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good game

Sadly, this one's just not that great...

Gunplay's just... meh. Not bad or anything, but nothing exciting either, and well melee's pretty good, but compared to Vermintide there's a much bigger emphasis on range, which again, isn't that fun.

Character creation is terrible. Voices are fine, but you end up seeing the same few faces on every player you encounter.
Worst part about it is, characters got no personality. In Vermintide they'd have all sorts of little comments here and there, about the mission, about enemies, about each other, but in this game its just the usual 'ammo here' and 'GRENADES!'.

The classes feel like they weren't designed for this game at all and there's very little coherency between perks.

All Missions are identical, until the very last bit.
In one you gotta kill a boss (same one everytime you play that mission type),
the other one's you just interact with some stuff, then wait some and that's it.
Which would be fine, it's a horde game after all, problem is the environments are extremly dull.
Themes range from greyish industrial to orange-lit greyish industrial. There's just a single instance where you fight through a church-like hall, which is great but like, ONE SINGULAR exciting location? Dissapointing.

It's still early, there's much they can improve on, although I don't see them removing the character creation any time soon O.o

Regardless, this might get better, but until then Vermintide 2's just a much better game, and I don't see a reason to switch any time soon.

tl;dr: very meh, just play Vermintide 2.

good old magicka

awfully toxic community,
not beginner friendly AT ALL (exclusively matched with tremendously higher ranked players; lackluster tutorial),
settings menu is insultingly empty (you can't change the resolution?!?)

Tried solo and in a group, not much fun either way.

Don't waste your time/ money.

Fantastic game.

This game is alot of fun. ALOT!

Get some beer, invite some friends over and play this game. I promise you, you'll have the time of your life!

Just buy it already!

10/10 would shoot myself on accident again!

[Edit]After re-reading my review today I noticed that I did not make clear how much time I spend playing this game and what exactly I did in it. So here we go:

Almost non. Thats how much time I spent on this game, and the content of this review is the reason why. In the course of my 0.8 hours of gameplay I did all the tutorials (two. two tutorials.) and two actual games, one as a Trapper and one as a Support.

Also, this is my personal opinion, so yeah, that's that.[Edit]



Simply not a very good game..

There's no tutorial (except for one, for a single hunter and monster each), or any kind of information on what the hunters/monsters abilities are, or what their role is.
[Edit]I was wrong here, the role is pretty clear (Medic, Assault, Support, etc.), but rather the difference between certain characters of one role was troublesome to find out!
Credit for pointing that out to Blactorn![Edit]

Furthermore, the servers stability is terrible, leading to 3 server crashes in only 0.8 hours of gameplay, most of which I experienced in the earlier mentioned tutorial..

Store seemed fine, in fact, there's no premium currency you have to pay for with money, atleast I haven't found any..
Additionaly, the in-game currency itself gets earned quite rapidly, altough I doubt it's gonna stay like this later on, when it assumingly takes longer to level up.
[Edit]There is infact a premium currency gonna come later on!
Thanks again for pointing this out to Blactorn![Edit]


I get the idea of re-releasing this game, for the sake of more players, it just wasn't a great game in the first place, or even a decent one for that matter..


Maybe, just maybe, this isn't such a bad game after all, and I just have to spend more time learning what all the characters do, but frankly: I couldn't give less of a s***.

At this point, you can just play any other, actually well-received multiplayer game and have fun right away, instead of grinding yourself trough this one.

[Edit]I noticed, that some people seem to love this game, while others pretty much hate it. As you propably know by now, I'm the latter one. I really did dislike pretty much every aspect of this game, that does not mean however, that I don't see what people could like about it, the uniqueness of it is undeniable!

That's why I was considering to actually change my review to recommending this game, but ultimately decided against it.

It is true, that it's a free-to-play title and you can simply try it out for yourself and see if you like it or not. The thing is, time is not free. Neither is space on your harddrive. So no. I would not recommend this game, even though it is free. I did not like my experience with it and I would not tell anyone to play it.[Edit]

2/10 would not recommend anyone w/o sexual masochism disorder.

I'd pay 40 bucks for it. I don't know, I just can't help myself, when it comes to atmospheric, story-heavy walking-simulators..

Sure it's pretty short, but considering how emotionally it actually reached me it's worth the money to me..

So yeah, buy it :)

Review by Mauro, August 2015

Introduction
First of all this review is very subjectiv, even tough I try to be reasonable at all times.
If you prefer a more objectiv one you might want to check another review. Thanks.

This game succeeds where most others failed: It makes you forget, that it's only a game!
I literally couldn't let go!
I got sucked up by its vivid world its profound characters and last but not least its dramatic, yet so calming story.

Story
If you consider buying this game I srsly suggest you NOT to read the following part, as it contains MAJOR spoilers capable of taking all the suspense and every twist the story offers.

