10 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.0 hrs on record
Posted: 8 Jun, 2023 @ 1:18pm
Updated: 23 Jun @ 9:36am

NICE CONCEPT, POOR EXECUTION

This game remembers me of Into the Breach and Front Mission, and it have everything to be a great and fun. But the first thing that dissapoints it's the lack of detail to the story and the featured events.
Like Into the Breach, we have to replay the game to get new stuff unlocked, try new combinations to get a more diversified party with more powerful mechs.

But where Into the Breach cativates you to fight for a timeline of civilians, with every new run being a different universe at the stake of the interdimensional kaiju threat called Vek, in this one we don't feel motivated enough to fight aganist the rogue AI bots that somehow got hacked by a evil corporation, we are just throw there with no details.
So everything begins to fell just the same very quickly, in other words, you get bored of playing the game pretty fast.
The same scenarios, the same enemies, the same events, you can't fight against other mechs at all either or against monsters.

In Into the Breach, we got oportunities to fight both type of enemies, we have more depth into the story as well.
So unfortunatelly we get a copy of Into the Breach mixed with Crying Suns star map, where you get plenty of destinations filled with similar missions.
Like: "defend/destroy the generators", "reach the evac point", "kill all enemies", etc. but without being told in a briefing, why you need to do such tasks or how they contribute to the war effort against your enemy.

Thats means the game makes you feel like a soldier when given strict orders without much explanation? Maybe someone could say that... but lack of detail sometime shows, Into the Breach is way more fun than Ignited Stell most because of this, they balanced this quite right, the mech operative gets debriefed about what he needs to know, but we also get to know further details of what its happening around.

But here we feel a bit like when Mass Effect 3 players got a very quickly, not much elaborated ending with the fates of the protagonist, characters, world, impacted by their choices being very vague... also theres no choices here at all, and the worst is that there's not even a ending epilogue either.

This could have been a easy refund, If I didn't got past the 14 days time limit for one.
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