Recent reviews by Psiclone

Too many bots.

Turns out with the right medicine (pressure stabilizer) you can leave the ship in just your underwear. I saluted that mad lad. He will be missed.

The game has really good shoot shoots and the bang bangs are also quite good.

Great combination of hack and slash combined with base building. The best parts of cutesy and horrifying.

Controller support is really bad. Clunky and the menus pale in comparison to keyboard menus. The game is thick and explains itself poorly. I have spent many a minute staring at the screen in combat unable to discern what effects are going on. There is a layer of knowledge you need to already have just to play the game and I don't have it.

"Darkest Dungeon is about making the best of a bad situation."

I think what this is trying to say is that you get some candles even when you lose but you can only progress when everything goes right. Even in a perfect run with all positive relationships and fully geared characters the boss can still wipe you if you get a couple misses on your turn. There's not making the most of a wipe on the final boss. You just have to do it again and hope that RNGesus is on your side.

Making the most of a bad situation means dealing with adversity and setbacks in an ongoing campaign. I believe this applied more to the first game. In DD2 the rogue-like design just means bashing your head at it over and over until you get the right run that results in finally beating the boss. There are no setbacks. Just start over.

The choose your own adventure stuff is opaque and means little. The missions are generally the same with little to change with tactics. Enemies are predictable. It's way to punishing to "live with your mistakes". Save scumming was necessary for me to enjoy the game.

At this time I can't recommend the game. I will not review the game for what it could be but only for what it is currently. It crashes to desktop frequently, there is no tutorial or onboarding, the game does not notify you of certain key events like the trader showing up, villagers suicide trying to recover other dead villagers. I feel there is a lot of work to be done and if the game improves in the future I'll return to this review and update it accordingly.

I'm a cat. I meow at everyone and break everything.

Just an excellent little roleplaying game with inspiration from the Forged in the Dark tabletop system. Lots of possible endings but best played through just a single time. Despite how mechanical the interaction with the game is a lot of heart comes from where you choose to put your time and energy. Making sacrifices between taking care of yourself and advancing different story threads.

I think the game could be improved by having more story threads but not incorporating them all into a single run. Randomizing some and sprinkling them in to give it a bit more replayability as there are 3 classes to play but no driving reason to play again.