
This review text has been updated to include additional narrative impressions and late-game thoughts.
Library of Ruina is less than the sum of its parts. While this visual novel's dialog sets up a well-established, deep world with interesting characters, its grindy repetitiveness eschews plenty of opportunities to make the most of what it's trying to set up. And even with a compelling, card-based battle system that rewards clever play and a measured approach, this port's poorly optimized menus, input lag, and seemingly constant loading screens ensure that any narrative and gameplay momentum falls through the cracks. Even the smallest faults in this sprawling story become more glaring thanks to the Switch version’s shortcomings.
Library of Ruina follows a wide cast of characters, but focuses on Angela; an AI librarian created by a mysterious corporation whose fall sets the stage for most of the game’s story, and the protagonist, Roland; a street-smart, nihilistic, wise-beyond-his-rank, low-grade fixer (or mercenary). With her A-eyes set on becoming human, Angela recruits Roland to build out The Library and find the tome that will fulfill her wish by inviting outside people in, murdering them, and turning them into books which in turn earns you new cards to experiment with.

With side characters each managing a different floor of the library — History, Religion, Art, Philosophy, etc. — these Patron Librarians are all well-written, living characters whose personalities and stories play into their floor’s theme. They also all have some kind of existing relationship with Angela, and leveling them up through Abnormality Battles will often lead to learning something new about Angela, the Lobotomy Corporation, or the Patron themself, with each floor’s final level netting you powerful attacks called E.G.O. Pages. These Patron Librarians are at their best when chatting, arguing, sharing a drink, making coffee, or just hanging out with Roland and often provide some kind of foil, parallel, or opportunity for introspection which allows every character to develop and shine in their own right.
Fighting opponents boils down to a turn-based and card-based combat system that will click with you pretty quickly if you've played any sort of turn-based game before. Small tweaks to this formula pop up here and here, but this card combat is largely familiar. Status effects, rolling for initiative using Speed Dice, deckbuilding, and the like are all part of the equation in Ruina's combat. Knocking your opponents' health bars down to zero requires an understanding of both its combat system and attack weaknesses and exploiting those weaknesses damages a secondary meter called the Stagger Meter. Characters with a depleted Stagger Meter can't attack and are vulnerable to every type of attack.

This adds in mini-objectives to play towards and strategize around, allowing for more frequent moments of satisfaction and a stronger sense of progress within each battle. Expanding your repertoire through deckbuilding provides extra depth as you unlock a handful of cards for each enemy you defeat and book you obtain. You can even burn books to get new cards. It's kind of similar to executing or fusing Personas in Persona 5 Royal.
Combat makes up most of Ruina’s runtime. It’s also where the Switch version begins to (literally) lag miles behind its PC counterpart. The font for a lot of tutorials and descriptive text that explains specific status effects and abilities is downright tiny. Playing this game in longer sessions often hurt our eyes or caused headaches, with a lot of text being almost completely illegible unless we were up close to the screen. Abnormality Pages (which serve as really cool modifiers and supplemental abilities to help you out during combat) and Battle Symbols (which work like RPG-style equippable gear) are the worst offenders. Not only is their descriptive text usually written in bright or even neon colors over a dark background, but descriptions can get pretty wordy as you squint to suss out the effect of a specific page or the unlock conditions for a symbol. Grinding longer battles became eye-strain-inducingly difficult.

This manifested itself more in playing on a TV across the room, but the issue was still painfully present undocked. The least physically unpleasant way to play this game was at a desk on a computer monitor, and Ruina was clearly designed to be played with a mouse. A higher pixel density would make small text more legible, but you’d also be able to install mods to make text bigger and round out some of Ruina’s other issues, like its grindy progression and invitation structure (more on that in a moment).
Library of Ruina's mechanics hinge on being able to navigate its unwieldy menus. Slow and unresponsive, they are riddled with similarly tiny text. Paired with frustrating design choices that make simple actions a confusing drag and then exacerbated by a lack of touchscreen support, this ported version defines unintuitiveness. If this were a shorter game whose gameplay wasn't almost entirely driven by paging through menus to min-max a good build for a specific fight, this wouldn't be nearly as offensive as it is. But Library of Ruina took us well over 120 hours to beat. It may have been shorter had we played on PC, but the issues plaguing the Switch version made winning even the simplest battles an ordeal. Because menus drive nearly every aspect of Library of Ruina except for its visual novel-style cutscenes and make up most of the game's connective tissue, such a painfully prickly web of opaque options is unforgivable.

The game's progression is also very strange. Sending invitations often requires at least one specific book. Earned from defeating your guests and completing invitations, each one is single-use only. You’re usually rewarded with multiple copies of any book you might need to progress in Ruina’s story, but losing them on a failed invitation will eventually send you back to grind previous battles. Instead of providing you with a sense of accomplishment by rewarding you with potentially cool new powers for your next battle and some new lore, this implementation of Ruina’s otherwise cool book system shackles you to a meaningless grind that exacerbates every single issue with this port.
This rotten cartilage undermines so much of what Library of Ruina sets out to accomplish. Suddenly, every mechanic becomes less approachable as you fumble between different screens to make sure you're adding the right cards to your deck before a battle or try to find the right page to help progress the story. It eventually clicks after hours of trial and error, but it never begins to feel natural or good. The best way we can describe it is like a mild bout of Stockholm Syndrome.
Library of Ruina's world is pretty interesting, though. Ruled by the Head, a looming, all-powerful government, you meet murderous denizens, each with their own reasons for coming to the library and facing death. "The City" is painted in dark colors: cannibalistic Sweepers speak in tongues as they eat in the slum-like Backstreets in the wee hours, cult leaders and criminal syndicates draw innocent people into their web of extortion, and despotic corporations grind people into pulp as they work mundane office jobs. Late in the game, Roland describes this futuristic dystopia as a deeply flawed city where tragedy, violence, and loss are bound to follow each other in lockstep. This summative moment rings true for so many characters in this game, but especially the Distortions; humans who succumb to and lose control of their emotions. These twisted creatures exemplify Ruina’s mastery and understanding of its themes and give its character designers a chance to flex.

With expository dialog that makes Hideo Kojima or George Lucas’ verbose writing look like Curious George, it’s sometimes easy to feel like you’re drowning in exposition. For the most part, this helps establish the City as a seemingly unending, all-consuming, inescapable hellscape but if you haven’t played the previous game in this series, Lobotomy Corporation, these vignettes can present an overwhelming amount of proper nouns to keep track of. Lobotomy Corporation isn’t on Switch, so you’ll need to play it elsewhere or read up online to fully grasp what’s going on.
Ruina’s overall narrative structure of inviting guests into the library before turning them into books—when compounded with its progression and underlined by its porting issues—renders its moment-to-moment pacing fairly cyclical, though it does do a solid job of threading the needle and constantly teasing something on the horizon. It’s best approached in chunks and played like a weekly comic or manga. This is how it was originally released in early access on PC, and taking it slowly makes its pacing much more enjoyable and helps alleviate some of this port’s sometimes physically painful flaws.

Fully voiced in the original Korean or Japanese, most of the characters fit within that one-off structure: you meet them during invitation scenes and spend a little time getting to know them before turning them into books, with most vignettes feeding into something bigger. At their best, invitation scenes set up an interesting concept or character, putting subplots in motion. One of our favorites follows Philip; a mild-mannered, low-grade fixer stuck making tea for his boss and becomes… something else as he grapples with an important decision.
