{"id":10992,"date":"2022-02-01T04:32:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T09:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crystal-dreams.us\/?p=10992"},"modified":"2022-03-19T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T21:53:38","slug":"tears-of-themis-6-month-review-of-the-global-version","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crystal-dreams.us\/?p=10992","title":{"rendered":"Tears of Themis – ~6 month Review of the Global version!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a few people suggest I do one of these and at this point, I’ve played Tears of Themis every day since its Global release. I also played it every single day of the Closed Beta<\/a>. To say I like the game a lot would be a bit of an understatement, but I will say what I like most about the game is also possibly its biggest flaw: Where’s the story content? <\/b> <\/p>\n

Ironically, while in the middle of writing this, my question kind of got answered in a way<\/a>— Covid has made it a bit harder to record voice actors. Apparently, Artem’s Japanese voice also actually caught it so here’s hoping he recovers okay. It’s possible this may just have to do with future content and not the story, but I feel like there’s a good chance this is still part of it as events and card stories generally have a lot less dialogue. Stories also have voices for EVERY character in them and Chapter 6 has a large cast and is one of the darker cases. <\/p>\n

I do wish they still kept things in order though– I would have preferred them to just say “some voices won’t be ready yet” and still keep the timeline intact over us getting Events at a much different order and also many much sooner before the story content. Chapter 6, while announced for the first half of March, is now roughly 2-3 months later than when it released on the original server (January 2021). And personal story 3, which had released after the Skadi Event on the original server in late February 2021, will now be releasing in early May… That is a huge gap in what was originally only a month. The Romantic Rail Getaway Events were originally after Skadi, yet we got one half already and will likely get the other half before the new story content and just… as someone primarily playing for the story content, I’d rather have it, voice acting or not. <\/p>\n

When I first spoke about Tears of Themis, I said my only complaint at the time was the entire Card System exists only to force a gachapon system in the game and to be honest, that is still my biggest complaint with the only other thing coming close is the timeline destroyingness of the Event schedule. I think my biggest issue is that events from those cards can be brought up in other card stories so if you never managed to play them, you have no idea what they’re talking about. I don’t really like Character information locked behind a gachapon and I do wish there was a way to access the story even outside the cards. You’d still need the cards for the debates, which I do still feel are often really awkward interruptions of the story content (Having a stronger deck though, I often get through them so fast, I no longer even notice), so it’s not like they’d be worthless without the story, but I suppose some cards would get less love. <\/p>\n

Going back to the story stuff, I do hope they may give more information on what voice acting will be missing as they do say just “some” of the Japanese voice content will be gone and as you can pick things separately (Each character can have a different language voice plus a category for all other characters). <\/p>\n

As mentioned, I love the story stuff. I love learning about the characters. I think all the characters are neat in their own way, even side ones. I love the mysteries. I love how even Events have a mystery aspect (Though, they are brutal for newer players to catch up– it’s too bad there isn’t an “easier” version for people who join later). It’s made it so every piece of content is really interesting, though, it’s another reason I wish the timeline wasn’t such a mess right now. <\/p>\n

I still think if you enjoy mystery content, it’s worth a playthrough even if you’re not big into Otome stuff. You can always skip the card stories (which are essentially “dates”) and only the last part of the personal story ends romantically. I wouldn’t really call myself an otome game fan (I am… notoriously picky and a game that just focuses on romance is not my thing), but I still find everything just… really fun? I think all the characters are interesting even outside of a romance-aspect. <\/p>\n

And well, considering most people play for the Otome game aspect, clearly that’s pretty good as well. <\/p>\n

As a quick pros and cons list though to finish this off at this point: <\/p>\n

PROS:<\/b><\/p>\n