Review: Tower of Time (PlayStation 4)

A story-rich dungeon crawler with innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time. Tactical thinking is essential to succeed. Now with RPGlite and Permadeath for fast-paced game.

Pros:

•  Nice dark graphics.
• 10.92gb download size.
• Platinum trophy.
• Game settings-exploration speed, damage values in combat.
• Five difficulties-Story, easy, normal, hard and epic.
• Five save slots.
• Gameplay.
• Opening tutorial tasks, ongoing tutorial tips as you play.
• Combat is its own separate instance.
• Bestiary that grows as you discover new monsters.
• Map uncovers as you play.
• A handy button that displays everything you can pick up or interact with on-screen.
• Before combat starts you get a pop up where you can fight/run/organize a party.
• In combat, you swap between party members, and its free form real-time, at the start you have limited space on where to start people.
• Loot and loot drops with rarity levels.
• Full team and inventory management system.
• Save and load when you want.
• Scanner-you can see weak points, materials, etc.

Cons:

• No voice work in-game.
• Slow starter.
• Quiet music and interactions which affect morale.
• Hard for the game to recognize your interactions.
• Tutorials are just pages of information.
• The learning curve with the combat.
• For the first hour, you are left wondering what to do and where to go.
• Getting into the menu for team/item management is a pain especially if you want to do it quickly, it’s that whole hold a button then use the right stick and let go type deal.