Roland’s relationship with Angela becomes the lynchpin in an interesting way, too, with plot points coming together to form a conclusion for Roland that fits the fixer’s character arc like a glove. It also explores Angela’s all-consuming quest for humanity in a satisfying way as she grapples with selfishness and free will — major themes in the game overall. The finale felt like a structurally bulletproof answer to both of their struggles, though the same can’t be said for the story overall. Instead, this somewhat abrupt ending leaves a few threads open and concludes with a tease for the next entry in Project Moon’s ongoing series.

Even if you’re a hardcore Switch-only player who’s jonesing for this exact type of experience, though, we can't recommend this version of Library of Ruina. While its issues are annoying in small doses, completing a 100+ hour game with these pain points feels like death by a million cuts.
Conclusion
We wish we liked Library of Ruina more than we do; its world and characters touch on clever themes and storytelling devices, but slapdash pacing coupled with sluggish, nerve-wracking menus makes playing on Switch an exercise in courting digital whiplash as you cycle between tight story beats and glacially-paced menus. Unforgivable porting choices and grating performance issues make the most minuscule complaints much more severe thanks to the game’s long runtime and, in turn, kneecap a story that has so much going for it. If this unending deluge of compounding problems somehow doesn’t bother you, Library of Ruina presents a spectacularly well-realized world and a memorable story whose characters will likely stick with you after the credits roll.
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SaGa gang, we won! Emerald Beyond is the highest-rated game of this week batch of reviews!
Pdt: kinda suprising this game is arriving to switch this late, I think it has been available on pc for quite a while.
Nice stealth Steamed Hams reference there!
@N64-ROX Can you pinpoint the reference? I couldn’t find it in the text.
Library of Ruina is one of my favourite games ever made, so I will certainly hold bias here
But I feel as if this review truly doesn't do the game justice.
Having played the game on PC, I can't comment on the menus, but the story is certainly excellent. Your complaints about characters immediately being killed off are somewhat understandable, but not necessarily true later on. Characters can and do get further development and those that don't serve to build the narrative further. Every single reception holds narrative importance and they all form a cohesive whole later on.
Another facet of the game that hasn't been commented on is the music. In my opinion, it's excellent. Studio EIM and Mili truly outdid themselves and to see no mention of them whatsoever saddens me.
And the combat is more than similar to other deck builders, the effects and Cards available grow more unique and complex as time goes on. Most notable are the EGO pages, which can define the course of an entire reception
Whatever the case, I urge you to spend a longer period of time on the game. Even with clunky UI it is certainly worth it
And for prospecting buyers, read more than just this review. Almost all are in praise of this game, this seems to be the sole outlier.
Looking at the screenshots and content, this review was likely writen with 5 hours of gameplay? Claims like "Rushed Cutscenes", "indistinct characters" and "card-based combat system that will click with you pretty quickly" show a pretty superficial read of the game.
This is such a bad review that I can just honestly recommend to check the Steam page. No interface problems there and lots of people who have actually spent hours on it to analyze its upsides and failures.
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Edit: Sheesh, no need for all the spam down there. Anyway, it's clear for anyone that played the game that reviewer haven't pushed through the 5 hours mark. And it is totally fine to play for a few hours and decide they don't like what they've seen. Relatable, even. But it does not make for a good review.
(They would have known for example, that although the Chef was dead, the story surrounding them was far from over and would go on for many chapters still. Also, no mentions to the songs made by Mili band and the fact that Library of Ruina follows a previous game, Lobotomy Corporation, shows no research was made).
@TotalHenshin perhaps it's just me, but I'm looking at the subheadline "my library's in ruins" and the only thing I can possibly think of is "my roast is ruined!"
But then again I'm a Steamed Hams tragic who still loves this meme in 2024, I'm probably just seeing it everywhere...
Why not a single word about the quality of voice-overs? This game features Korean original voice-overs and a Japanese dub.
@N64-ROX I could see that being what the author meant to reference. Thanks for the response!
This is one of the first reviews I’ve read that acknowledges the reviewer didn’t finish the game. I can’t imagine a reviewer putting over a hundred hours into the game, but I do wonder what’s a good stopping point. Thirty hours? Fifty hours?
Reviewing games is a tough job, one I usually envy but not in this case.
I do have some bias however this is a complete joke of a review. while yes it a very long game and its not to be expected that the reviewer will play all 100+ hours of main story content, its more realistic that they play at least the first 1/4 to 1/3 of the game. 5 hours is hardly leaving the "tutorial" where the game takes it easy on you. their points on a sluggish menu? if you read what the game tells you in and after the first reception (level) it tells you not only how to navigate them and always shows how to navigate the menus, AND it also tells you how to minimize the information on some menus. rushed cutscenes? if you pay any attention to what's going on in the cutscenes you can tell a lot of time and effort went into making not only the artwork of the cutscene but also the dialogue to match each character. small text while yes is a bit of an issue its only really an issue with the port and will likely be fixed in an update, on the pc version there is no issue with text size. the biggest joke about this review is the "slow overall story" while yes, some parts can be a little slow it's important to keep in mind it is a DENSE story, trying to speed parts of the story up would to be like making a 2-hour movie on the entire lord of the rings trilogy. if you want a more accurate review of the game it would be better to look them up on YouTube (be mindful you might get spoiled a bit) or look for steam reviews that are less memey.
however, if you don't feel like looking for those it is a great game 9/10 however it isn't for everyone, if you don't like visual novel esc games, VERY difficult experiences, or reading this game is not for you. however, if you do get it, the game will quickly grow on you. you do not need to play the previous game Lobotomy Corporation to understand the lore and it has some incredibly engaging story lines, gameplay, and amazing music. While Library of Ruina is not a perfect game, it's important to remember that there is no such thing as a perfect game. every game has its flaws but as long as you can enjoy the game it doesn't matter if its 'imperfect'. You enjoy it and that's all that matters.
Best content is in SOTC and Impuritas. It is slow, but the buildup is VERY worth it.
Please play it to completion.
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Holy geez, there are some vicious commenters here. @chas_mke, it seems you managed to upset an entire fandom. The good news is somebody obviously shared your review, and now Nintendo Life has five new users.
Edit: Make that six.
Edit 2: Ten now. Maybe the screenshots are from the first five hours to avoid spoilers? The mystery continues…
Edit 3: A veritable mob now. What started off as passingly interesting is now disheartening.
This feels like someone reviewing Sherlock Holmes and claiming the book is bad because they've only read the first 5 chapters.
Trust me, once you meet Philip, you will Wish. That these characters are disposable.
You really did just play 5 hours skipping the text in a story heavy game, did you?
Great Split: Vertical
As you can see from the screenshots provided the Reviewer has only made it to Urban Myth level (Still the tutorial) Which is only roughly 5 hours of gameplay (reminder that In the review he said the average play time was 120-250 hours) this is an abysmally small amount of time to play a game before writing a review Especially one so heavily focused on story
I was genuinely irritated with this review that I created this account just so I can leave a comment about how TERRIBLE it is.
The tiny text and dense menus I can understand due to the fact that this is the Nintendo Switch port of the game and obviously there would be issues like this since Library of Ruina was meant to be played on a bigger screen like on the PC.
However I can't forgive you for criticising the game when you've clearly barely played it. Some other people here already mentioned how you obviously, OBVIOUSLY, didn't even put the time and effort to play the game. Your review is unjust, and is quite blatantly misinformations.
Why are you even reviewing this game in the first place when you can't even be bothered to play it?
Edit:
I re-read the review again, hoping that my eyes were indeed playing tricks but instead I just discover even worse takes as I read it again and again.
