Odin Sphere Leifthrasir

 PlayStation 4
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8.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 289 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 233 out of 289
  2. Mixed: 24 out of 289
  3. Negative: 32 out of 289
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  1. AsaZimbabwe
    Jan 24, 2018
    7
    beautiful artwork!! moderately unique side-scrolling, hand-drawn, action rpg is a refreshing treat... well-polished, slightly metroidvania style a' la Dragon's Crown, Dust & Muramasa, with moderately fun, customizable combat chains, loot & leveling system -- but it gets repetitive & suffers from childish english translation & semi-frustrating maps. the charm wears-off relatively quick --beautiful artwork!! moderately unique side-scrolling, hand-drawn, action rpg is a refreshing treat... well-polished, slightly metroidvania style a' la Dragon's Crown, Dust & Muramasa, with moderately fun, customizable combat chains, loot & leveling system -- but it gets repetitive & suffers from childish english translation & semi-frustrating maps. the charm wears-off relatively quick -- was not compelled to run through the same inventory, levels & skill-tree all over again after the first main story finished; the second "story" lacked a compelling connection with the first & doing it all again with a seemingly random kangaroo(?) character just didn't motivate me... as others have noted, raising the difficulty setting merely turns enemies into bullet-sponges offering little-to-no motivation for playing it on normal or hard... worth a taste, solid fun for approx 30 hours, low-replay value, not as great as all the 9's would suggest… Expand
  2. Vanillabear
    Jul 5, 2016
    7
    Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is a beautiful game when it comes to the art design, Music and Story though is does have some flaws that we shouldn't let rose tinted glasses makes us ignore.

    Art Design/Performance - It is a beautiful game and is stunning to look at, It naturally runs smooth as butter and is basically just a treat for your eyes. Story/Music - The story of each character is    Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is a beautiful game when it comes to the art design, Music and Story though is does have some flaws that we shouldn't let rose tinted glasses makes us ignore.

    Art Design/Performance - It is a beautiful game and is stunning to look at, It naturally runs smooth as butter and is basically just a treat for your eyes.

    Story/Music - The story of each character is very heart-felt, from a Valkyrie fighting for her fathers love to a Fairy struggling to honor her mother, Odin sphere did well in making you care for each story.

    The music is beautiful and you could just sit there and listen to it all day, no issues there.

    Gameplay - The gameplay is the main draw of course and it is great fun hacking and slashing your way to victory and building up your 200 hit combos, You have a surprising amount of special attacks to pick from in your skill tree and are bound to find something that works for you on each character.

    Negatives - The biggest negative to this game is it becomes HIGHLY repetitive with only a handful of maps and using the same bosses over and over, Do you fight legendary warrior? or legendary dragon? if they were so legendary they wouldn't get beat down so many times!

    All in all it's a decent game, very repetitive after awhile and this is used to extend the time of your playthrough quite alot, My playthrough took roughly 22 hours and i don't regret it, so if you're into action rpgs then give it a go!

    Due to the repetitiveness i can't in good faith give it an 8 or over, I'm just being honest with myself, Maybe you will feel differently.    … Expand
  3. abekdd
    Aug 29, 2019
    7
    Si bien el diseño artístico es precioso, Odin Sphere peca de uno de los mayores males de la industria: la excesiva repetición. Así, pese a contar con hasta 5 personajes jugables y estos se distancian en cierta manera unos de otros, recorremos una vez tras otra los mismos escenarios mientras derrotamos a los jefes que ya vencimos (pero con otros protagonistas). Así, Odin Sphere es un títuloSi bien el diseño artístico es precioso, Odin Sphere peca de uno de los mayores males de la industria: la excesiva repetición. Así, pese a contar con hasta 5 personajes jugables y estos se distancian en cierta manera unos de otros, recorremos una vez tras otra los mismos escenarios mientras derrotamos a los jefes que ya vencimos (pero con otros protagonistas). Así, Odin Sphere es un título que, si bien es bello a más no poder tanto gráfica como musicalmente, termina llevando al jugador a un hastío fruto de ofrecernos lo mismo una y otra vez.… Expand
  4. pongkrit03
    Oct 2, 2016
    7
    I have played Odin Sphere around 15 hours+, only reached second character, then started feeling tried to continue. Here is my quick brief honest review.

    Story - Fantastic so far, but not very unique, it is mostly about love and lore, romance stuffs. I am not a fan of love story. I personally would like it to be more harsh, more plot twisted. Graphic, Art Design, Eng Voice Casting -    I have played Odin Sphere around 15 hours+, only reached second character, then started feeling tried to continue. Here is my quick brief honest review.

    Story - Fantastic so far, but not very unique, it is mostly about love and lore, romance stuffs. I am not a fan of love story. I personally would like it to be more harsh, more plot twisted.

