mind zero

Mind Zero is a dungeon crawler JRPG by Zerodiv and Aqquire for the vita. 

It focuses on a group of students exploring strange realms and solving the mysterious occurrences behind it too.  

The gameplay is first person dungeon perspective and for the most part its fairly straight forward. 

Otherwise the dungeon design is very repetitive especially the enemy design too and its just so bland to explore cause of the lack of creativity put into them. 

The story itself, if people were calling neo twewy and any other jrpg post thousand arms and sakura wars with social dating elements a rip off then this is where the energy i feel really should have been directed at personally. 

As this game really rips off way too many things from the modern persona games, especially 3 and 4 as this game was somewhat before when persona 5 was released and still in development. 

The song for shopping sounds eerily like heartbeat from persona 4, now i know voice actors are concidental things but using the persona cast to reprise their expies in some way is just the cherry on the top of the cake. 

The atmosphere is downbeat like persona 3’s own sure and it does have that sol school feel to an extent but it lacks the kind of depth the persona games have. 

It gets worse that its pretty sequel baitiy but its been like a decade now so its never going to get a sequel. 

The art itself was ok and the character designs too were decent. 

The music itself outside from that one song that rips off persona 4’s heartbeat was pretty decent, with my personal favorite being “into the dusk”. 

The combat is where things get really egregious with animations almost looking like it was ripped from assets of persona and unlike in persona summoning “minds” protects you for a bit of a while and you can use skills and level them up like in many other jrpgs. 

The random encounter rate is incredibly annoying every few seconds for a fight to the point it just becomes a hindrance.

Not helping either is enemies can be damage sponges who deal lot of damage so it will get grindy often. 

You can do side quests here and there for rewards. 

Overall this was a below average game. 

It gets 2 out of 5 stars.