Review for Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Infinite Combat. Game for PC, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on 11/08/2020
Competing for the longest-named video game title in history, Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Infinite Combate is the videogame adaptation of the anime also known as DanMachi, translated into Spanish with “Is it wrong to try to meet girls in a Dungeon? - Familia Mith ". Although for decades we have been accustomed to playing successful Japanese anime or manga video game conversions, Infinite Combate is a somewhat particular case, because it suits a story and a world that already look so much, so much like a role-playing game of the classic ones.
Because yes, similarly to what happens with Sword Art Online, DanMachi tells the story of Bell, a young fighter who lives in a world where most people become adventurers to earn a loaf in search of EXP and wealth inside a mysterious dungeon which is accessed from a tower located in the center of the city of Ora. Equipment, support characters, levels, skills and spells are therefore elements on the agenda, thanks to the powers that are given to selected people by divinities who have descended on Earth for centuries now, among ordinary mortals. These gods are certainly attractive and powerful, but in the end they look like ordinary people and like ordinary people they get bored. For this reason the personalities that make up Olympus (they remember a lot, even in the names, the Greek gods) of Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Infinite Combate they decided to grant part of their powers to humans, thus creating their own "Familia", made up of them protected to be sent to the dungeon to do the dirty work.
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And what do the girls of the title have to do with it? Well, the brave young Bell doesn't just want to get stronger, but also to find love in the dungeon and the meeting with the attractive and very strong Ajz Wallenstein will mark him forever, pushing him to grow more and more to conquer it. Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Infinite Combate follows this wacky story, which is also the same as the first season of the anime (available on Netflix). For the novices of the series, therefore, there will be nothing to learn a priori, while for those who are already "familiar" (eheh) with the adventures of Bell, Infinite Combate will retrace known events, adding a handful of original content, integrated with information contained in the spin-off of the regular series Sword Oratoria, in particular regarding the story of Aiz, who will be one of the two playable characters in what is shown, joypad in hand, an Action RPG with elements from Visual Novel. Too bad that for those who know the story, the game does not allow you to skip the very long dialogues, especially when the title will prove to be decidedly more verbose (and dull) than the anime in certain circumstances.
Divided into one Story mode for about ten hours, your experience with Infinite Combate will lead you to experience the events of the anime from the two points of view of Bell and Aiz, partly scrolling through dialogues and navigating menus, partly exploring small levels with a view from the other and low level chibi graphics (the game wouldn't look great on mobile either), battling a series of uninspired monsters in sequence. Dwelling on the combat system, each character has his own basic attack and one area attack, in addition to a spell, a special move and up to two attacks assigned to support characters that you can take to the dungeon. All this on condition that you have progressed enough in history to be able to afford all these skills! In fact, the rookie Bell will have to slowly earn with experience the possibility of using magic, while immediately with the blonde swordswoman Aiz you will have a taste of what the power of a level 5 adventurer is.
This dichotomy is one of the game's most distinctive elements, but the battles remain quite simple and pedisseque, mostly resolved with basic attack. The difficulties could come from the absurd timers that the game will put in some missions or in the event that more enemies manage to cage you in a corner. Managing your position on the battlefield is definitely crucial in the challenges of Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Infinite Combat, especially those with rare bosses.
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Said of a simple gameplay, we also found the options that accompany it superficial, between equip and management of skills / statistics. For the more experienced in the JRPG of you everything will be very easy, almost like "my first RPG", with limited choices of items and equipment, which can be improved using the resources found in the dungeon. Too bad that, at least during history, this proves to be almost useless because precisely the plot will bring you special weapons and armor, which will practically always be more powerful than what you could buy in store. So you will often have a lot of money left that you won't know how to use.
That said, the game still has a solid and polished look in the menus, while the parts where we will follow the story are poorer: the characters are static drawings that move only their lips, there are very few original illustrations (almost all a bit "hot") and practically absent apart from the animated intro scenes from the cartoon. At least the voice actors are the original Japanese ones and feels, positively.
That's it?
As previously stated, for such a dungeon crawler, the story of Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Infinite Combate ends pretty quickly. After finishing it, the game will try to keep us glued to the screen with the Extra modeAs the challenge level rises, you can explore longer and more challenging dungeons to earn points for hanging out with some of the girls in the game. Strange to put an option (among other things quite simplified) as well as that of dating in the post game, but so be it; however, they are hours of extra fun and commitment, with a closer eye on the equipment.
Always hard to expect masterpieces from these successful anime conversions and Is It Wrong To Try To Pick Up Girls In A Dungeon? Infinite Combate certainly does not emerge from the crowd, also thinking of the probable limited budget with which MAGES (we remember them mainly for Steins; Gate) had to work, compared for example to the great Bandai Namco productions. In the game there is a certain care and experience of the team in making RPGs but uninspired battles and a component of Visual Novel only sufficient make it only recommended to those who really love the story of Bell, Hestia and Aiz.
► Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon? Infinite Combate is an RPG type game developed by MAGES and published by PQube for PC, PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch, the video game was released on 11/08/2020
