Xuan-Yuan Sword Gaiden: The Gate of Firmament is not a bad game but it's a Drag to play.

Xuan-Yuan Sword Gaiden: The Gate of Firmament was released in 2015 for PC in China and taiwan ,made by Taiwanese develop soft-star the was relased for PC in 2015, later it was ported to other consoles and translated into English.

The battle system is weird and hard to explain , it tries to mix turn-base combat with action RPG but it Creates a game where you just need to mass A until the enemy is dead, if they don't and you die instead you just change your equipment or grind a level 1 or 2 to defeat that enemies, that wouldn't be so much of issue if the story is worth playing through the tedious gameplay.

The story is dubbed but only in Chinese which isn't a issue, what is a issue is the fact that cut-scene are long and plateful , they aren't bad and they give character a lot of personality and development , but they are so frequent and so long (up to 20 minutes at time) that half of my play time (10 hours by now, I couldn't get much further than that) was watching cut-scene, I wish they were shorter and less frequent but more effective at showing the character's personality and development, I am not against dialog heavy games, what I am against is a wall of dialog that while well written fells really unnecessary and makes the game much longer and boring than it needs to.

On a positive note, I really like the music and character desing of this game, the music while not exceptional is surprisingly good , and I like how the main cast of character plus secondary character look, however the game itself is ugly even for a budget 2015 game, Star Ocean 5 released around the same time for example was heavily criticize at the time for it's graphics but personally they are much prettier than Xuan-Yuan Sword Gaiden in my opinion.

If the story was more dense or the gameplay wasn't so dull, I could have really liked this game, but as it is, the game fells like a slog to play and I can't recommend Xuan-Yuan Sword Gaiden to most people unless you are into chines Mythology, I am interested about other games in the series and if they are any better but for now I am disappointed about this game.