    Graphic, Art Design, Eng Voice Casting - Top notched

    Gameplay - The best 2D action game I've ever played. However, it is still a 2D action game and thus it has limit. Even though, the devs tried to make a game various as much as possible such as adding new three skills to every mission and keep changing character. In the end, it is still not enough to compete with 3D action games nowadays and mostly you will use only few skills that you are familiar with anyway. This game also highly rely on leveling up your character and using items. Therefore, having good or bad skill does not matter, you will be able to beat the game anyway if you keep grinding for lv and stuffs. Evading and Blocking are not that necessary since you will want to keep attacking all the times, whatever enemies come at you, they do not matter, you need to hit first, that's all . With this reason, the game become repetitive very fast because you will always do the same thing regardless of types of enemies.

    Reused bosses and map is what mostly disappoint me. It is too cheap and devs want us to continue beating those guys for every character we play, really ?. Moreover, the scale of difficulty is also not decent. Normal difficulty is pretty easy but when I change to Hard difficulty, it is very brutal. HP pool of enemies is huge and even more absurd with hard difficulty. You have to keep spamming attack all days. NOT FUN.

    Music - Great, but very few BGMs if compared to games nowadays.. Should have more

    Length of content - Great, it might take you 40 hours+ to finish all characters.

    In sum, Odin Sphere is great port and may be great game in the past. Right now it is an old schooled story - hack slash game. What great is art design, voice casting but I could not bare the repetitive gameplay, reused bosses and childish love stories. Clearly not a game for everyone but 2D action soft gamers    … Expand
  5. oizo
    Jul 5, 2016
    7
    This is a good remaster of a charming, aesthetically accomplished genre-mashup but after 20 hours you feel like you've had everything the game has to offer. The combat system is polished and fun, but at normal difficulty the game presents little to no challenge so to get the most of it you'll want to play on hard. I would also argue it's barely an RPG; your character powers up in a linearThis is a good remaster of a charming, aesthetically accomplished genre-mashup but after 20 hours you feel like you've had everything the game has to offer. The combat system is polished and fun, but at normal difficulty the game presents little to no challenge so to get the most of it you'll want to play on hard. I would also argue it's barely an RPG; your character powers up in a linear fashion, it's mainly just a side-scrolling beat-em-up in fantasy clothes.… Expand
  6. GamingDrake
    Aug 15, 2016
    5
    Odin Sphere Leifthrasir is unique in the visuals. The effort they've put into the art is brilliant, beautiful hand drawn sketches and colours, the story and voice acting is pretty good too. Its such a shame the gameplay is extremely repetitive and not in an addictive way. I had enough of the gameplay after 30mins. You could compare the combat similar to Castle Crashers but O.S.L has moreOdin Sphere Leifthrasir is unique in the visuals. The effort they've put into the art is brilliant, beautiful hand drawn sketches and colours, the story and voice acting is pretty good too. Its such a shame the gameplay is extremely repetitive and not in an addictive way. I had enough of the gameplay after 30mins. You could compare the combat similar to Castle Crashers but O.S.L has more combos. If you liked the gameplay in Castle Crashers you'll probably like this. But my opinion is to wait for it to go down in price… Expand
  7. Grayscale
    Aug 14, 2016
    6
    This is coming from someone who had never played the original, who is a huge fan of rpgs (specifically jrpgs) and who loves side scrollers and hand drawn backgrounds.

    This game was very pretty to look at, I loved the music and I think the concept is fairly original. It is also very playable considering how old it is. The combat is also fairly fun and customizable, I was surprised at    This is coming from someone who had never played the original, who is a huge fan of rpgs (specifically jrpgs) and who loves side scrollers and hand drawn backgrounds.

    This game was very pretty to look at, I loved the music and I think the concept is fairly original. It is also very playable considering how old it is. The combat is also fairly fun and customizable, I was surprised at that especially. However, the game is very repetitive. The story and voice acting are extremely lackluster and although playing with multiple characters is fun, you are essentially just repeating the story instead of building on one character. For people who haven't played it and are on the fence, I don't recommend it.. At a lower price tag this game would be an excellent choice, at 60 dollars its a rip-off. I was honestly shocked it received such good reviews. It is extremely niche. You'd be better off considering something like I am setsuna for 40 if you're looking for a jrpg (not a sidescroller, however). Wait for this to drop in price (it inevitably will).    … Expand
  8. Xemnios
    Apr 4, 2021
    5
    Terrible and boring game. All the stories are the same, with same levels and bosses. The difficulty is unbalanced and the story is awful. I don't know why this game is considered a masterpiece

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Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 49 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 49
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 49
  3. Negative: 0 out of 49
  1. Worth Playing
    Sep 7, 2016
    90
    Odin Sphere: Leifthrasir takes a good game and makes it incrementally better. The tweaks to the overall title, including better inventory management and more emphasis on combat, opens it up to those who weren't enamored with the original. The option is there for those who want to play it as it was originally intended. It provides lots of gameplay time, which is something of a rarity in console titles nowadays, though there will be a few who take offense to the fact that a good chunk of content is recycled a few times. It does all this with a presentation that still manages to impress after all these years.
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  2. Games Master UK
    Aug 21, 2016
    82
    Slick, smooth, and beautiful, it shines like never before on current-gen. [Aug 2016, p.79]
  3. XGN
    Aug 3, 2016
    75
    The game has withstand the test of time and has managed to keep the balance between fighting and turn-based action just right.
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