The game is about Max(ine) Caulfield, an 18 yo girl, who follows her dreams to be a photographer by attending the Blackwell Academy, a very famous arts-school, in her birthplace Arcadia Bay. She hasn't talked to her old best friend Chloe since her family moved to Seattle five years befor, but intended to do so.

One month after Arriving at Blackwell, she was just making a photo in the bathroom, she witnessed a dispute between Nathan, a member of the Prescott-family, the richest and most influential family in town, and a blue haired ''Punk''-girl, who turns out to be Max old friend Chloe, who accuses Nathan of selling drugs. When Nathan shot Chloe, Max discovered her ''Rewind''-powers to travel back in time and save her friend.

Thats only the Prelude to Max and Chloe trying to get behind what happened to Chloes friend Rachel, who vanished half a year befor, and whats Nathans part in it.
On the way they learn about what happend to the quiet christian girl Kate who tries to kill herself after an ashaming video of her goes viral, get to take a midnight swim in the schools pool and take on the most influential Family, who pays police officers, various school employees and students to get what they want.
Just to finally discover what terrible secret this family tries to hide.

Gameplay
The puzzles might not be the most challenging or innovative, not by any meanes, but they fit the game, its characters and the world itself, plus they are pretty varying. Also, the ''rewind''-feature adds kind of a twist to some of the riddles!
For example: One time you have to find clues who fit together by comparing dates and times, the other time you gotta find a way to open a door to the Principals office, without letting the alarm go off. Thanks dear timetravel!

Additionaly, your choices indeed matter and actually change it's world!
That might be pretty trivial,
for example when you don't water your plant Lisa, she actually dies.
but can also have a huge impact,
for example when you decide over taking money meant for a handicapped fund or not.

At the end of each episode you'll also have a statistic about how much of your friends/the world decided for what choice.

Controls
You can play with both mouse and keyboard or gamepad.
Both of them work fine, altough the gamepad got the edge here, since you don't really need that much buttons.

Graphics
There are indeed games who look prettier or smoother, it certainly doesn't have fancy ''Tomb Raider''-like hair physics either, but srsly who needs that anyway? it works properly without any fps-drops or crashes, got some very nice light effects and quite great animations, even if the faces are pretty static. Thats all it takes to tell its wonderful story.

Cost-benefit ratio
If you're interested in this kind of stuff, here are some numbers I got from both my own experience and some research.

This game is quite cheap,
the whole game including 5 episodes is available for US$19.99/19,99€/£15.99,
episode 1 for US$4.99/4,99€/£3.99
and the season pass including episodes 2-5 for US$16.99/16,99€/£13.99.

If you're living in the EU or GB and consider buying this game in US region, as its even cheaper, beware of the trading and gifting restrictions for both the whole game[steamdb.info] and the season pass[steamdb.info].
Anyways, do NOT use any vpn or tunneling services as this is against the Steam EULA and will most likely get you banned!

The episodes are around 2-5 hours long, depending on your playstyle.
Altough this game doesn't really have any replay value, as you can rewind to see every choices effect, you can always go back to get some ''photos'', kind of a collectable, you might have missed or even try to see the consequences of some major choices in other episodes.

Therefor the main game itself will take you around 3.5 (hours) * 4 (episodes) = 14 (hours).

Considering the 5th episode, that will propably be available by October the 6th to October the 13th 2015 (as stated here[www.videogamesblogger.com], however this is neither verified by Square Enix nor by Dotnod Ent. meaning that these dates are subject to change), will take about as long as the others, you''ll have around 17.5 hours of actual playtime for the price of at most US$19.99/19,99€/£15.99 while not on sale.

This results in around US$1,14 per hour/1,14€ per hour/£0,91 per hour.

In comparison, Telltales ''The Walking Dead'', that was also split across 5 episodes is available for US$24.99/22,99€/£18.99 and has an average completion time of approximately 14 hours, wich is with US$1,79 per hour/1,64€ per hour/£1,36 per hour slightly less cost effectiv.

Possible charges by your provider excluded.
The time you spend thinking about what happened and wondering whats going to happen next obviously excluded aswell!

Conclusion
An all together very atmosperic and replicable game.
Both the gameplay and the story fit together very well creating a unique experience.
Nothing you can do wrong here, even if you're not that much of an ''adventure''-fan it's worth checking out.

I really liked the Style of this game, not only the graphics but its way to tell the story makes this game one of my favourite games so far. Additionally is this game bringing the old ''point and click''- adventures, such as Monkey Island, some modern vibe. In my Opinion is this the development that the genre needed, even tough Telltale propably started with this kind of games.

It's already worth the 4 episodes, propably even 3, but theres still more to come, and I can't wait to see how it ends.

10/10 would rewind time again.

Thanks for reading!

PS: Since english isn't my native language, there might be some mistakes. As im trying to improve myself, I'd appreciate if you let me know about any mistakes you find. Thanks again!

Works better than onions!

10/10 would cry again!