Epic Battle Fantasy 5

Epic Battle Fantasy 5

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Matt Roszak · JRPG · Nov 30, 2018

Yes, worth buying.

At $24.99. It has been as low as $9.99.

99%
Overwhelmingly Positive
6k player reviews
High confidence
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 106 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Gameplay: 54 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Combat: 54 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 300 sampled reviews

Based on 6k player reviews · updated 5 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 300 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
83% of themes are praise17% are divided0% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
gameplay wise is the biggest change, you get 5 characters this time and there's no more mana (thank you Matt) and while some people might prefer having mana and NoLegs as a summon, i say, THANK GOD, variety, omg its an entirely new skill set to use and learn, its an entire character with it's own interactions and equipments and uses, it expands the game in a much better way than just give everyone 10 new skills, and no mana is amazing the cooldown system is MUCH better, some cooldowns are a bit much being honest but that's no issue considering i dont have to worry about running out of mana using the big titty, the mage, after using 4 spells.
106 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
gameplay wise is the biggest change, you get 5 characters this time and there's no more mana (thank you Matt) and while some people might prefer having mana and NoLegs as a summon, i say, THANK GOD, variety, omg its an entirely new skill set to use and learn, its an entire character with it's own interactions and equipments and uses, it expands the game in a much better way than just give everyone 10 new skills, and no mana is amazing the cooldown system is MUCH better, some cooldowns are a bit much being honest but that's no issue considering i dont have to worry about running out of mana using the big titty, the mage, after using 4 spells.
54 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Combat
Players who bring up Combat mostly praise it.
If you like 2d adventurous games with turn based combat, you NEED to play this game because I can almost guarantee you'll love it.
54 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
The gameplay is great, the OST is amazing, the characters are enjoyable and the story is good fun.
26 of 300 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
The story is amazing, the turn based gameplay is also amazing, art style is great and it's nice seeing it this well after all the years of improvement throughout the 5 Epic Battle Fantasy games.
14 of 300 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Story and characters106 reviews
Gameplay54 reviews
Combat54 reviews
Audio26 reviews
Graphics14 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Difficulty39 reviews
97%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 6 sampled reviews and is not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

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Currently $24.99. The lowest we've tracked is $9.99.

4 points recordedtoday · $24.99

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Player review score
99%
Overwhelmingly Positive
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Achievements
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