Recent reviews by Kris

FTL: Faster Than Light is a "tough" video game that focuses on being "hard". In this game you play the role of a space ship who's job it is to ferry your crew through 8 hubs called "sectors" in order to reach the end and fight the multi-formed demon ship, much like other JRPGS. Along the way you have to keep your crew alive, because despite your ship having the ability to fire weapons, open doors and turn every system on or off by itself, it still needs a human to actually move from one place to the other. Whilst traveling through the sectors you get to choose which circles to move to, you can't move freely about the game in any way. Each circle has the chance of being a spaceship encounter, which you will fight the majority of, a random dialogue option, which is often the choice between killing a crewmember of just doing nothing, or a shop, which will never have what you want. Along the way you can make many friends and enjoy the finer side of getting killed by something you couldn't have possibly prepared for.

FTL: Faster Than Light is an exercise in gambling. The game has so many events of chance in it they should have called it RNG (pause for laughter). Sometimes you will be able to steam through all 8 sectors using the starting equipment, and never having to buy new weapons since the game will give them to you. Other times you'll be unable to fight a single ship with your equipment and the game will never give you the opportunity to buy what you need. Sometimes the very first enemy you encounter will destroy you, having been generated to be the perfect counter to whatever ship you happened to start that run with. At times you'll have encounters that go on for ten minutes because both you and your opponent keep dodging each other's attacks. I've always wanted to play a flash game featuring two majikarps splashing at each other.

FTL: Faster Than Light is a difficult game in the same way that roullette is a difficult game and is fun in the same way that Russian roullette is fun. Much like Christopher Walking in Deer Hunter you'll be very upset at the situation you're in. At the price of only ten dollars (or whatever this goes on sale for) you can experience all the fun of making a bet on Red and Black simultaneously, only to have the ball land on green, which happens to be neither red nor black, this means that you lost your bet. I guess if you really want to experience the feeling of throwing money away ten dollars isn't that steep a price.

I don't understand the appeal of this game, and cannot recommend it for anyone.