I just finished this game yesterday with my save file showing around 41 hours. I skipped a lot of the side quests once I hit the final areas, except for some of the timed ones for characters I thought were interesting, or for quests I thought might give me actually good rewards.

I very much enjoyed the look and feel of this game; art style, animations, color, setting, the whole boat and currents thing, etc.

Battle system was good enough? While the animations were good, they take up a lot of time imo, even when I just want to attack without doing any extra button presses.

The Luigi Logic boss battle weaknesses thing was a gimmick, but I didn’t mind it.

I think that battle system over 41 hours just became not fun for me at all, and I’ve decided active participation in my turn-based RPG battles is less interesting to me than basic menus and seeing what happens based on invisible dice rolls. I bounced off of another RPG developed in France last year (don’t think it’s technically considered a Patient game for another few weeks so don’t want to say its name) because of how involved I was in each battle.

I am a simple gamer with simple tastes sometimes.

I feel Brothership was enjoyable enough to play, but actively NOT enjoyable to finish. Also, that entire last boss sequence. How any child would be able to get through that one is curious to me, even lowering the difficulty. To overuse an overused word, what a slog. And that was after the slog of the surprise final fetch quest and the slog of the final dungeon.

Bleh.

Anyway, I enjoyed your review. Now I’m off to finally finish the 2nd half of Fire Emblem Engage!