I think Brown Dust 2 has been cooking recently

I heard that the game had a rather rough launch, but that there had been quite a few changes to fix things. And over the past few weeks, I've seen quite a few positive reviews of the game, not to mention the waifus and their animations that seem particularly praised. So, I decided to try it for myself to see, and I’m really enjoying the game. I think it has a lot of strengths, and it seems very far from how it was at launch:

  • The game seems really generous for F2P players.
  • Dailies don’t take long with a lot of QoL options.
  • The characters are cool, and the story is good with a lot of content and alternate storylines, sometimes dark and edgy, sometimes funny and lighthearted.
  • The art in general is top-notch, whether it’s with the waifus or the overall artistic direction of the game. The music, songs and voice acting are also very good.
  • The gameplay is fun with that retro JRPG vibe and different game modes. I just think it's a bit of a shame that most of the time, we have to mostly burst the enemy as much as possible on the first turn, but it’s not brain-dead either, and it’s fun to test out teams and combinations depending on the fights.
  • They recently added a self-insert mode and bond events with the waifus, which was apparently something that was considered missing, with a free L2D interactive cutscene.

I’m actually surprised this game isn’t even more popular, but I guess it’s tough when you miss your launch while you also compete against many other games.