What was on your mind when you compared this game's book burning mechanics to Persona 5?! I had to do a double take because I genuinely cannot fathom anyone thinking that they're in any way similar at all.
Safe to say, just like what my other fellow commenters mentioned, I'm most likely never going to trust any reviews from this site again if this is the kind of awful quality review it produces.
@Pluto Gather everyone here, please.
@Solomon_Rambling At the risk of sounding like a jerk, that's because the review of the game was rushed at best and outright misrepresentative at worst. (also, make that 7. Congrats to the reviewer for enraging me enough to make a new account on a platform I'd never heard of just to state how annoyed I am with the review.)
My personal thoughts on the review are as follows:
> Unfortunately, its scope and length just don't match up; we'd much rather spend extended periods of time with these characters before killing them off so quickly.
Yes, that's because you haven't made it out of the tutorial. While there are certainly games that introduce your overarching antagonist in the first 5% of the game, that's not the point of this one. The reasoning of the devs was even written earlier in the review:
> This vicious cycle paints a clear picture about the kind of dour world these characters live in, but it also makes each new group of characters feel disposable and indistinct from one another.
That is the point of the earlier levels. You form a cursory attachment to these characters, in the short duration of each of their cutscenes, and proceed to kill them like the mooks they are - and make no mistake, they are the equivalent of the City's mooks. The cutscenes make it exhaustively clear that the first few receptions you fight is against the lowest of the low; the City's equivalent of the scum on the bottom of the barrel that aren't even worthy of being called the lowest grade of Fixer.
> In rushing through these opportunities to revel in its world, Library of Ruina often speeds past some of its most compelling moments and characters.
See above points re: making it out of the hand-holding phases. The review hasn't reached the fights where understanding enemies becomes more important; it's still in the phase where you could be completely braindead and still win the fights. Of course it's not going to dive too deep into the lore; it still assumes you're getting used to how to actually utilize key mechanics in the game.
My reasoning may be flawed, though, as I haven't played on the Switch version. I played through the entire game on PC, with its apparently superior UI, and kudos to the reviewer for sticking with the UI. Their complaints are likely completely valid, and god knows that I wouldn't have been able to make it out of Urban Myth if I had to deal with unreadable card text. That may have been the reason why the review terminates so abruptly at such an early phase, and for that, I can excuse the tepid dive into the least detailed of the content.
Obviously, my opinion is biased. Still, that's my personal opinion on why the above review isn't as representative of the game as it should be.
Others have called attention to the review's shortcomings. I want to personally thank you for providing this article to us Project Moon fans. Having read this, we—who are renowned for our poor reading comprehension—immediately regret it.
This review is so full of inaccuracies, it greatly saddens me as a fan of the series.
"You play as Roland, a street thug"
Wrong, he is most certainly not a thug. Even avoiding spoilers, he's a fixer, a more generalized mercenary. He's an incredibly detailed and nuanced character, but that is understood as you play the game.
"attempt to build out the library and uncover its secrets"
Also wrong, you're searching for the one true book so that Angela can become human.
"Small tweaks to this formula pop up here and here, but this card combat is largely familiar."
Much of the combats at later levels are much more puzzle focused as you have to work with new rules that each enemy introduces. Many of the Realizations take this to the extreme.
"Unfortunately, it treats much of its cast as disposable."
I must wonder what the reviewer thought of xiao's powerful story of dedication to a loved one, or Philip's battle with his cowardly and selfish nature, or Yan's despair over his lack of free will.
"Just like the combat, there's plenty of potential here, but in the hours that we've spent with Library of Ruina, we haven't seen this potential yield much more than hinting at something greater"
This has to be the ultimate sin of this review. Did the reviewer get to urban nightmare? it doesn't lean into its potential because its setting up the story. That thing it's hinting at? That's the story being set up, which, naturally, is paid off as the story progresses. That's like the fundamentals of story telling. Its like watching the first 30 minutes of Back to the Future, turn it off, and say "you know, its got some potential, but that Doc Brown guy just get's shot and dies? Kind of a boring character, he had a lot of potential."
This review really throws into question all the other reviews on this site, I don't think I'll be coming here again anytime soon.
@Solomon_Rambling
If this review is indicative of the other reviews on this website, I'm most certainly not gonna be coming here again for any opinions.
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I did not die for this. You specifically mention how the story is too slow (With regards to that, I do not see as a valid point of negativity), yet know how long the game takes to complete on average. Blasphemy.
This review is the exact reason why we should liberate all technologies.
Umbrella Thwack or something idk
Shrill cries that tore at the eardrums and mercilessly beat upon my ears. From the second column on the left to the fifteenth column on the right, eyes shined at me. Eighty-nine index fingers and eighty-six throats pouring grief, fear, hate, revilement on me. Questions shaped from various emotions smothered my breath slowly.
Upon further inspection, the manager has tasked me to leave a legitimate review.
It sucks.
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You probably lost to me thrice
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please never cook this review again until you finished the whole game im out here make an account just to tell you this finish the damn GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! don't go OUT and make a review until you FINISH THE GAME!!!!!!!!! it CALLED novel game it FULL OF text please READ, you are not suppose to skip the story , u don't like nintendo ver just get a steam version
I have nothing but my sorrow, and I want nothing more. It has been, it still is, faithful to me.
Why should I begrudge it, since during the hours, when my soul crushed the depths of my heart, it was seated there beside me?
O sorrow, I have ended, you see, by respecting you, because I am certain you will never leave me. Ah, I realize it: your beauty lies in the force of your being.
Because I know that on the day of my final agony, you will be there, lying in my sheets, O sorrow, so that you might once again attempt to enter my heart.
@OrlandoFurioso is that john ruina
GALLOP ON, ROCINANTE!!!!!!!
YES!
I must be the reason why you have given up your smiles
To me it looks like you didn't properly watch the cutscenes, read the story or play the game. This review did not do the game justice. Lowell did not die for this.
@John_subject106 What I cannot do is own her heart.
Instead, my graceful love stole my heart and left me with lone hardship.
I can’t help but love the pain which fills the void of solitude.
Because I could look ahead thanks to you.
But now, the wonderful scenery we used to watch together lay behind me…
In this instant, I look back again. My eyes fixated on the most painful yet beautiful moments.
Those moments I can only view from afar, as I can’t dare approach them.
As I cleared the filth obstructing my view, it piled up on the path to the way forward…
I don’t think I can face the growing mountain in front of me squarely.
If I tried to confront it…
I might be buried under mounds of resentment and suffering from others.
I’m not sad about it, though. I don’t think it’s a shame that I can’t move on.
To leave you behind in the past and move forward alone would be my greatest pain.
I had only one option, then. To be able to gaze at paradise forever…
I should move all which blocks that sight out of the way.
I know you have lost that fight, alright? JUST LOOK AT YOUR OWN PAGES.
@XiaoLiuSection1
In addition to this:
Tāo Tiè
Mass-Summation
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On Hit Inflict 8 Burn
Round and round we go holding onto pain
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You dare insult Director Yujin?
This might genuinely be one of the worst game reviews I've ever had the displeasure of reading. You acknowledge that you've barely scratched the surface of the story, yet still complain about it?
I'm going to need a lot more coffee after this.
For Justice!
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MY HAIR COUPOOOOOOOOOOONS!!!
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<tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock tick tock>
<tick tock tick tock>!
S.A.D.
This is a disgrace of an article.
Roland Hubby~
I do not stand for this sweetie.
Furioso this man and show him what the Ruina in Library of Ruina means hun!!
(P.S. Bring me back some Pajeon when you come back Love you!!)
