I Am Setsuna may not have the budget of a fully featured RPG but damn it the developers were going to try their best regardless, and the fact that they actually care about what theyвЂ™re making shows through in every aspect of the game.Д®very RPG needs a premise, and I am SetsunaвЂ™s seems like a reasonably good one.

The game has heart but that doesn't mean it's happy-go-lucky. YouвЂ™re not going to get Garrus Vakarian or Nadine Ross here. By the time I got to the end of the game I didnвЂ™t want it to be over, and characters who started off as dry clichГ©s had becomeвЂ¦somewhat charming clichГ©s. Not at first perhaps the first five or ten hours of the game feel sparse to the point where I was worried I wasnвЂ™t going to like it, but as the story and the game unfurl they show a steady hand, and the moments of flash and spectacle are saved for the points in the story where they matter most. They may have been restricted to one relatively small main land-mass covered in snow and been forced to recycle their assets throughout their game, but they were still making the kind of game they wanted to and it definitely shows. It is clearly a labor of love, made by people who really wanted to make a new JRPG in the old style and werenвЂ™t going to let budget limits or anything else stand in their way. Tokyo RPG Factory may have a name that implies soullessness, but their first game is anything but. So why is it still a good game despite all that? Also notice there are two of the same bucket in this screen.

You also see it a lot throughout the game. ItвЂ™s like one of those real-estate model homes where you go in and at first it looks like a finished house but none of the plumbing works and all the fruit is wax and you realize this is just a cheap faГ§ade to try to demonstrate the idea of something more expensive and complete. This sense of cheapness is dispersed through every aspect of the game, with the exception of the combat system, which is complex and polished enough to feel legitimately вЂњold-schoolвЂќ instead of вЂњold-school, but shoddier.вЂќ That doesnвЂ™t mean itвЂ™s a bad game, I very much enjoyed it overall and would recommend it to others with some caveats, but it feels, in terms of production values, more like a proof of concept than a completed retail product. I am Setsuna markets itself as a throwback but also feels like a cheaply made game a (literally) pale simulacrum of the older games it is trying to invoke.

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