Останні рецензії користувача Shados

Impeccable aesthetics and music. Controls are tight, fluid, and responsive. Combat is largely fairly simple (compared to, say, Hollow Knight), but enjoyable, with boss fights being more complicated and engaging. The game has like 20~25 mini/bosses over the course of a 6-9 hour playtime, so it's rather boss-dense (which is good, here). The Gears of Erebus boss is the only one I have real issues with, in that the only good strategy I can see for it is a cheese strat (and some checking on youtube shows everyone else doing the same, ugh). The final boss is a decent spike in difficulty from the rest: it took me 6 tries, mostly due to the third phase (which unfortunately has enough randomness that it sometimes forces you to take damage), while every other boss took 1-2 attempts.

There technically is a plot and setting, but the game is very light on details for both, it's mostly vibes-based.

Also, for some reason the Olympian Strike/Dive move (the dive-kick thing) is explained extremely poorly by the game, to the degree that the explanation is actively misleading you.

Conceptually, this is a somewhat interesting mix of vaguely GTA-like open-world gameplay, simplistic RPG-inspired questing and progression mechanics, and a hyper-simplified, weird blend of dating sim and management game around the family's needs/relationship.

Unfortunately, after a genuinely strong introductory sequence, its execution pretty much immediately falls flat, as it becomes apparent that there is no actual tension between "making enough money" and "behaving morally", nor between "making enough money" and "keeping your family healthy/happy", which are supposedly meant to be the core mechanics. Worse still, the major quest lines are bland, binary morality tales with single-dimensional characters, the "open world" is tiny and mostly empty of meaningful content, the actual jobs and chores you do are boring and repetitive, and the game's performance is inexplicably bad. At 90 minutes in, I'd had enough of the terrible gameplay, and watched a few YT vids on the plot and endings to see if they were redeeming in any way. They're not.

Many of these issues could have been improved or fixed over time with further work and updates, but based on steamdb[steamdb.info] it appears the developers' last update was a mere 2 months after release. I can't recommend anyone waste money or time on this game.

Surprisingly fun game, if you know or are willing to learn a little bit of programming, it will draw you into learning and using more.

Used to play the browser version a bunch in 2019 and 2020... found it out it had a Steam release with achievements and external editor integration, so decided to get back into it. I started up the game to find that the editor integration was only implemented for VSCode, and I'm a diehard (neo)vim user, so I wrote up a directory watcher/pusher using the API the VSCode extension uses (Linux-only, available here https://gist.github.com/Shados/19c34d5e92218f444f98b51a7cf5446d ). Then I got to porting my old bitburner scripts over to TypeScript, set up bundling, and went about fixing bugs and improving them :V.

Sadly, took me three hours to work out that this game is very shallow, as-is, so no refund for me. It could be good with more work, but as it looks like the developers have largely moved on to another game, I'm not holding my breath.

This game taught me that owls are allergic to light.

I fully support this and any game that involves rescuing a companion cube from a hellish puzzle-prison in order to take it to a Pink Floyd concert.



More seriously, the game is pretty good. A lot of the philosophical elements are a bit weak if you're into philosophy, but the game's central theme was done well and is *relatively* underexplored in sci-fi.

The puzzles were generally pretty good, with a few exceptions toward the end of the game. Notably, even the early easy puzzles managed to somehow be satisfying despite their simplicity.

The game's aesthetics in both visual design and soundtrack are good, but I did have some issues with the performance of the game engine (I was unable to get it to run well above 720p on a system with an R9 290 + FX-8350 + 8GB of RAM, which does not match up to my experience with visually comparable games). It still looked good at that resolution, so I wouldn't consider that to be a major issue.

The main game doesn't take all that long to 100%, but the community content available for the game adds a truckload of extra lifespan to the experience. Given that, it may be worth the $40 price tag, but personally I'd probably wait for it to be on special again. I am stingy when it comes to entertainment, though.

Voice control scheme completely changes the feel of an otherwise unsurprising squad-based shooter, and generally makes things very fun to play. Well-chosen command aliases lead to hilarity. However, while the voice recognition mostly works pretty well, it *is* still dodgy in places and really could have done with a proper recognition training system, especially given how small the corpus of phrases it needs to recognize is...

Voice acting and music were both great, visual aesthetics were lovely and performance was rock-solid 60 fps at 1440p on my R9 290.

That said, bad sci-fi plot was bad, characters were pretty one-dimensional and game is all of ~4 hours long.
Buy it if you want to have fun with a fairly different gaming experience, but maybe wait until it's on sale :).

This game, it is awesome, you should play it.