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@Angelica_Roland-Wife Get out of my head...
you're dead you're dead you're dead you're dead you're dead you're dead you're dead you're dead
The Alpha of Awe. The Brute of Brawl. The Cultivator of Class. The Duke of Domination. The Head of Wings. The Fiercest of Fixers. The Boundary of Death. The Height of Heroism. The Imperator of Prudence. The EX of Justice. The King of Knights. The Lord of Loquaciousness. The Master of Mortality. The Naysayer of Nuggers. The Crack of Dawn. The Sunlight of Blades. The Ego of E.G.O. The Alexander of Ruina. The Sultan of Stigmatize. The Razer of Ash and Fire. The Vaeyen of Vociferousness. The Warranter of Clerks. The Flash of Sunup. The Savoir of Ssanghwa-Cha.
THE INDOMITUS [CENSORED]
THE AYIN OF MANAGERS
THE LONGEST OF BIRDS
THE HEAD OF WINGS
THE JUSTICIA OF JUSTICE
THE TALLEST OF THE TALL
THE LORESAGE AMONGST LORELETS
CHADCLAIR THE GRAY
EX-DAWN FIXERclair the GUILTY
GRIPclair the CRUSHING
INSURMOUNTABLEclair the UNSURPASSABLE
INDOMITABLEclair the UNYIELDING
AESTHETICclair the GLAZE
EMOTIONALclair the STIGMATIZER
TANKclair the FEATHER SHIELD
PHYSICALLYIMPOSINGclair the INTIMIDATING
DISTORTIONclair the INDESTRUCTABLE
E.G.Oclair the UNSTOPPABLE
REPENTANTclair the ENLIGHTENED
MALEVOLANTclair the BLAZING
LOREclair the PRUDENT
ALMIGHTYclair the INVINCIBLE
VALORclair the DAUNTLESS
HUMBLEclair the REGRETFUL
INVICTUSclair the ETERNAL
MAELSTROMclair the SEARING SWORD
QUAKEclair the SPACE-TIME SHAKING
COLOSSUSclair the LEVIATHAN
BEHEMOTHclair the MASTODONIC
Aclair the AYIN
DEITYclair the ONE SIN
SEEDclair the DISTORTED
SUPERNOVAclair the TRANSIENT
CLAIRCHAD THE SIN
SINCHAD THE SIN
CLAIRCHAD THE CHAD
KINGCHAD THE LORDGRAY
THE CHAD OF CHADS
ENCHAD CHADCLAIR
CHADCHAD CHADCHAD CHA CHAD
ENTER CHADLIP
I agree with everything this article has said about my game .I understand that Library of Ruina is very mid and i should distort to pay for my actions.
This review instantly staggered me and gave me 99 Sinking potency
Puddle Stomp
I love when roland said " this is truly our library of ruina "
They're supressing us.... OH MY GOD! BRATTY SEPHIRAH SUPPRESSION NEEDED?! UOH ! UOH ! UOH ! 😭😭😭😭😭
this review is so bad , rules of the backstreets don't even work no more
@Evil_kim_ji-hoon
Holy ***** it's evil Kim Ji-Hoon
This review is nuts...
You there, the one who's reading this reply, since the one who made this review apparently doesn't have an attention span, or the ability to properly read.
Tell me.
Tell me how this review made you feel. How this review absolutely butchered and neglected this game to rot after about a mere five hours of playtime.
A game you likely hold oh so dear to yourself.
How people will likely end up seeing this review, and will judge the game immediately based on it.
How it might set a precedent for other reviewers to give it a low score as well, all because someone didn't give the game a chance.
It's infuriating, dont you agree?
That this is what game journalism has become?
Just playing a 150 hour long game for five hours, and judging it based on that?
Game review sites should have people who actually care about the games they play.
Isn't that something you desire as well, dear reader?
...Oh, and if by chance you're reading this, Charlie, finish the ***** game, then rewrite your review. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Please Don’t Vanish Like This
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@CfromLcorp I didn't distort for this ma'am.
Feelings untold
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That you could never know
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Dice on this page and the page clashing with it are unaffected by Power gain or loss
2~6 Block
4~8 Block
3~5 Slash
3~7 Blunt
This die is rolled 3 times
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Love must be the reason why
I still believe in this lie
That you'll live a better life without me by your side
It is my fault, my selfishness has left me unable to see my actions. Putting off the blame from myself and placing it on them. Must I be the one to right those wrongs? Of course, lest I never did anything, it would only become worse and worse. Such as this review, continuously spiraling, acting selfless while being selfish, never taking the blame and thus making the worst kinda of human. If… i cannot abandon my own selfishness… then I will use it, for that is the only way to justify my actions.
Wild Hunt of Desolation
SkillAttack 45 (45+0) Atk Weight ⯀⯀⯀⯀⯀⯀
Amt. x1
[Unclashable]
[On Use] If the target has Explosive WrathExplosive Wrath, deal -100% less damage
[On Use] Deal +25% more damage for every surviving ally
Every Catherine Must Die
Skill Attack 52 (45+7) Atk Weight ⯀⯀⯀⯀⯀⯀⯀⯀⯀⯀⯀⯀
Amt. x1
[Unclashable]
If all Hands' HP are at 1, deal 0 damage
[Combat Start] All other allies gain 2 Fragile and 2 Attack Power Up
[After Attack] Gain 1 Breaking Heart
[On Hit] Inflict 1 Breaking Heart
In the midst of all these comments I may also want to question how there was absolutely no mention of the ost done by Studio EIM or even the voice acting both done in Japanese and Korean. Deck building gets a lot more tolerable when you listen to the lobby music for hours straight!
Tāo Tiè
25~30 Mass Summation Slash
[On Hit] Inflict 8 Burn
As the Liu fan I am, this review was NOT fire.
Play the whole game.
As an apology to K-Corp, Alfonso had me read this entire review from start to finish to mentally torture me so I wouldn't leak documents again...
I remain skeptical of this punishment but I'm going to do it anyways to avoid being kicked out of K-Corp if that's what it takes.
Also, tell Ran to come through the backdoor!
As for my feedback... Please, at least reach Star of the City before you do a review!
★★♥♥♥!!!
And we won't forget what all of you did to Potential Man.
This review lacks experience and the slightest handle on what the game is about. If anyone ever holds this review true, I am truly sorry for your struggle of life.
The quality displayed on this review seems just as incomplete as it would seem to unaware of the very beginning (stated as Tutorial) which gladly gives me the desire to apply x4 K Corp Ampules straight to my head.
As parting words: If you are unable to play a game enough to review it true to his content, you are better not writing a review at all.
[Unclashable] [Target Fixed] by the way.
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Damn, this place is empty
Weakness means Death
@WisdomSearchScarecro I think we scared the mods
Boss is not gonna like it mate
THE FAULT LIES WITHIN THE JOURNALIST!!!
Pursue Them to the End!
Skill Attack 48 (45+3) Atk Weight ⯀
Amt. x2
[Combat Start] Apply 3 Offense Level Up to 2 allies adjacent to this unit on the Dashboard.
[On Use] Every Reson. of the highest Reson. adds 20% chance that this unit orders the ally on its immediate right (on the Dashboard) to use Assist Attack this turn.
[On Hit] Inflict 2 Bleed
[On Hit] Inflict 1 Burn
From break and ruin, the most beautiful comment section begins
Okay lil bro, this review is the first review i see and its already bad. They spend 5 hours looking at the game instead of actually researching or just watching a playthrough, the last screenshot here is literally yesods unlock cutscene, you havent gotten to the 2nd out of the 6 parts of the game and you tell me this game is bad? Please do more research lil bro
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This Review is Nuts!
