I finally got around to Visions of Mana after having it in my backlog for years. And man, what a disappointment.

I played for about 2.5 hours. Most of that was interminably long cutscenes and tutorial pop-ups. When I did actually get to finally play the game, the movement was AWFUL.

As far as action RPGs go, it has some of the slowest, most stilted movement I've ever experienced. Everything is slow. Walking is slow. Sprinting is slow. The transition between walking and sprinting is slow. Jumping is slow. Landing is slow. Even the fucking combat is slow, since so many attacks knock the enemy back, which forces you to get back into attack range, which is SO FUCKING SLOW.

After "running" around for half an hour collecting treasure chests, the game crashed.

I loved Trials of Mana, so I was really looking forward to this game (despite putting it off for so long). What a fucking disappointment.

This is why I pirate.