Rainbow Skies Reviews
A stuffy follow-up to Rainbow Moon that doesn't improve on its predecessor.
Rainbow Skies has a few good ideas, but those aren't enough to move past its bland narrative and repetitive gameplay.
For what it's worth, Rainbow Skies provides a good challenge and a fun levelling system. Though dense and repetitive at length, there are moments that are memorable.
Rainbow Skies is a tactical style role-playing game that features an amusing assortment of characters and variety of recruitable monsters as you journey across the world.
Done before and done better, Rainbow Skies is a game that has taken a fairly bland concept to begin with and proceeded to not change a thing about it. If you're looking for an epic tale of heroes and rogues, you'd be better off looking elsewhere.
Overall, Rainbow Skies is great if you want something to play in short bursts every now and again, but I wouldn’t expect anything special. It’s an average game that’s very grind-heavy and has a lot of fluff. But if you have 80+ hours to kill, you’d probably have at least a pretty decent time. I just wouldn’t recommend binging it.
Anyone interested in a title that is charming and rewarding to spend huge quantities of time exploring should most assuredly check it out, and while the narrative won’t blow people away, it’s also not constantly forcing itself into the forefront.
Rainbow Skies could have been much better if it made exploring the maps less clustered and the pace of the game (and movement) was a bit faster. The combat really needs an overhaul so that fights aren’t taking as long and have less probability of movement errors. Otherwise, it’s a decent game, just a bit too slow. This could be due to the game being available for various PlayStation platforms and by not focusing on more modern hardware, like the PS4 and PS Vita, it feels like it’s possibly been held back.
Rainbow Skies is very much a mixed bag.
Rainbow Skies has plenty of content, an enjoyable combat system that opens up the more it's played, and some memorable music. Unfortunately, there are countless other RPGs that also fulfil those criteria, plus much more. Couple this with the staggering amount of tedious combat animations, and it's hard to recommend this to anyone other than hardcore RPG fans. It's a (mostly) fundamentally decent game, but not much more.
With an unusual mix of the familiar and stabs at simply doing things differently, Rainbow Skies is an odd bird that struggles with blandness
Rainbow Skies is a vibrant and cartoony-style isometric RPG that feels like it is trying to be the next Final Fantasy Tactics but doesn't pull it off with repetitive gameplay and a story that you don't feel a part of.
Rainbow Skies is an RPG that features several familiar elements which will very likely appeal to players looking for an experience where they can feel right at home. At the same time, its character designs look dated, the graphics are unimpressive, and the plot is very poor, but players willing to forgive that will find a fairly good combat system, lots of content to find out, a wide soundtrack, and an overall challenging experience. Rainbow Skies isn't for a very large audience, but it has an undeniable charm for parts of the RPG fandom.
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