@4thPacks_Rabbit omg real!!!
This Place is Nuts!
This review is not Ideal. I suggest you Fly with your Wings in order to finish the game before leaving such a maddening mass attack upon the PM community. My sanity is -45 but soon yours will be too. That's all.
Sigh
While I don't understand why the fact that you never finished the game itself, you had the audacity to leave a review like this. If Angela ever heard of this, she'd severe your limbs by herself. Oh well, that's that, and this is this, after all.
It says gullible on the ceiling
look up.
This is why my compass was swallowed by the sea.
This Review is nuts, how unlucky you must be.
This Game Journalist is Nuts!
PaperBack - Melee
Quick Suppression
On Use Gain 5 Charge
[Evade] 3 - 8
[Blunt] 4 - 8
On Hit Inflict 2 Bleed next Scene
[Slash] 3-8
On Hit Inflict 1 Bleed next Scene
Thine speech was so horrid... fie, I find myself utterly repulsed by such profane blasphemy!
"<1st Movement: Calm and Slow(Adagio)>
The conductor begins to direct the apocalypse."
"<Movements 2: Cheerful and Fast(Sostenuto)>
Employees start to forget everything and show fervent adoration toward the symphony. The emotion soon turns into internal insanity, driving them to attack anyone near them. "
"<Movements 3: Accelerando>
The orchestra gives impetus to the music, bringing the entire department to its demise."
"<Movements 4: Stringendo>
When all the performers have gathered, the music that no one can hear but everyone can listen to begins."
"<Finale: Con Fuoco, Ma Non Troppo>
The music shall perforate your entire being."
This review made my want to stab my buddy with a feather
Would you review properly?
Nah, i'd play for 5 hours and barely see any content the game to offer
My role in the story was more meaningful than this review
ENTER my Event
@Rosepanner_Rep_Niko I need you in the back to get me out of here, Alfonso is looking at my office... I think they know.
This Gameplay is Nuts!
ENTER THE DUNGEON
@Shrenne I'm sorry, miss Shrenne, but i havent received any payment or announcement regarding this request.
Even Da Capo isn't enough to block out this much white damage
Bones Claimed.
My review about Don Quixote, by Miguel De Cervantes after reading for 5 minutes.
there wasnt a nuclear bomb plot
This review made my Sanity drop to -45 faster than the Pequod Crew stealing my kills.
"The life of a reviewer begins and ends with the commenter’s clapping."
My support passive wasn't enough to stop people here from corroding.
Object De'Art - Blazing Strike - Melee
Can only be used at Emotion Level 3 and above
Blunt: 12-28
On Hit Inflict 10 Burn
Find my beer cans.
As an attempted voice of reason: Please stop the sh**posts. It's not fair to the hosts of this website, no matter how unfair the review may be.
Obey the rules of the website you're posting on, for crying out loud. Don't make this site's mod team suffer for this one post.
Captain of the Pequod
Pride x3 Res
DO YOU LOVE THE CITY YOU LIVE IN?
>NO
DO YOU LOVE THE CITY YOU LIVE IN?
>NO
DO YOU LOVE THE CITY YOU LIVE IN?
>NO
E-MER-GEN-CY!!! PUNISH☆MENT
"The Silent Reviewer prepares the review of the apocalypse."
I didn't gain my EGO for this *****
Dear Charlie Wacholz your review was to be honest weak u didnt engage with the game enough to have a proper opinion on this is at best only a first look. As u probably are seeing many people disagree with ur review (and many ***** post). The game has so much to offer and as a reviewer u have failed to grasp and show that to the reader. Please if possible make another review or rework this one when u played more of the game.
This single reviewer who Couldn't be bothered to play past the first 1/10 of the game, gets to have his opinion posted as one of the first things you see when you look this game up. Thanks to a single Nintendo life Reviewer a Highly rated game with overwhelmingly positive reviews Everywhere Including on this site gets to be tarnished because he couldn't be bothered to get past the first 5 hours. thanks Charlie very cool.
We are under orders to subdue you for disturbing the peace of this sector that is protected by the Zwei Association, please do not resist!
<SoTC:Back Attack>
Evade: 3~16
Blunt: 6~9
Slash: 3~8
@Reborn_Wraith Honestly, considering that this entire review is basically a sh**post, I'd consider this response entirely reasonable, so long as it stays on this one post and doesn't spread to the rest of the site.
I want to kiss Yesod
This Comment Section is Nuts!
@Rosepanner_Rep_Niko Fine! I'll send you 10k Ahn as advance pay and 100k if you get me into the next Nest!
That being said... how does one reviewer screw up THIS bad?
I would rather have stayed at Wuthering Heights than read this review.
this is not even an ENTER anymore i just want to EXIT
Beat Game? Make You Powerful! For Realsies!
@Shrenne Thank you for your cooperation, we will be sending our workshop fixers as soon as possible to your current location.
Brace Up
0 Cost
Melee
[On Use]: Discard a random page; draw 2 pages at the start of the next Scene
3~8 Pierce
the spam comments are making us look terrible guys, do we really want to look like a hate mob for someone reviewing a game we like poorly? i think we can point out what’s wrong with the review (i find it particularly egregious as well) without making us seem salty, it just leaves a bad impression on everyone overall. i get you’re having fun but can we actually criticize the review so they don’t think we’re just a bunch of upset children?
that being said, i do think it’s worth pointing out that it’s unfair to rate a 200ish hour game after playing it for such a short time. You barely scratched the surface, and I mean barely. It’s understandable why people are upset. I know you reviewers are busy but at the very least, play the games you’re going to review. I don’t even count that as playing the game. You basically just did the tutorial.
@hellterfly Agreed!
They must at least reach Star of the City before they can properly do a review!
I'm going to leave now before Alfonso finds me!
Imagine making a review of a game that you haven't finished and called it bad because you are too lazy to progress. Blame it on the UI and things that can be fixable. But my god, this 'review' is so bad that the person who wrote this completely missed every mark.
I thought the 8'o clock circus is full of clowns. I even created this stupid account on your site to make fun of this review. I swear, it is like you guys just hired some bum to play for five hours and wrote a review based of that. Even IGN has more credibility than whatever this sh*t is.
Pathetic.
Brawl
3 Cost
Melee
[On Use] Replace all dice on this page with ones on a random page in hand whose original Cost is 4 or lower. (Excluding Counter dice)
3~6 Blunt [On Hit] Restore 1 Light
2~8 Slash
3~5 Slash
3~6 Slash
@M4Sherman I don't know if this reviewer thought he will legitimately get away with leaving such a bad review or what. I understand Project Moon games aren't that popular but underrated games often have the most unhinged fans, proven by this comment section. Although while I do find some of the comments funny, it is getting quite out of hand.
@Shrenne @hellterfly agreed as well, Star of the City is where the game peaks after setting up the stage across the rest of the game and were a big part of the content is. You really cant say you actually played it properly and leave a review without st least getting that far, because it means you didnt get to experience the game properly and flesh out its mechanics and story.
This is one of the most painful things I've read in my life, shame on you, writer.
@hellterfly Prithee fellow, worry not for our extravagant actions, whilst out of the ordinary, are made not out of angst but rather of ennui.
In less locatious words, we're simply having a field day in a review that is more of a joke than anything and thus is taken accordingly.
In a way, it is akin to a bait I and my fellows will gladly take, but rest assured we mean no disrespect nor harm, and are merely jesting.
Such is all I have to say.
I'd like to go back to being a book in the Pale Library, thanks.
The Ideal is real.
