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ghostdraws's review

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adventurous funny fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

sqeeker's review

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3.0

- Why do these read from left to right? They should read the other way!

- These follow the video game pretty well. There are a couple of worlds missing though, and I wish they had included everything.

- I love seeing Final Fantasy characters mixed with Disney characters! So brilliant!!

- The story is a bit confusing. I wish they explained things better.

- I like how some of the panels overlap. Some of pages are crazy organized chaos.

- Reading these makes me want to play the game again.

- Seeing Goofy as a turtle will never get old.

- I wish these were in color. I wonder why they decided to do them in black and white?

- These were fun to read, but I probably wouldn't buy them. I'd rather play the video game.

mairio's review

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4.0

same review as in the previous volume: a nice retelling of the story if you know the game. some newly added scenes threw me a bit off but still love the writing and the humour!

alostnym's review

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adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted

4.0

neragranic's review

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adventurous emotional funny sad tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

Fun, but also a bit bland.

I feel like more could have been done for the layout of the pages and panels.

Flipping through it again right now I feel like Shiro Amano either didn't quite understand how to do the layout properly, because pages feel cramped with panels in some places and in others empty, or she had to squeeze in all the game dialogue in a certain amount of pages.

There is a lot of setup necessary.

There IS a number of fantastic spreads and panels that do show off Amano's skill I don't really know what's going on.

The fact that it is flipped - as in it reads left to right (which throws me off so much because I'm used to manga reading right to left). That may have been why I don't remember it as fondly as I expected to.

Baby Destiny Trio makes up for a lot, but the constant confusion about the reading order drags my rating down.

The manga feels a lot more grounded in time - in a way that a game can’t pull off since the time is dependent on the player.

So in that way this paves the way for future installments quite well.