow Skies (PlayStation 4)

Immerse yourself in a colorful and vibrant world, filled to the brim with friends and foes, murky dungeons, turn-based battles, towns, shops, and everything else your role-playing heart desires.

Pros:

• Cartoon-like graphics.
• 5.25GB Download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Triple cross-buy across PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.
• Tutorial help (optional) pops up as you discover new mechanics/events.
• Save transfer via a cloud-based system.
• RPG adventure gameplay.
• You see the enemies on the map as well as unseen ambush fights which manifest as random pop-ups and you can press X to jump in.
• Turn-based combat on a grid layout.
• Save when you want from the menu. You can save to console or the cloud.
• Turn order shown in combat.
• Coins- the In-game currency used for shops.
• Earn Exp, Level up to increase stats.
• Main quest with optional side quests.
• You play on the overworld mostly and enter doorways to launch into dungeons and side levels.
• Each area has a discovery percentage, Shows up as you move around.
• Skill stones- Found/earned and come in three types. Each one is used to upgrade particular stats like health or mana but can also be used to increase luck.
• Day/night cycle.
• Big bright easy to use UI.
• Map- Uncovers as you play, Shows icons and mission markers.
• Playtime is displayed.
• Very approachable thanks to simplified controls and bright atmosphere.
• Loot chests, Bags, enemy drops to gain loot.
• Use magic to earn EXP for that spell and level up to unlock new spells and attacks.
• Cool cartoon cutscenes.
• Boss battles.
• Blacksmith- Buy and upgrade your gear using resources.
• Battlerank- Can increase/decrease any of the unlocked ranks to increase enemy difficulty but also increase the rarity of the loot.
• Returning players will feel right at home as the layout and gameplay is the same.
• Full party management from gear to party layout in combat.
• Can tame animals/monsters.
• Huge world with many biomes within it.
• Just a lot of fun to play.
• 100s of hours worth of content.
• So much character.
• Many cool characters to meet.
• Decent loot drops.

Cons:

• Item bag size is small and has to be upgraded constantly.
• You soon accumulate a lot of side quests.
• A slow starter as you are low on health and power.
• Can be hard to see paths on the map.
• Repetitive fights.
• A lot of grinding later on.
• A very small window of opportunity for the ambush fights.
• Saving is slow.
• Difficulty spikes.
• No way of knowing which save location has the newest save data.
• Very similar to the previous game.