Night of Azure is one of the JRPG series developed by Gust developers a few years ago, and managed to invite the attention of many gamers from the design of his charming character. The initial impression that is shown itself is not separated from the dominant moe and fan-service elements, but it turns out this game managed to provide a more different experience. The first release of the game does present many unique and interesting elements. It's just that the execution in blending all these elements does not end well, so many players expect a more suitable composition if this game will get a sequel. It did not take long to wait, Gust finally announced the sequel called Night of Azure 2: The Bride of the New Moon.
Present as a continuation series, Night of Azure 2: The Bride of New Moon is not well received by gamers because of its worse quality than the series series. Is this game a successful sequel? Or even offer a worse quality? You can find the answer in my review review below.
Storyline
This game takes the time back exactly a year after the events that occurred in the first series, where you act as a new main character named Aluche. He is an agent who works with the Curia and is ordered to sacrifice his childhood friend, in order to save the world from the Moon Queen who seeks to swallow the world in eternal night's darkness. Not accepting the decision to kill his friend, he finally embarks on an adventure to find another way to save the world. If you ever play the first series, the storyline of this game does not have much difference. The only difference that stands out here is the role of a more serious character in the face of major conflicts.
Gameplay
Turning to the gameplay, Night of Azure 2 actually has a lot of uniqueness that you find difficult in other JRPG games. You can use some command to attack, defend, to use special skill against enemy. The most crucial part of his combat system is the role of the very important Lily Partner in ensuring victory. If you manage to maximize Chase Gauge with successive attacks, then you can use the special ability of Double Chase to wipe out all enemies. Not only that, but there is also Tension Gauge for Lily Burst Attack special skill. When compared, both of these skills do have their respective advantages that greatly help the battle. But Chase Gauge can sometimes get back to the starting point of being a Tension Gauge if no other enemy is in the battlefield. So you can not keep backup power freely. As you progress and explore the world, there is a deadline where Moon will become New Moon. If you have reached the New Moon, then you have to repeat the last progress and prevent the event of this eternal night. Like Final Fantasy XIII: Lighting Returns, you should pay attention to deadlines and do grinding effectively.
Features
The storyline of the game is divided into chapters, and each chapter has a series of main and side quests to complete. As mentioned before, the moon change phase is the most serious problem. You have to face boss fight to get the point to postpone New Moon tragedy. To get special skills and skills with new weapons, you can do grinding to strengthen Aluche. Because doing grinding in this game is not easy and free, you have to open access for the skill that felt most useful. Due to the lack of surprise elements and something new during the course of the game, you may experience a very repetitive experience.
Graphics and Performance Quality
If you've talked about the quality of graphics, then no doubt if the developer Gust selalau managed to mix the game with the best design. No exception to the Night of Azure 2, which shows the design with moe elements of many female characters, but also looks very charming. Although in terms of graphics this game is performing better, unfortunately this is not coupled with stable performance for the PC platform. When KotGa Crew tried to play it in the medium setting with GTX 1050ti, this game still has a dramatic decrease of fps to the effect of stutter which is very disturbing the comfort of playing.
Conclusion
Present as a sequel to the first series that looks to have a lot of potential, Night of Azure 2: Bride of the New Moon just destroy all the compositions that have been built. Similar storyline, repetitive gameplay, deadline of moon phase change, non-free grinding, until performance issues are the biggest shortcomings in this game. Not only does it ruin the experience, but gamers are also increasingly losing expectations of the continuation of this series if Gust developers do not do anything to improve it. Despite all the shortcomings, KotGa Crew still recommends Kotakers to try this game. Because Night of Azure 2: The Bride of the New Moon actually still presents the quality of a solid Action RPG game.
Game Information
Developer: Gust
Publisher: Koei Tecmo
Producer: Keisuke Kikuchi
Composer: Kazuki Yanagawa, Daisuke Achiwa, Hayato Asano, Yasushi Asada, Ryudai Abe, Kyoko Ohsako, Tai Tomisawa, Ryo Furukawa, djseiru
Visual designer: Yoshiku
Release: Japan August 31, 2017. USA October 24, 2017 Europe.png October 27, 2017
Genre: Action-RPG
Platform: PS4 PlayStation Vita (Japan only) Nintendo Switch Microsoft Windows
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