Senaste recensioner av Shroo

a lot of effort went into making this game, and it shows in every area of the game.... however:

the animations are pretty good, but the voice acting and the character models are bland to awful,
the story is mildly compelling if you can ignore all the gaping plot holes.
the character advancement system is barely above no advancement system,
all customisation options are all locked behind a paywall.
the combat has a few of different attack types (weak hits, strong hits, grabs, ranged hits) and each of them has a nice animation, but the control scheme feels clunky and unresponsive, aiming your character at the right target isnt intuitive at all, and the actual combat boils down to evade when you see a red circle, and just swing wildly at whatever is closest when you cant.

i only played the campaign up to where you get your first taste of ironman before the experience became too monotonous to continue.

love it.

good 4X title, each faction is unique enough to feel different while playing as and competing against them (5/5), the tech tree (5/5) and combat elements (4/5) are quite well made, and the diplomacy is acceptable (3/5). I dont like that while at war as an alliance your allies can accept a truce on your behalf (canceling any invasions or seiges, regardless of how close you are to success), especially since there is no option (that i found) for total war (no surrender/truce), or to start a war without involving your allies (who often don't like joining your wars).

8.5/10

things i liked:
great game engine with interesting mechanics
the card/ability system has a lot of promise

things i didn't like:
each episode resets all character progress.
very little variation in weapons and items
only one armour slot
most loot and event outcomes are heavily dependant on RNG
very few "good" options, a lot of bad ones, with no way of knowing what your choosing until afterwards
i played through once, and didn't see a single playable female character, except a single plot character who dies after being in one (and a half) fight.

its a fun game, but it lacks the depth expected of a tactical turn based squad shooter, there is almost no customisation or creation for your player or allies, and what little there is gets reset at the end of each chapter.
The overworld map shows a lot of promise early, but isn't used particularly well, and becomes very linear in the later chapters.
there are no good endings, and despite being offered a lot of choices, ultimately you always end up with the same result after each choice.
Also while there are plenty of male and female enemy combatants, the equality ends there. There aren't any female playable characters except a minor cameo between chapters one and two.

if your looking for another game like X-COM (as i was), then this was clearly inspired by it, but fails to capture what made the game special, while adding some elements that could have been great if they had been implemented differently.


finally as an end note there was a serious bug/glitch that plagued me the entire time i was playing. the menus would frequently hang for 15 seconds, especially when changing character or viewing the cards menu. i have a reasonably fast computer, so it wasn't a hardware issue.

game was okay, but still needed a lot of work, however development has halted, and dev has been silent without explanation since October 2014