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Sword of Convallaria - Review

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Sword of Convallaria is one of a new game that, more or less has been a week since this game come out.

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Story

As someone that already play the demo on steam before. All i can say is, i really like the story. If you the type of gamer that actually read the story, you wont be dissapointed if you follow the story thoroughly.

The story are separated with 2 modes. The Fool's Journey and Spiral of Destinies.

The story start with you unknownly trapped in a jail while you have an amnesia too on top of that. Then, rescued by Rawiyah, a leader of a mercenary group, sword of convallaria. But while escaping, you and rawiyah's party, end up got killed cuz of trapped in a riot.

You arrived is a strange place called Elysium and short story, told that you can change the fate.

Now. The different with those two story mode from what i recall(cmiiw).

The Foul's Journey is a story mode, where you see the past event. So you can use that information to change the fate. To play the mode, you used your actual summoned mercenary.

Spiral of Destinies is the actual story of Sword of Convallaria. Its starting the same as the prolog, but you, rawiyah, and the gank didnt died cuz of the knowledge you got(just the knowledge from the prolog). You played with starting char, didnt have summon system(banner), only can used up to 3 mercenary can you bring to this mode(in the beginning they will let you to bring 3 mercenary that you have, to this mode), and has its own system with how to get more mercenary.

In this mode, your choice in the game is matter, according to your choice, the plot will be different. Have multiple ending. So you can repeat this mode anytime to collect all the plot and the ending.

This is the ending that i got from the demo back then. Its a shitty ending thought(R.I.P Lutfi) 😭

For Crossing Worlds, its only a place to farm resource for the need to developt your character.

Gacha and Character

This is actually kinda sad that the guaranteed pity is so incridibly high(well, not that no other game is similar with this). But in exchange for that, the probability to got legendary is not that low(2%). There 2 type of guarantee pity, legendary pity and rate up legendary pity. So the pity to got rate up and non rate up mercenary is different. And then, every banner has the same pity, rate up banner and standard banner shares the same pity.

The other thing that make me sad too, is there is no rate up for exclusive weapon. So there is only 1 weapon banner, the standard one.

Idk with you guys, but even thought the pity is incridibly high, but so far, i always got the legendary mercenary with soft pity.

I have 4 summoned legendary mercenary; gloria, beryl, samantha, lilywill.

There are 5 role in the game. Deffender(green), Breaker(red), Seeker(blue), Watcher(yellow), Destroyer(purple).

Green>Blue

Blue>Red

Red>Green

Yellow>Purple

Deffender is a specialist in tanking dmg and covering(taking the dmg instead of the ally that being targeted).

Breaker specialist breaking enemy's frontline.

Seeker specialist in flanking, breaking enemy's backline.

Watcher have multiple role, depends on the mercenary's weapon and skill. Some(archer) are specialist in dealing dmg from far away. Some(mage) are act as a healer. Some are the same as breaker or deffender, fight in the frontline.

Destroyer also have multiple role, depends on the mercenary's weapon and skill. Some(mage) are specialist in dealing aoe or single target magic dmg. Some are the same as breaker.

The character design in this game is lovely. The design based on medieval time and so far, no fan service design(dunno about the future, maybe it will become another brown dust 👀)

In this game, non legendary mercenary is still usefull. So no worries if you have bad luck in the summon, epic mercenary still can carry you. As you can see, i still used some non legendary mercenary there(the gold one). Not to mention the free legendary they give to us. Maitha(Deffender) as a starter, Faycal(Watcher) from daily login, Rawiyah(Breaker) from voyage memento.

Weapon and trinket(armor) are not a problem too. A lot of free legendary in here.

Music and effect

I'll make it simple in this one. The music is good. Its enjoyable to hear the music. I like it.

And the effect, its nothing special, since it still used pixel design when on animated skill. So maybe its not that eye catching. One thing that i hate, the animation skill can get your eyes hurt by that constant change of darkening and brighting so suddent ☠️

Gameplay

Since its an rts tactic game, the gameplay mechanic is quite easy

Place the char corectly, while paying attention to their role weakness. Choice to use skill or not. Even if your decision is wrong, can undo the move. Even if you didnt undo it, it still doesnt matter, since the enemies are not that strong.

Nothing hard in the gameplay, except when you playing Spiral of Destinies mode that can actually make you in a hard time when in battle. Cuz you have limited resource, must use it wisely if didnt want to suffer in that mode.

Conclusion

I'll give it 9/10

So far i really enjoy it.

This is just my personal review, if i wrong in something, feel free to correct me.

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