I wish I was making things up, but these situations happen. And while The Last of Us 2 can deal with that, a smaller indie can really suffer there.'Īrguably even more important, Hoss suggests, is the fact that 'what starts on Metacritic often leads to people harassing devs via social media or sending them hate mail. I’ve already ordered a physical copy.Chained Echoes has been out for several months and boasts high reviews elsewhere, and as such Hoss says he's 'not worried at all' about the long-term impact of this review-bomb: 'It is more an annoying situation as we can't really do anything about it.' For others, however, it can be a much more significant issue: 'Especially with the review bombing for LGBTQI+ content, that can seriously damage smaller indie games in terms of sales. Hopefully Chained Echoes is a success and we can see future projects from its creator. Every single element of Chained Echoes is full of loving attention to detail. It’s more ambitious than the common indie throwback JRPG, but has many of their modernizations. But, you know a video game is fantastic when your biggest complaint is the character portrait art.įans of old school 2D JRPGs, who would like something made today that resembles the great Super Nintendo and PS1 classics, need to play Chained Echoes. The character portraits also lack the creativity of the rest of the game’s design.

The character portraits have that common indie “child’s attempt at anime art” appearance, and I’m not a fan.

My only complaint is about the character art and design. Colors are vibrant, and some of the designs are wonderfully intricate. The pixel art looks great, with gloriously detailed backgrounds and bosses. It has a great variety, while still sounding nostalgic and fitting for the JRPG genre.

Chained Echoes looks and sounds beautiful.

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