Nylige anmeldelser av Ignatius J. Reilly

Early Access Review

Well, early days yet for this game, and it's made by one guy, though despite this it shows much promise. However, I give it my recommendation because of this, and in spite of it's various flaws.

The skill system could use some work. A lot of it is cookie-cutter. Main Skill + Mana Reducing effect. I am not exageratting when I say every class follows this path, so the early hours of the game are mainly spamming a single skill. And why do I need to dump 10 skill points into that skill for it be usable? I should be spending those points on getting new abilities which will vary the game play.

The combat, outside of character building, is simple, but satisfying. Screen shakes, enemies explode all over the place, kill chains keep you moving (would love the timer bar from D3 in there!). That's all good stuff.

The itemization is also fairly solid, with some neat items to find, and while nothing mind blowing or game changing, there is a certain level of character customization to be found in what gear you decide to wear. Healing vs. Damage vs. Utility.

I give it a tentative recommendation. I will probably keep an eye out and keep playing, but hopefully over time, the skill system could get a closer look to enable more varied combat between classes and skill trees.

There is some stiff competition in terms of ARPGs these days, and even a tiny indie project must consider that, because you're fighting for that time. I would like to see this game do things a little differently, offer something fresh, as opposed to the same things found in AAA ARPGs, but at a smaller and pixelated scale.

6/10 Not terrible.

Better combat than Path of Exile combined with less simplified character building of Diablo 3 makes for a solid game. Looking at all the wacky systems, you very much get the sense it's just a small group of guys doing whatever the hell they want, answering to no one, and it works.

In one hand, a sack cloth filled with human meat, in the other, a rusty meat cleaver. A man desperately tries to crawl away as I slowly hack him to death. This is role playing at it's finest.

On the most basic level, it's a game about an endless lust for power. In terms of sheer customization there is no limit to what you can do in this game. I start to get anxious when I realize I may never be able to try out every possible team/legendary artifact combination, because I simply do not have the time! It's a malicious time sucking game that is hard to pull yourself away from. Endlessly playable, and continually rewarding, based around systems that eternally feed into one another. Someone very evil devised this game.

If you like Dragon Quest Monsters or that sort of thing, obviously you'll like this. But beyond that, if you really enjoyed Disgaea's absurd level of customization and power leveling, then you'll also get a kick out of this game.

I would say that the game does a respectable job of creating some interesting combat situations for you to consider, however, unless you're pushing your team to it's limits, the combat can devolve into a button mashing grind, which I would consider it's one failing. However, once you let yourself get deep enough, you simply don't care anymore, you just have to get the next artifact, legendary material, monster, nether monster, demonic nether monster, finish off that power spell, build that team you dreamed up, level these gems, clear this level, whew!

You know what? Do yourself a favor, and avoid this game at all costs, not because it's bad, but because it has the power to steal all of your time away.

This is probably the most time I've ever dedicated to a game so tedious. I recently revisted it and I'm amazed I spent so much time with it. I think I'm just drawn to games where you mindlessly gain loot and stats, and the game has that in bucketfulls, but to what end? The actual game play in the dungeons is a terrible bore. Every fight plays out the same, and requires little thought from the player. Tanks taunt, heals heal, DPS do damage, rinse and repeat about 560 times. Collect loot, go back to town, sort through it all (most of it crap) find the items with the bigger numbers, equip, do it all over again.

Maybe it was during a drought in good games that I sunk so many hours into this one.

Also it has to be mentioned, managing 48 different character's gear in such poorly done menus. I still get nightmares about that.

RPG that doesn't care about the story, all about combat, and that's actually something I like. But the skill system, for all it's depth, isn't enough to make the game fun. Combat is too dull, and no skill system, no matter how novel in concept, can keep this game from turning into a boring slog. Unless you REALLY like watching numbers get bigger, I'd pass on this.

It good.

I hate video games. Terrible.

Weak pretender. This is not the quality level of Sonic you grew up with. Terrible.

You have a big gun and there are a lot of aliens to shoot with it. Not terrible.