Recent reviews by dilix

Even so I like the core mechanics and getting rid of micromanagment in CIV7 but I can't 'recommend' it in it's stage.

It's expected to have some glitches, balance issues, non-obvious mechanics and bugs.
BUT the current UI state is nonesense!

If you have war above city tiles you barely see your own units and enemy's almost invisible.
You need to hover all tiles in neighbourhood to check if there are some units or not.

Some tiles have such unnoticable forest or kind of hill which costs you movement points.
You'll definetely loose some turns 'cause you just can't see what the tile you on.

There also some UX issues that needs to be addressed.
E.g. you have in-game age achievement to have over40 production on single tile.
But it not obvious (but expected) to have some kind of help system to check most productive tiles to address this challenge.

Awesome goosebastard

Красивый и интересный сеттинг, высокая реиграбельность даже после первого прохождения.

Pretty simple gameplay but engaging. Playing campaign was great.

Animations, sounds, gameplay - everything is awesome.

There are no puzzles per se but overall experience is positive.
Use voice chat, enjoy the atmosphere and the plot, don't expect challenges and your won't be regret.

Great way to spend time with your friends, even 2 people could already play the game.
Huge possible variations with help of workshop that allows to build your own modules.

Short but very atmospheric game. Not the one I would walkthrough the second time but worth to play once.
Other game 'Journey' comes into mind if you want to compare it with smth.

Интересные, в меру сложные бои, красивая графика и наличие сюжета - всё супер.

Но мне весь геймплей убивает необходимость бегать от и до скамейки в сложных локациях.
Сравнить с тем же Ori, меньше заточенного на бои и по большей части чистом платформером. Когда начинается сложная дистанция, то сохранение доступно прямо на старте. Т.е. провалив, пусть даже в конце, маршрут, можно сразу начать заново и не бежать до старта.

В hollow knight же бежишь к очередному боссу, умираешь. Приходится снова пробегать 2-3-4 экрана чтобы попытаться его одолеть. Это очень быстро начинает надоедать.

Красиво, свежо и без багов.