Geo Mythica

In a quick 2 sentence summary if you like interesting old school style JRPGs then definitely get this game. It's one of the best with a really nice playtime that doesn't overstay it's welcome at all.

As for a more detailed gushing about the game I have to say I originally was going to give this game around a 9/10 if I were to use a scoring system or a solid A.

After beating the game and the only mild negative criticisms I had were comparing character balance to a classic like Chrono Trigger, where I thought some characters dropped off and not all party compositions could work well but every character could shine with the right party makeup. I noticed the Steam Page for this game had a guide made by the developer which I thought was pretty unique and skimming through it... I read up on some character strengths I missed which would alleviate the minor complaints I had while also going... Dang this game has a lot more crunch and depth than I was expecting! I also saw throughout the guide that the developer just loves the game and world they built and the passion that oozes from the game also oozes from the guide they wrote to help folks enjoy it.

You will be hard pressed to find games this good and made by folks with such a love for the genre like Geo Mythica. S tier game.

Geo Mythica is one of my favorite indie games I have ever played. I picked it up kind of on a whim and could not put it down until I had 100% it. Which is saying something because I rarely feel compelled to 100% a game even if I really like it. I truly loved playing Geo Mythica. The game features a very lovable cast of characters and a story about traveling the world save it from an evil corporation. It manages to keep the story serious while giving it a chance to breathe and be silly when it wants to. It was honestly a breath of fresh air in today's overly melodramatic game industry.
The combat is a lot of fun. It blends action and turn based party mechanics really nicely with a the ability to bind skills to hotkeys and pause the combat when opening the menu. Party members unlock talent points every level to be assigned to their skills and these skills can be changed and reassigned at any time. Every party member brings something unique to the table. Makes approaching all of the games challenges fun a rewarding. I did my entire first playthrough on the recommended difficulty and I am already looking forward to playing the whole game again on hard.
I seriously cannot recommend this game enough. If you enjoy Earthbound, Secret of Evermore and maybe a dash of Carmen San Diego, you will love this game. I promise.

Black Main character who knows marital arts...Exploring different cultures...Fun Battles....A dragon man and a talking Basenji. I need the devs of this game to get out of my mind. But I would also like to thank them for making this game.

This game is super fun. It's also smartly and competently written, and appropriately challenging on its default difficulty. The setting and premise are interesting, and the characters are endearing and memorable. Music is also generally quite good; several tracks even stuck with me out-of-game and I found myself humming them throughout my day. TLDR: Game is great. Buy game, play game.

I picked up this game assuming it'd be a quick little action rpg with fun combat, but I was seriously blown away by the scope of it! Not only was the combat right up my alley, but I found the characters to be incredibly charming (especially Gio, my beloved) and I LOVED the fact that not only was the world map in the game a map of our real world, but also how the game is sprinkled with geographical and cultural trivia of all the places you visit! The game is clearly made with so so so so so much love. I aspire to be this passionate about my own game dev one day. This game has easily become one of my all time favorites. Please play this game, I highly doubt you'll regret it if not for the gameplay, then definitely for the passion behind it.

First off, I would like to admit that I don’t play a lot of JRPGs, nor do I have any nostalgia for NES-style graphics. The reason I decided to give this game a try was because I followed the developer from their previous game. While I can tell the sorts of games it is taking inspiration from, thankfully, Geo Mythica is perfectly capable of standing on its own ideas, where underneath retro-appearances lies a modern, fluid action-RPG that I had a lot of fun with.
If I had to make one loose comparison to one JRPG I have played and enjoyed, it would probably be Final Fantasy VII Remake. While visually the games couldn’t be more different, both games will have you fighting monsters with a party of colourful characters through linearly designed dungeons, switching between basic attacks and unique special attacks in real-time combat. There are many areas to explore with people to help and with plenty of side activities.
Geo Mythica decides to take what works well in modern RPGs while mixing things up with retro RPGs tropes, such as the world being split up into a world map and individual zones, making travelling between main locations quick and easy. Since the game is using a 2D top-down perspective, you always have a full view of each battle, allowing for more strategic battling. You’ll have to make considerations of enemy positioning, timings, and targeting. The game pauses when opening the menu to cast abilities, which is great considering how frantic many of the battles can get, and the combat shines during the mid-game, striking the perfect balance between freedom to play how you want and challenging battles. Every area introduces new enemies with different abilities, often preventing you from just whaling on them with basic attacks to succeed, preventing me from getting tired of battling while never being required to grind.
For the most part the "Recommended" difficulty did not give me too many issues. There are a couple challenge dungeons I chose not to complete. There's a point in the late-late where fights become less about attacking enemies and more about defensively managing your party, and your options for viable strategies start to dry up; needing to heal all the time locks up a party member, enemies attacking quicker and quicker, and fights with 3 or more powerful enemies can make single-target spells feel ineffective. That being said, I only found a few difficulty spikes through the main and non-end-game side stories, and I liked how - similar to the developers’ previous game “The Adventures of Chris” - failure is inconsequential and you're free to experiment without losing progress. Some individual hard fights take on a sort of puzzle quality of how to kill all the enemies before they kill you. But I just felt like the challenge dungeons limited options too much to hold my interest for entire dungeons. You can lower the difficulty if you want to do everything, but I chose not to.
As for the story, I liked how most story arcs/quests were less than an hour long, so every play session felt like I’d accomplished something. Moment-to-moment writing is great, doesn't rely on reference humour and I laughed at quite a few of the jokes. In general, I found that the story was at its best when it wasn’t trying to take itself too seriously, and it was always a joyful surprise to see the realistic world combined with more wacky locales, not quite surreal but more low-fantasy. There’s a diverse range of real-world locations that have clearly been depicted with care, and while the graphics stay true to looking like an NES game, there’s enough visual flair in each location to be distinct from each other.
It’s a shame that you can’t banter with party members outside of scripted story events, because when the game did get more serious, I felt that I had missed out on conversations that resulted in the characters' change of heart. The game is full of complex characters, and I guess I just wanted to hear more from them.
The music is also really nice. There’s a great range of retro-inspired high and low energy tracks that I never got tired of.
Overall I had a very enjoyable time with Geo Mythica, and I would recommend it to any fan of action-RPGs even if they’re not familiar with classic JRPGs like me. I had a bug-free and stable experience that took me 17~ hours to complete the main story and all non-post-game side quests.
8/10

Very much a strong recommend if you enjoy classically styled action rpgs with some modern sensibility, it doesn't really shy away from its inspirations and thankfully you can choose the difficulty you want, cause this game does not mess around with some of the harder encounters. The game otherwise doesn't try to take itself toooooo seriously and really just feels like it's a long lost NES game (and I mean that with the highest praise)

Really if you enjoy things like star tropics or mother 1 then you're gonna have a pretty fun time overall!