@HeeHoo I suppose the reviewer deserving this kind of trolling doesn't actually justify what is technically spam; you do have a point
This review is such a disgrace to the point where i feel the need to make another review.
I will find the author and B.A.R.F. on their hands.
Whether or not the Review is updated I Hope the reviewer goes back and plays through the game on their own time It's rather sad that they end up missing out on it because their job is to quickly write up slop for game journo sites.
@hellterfly As someone who has played a bit of the switch port and the PC version to completion, honestly the complaints about UI in the port specifically are valid in handheld mode, since a lot of text is rather small, but that's about it. The rest of the complaints seem to be coming from a place of ignorance since the reviewer seemed to barely even get into Urban Plague, before the game even sets up most of it's reoccurring characters. Hell, the only Sephirah they've met so far are likely Malkuth and Yesod.
That being said, with how poorly the game was advertised, I think reviews like this spreading what are tantamount to lies about the game are that much more egregious since word of mouth is that much more important. It's a shame, as someone who loves Project Moon and the universe they've created, to see what is IMO their best game get slandered like this.
As long as people don't go and actually harass the person behind the review, since that'd be messed up no matter how egregious this piece of "critical writing" is, then I don't think it's too bad. Poor site mods though, they don't deserve to bare the brunt of one bad review's comment section.
Judging by the review somebody didn’t read.
Manager, this one’s a lost cause. Let’s feed em’ to Mephi.
I don't understand how a games reviewer could find interest in the setting yet totally misrepresent it (by not acknowledging the existence of the Wings as a concept).
Hearing an outsider take is always vital, and I agree that Project Moon's UI creation isn't always the best, but it is worth considering that the game is made by an indie team of 30 total people, and that the game is a port. And the obvious ignorance of the voice acting and music saddens me (as I'd like to hear takes ideally comparing the Korean and Japanese Dubbing, and commentary on the music, especially on motif usage)
This must be the Review from which all hatred, all evils of the world spout!
All of your struggles, all of your injustices, all of your pains and losses... that very evil sprang forth from that very Review...
The fault for this must lie with Ishmael!!!
The old hag is here, Ahab hit me up babe
I am the only one who matters. What matters is that I have declared this review evil--and that is my commandment, my belief, my religion, and my creed.
When I perish, this world shall perish as well. So my very life, my very existence itself, is then the world! And I have deemed it so! No one will be the helmsman of my life but myself!!! No one shall live my life in my stead!!!
What do you, all of you, believe in? Tell me. Is your belief unbreakable? Is it absolute?
My beliefs are absolute! My definitions of good and evil are clear-cut! Thus my beliefs are unclouded, unassailable. Because I have made it so.
That is why I will never be broken. That is why I stand tall, unshakeable, as a missionary of my own faith.
I have blessed you with my absolute definitions of good and evil! So that you may live your life with unhesitating, unwavering tenacity!!!
Opportunity Spotted
Cost: 1
[Block] 3-5
[Blunt] 1-2; Gain 1 Power if target has Paralysis
[Blunt] 1-2; Gain 1 Power if target has Paralysis
[Slash] 1-2; Gain 1 Power if target has Paralysis
Mirinae, Harold and I had to take a breather after reading this. Under the discretion of the Head, we'll be raising your level to an Urban Plague.
@bloodred_night quit your emo band
join my crew
Hey guys random randy here and i want to say that this reviews is not epic
@CaptainofthePequod yes baby girl captain, ill ditch that blue bro for you anyday
Thoust review truly saddens me.
The only blessing of which I can give at the moment is for thee to actually play the game and experience the story that await thee for all I see in this review of thy is an attempt at making a quick review of the game instead of experience it all.
I also look really good in this game.
@CaptainofthePequod Your crew is S.A.D.
I solo'd it.
@YourSaviorWhiteNight Agreed!
Just replay the game and reach Star of the City! Then you'll be more qualified to report on the game.
Cuz at that point, you'll have experienced the game enough to report on it AND you won't spoil too much!
This review has been classified as an impurity, thus it has no place in the City.
Claws, serum-W this fool and send them to the Outskirts.
Im gonna be dead honest here considering you only played 5 hours of a game which you considered to be over 100+ hours in length and you say it's bad it's absolutely mind boggling while I can agree on some parts like the text being way to small and the menus being slow and complex like seriously what has game journalism become but seriously I recommend you continue on with this game even if you do go for the original release on PC it's an absolute gem while it still does have its faults I feel like alot of its highs make up for its lows
Do not place blame upon the reviewer's ignorance. It is only natural for one to fear being naked in the face of the world. At least you and I know one thing. Project Moon shall be our forbidden fruit for the new humanity. Now, speak my name.
Nah bro, I can see many things but couldnt notice this piece of filth, get it of my eyes
@hellterfly
I fully agree. While the review is bad, and the sh**posts are somewhat funny, we are getting nothing across other than looking unhinged. But other than telling people to please not spam sh**posts there is nothing much we can do other than adding actual criticism and hoping the sh**posts dry out soon.
Let's hope no idiot takes this further than ***** posting a bit here, a bad review doesn't excuse a person being harassed or worse. I know people are upset, but please only criticize the review, and not ruin the life of the reviewer.
That being said. This review is genuinely bad. I know that reviewers do not have the time to fully experience a 200h game and acknowledge that is a good start, but that makes it even more insulting that knowing that this review treats those few hours like it is all the game has to offer. Naturally there are valid pieces of criticism here such as the small texts and menus, but the rest of the critique fails to actually examine any aspect of the game.
There are plenty of constructive comments on the positive aspects of the game that were misrepresented or missed by the review so I won't restate all that.
The worst aspect of this is that this review is one of the first things to come up when you search for the game. And for an indie game, the few reviews it gets from bigger sources are very important.
For the reviewer to acknowledge that they have not experienced the full game and yet to still go on to go against the popular sentiment shown on this site and steam by user reviews is inexcusable. It makes the entire review seem inauthentic. Only adding the bit about not having fully experienced the game not because that factor was actually considered, but because you had it on a list of things to say somewhere. If you didn't care about the game state that clearly and maybe rethink if you should be reviewing the game.
If you're able to acknowledge that you haven't really experienced the game then maybe do not assume that the game has nothing else to present to you, and instead look at what other people had to say about the game who actually experienced it all. By not even considering that, the reviewer has very much brought this situation onto themselves. (Like seriously, what did you think was gonna happen when you saw a 9/10 game on steam; a 9.6/10 game on this site at the time of writing; a game with a big fanbase; and gave it a 4/10... Did you not even once look at the user reviews of the game you were reviewing, especially knowing you didn't play all of it?)
I understand that the game may have not been to the reviewers taste, it may not be a game for everyone and that they maybe just got paid to play the game for X hours and then to write a review. But no review would have been better than a review this misleading on an indie game where the review will have an impact.
tldr: The review is horrible. But please do not be a complete idiot and harass the reviewer over it.
Charlie, at least TRY to give the game a fair chance before dismissing it on a public platform.
You claim that the game was too long for you to get through, while also wanting to spend more time on certain characters? Those complaints don't match up at all. Simple nitpicking at best.
If want to explore the game's potential like you said, then please actually play the game beyond the first few hours. You're supposed to be a reviewer, not some sort of free-sample taster.
Base Power 5
Coins 1
Coin Power +25
Offense level + 3
Atk Weight ⯀
[On Kill] Use this skill 1 more time
(II) [Heads Hit] Damage +7
[Reuse - Heads Hit] +100% Damage for this coin
[Reuse - Heads Hit] If target has 10+ Bleed, deal +50% damage
I'm sorry to say and I most likely bias but this review is really unfair, you review it when you are still pretty much in te beginning. This review is like as if you ate the appetizer and then rate the rest of the meal.
