Status: Beaten
Reconstruction Zero is one of those games I randomly found while looking for good free RPGs. It really doesn't play like any RPG I can think of, and it deserves a good look if you are at all interested in interesting or unique RPGs. The story of the game itself is quite good, and I won't go into any detail on it beyond that for fear of spoiling anything. To put it quickly, the game manages to craft a wholly unique world and setting to house the great gameplay, and a story that really doesn't lend itself to many cliches.
The gameplay itself takes place in a sort of strategy RPG setup. You command fleets of various ships (all of them characters you recruit throughout the story), and arrange them in small groups to perform objectives on a larger map. When in combat, you have a few abilities based on the race of the character, as well as having it be important how close/far away you are from enemy ships (and allowing you to 'push' the field of battle to prevent turtling). Each ship is equipped with various pieces of equipment, such as guns and protective assets, which you design yourself through the games crafting feature. As such, the setup of your ships will change dynamically, allowing you to adjust them for new encounters or new tactics you devise. Each ship has three health bars (as seen in the above image). If any of them is gone, the ship is destroyed. At the same time, every weapon in the game drains one of those life bars for their own attacks, and does damage to one of the lifebars on the enemy ship with a certain damage type. As such, its nearly impossible to create a perfect defense for anything, and a lot of the game revolves around having a wide variety of weapons to make sure you take advantage of enemies weaknesses.
The game is very tactical, and it takes some getting used to, but you never truly feel the game is unfair. With the exception of some special events, I was able to figure out what needed to be done, reconfigure my ships, and get it done. It is certainly an RPG everyone should at least try, especially since its free.
I finished the game, but have some alternate endings and optional bosses to defeat.
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