Tales of Seikyu Preview – Cute, Yokai Farming Enjoyable Avid gamers Enviornment

One of many hardest issues to nail in video games is worldbuilding, particularly in a farming sim, and Tales of Seikyu does it so properly that the bugs that crop up are hardly noticeable. The Early Entry recreation is filled with potential, and the roughly one-month in-game content material is as beautiful and vibrant as developer ACE Leisure promised.

Tales of Seikyu begins with the principle character and their sister, Kon, shifting to the city of Seikyu. The siblings are fox yokai, and Seikyu was based by their ancestors to be a haven for yokai of every kind.

Nonetheless, now the fox clan has virtually utterly disappeared, together with the participant and Kon’s dad and mom. The final observe they’ve from their dad and mom is to journey to Seikyu, the place they’ll uncover secrets and techniques and hopefully discover the final of the fox clan.

The Early Entry launch of Tales of Seikyu solely dives into the sport’s first chapter, the place Kon and the participant study the very starting of the story and mingle with the city of Seikyu.

Welcome to Seikyu, House to All Yokai

Seikyu itself one way or the other feels pure. Regardless of being crammed with yokai characters, the city appears like a dwelling, respiration city that has its personal schedule whatever the participant. That is one thing that even the most well-liked farming/life sims wrestle to do, and Tales of Seikyu nails it from the beginning. 

It additionally felt enjoyable to play. Most video games within the style create a way of urgency when it comes to revenue and optimizing how your time is spent, and Tales of Seikyu didn’t create that rushed tempo. As an alternative, I felt no regret for spending my time nevertheless I wished – there was no rush, a tough factor to fabricate. 

There’s at present about one season’s value of content material to play by, with Spring being the one season with a pageant. Nonetheless, the Carp Competition is unimaginable, and – dare I say – among the finest festivals I’ve seen within the style. 

The Carp Competition has two mini-games for gamers to take pleasure in. The primary is an egg hunt, which isn’t too particular (although it’s extremely well-done). The second is a recreation the place gamers are flying with carp, amassing completely different symbols within the air that circulate with the beat. 

The graphics and music had been stunning, matching the remainder of Tales of Seikyu. Generally, the sport is beautiful. Whereas there are just a few stutters in efficiency, I used to be capable of play with Medium settings on a ROG Ally X and Excessive settings on my PC. Contemplating it’s in early entry, all these stutters had been anticipated.

The characters are as beautiful as they’re well-written. The character portraits are beautiful and enjoyable, and so they seize the characters’ personalities properly. 

Attending to know the characters was a nice shock, and spending time with them was extra enjoyable than I anticipated. Tales of Seikyu has a singular system that lets gamers spend time with characters as they degree up their abilities.

It mixed the 2 gameplay loops in a approach that I haven’t seen in different farming sims, and it was refreshing and made the world really feel much more alive. 

Fight in Tales of Seikyu Is Rewarding

The fight was additionally built-in with the opposite programs within the recreation. On the Early Entry launch, there’s one fundamental dungeon the place gamers will battle. These are damaged up into 40 completely different rooms, and gamers might want to both beat the enemies or clear up mild puzzles to get by.

There’s quite a lot of weapons that kind of play otherwise, although I didn’t discover a lot of a distinction between them. The stats of the weapon decided which I used – the extra injury, the higher. 

Moreover, getting nearer to 1 character specifically opens up the flexibility to purchase weapons. This feels rewarding and, once more, very pure. 

There are two fundamental bosses at present in Tales of Seikyu, and each of them had been a problem (although I did get the second boss caught in a gap and cheesed the battle). Between them and a number of other of the tanky enemies, fight felt fairly rewarding. 

Gamers additionally find out about completely different yokai kinds within the dungeon, and these yokai kinds are useful in each fight and farming. For instance, who wants a boring watering can when you’ll be able to remodel right into a slime and rapidly water all the things?

Early Entry Bugs

Whereas there are infinite positives, it’s value noting the bugs. Each time I wished to purchase one thing from any store, I needed to save and reload the sport. This utilized to each store round city, which was irritating till I spotted the short workaround. 

Different bugs included falling by the map (although I bought fortunate and was pulled out by occasions every time) and garments not becoming the feminine fundamental character appropriately. Although, to be trustworthy, the skirts that did not match simply appeared like a skirt with slits in it, so it wasn’t distracting, both.

Tales of Seikyu is in Early Entry. These bugs are anticipated to an extent, and nothing was so dangerous that it was unplayable. In truth, a few of them had been humorous. Each time I went to mattress, my participant jumped on the identical time (the A enter being each leap and work together). And let’s be trustworthy, who doesn’t like hopping into mattress on the finish of an extended day?

Tales of Seikyu | Remaining Ideas

Total, Tales of Seikyu is an pleasant expertise, and one which I can’t wait to discover extra as content material is launched. Whereas there are some things to iron out when it comes to bugs, it manages to do what even the most important farming sim names can’t with worldbuilding and interconnected gameplay programs. 

With video games like Fields of Mistria releasing within the style as properly, it is clear that the style is making a return to the fundamentals and utterly sharpening them.

Tails of Seikyu was previewed over roughly 9 hours of gameplay with a key supplied by the developer. All screenshots had been taken in the course of the preview course of.