It really says a lot when you do this, losing credibility since I now know you most likely won't be putting in the hours to reach far in a game. I'm quite disappointed given how much this game does have to give, the mechanics are pretty wonky but given this was on the pc before, I say they did what they could.
Please next time, review the game after reaching much further into the game. I promise you, it would be great.
This also reminds me of someone who review cup head for some reason- because they couldn't pass the tutorial.
By the wings who let Mayo review another game ?
Someone please lock this guy in a warp train.
Mommy, should we make the reviewer triangle-shaped or square-shaped?
(Don’t worry, it’s a joke. I do feel you would have benefitted from playing past the tutorial chapters, though)
This is a fantastic review, but no, I will not let you go home after forcing you to write it; me and my evil sinners have plans to make you write more evil reviews. Say, there's a game called limbus company that needs this treatment.
P.S. Evil Meursault, fix my profile picture.
@EVIL-DANTE
Holy fck it's Evil Dante
Nay, thou only spew blasphemy!
Hey it's me, Goku! Your review looks weak, I don't want to fight it!
You should train more in the hyperbolic chamber so you can be strong like my friend Gebura! A Saiyan gets stronger the more they edge!
@xxor I agree
I do think the ***** post replies are okay, as long as death threats and harassment are kept out of it.
Meursault, Give this guy a better schedule so he can actually understand Ruina.
Transpierce | Cost 3
Pierce | 6-18: [On Hit] Deal 5 damage to target
Block | 2-7
this is crazy
@GOKU-LIMBUS is that goku
I might be a thief, but this review was a robbery!
You should've tossed a Lucky Coin or two before publishing this!
sanity here im just going to be completely honest here this "game" journalist probably could not beat day 16 inside lob corp and only somehow is still on urban plague (can't wait for the "journalist" to actually play more if they can even beat the whole crying children reception without crying to someone about it)
and also fun fact: smoking weed (smoke) increases damage taken by 5% for each stack (up to 10) it also has a spesific passive that lets the user harness the weed energy to benefit them instead (puffy smoke) which if the user and the target has both 10 smoke the user thats applying smoke can deal duoble damage using any attack
@Agent_Bongbong i want to have rough [CENSORED] with you.
Rip Space
48 (45+3) Atk Weight ⯀
Amt. x1
[On Use] Spend 10 Charge Count to gain +4 Coin Power
At less than 10 Charge Count, lose 20% HP
[Heads Hit] Inflict 5 Rupture
48 (45+3) Atk Weight ⯀
Amt. x1
[On Hit] Gain 1 Attack Power Up next turn
[On Hit] Gain 3 Haste next turn
[On Kill] Gain 2 Attack Power Up next turn
47 (45+2) Atk Weight ⯀
Amt. x2
[On Use] Gain +2 Poise Count
At 5+ Poise, Clash Power +3
[On Hit] Gain 2 Poise
[On Hit] Inflict 1 Bleed
[On Crit] Reuse this Coin (3 times max)
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This review aggravates me more than Don Quixote.
oh and i almost forgot about one thing:
Sanity is determined through several interactions that occur in and out of combat. Sanity can be seen at the very bottom of the combat bar as the blue or red number right besides a units health, the number itself ranges between -45 to 45. Sanity directly affects the chance of a unit rolling heads; each unit of sanity corresponds to a change of 1% heads rate. In a normal combat encounter outside of dungeons and the Railway, all sinners and enemies usually start at 0 sanity. The main way to gain sanity is after winning clashes or defeating enemies. Sanity is usually lost by using EGO, losing allies, the Sinking status effect or other effects.
Reaching -30 or below sanity may cause "Low Morale" on any enemy with SP, reducing their skill effectiveness against clashes and one sided attacks. Furthermore, hitting -45 will immediately cause "Panic", which is akin to that of Staggered, preventing any action until the next turn (which reset to 0 SP). If Sinner reaches -45 and has E.G.O other than their unique ones, they are susceptible to E.G.O Corrosion, in which they are forced to use only corrosion skill against the manager's decision. Abnormalities and hostiles without any sanity cannot gain the advantages and disadvantages of sanity and take direct gloom damage through Sinking.
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You want to write review? Cringeously?
Pierce Envy
Offence level +3
Atk Weight 3
Awakening
Coins 1
Base power 33
Coin power -12
[On Use] Gain Charge Count by Envy Reson.
Spend 5 Charge Count to gain +3 Skill Power (Max 12)
[Tails Hit] Gain +5 Charge Count
Corrosion
Coins 1
Base power 39
Coin power -21
[Indiscriminate] Targets randomly
[On use] Gain Charge Count by Envy Reson.
Spend all Charge Count to gain +15 Skill Power
[Heads Hit] Gain 3 Fragile next turn
Passives
Roar
After defeating an enemy, gain Charge by half that turn's Envy A-Reson.
(Envy A-Reson. / 2)
Ahem, I must gather mine thoughts before replying...
You have in no way lent this game a fair chance! 'Tis only but a very small portion of the game you have played, and it is not enough to give a just review!
Not only that, but you are comparing it to... Persona 5 Royal? I fail to see the similarities between them...
"My scales always show clear verdict; I can make sound judgement with it…"
"Let me weigh your review…"
Do not enter my library ever again. I find it quite insulting that you have little knowledge on this matter, yet you continue to speak badly about it?
Please never touch a keyboard again, dear guest.
Post another review like this and i will personally visit your residence.
@city_librarian angela with all due respects the "journalist" is using a controller
Edit: i may have not considered that the "journalist" is using a keyboard to write this whole review my deepest apologies
I yearn, nay, I need my luscious hair back. Alas, I am stuck playing the objectively WORST version of library of ruina that has existed.
The appearance of this entity has caused multiple inhabitants of this district to significantly aggravate their mental health. Exposure for a long time can cause individuals to begin to experience the phenomenon of Distortion, similar to our encounter with the artifact called Black Monolith. However, Faust says that this is a different case, which we should proceed with greater caution.
The white damage caused by the entity is due to its previous exposure to an entertainment source that was erroneously described causing its opinion in specific individuals to reach the repercussions currently seen.
Faust knows that a time span of 5 hours is not enough to determine what an audiovisual entertainment format based on input and reasoning of the person whose duration is around 100 hours can offer.
It seems to indicate a negligence in the content investigation method on the part of the entity itself.
This review is utterly shameful, Angelica did not perish for this.
Maybe the path of being a "journalist" is not for you, friend.
…Prez will get all miffed when he will read this…
Adding to my previous statement, I find this review irritating to say the least.
Thou hast clearly stated in thy review that "based on our research, this game takes anywhere from 120 to 250 hours to beat depending on how you play your cards." yet thou judge the game based on the little hours thou hast put into the game, saying stuff like the lack of commitment to the characters and story related stuff, while I agree about the UI problem thou hast put a lot of bad word despite the little time thou hast spent on the game which may have ward off many and new vict- players that might be interested in the game.
Aside from all this, you all can calm down w the shpost, some comment are kinda crossing the line a bit, if you want to meme atleast meme respectfully. heart heart heart star star kissy face emoji
ALSO, Hello PMCH and the great LCB eng dub server, I am in thy wall.
(Impressive voice acting Adhit, thy voice shall guide thee to greatness that await thee, I am sure.)
DING DING DING DING DING DING
Book of Journalist Obtained
Ha... What a load of rubbish. Really, the sloop i had back at the lake was better than this.
