Nylige anmeldelser av The Guardian Fox

This game continues to impress me more than the multi-billion dollar franchise that inspired it.

It takes upon the foundations of Pokemon and evolves and improves it more than TPC has since the attack changes in gen 4.

With the latest FREE update they have randomizers and Nuzlocke options built right into the game itself. No need for mods or hacking or emulation or just keeping up with weird rules on your own.

This is something the Pokemon devs could easily do if they could even be bothered. But no, with Pokemon we can't even get them to give us basic difficulty options.

Indy devs do what Nintendon't. Get this.

Can only recommend if you get it on a deep discount. It's a unique game with a lot of interesting concepts, and a fun presentation. However, at some point I realized the experience I was hoping for was a game where you build and manage your own magic school, but instead the gameplay focuses almost entirely on dealing with RNG.

The building components you get are RNG, meaning you can't exactly build the school in the way you want to, and sometimes go without rooms you want for in-game years. Then, even if you get a classroom you want, the teachers you get are RNG; always a choice between two, and sometimes they both suck. If you want to improve your teachers, you have to pull a card from RNG. And it only improves them in specific ways, so there's not a huge chance you'll fix the problem you have. You can't fire or hire. You can't demolish, move, or rebuild. The houses you sort students into are also RNG. You wanna focus on alchemy? Well, better hope that's a house trait you get from RNG. Sometimes you get perfect house traits, sometimes you get nothing you want, and because drawing house cards is also RNG, you have to just hope you get another even. Let's say you get your RNG students through their RNG education, and they graduate, what happens next? More RNG to determine their future. You can do everything right and still have them die or become a pea farmer.

So nothing is hands on. If I had to describe this game in four words they would be 'out of your control.'Some RNG can be fun, but it feels like this game is based completely around it, and for me that's the opposite of what I want from a management game.

So as a game where you have to learn all the weird quirks, and struggle against the RNG to beat the dark lord, this game is kind of a success. It's quirky and weird and unique, and it was fun for a while. But as a magic school management sim, it's not really what I want.

Starbound is that early access game that "leaves early access", but never really reach what they claimed it would be. The mods kind of make up the difference. Not really a fan of the whole thing where devs basically leave it for fans to finish as unpaid labor, but I can't really say I don't recommend it if you can get a good price on it.

Even with mods I think I prefer Terraria, which is a shame... this was supposed to be Terraria with infinite worlds.

Great gameplay.
Good music.
Middling graphics.
Kinda meh story.
Complete lack of race variety. I know we can't get moogles, but at least give me some kind of anthros to mix things up.

If you consider your time to have value, look elsewhere. Especially if you're playing solo.

sarsaparilla

Developers who have lengthy tutorials are the devil.

I had a negative review before because UI scaling didn't work well, and that's a feature I need.

Now that they've made it so I can at least go to 120% without much issue.

I enjoy the cute animals and the park management, I enjoy that career mode isn't just auto-win.

I find the breeding mechanics and inbreeding penalties intrusive and annoying. They feel like a constant struggle that keeps you from being able to focus on anything. I think mechanics like this are a good idea, but I feel like you should be rewarded something significant or special for taking time to breed up, rather than being penalized for not staying on top of it.

The pathing tool is finicky and generally sucks. I don't like that you can't select paths in work zones, that makes no sense for janitors. The DLC is a little aggressive, but after a while you can get them at a decent sale, and I appreciate the free updates.

Frame rate drops in crowded areas, even though I shouldn't have them on my hardware are annoying and immersion breaking, but not unplayable.

I feel like this is a 7 for me. More good than bad, but a lot of room for improvement.

Core gameplay is good enough that I can have fun playing even though I suck at it.

Graphics are great, controls are great, accessibility options are phenomenal.

You can see the structure of something even greater, and this game is just in beta.

However, I have to mention the current issues, that will change my review if not addressed in 2021:
Horrible monitization methods
Horrible progression
No game mode selections

Still worth playing, but can't say I'll stick with it if those things don't change.

Edit It's 2022. Playlists have expanded, but you still can't pick specific modes. Progression still sucks. They just released a $20 AI bundle, so the monetization is straight garbage. I don't mind reasonably priced cosmetics... unfortunately it doesn't like this game will ever have them. That's 1/3 the cost of a full game for one a few really small things. Really disappointed.

Unfortunately another huge flaw... timed events. When they announced battlepasses never expired, I cheered for the death of having to play this game at specific times to get cool stuff. Unfortunately that also isn't happening. Busy holiday month? Playing something else right now? Well screw you,then. So I have no interest in playing this game at all anymore.

I was honestly really excited for this game, but it is too fast for me to find it enjoyable.

I'm happy for people that like this kind of game, but for people like me it feels like it lacks strategy and precision. It's extremely offense-centric, and mostly boils down to spacing your attack spam better than your opponent. The strong attacks come out as quick as modern Smash Bros tilts, with the power of smash attacks. Combining that with the awkward balance of attacks and characters sometimes feels unfair.

Launching and blast zones majorly feel off. Move balance feels off. Music and audio design is bad.

People will like this game. YOU might like this game. But it is absolutely for a specific niche of people looking for exactly this, and because it lacks single-player content, not something I would recommend to most people.