Recente recensies door Chippings

Too much busy work, attrition and loss. Have to be in the right mindset to play.

Came because I'm a big fan of good soundtracks and specifically Will's theme. Good work, David Fenn. Thought the whole soundtrack would hit similarly, but even that falls flat in game and sounds better on Spotify for some reason. I'll stick to enjoying that on its own.

Fun if you can get into the routine of a fictional businessman / fighter. Genuinely. Controls and combat feel good. Gathering materials and selling them in a shop, in the vein of the classic, Recettear.

Fun for any experience or skill level.

I usually actively avoid turn based strategy games like XCOM, not typically enjoying the dice roll failures and intense resource management. Midnight Suns is an olive branch from Firaxis to bring a broader audience into the genre.

Great buy for fans of Marvel superheroes. Can be enjoyable for anyone looking for a casual turn-based RPG experience with a little more tactical depth and extra graphical flair.

I went it expecting nothing and received everything. Deceptively simple and simply addicting.

Controls are refreshingly basic. Weapons, characters, and unlocks feel great and it only gets better the more you play.

I'm not a fan of retro styled 8 bit games that have been flooding the indie game market, but I am a fan of the quality. passion and nostalgia this one has in spades. My library would be exclusively 8 bit retro games if they were all like this.

You should have already bought this game.

You feel like a vampire. It's a tight, dialogue and choice driven RPG that subverts genre tropes with vampirisms.

Simple time killer with low system requirements, easy control even for a laptop, and now the most important part - a quick load!

9/19/2020, Patch 1.3
Not a complete game so far. Despite the time I have dedicated to it, I can't give a blanket approval to recommend that anyone else play this game. The developers don't deserve more people paying full price for the game at this point.

Xbox One controller non-functional. Crashes on startup more than half the time.

Imbalanced: Time Consumption > Fun

• Fun from the start: no awfully slow digging, so you can concentrate on the exploration, fights and strategy.

The above is true. But more importantly...

• Drags on the more you play!
• Equipment gets relatively weaker to your increasingly punishing environments!
• Dread advancing your building tiers! (Tier V is a kicker - good luck finding any resources!)
• Enjoy hair-pullingly slow progression with frequent night-time interruption!
• Tools feel awful to use when you finally scrape together the materials to craft them!
• Limited resources! If your constructions get destroyed, so does your spirit!

Road Rash is one of my favorites of all time. This game, for a time, revived a lot of that love for me.

However the game gets brutally difficult beyond the first handful of completions. Rider characters provide crippling detriments while the unlocked bikes have no discernable differences, despite provided stats implying such. To further salt the wound, the refreshing rogue-lite progression aspect gets nullified and you're left wondering why bother implementing it at all.

I understand some players enjoy flexing their skill and thrive on the challenge. But I didn't.

"Just be happy with the half of the game you enjoyed," you might say. But the content is there and it's locked by my own incompetence, the development of which, in the context provided, is unsatisfying and left me yelling at the screen more than I ever smiled (and I smiled only in irony and self-pity).

So for this reason I cannot recommend this game to others. I would not knowingly subject anyone to that. Because no matter what enjoyment is derived from the experience, the overwhelmingly likely eventuality of hitting a very painful brick wall makes the experience not worth it.

Ironically I probably would have been happier with half the content at the same price and could have been comfortably satisfied with my purchase. As it stands, I'd like to see the game burn in a tire fire produced by my wrecked motorcyle.