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Awesome RPG
restricted12345
Rance 5D is pretty fun, but it's just a side bonus. It's a wacky adventure games with some frustrating aspects, so don't force yourself to beat it if you're not having fun with it like I did. There's not much plot, but the characters and their interactions are a joy. Now, Rance VI is worth 35 dollars and then some. The battle system is quite solid with a somewhat unique aspect of charging up and stunning opponents (even bosses). It's not that unique, but it has some quirks to keep it fresh. First, the dungeon crawling aspect is where this game really shines. The game is a first person dungeon crawler that has a 3D environment that you can look around in. Climbing up and down stairs doesn't involve a loading time, which is rare for this type of genre. It helps that it's not just one big dungeon and rather a multitude of locations to explore, which definitely helps variety. Almost every trap is avoidable by looking around in said environment or keeping track of the minimap, which minimizes frustration. Level grinding is largely unnecessary during the main quest, and is pretty easy. Orb grinding is annoying, but it never gets as annoying as level grinding tends to be in these types of games and is overall a very minor flaw.The plot is excellent with political commentary and lots of drama and comedy. It's serious without being too pretentious, light-hearted without being incredulous. Yeah, there's comedic rape, but it's surprisingly unjarring unless you're that easily offended. I'd say it's excellently paced, though some may complain that it's a bit slow until the halfway point. There's a significant amount of canon post-game content too, so try to get the true end. The post game events aren't as well paced as the in-game events, and some of them do feel like they should have been integrated in the main game, but those events arguably would have messed up the pacing of the in-game plot.Lastly, the characters are an absolute joy with good development for most of them (other than blatant background characters) and great dialogue for all of them. The quality of the characters themselves and how fun their interactions are is the strongest point of the Rance series in general, as this particular aspect is great in every Rance game (even when actual plot or character development is weak).Overall, the gameplay time for the main game is about 45 hours with story relevant post game content probably taking about an extra 10 hours. There are a few extra bosses, but they aren't that much harder than the post-game story final boss. There's also madness mode, but the developer put that in for the lulz, so the grinding that mode takes is insane.In short, buy it!
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Rance VI + 5D
MaikDragon
Just played Rance series long ago and enjoyed a lot all of them, so I wanted to thanks all people making this thing happening, Alicesoft, Mangagamer and Arunaru Translations, without them, we'll never could get a Rance game published in english. I purchased pre-order and waited long time for this game to come in english, but finally that time ended and actually enjoing it ^_^.If you never played a Rance game, you just don't know how fun can be on it's own, so at least try it, if you did, only a word to say... it's a Rance game, so you know... xDIf you like Rance, I highly recommend you to buy this game and support the company, so Alicesoft continue bringing us their all known good titles in the future !!
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The translation is crappy
Jackski
As someone who played this game multiple time since it first came out, I will say with a bias that this game is one of the best classic jrpg, and at the same time a very promising hgame with h-scenes, plots, and character developments strongly tightened together. Don't be fooled by the publication date, some hardcore CGs are way better than the one's we see today.The combat system is very outdated and simple, but the dungeon explore is up the notch, especially for OCD players like me. The difficulty is ok, but just like many other old-fashioned jrpgs, you really need to spend time farming and leveling.What really bothers me is the translation. There are a lot of typos and bad grammar in the translation, but what's most frustrating is that the tone of speech usually wouldn't match the character and situation. I realize this translation is completely done by one person, so may you should find some more people next time.Maybe most of you are grateful already for the first English release, but I believe since this version is sold legally and officially, we should expect some more from the translator.BTW, for NTR haters, this game doesn't contain any NTR elements, but do contain lots of times when the protagonist NTRs other people, and, well, some slightly guro scenes, but nothing too much.
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Frustrating
inethil
Like every Alicesoft game there is good and bad, but I cannot resist commenting on Rance 5D, which I would recommend skipping in favour of 6. The random game mechanics remove most skill interaction which is greatly frustrating, but would have been livable, were it not for unvoidable midbosses. These, story-irrelevant, encounters are sometimes absolutely lethal, unskippable, unwinnable slaughters. Why the developer would have included something like that I cannot imagine. The first one I encountered I had to replay around ten times to get lucky enough to win (combat is random), but the second ...Chapter 4, Rance is alone for a bit (avoiding spoilers) and he hits an encounter which invariably kills him by the second round. Impossible to win or avoid. Let me say that again, story-irrelevant, impossible to win, impossible to avoid. All you can do is go way back in the current chapter and cross your fingers. I am a gamer, not a gambler - that sucked.As it is standalone, skipped despite being almost finished, my frustration level peaked.One last note, several guides mention the benefit of repairing weapons, but for the life of me I could not, 80% through the game, find any option to do that. Also frustrating, as I have fought with broken weapons with no other option.
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MG point:87
