Crystal Project
Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.
Crystal Project is a rpg, adventure and jrpg game
developed and published by Andrew Willman.
Released on March 31st 2022 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
It has received 2,091 reviews of which 1,940 were positive and 151 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 11.59€ on Steam.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 (64-bit), fully updated
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2000 Series
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Direct3D 11 support (feature level 10_0)
MacOS
- OS: 10.9 Mavericks and newer
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Additional Notes: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
Linux
- OS: glibc 2.17+, 64-bit only
- Processor: Intel Core i5-2000 Series
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GT 525M
- Storage: 500 MB available space
- Additional Notes: OpenGL 3.0+ support (2.1 with ARB extensions acceptable)
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Crystal project is a game that you have to know what you're getting yourself into. In some sense it's a JRPG to it's core with surprising depth in it's class system and combinations. Almost as a result of this it also includes a fair amount of grinding. The game heavily encourages and rewards exploration of the entire map backed by surprisingly robust movement methods and tight platforming. On the other hand the things that are great can also be negatives. At times you may hit a spike and be grinding more than you might want, it is very likely you will get lost exploring and trying to find the next step, and the platforming can easily over stay it's welcome(especially when you miss a punishing jump). Overall I would still recommend if you enjoy JRPGs like the classic Final Fantasy games but be aware that this is by no means the perfect game and its flaws can at times be glaring.
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I bought the game on sale forever ago, not expecting all that much. It's actually pretty close to the classic Final Fantasy 3 experience. There's not much for story, but the world has tons of areas to explore and the battle mechanics go pretty deep. The soundtrack is fantastic IMO, perfectly straddling the line between classic design and modern quality. The world is pretty straight forward, not relying on much to keep you contained in early areas. The one thing you will do most in this game is platforming. Every area is filled with platforming sections that don't really punish you for failure, but they do slow you down in lieu of random encounters. You'll figure out fast if you're finishing the game with the first few platforming sections, because they only get harder. It's a lot like climbing a mountain in Minecraft, but you have no blocks and can break none. The dungeons just ask you to do it during night when the mobs are out and there's lava everywhere. It uses a Legend of Zelda style map system, where you don't get one for the area until you find it. Once you do, it's filled out with everywhere you've been. There are movement tools later that'll expand where you can go. The battle mechanics are designed so that most enemies have exploitable weaknesses. This is not a game where you can just mash the attack button and heal when necessary. You will need strategy to make it through. The bosses are especially difficult. I haven't encountered any that don't allow you to save and set your respawn right next to them, and you don't drop money when losing to bosses. You're allowed to use trial and error when finding boss weaknesses. There are no random encounters, all fights are little flames that run at you. They're color coded so you can anticipate how tough it'll be. Normal fights are blue, easy ones are green, and you're boned if it's red. The boss flames are larger and don't usually run at you, so you know to heal up and be ready. You will frequently stumble across red fights if you're exploring hard enough. Sometimes you can win these fights if you have the right strategy and tools, and the rest of the time leaves your party wiped without getting to take a turn. It doesn't string you along; you'll know what you can and can't do. You can also avoid most encounters using a movement technique the game shows you. I'm almost halfway to the level cap without having to grind, and the bosses are tough but fair. I'm not pretending like it's a game for everybody. It scratches an itch for me in a genre that has largely been forgotten by developers today. There's no harm in trying the demo or giving it just shy of 2 hours. You'll know for sure if you like it or not by the end. Edit: I've reached the endgame and am definitely not finishing it all. There's a tedious breeding minigame that I can't be bothered to do, on top of many of the areas having entrances that are way too hidden. I also hate the final boss, mostly because it doesn't make any sense for that to be the boss. My final score for the game is 9.5 out of 10. I'd guess half the content or more is optional, but pretty much anything that isn't the breeding minigame is worth it. My sole complaint is that the breeding minigame is mandatory for 100%, because it honestly sucks.
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This is the best game ever. Period. I'm in my mid-30's and I have been gaming since I was like 5 on the NES. Platformers, MMOs, RPGs, FPSes, RTSes, literally anything. High-end hardcore gaming, GMing of massive MMO guilds, casual BSing, game developing, even reversing games and selling trainers. I've done it all. I've played a LOT of games. Tens if not hundreds of thousands of hours worth. Yet here's something I've never done before: written a review for a game on Steam. I could rant for hours and give you far more text than you'd ever care to read, but I'll keep it simple: this game is incredible. It. Just. Keeps. Going. If you don't spoil yourself, you will think you are "probably like 80% of the way done" when you are like 5% of the way done. I almost couldn't believe when it ended, actually - I was honestly expecting the Dev to suddenly whip out another 50% of a game by that point. I'm a rather serious completionist in games in general, and I "completed" (100% everything, not just all achievements but also all monsters/items in the journals) around the 120-130 hour mark. I undoubtedly could have gone faster if I were rushing, but I actually think that is a very impressive pace if you are taking your time and actually exploring actively. I am an excellent platformer and rarely had an issue downing any boss (in Hard) in more than just a few attempts. I was never blocked. I never was confused. In fact, I was constantly overwhelmed. I always had a mental list (sometimes a PHYSICAL list) of places I could go next that I was putting off to explore other areas. Seriously. This is the best game ever. It needs more marketing or something. Mark my words, when this game catches on to everybody, it will kick off an entire genre of games that attempt to capture its spirit. Nothing compares to this. After having played this game, I was 50/50 on whether I should quit my job to full-time game develop now or whether I should forever give up bothering to game dev, since the perfect game has now been made. I have recommended it to everyone who will listen and I could not speak more highly of this game.
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This game is incredible. It keeps surprising me in wonderful ways. Popular retro-inspired RPGs like Octopath Traveler, Chained Echoes, and Sea of Stars get a lot of things right. Great music, solid overall design, graphics, etc. But they lack that sense of wonder that games in the early days had. Crystal Project has that sense of wonder. You never really know what's coming, you are always figuring out new mechanics and realising new things about the level design you didn't notice before. It feels a lot more like playing Link to the Past for the first time, where you can genuinely be surprised when you go from one map to another, and are constantly seeing new mysterious things and trying to guess what they will ultimately be used for. Combine that with precise combat mechanics that have transparent calculations, and you get a huge open world with infinite (but precise and fair) combat options. I also love the game engine. When I play RPGMaker and Unity games, I can always "feel" the engine and all games from the same engine tend to have a similar feeling. But this game's engine feels novel and makes you feel like you are interacting directly with the game, rather than interacting with a common game making engine.
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Excellent. I don't even really care for jrpg combat or have nostalgia for ff5, but here it's done really well, with much more sharp balancing than you usually see. But the game's real selling point is the world design, which is vertical, highly interconnected, and absolutely lousy with secrets, both big and small. It's a delight to explore. The dev has clearly made the game that he himself wanted to play. Thanks for being the change you want to see in the world, king.
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Online players
54
Developer
Andrew Willman
Publisher
Andrew Willman
Release
31 Mar 2022
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