Sir Jackson
Jack
Germany
Indie Game Developer - wishlist BOUND BEYOND on Steam
:shieldwall: :kcdswords: 𝔻𝕄 𝔻&𝔻. Roll to seduce a dragon
Indie Game Developer - wishlist BOUND BEYOND on Steam
:shieldwall: :kcdswords: 𝔻𝕄 𝔻&𝔻. Roll to seduce a dragon
Hello there!
HELLO THERE
Let's be acquiented: I'm an indie dev, software engieer, D&D game master. I buy a lot of games but usually don't have time to play them. Welcome to my profile.
Be kind to each other kids.

꧁༺BOUND BEYOND ༻꧂

Wishlist our Bound Beyond on Steam. A first-person story-rich action-adventure horror.
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Torch
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Baldur's Gate 3
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TLDR: amazing game with decent graphics, amazing sounds, voices, music, effects. Detailed world with amazingly interesting and deep plot. Bad controls.

I rate this game:
Story: 10/10
Music: 10/10
Voice: 10/10
Gameplay, mechanics etc.: 7/10 (battles happen to be either very easy or long and complicated, I haven't found a golden average so far; when you cross some threshold of character development, the world is ever dangerous to you, there is no enemy you would be able to kill).
Graphics: 8/10 (I mean it's a bit outdated already, but still o a decent level)
Controls: 3/10 (this is the biggest dealbreaker for me in this game, camera is absolutely terrible. You can try solving it with some third party plugins, but it's not perfect solution as well. With a gamepad camera experience is more appealing, but targeting turns out to be annoying)


This project is huge. I'm a big fan of RPGs and especially ones that use implicitly or explicitly D'n'D-like mechanics, This game does that implicitly, you don't see much of these random rolls etc. but it anyway reflects on the gameplay you see.
I find this game very captivating and I can play it over and over again alone or with friends despite the awful controls. I think that there are multiple ways to complete this game (speaking of the way you explore this worlds, complete quests etc.). It's worth playing especially if you are an explorer.
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328 Hours played
I bought this game on the very first day of early access and have been observing how it evolves. A lot of bugs and mechanics have been fixed and improved so far. After 29 hours under different patches I can say that there are still sometimes minor bugs and certainly some things haven't been yet implemented/added. But the game already is captivating a lot.
This sort of prologue that is available is not really short, especially when you like to explore.
The only thing that I noticed so far that spells and some actions aren't accurately used from D&D. Per instance, cleric's spell list is a bit limited compared to D&D. Where is spare the dying and toll the dead cantrips?! :D Overall, some cantrips are missing. But experience is still very pleasant.
The lore itself is cool and I enjoy the way BG and D&D 5e work together.
I feel a lack of ability to throw perception/investigation checks whenever I want, instead there are auto thrown checks which is okay, but I would love to see that game doesn't prompt you that perception check is failed (it already alerts you), but rather show you only success.
Also I didn't notice insight checks. Sometimes I felt like I would make an insight check and try to understand if that person is lying, or they are worried or anything. I know that sometimes there is an investigation option available that does similar thing, but could be great to have insight checks available in any dialog (or the most).
The character sheets are a bit hard to read, if you want to quickly find out your profficiencies, you don't have a distinct list of them (at least I don't see it).

So, for game in EA I would give it 8/10, because I can't stop playing it and it bring unique experience that is much better to what I had in Divinity per instance. Especially COOP is something on the next level. And I hope that coop will be even better and more engaging.

Dialogs. I wait for a possibility to jump into conversation by different characters all together. Because dialogs touch the whole party but only one player usually speaks (story characters sometimes can add some phrases), but I would expect that during the conversations there will be an option "change speaker" to hear out all the characters and give them a try to persuade and help the conversation as well.

Anyhow, I enjoy this game a lot.
Cheers!
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