Recenzii recente de Skeleton Knight

Positives:
Good writing. Texts are fun and exciting to read. Very important in CRPG and devs delivered here. Characters don't feel like teenagers in adult bodies.
Atmosphere. They nailed 40k vibes. Grimdark is strong here.
Music. Another one for the collection, alongside Darktide and Mechanicus OST.

Negatives:
-Combat is lacking "oomph". Heavy attacks or crits are exactly the same as normal attacks. And animations in general aren't varied, nor have cool visual effects.
-Archetypes aren't unique enough. They don't define gameplay of the character much.
-Sparse voice acting. The voice actors they hired sound amazing and strongly enhance the characters at those rare moments they speak. As of now, only Prologue has full voice. After that, only general conversations on the ship deck, some of the romance-related events (not all) and very few other plot-related conversations have voice over. The choice which character-related event is voiced is inconsistent: some less important have it, and more important not. Two of the major antagonists has no voice whatsoever.
-Speaking of combat again. Balance is meh. I played on Daring difficulty for my first playthrough, which is the most balanced one, with no bonuses for player nor debuffs on for the enemies, and it was very easy outside two encounters. One of the two wasn't even difficult in a proper sense, but heavily reliant on RNG - boss is always going first, let's see if he knocks out several members of my party and makes the fight unwinnable from the get go forcing me to reload, or I get a chance to fight.
-Leveling takes too long, which is, as I read, a common issue across Owlcat games.
-Space battles.

Putting the balance and system issues aside, lacking in regards to VA and animation stems from Owlcat not being a money-rich, triple A developer. It's sad, as should Owlcat get 100+ million $ budgets, they have high potential of making a CRPG game that would rival Baldur's Gate 3. Nevertheless, unfairness or lacking budget aside, combat in Rogue Trader is lacking and I can't just ignore it. Same for Voice Acting. Wish they were utilised more, for how damn good they are.
Space battles... well, they're underwhelming, to say the least.

But again, credits where they're due. I had very few moments where I were bored tons of unvoiced text. And music does add SIGNIFICANTLY to the enjoyment. It's phenomenal.

All in all, I think Rogue Trader is a fantastic Warhammer 40000 game and would recommend playing it for both old and new fans alike. I dumped about 170h into my first walkthrough and will do another with the DLC release that's due in about an hour from posting this review.

Masterpiece. Nothing else can be added.

Pretty damn good game.

I wish I bought it on release instead of 3 months later.

I started playing it the moment pre-order early access became available and no-life'd it for 3 weeks till I got all items and achievements.

With the new mild content drop for Halloween, I decided to play it again and noticed I hadn't written a review.

- The game is a massive improvement from the first part in all aspects. From gameplay to graphics.
- Devs have been rolling out requested improvements after improvements on a regular basis. Latest patch added highly asked Loadouts, joining lobbies no longer requires for players to return to the World Crystal to spawn (unless in a boss fight).
- They communicate with the players a lot and are as transparent as they possibly can in their decision-making. You can talk to them on Reddit or discord on any day.

I have dumped 170h into the game by the time I write this review and I expect to double the number over time. Can't wait for DLCs.

One of the best games this year, hands down. Especially for a game made by ~80 people (which makes it an AA title)

Was pretty great, albeit buggy on release. Even better now, but still somewhat buddy.

Minthara is still the best girl. And now you don't even need to side with her for recruitment. Although you won't be getting the love-making scene with the best animations in the game. You wouldn't want to miss that, would you?

Vampire Survivors was a miss for me, but Halls of Torment I liked a lot.
The Diablo 1/2 aesthetics are greatly recreated and add to the gameplay.
having more control over character's basic attacks is a big plus.

Decent souls-like shooter

Best in the trilogy, hands down.

Decent indie hack and slash game.

- Story mode is short (~7 hours), plot is pretty basic. Can get the idea even with machine translation.
- Have other modes, like Bloody palace, challenges etc.
- Combat is okay-ish. Not much of a variety fir enemies and weapons, but responsive and pleasing to the eye.
- Speaking about pleasing. Skins are hot, especially priestess and her new succubus attire (fishnet is the best. Fight me). A lot to buy as DLC, but at least one-two colour variants of the most are earn-able in-game. A lot of custom skins are in steam workshop. Also photo mode (similar to Gpose from FFXIV).
- Puzzles are simple. Mini games are meh.

Besides being gorgeous, the skin has unique dodge animation and effect. On top of that, it slightly changes gameplay - dodge can be used in air more than once. Gives opportunity to cheese some jumping parts a bit.