It's embarrassing, Heathcliff could write a better review than this.
This review is so much worser than cleaning up w corp train. please never write a review again.
This is way worse than the prophesized beast!
Very interesting review.... I liked it SO much that I'd like to offer you a cup of caffeinated tea~
Pay no attention to the quiet evil laughter nor the steam which takes the shape of a skull and crossed bones~
This review is nuts!
I do not feel strongly on anything that this journalist has written about my game. I remain neutral on this topic.
Such a blasphemous review... I shall purge and burn everything in here!
Self-destructive Purge
50 (45+5) Atk Weight ⯀
Amt. x1
[On Use]- Lose 15 SP
[On Hit] Raise Stagger Threshold by 50% of damage dealt
[On Hit] If target has 5+ Bleed, inflict 7 Burn
[On Kill] Gain 1 Blunt Power Up next turn
@Real_Nclair you still stable enough to not kill teammates?
@Sanity Well... Kinda.
This must be one of the funniest comment sections I've seen in a while, although it would be beneficial if you would include a sentence or two that could improve this horrid article that some of us have been (sadly) forced to read. I believe this article may have driven off potential new fans of Project Moon games which is a shame, and a good example as to why you should not judge a game purely based off of 5ish hours of gameplay. I do hope your future game "reviews" will be better than this idiocy you've put out, journalist. Shame on you.
Redditbros... It's enough. We should stop rping in the comment section the CHADviewer was right...
@BALDcardo reddit whats that?
@Sanity
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Im Into Fat Bitches
@Lyla_Sweeper 86438- 34634 41245 63418 21412 08796 43643 67867 44325 65458 34957
(lyla i think you should just not bother with this place it is not worth sweeping)
This "review" was so unbelievably pro-corporate and pro-capitalist it made my inner-self cringe during reading. I was so surprised by the utter audacity to post such govno and sranje on the Internet. Truly a horrendous analyzation of Library of Ruina's story and gameplay. I am surely not showing this to not a single one of the brave Yurodivy patriots on this site, not even Rodya. Remember Yurodivy patriots, never trust a game reviewer on the Internet. This is the gut-wrenching media they turn out. And as for you, author, I hope you corrode.
I will find you, judge you for your sins--So that the forest shall remain peaceful once again...
I don't see anything wrong with this review!
We do not fear the unfathomable horrors of the sea! Stand tall! Give them a toothy grin and a wild guffaw! That is what it means to be a crew of the Pequod!
For reasons unrelated to the review, I shall strike the writer with one of my many low-cost, high damage pages!
I do NOT agree with anything this article has said about my game. Library of Ruina is one of our best games and i will not take this slander.
@Pinocchio friendly fire
Is a lack of reading comprehension a flaw of yours? I've learned you're supposed to hide such embarrassing parts of yourself ♪ Remember that for next time!
@Evil_Chesed hit them with the 4 consecutive
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Mass-Summation
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[On Hit] Inflict 2 Fragile
My deepest apologies, Mistress. The journalist… didn't play the game.
can we have this guy sent to site 14 ? this dude have to be locked up in that facility with this horrendous review, please never cook again.
I beat this guy like five times. I'm a step closer to achieving my dream
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@Sanity Mass-Summation?!? Not at all my style... I shall give you the Evil Gebura treatment and spray you with water
Rodya Romanovich I know you're lurking in this thread. Come out. Join the Yurodivy. Join the Yurodivy Rodya.
@John_subject106 the "journalist" burned down the whole city we need to call in the head
I Can't Believe such B.S. exists.
@Evil_Chesed i cast
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Gentlemen... 3 day vacation for this moeRAT reviewer.
I did not go into the Light for this.
This review is the epitome of the disease of the mind, were you on Enkephalin while writing this? Because I see no other way you could create something so antithetical to an actual review.
You are worse than Angela even if she is a machine at least she has a soul. The suffering that everyone in Lobotomy Corporation went through is nothing compared to the suffering that I feel just reading this, I will personally do the same thing I did to Binah to you just so I can figure out who told you to make this.
You are even more of a failure than Netzach, I have sent the red mist to your location she will be arriving within the hour to show you the error of your ways. Anyhow my wife is waiting for me to come back to her she wants help giving E.G.O to someone...
@Solomon_Rambling While I do agree that some of the comments are incredibly unhinged and trolling, you'd be equally as mad if your favorite game was given a bad review just because the journalist was still in the tutorial of the game and the buildup phase of the story when they stopped.
I agree on some points, like how the UI is poorly designed and a desperate need for touchscreen compatibility on the switch, but calling the story bad because they haven't even gotten past the PROLOUGE is an insult to the creative team.
@WcorpRyoshu
Such foolishness should be erased, maybe i'll S.H.N.
@Sanity Blast! My light count has been refilled... and i now have 3 feeble and fragile as a consequence of my 'Fairly-Temperate Hearted Lumber Processor' abnormality card...
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This review is nuts! (very trash)
MANAGER YOU ***** SUCKA T OYUR JOB
WHY IS ADACHI HERE OMG. PRETEND IM MAKI PERSONA 1 RN!!!!!!!!
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@Ayin ayin you made me appreciate leveling up each nugget individually from level 3 (on each stat) to level EX (on each stat) letting me kill gebura in 5 seconds (each phase) binah in around 25~45 seconds (each phase) but please for the love of carmen don't let the "machine" alone with ALL ACCESS TO THE LIGHT YOU COULDN'T EVEN SMILE AT HER YOU JUST HAD TO DEGRADE HER EVERY SINGLE TIME SHE TRIES TO SPEAK AND IN LOR YOU ONLY HAD THE CHANCE TO SAY "im sorry and good job" LIKE COME ON MAN YOU JUST HAD TO NOT SHOW AFFECTION TO A BEING THAT YOU MADE TO ALMOST REPLICATE CARMEN anyways cool facility dude
@FreakyYesod I MADE YOUR PFP IM ASIYAHLAYER ON TWT OMGGGG
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@SonyaYurodivy I am not related to you in Any way. Stay away from me
MANAGER YOU SUCK AT YOUR JOB
We live in a binary world. The world that is luscious, and... the world that is bristly. Do you know just how much care and work goes into maintaining by beautiful hair? The work ensuring the perfect shape, the smooth silkiness? I thought I could finally enter the world of the luscious... but upon reading this review, instantly, I received so much brain damage that my hair lost all its volume and texture. For the sin of utterly destroying my hair, this review shall be added to the Book of Vengeance. Now, the price of your sins... let's see... Title 12, Section 32... row C, line 5: aha! Complete and total extermination of this sinful review!
Will you join me… in the great task to purify the abominable filth?
YOU ARE ALSO SO JOYLESS! WHERE IS YAO I LOVE YAOIIII
@Rodion777luckywinner Come back. Come back. Come back. Come back. Come back. Come back. Come back. Come back. Come back. Come back.
@The_One_Who_Grips IM DISABLED SO NO
You should jump into the K-Corp ampule pool NOW!
@RicardoFunny I CAN'T BELIEVE SOMEONE WOULD DO THAT!!!! TYHEY WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED INTO THE CONTROL TEAM. NO WAY!
@Dongrang Can it cure my autism? OMG???
@venusasaboy nu uh it's me Orlando!
@agastafas NO YOU ARENT. LIAR
@SonyaYurodivy No.
i am transgender
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Block 3~7
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wait, how do you report a review?
Yawn, redditbros are really defending their mid game. The reviewer is right. Imagine having to go through every single card just to select them for your singleton deck. Can't be me, feels good playing games like Underrail and Fallout 1.
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