Recent reviews by Zod

Great game
my only real complaint is that there isn't more of it

Eine Enttäuschung.
Das Kampfsystem ist zwar ganz gut, ein netter blend aus Nioh und Sekiro, gute Auswahl an Waffen und Spezialangriffen, aber nicht genug um dieses Spiel allein über Wasser zu halten.
Die Schwierigkeit ist eigenartig inkonsistent, alle Gegner hat man schon recht früh gesehen, wodurch die Level leicht werden, zu leicht und Bosse sind ein Münzwurf, viele sehr leicht, dass man sich schon fragt, obs das war, können die nicht mehr? und nein einige dieser Bosse sind einfach so leicht.
Die Story als jemand der von der Ära keine Ahnung hat ist vollkommen unverständlich. Ich verstehe nicht wer da mit mir spricht, zu wem er gehört, mit wem er verbündet ist, oder gegen wen er kämpft. Man weiß recht schnell schon gar nicht mehr warum man überhaupt da ist, warum kämpft man hier, oder warum kämpft man überhaupt in diesem Krieg? Man könnte genauso gut ziellos umherwandern und die Leute nehmen einfach an man wäre auf ihrere Seite weil man gerade zufällig gegen ihre Feinde kämpft.
Die Motivation der Antagonisten? Macht? Schätze ich?

Es gibt sehr wenig das die Motivation dieses Spiel weiter zu spielen am laufen halten kann nach einer Weile. Die Story sicherlich nicht, für mich das Kampfsystem auch nicht und viel mehr bleibt dann auch nicht mehr. Es gibt nicht so ein tolles Spektakel, oder starke Szenerie wie in Nioh, also die Optik auch nicht, außer man mag die China Atmosphäre einfach so sehr.

Es fühlt sich an wie ein Nioh knock-off in China dressing.

I'm sorry but I can't recommend this game.
I looks nice and at the beginning plays good too but over time you start to realise that it kind of fails in some aspects like units control. You can give your units orders sure but it is very limited. Only go there or attack that thing no attack-move commands, hold position or the like.
That is if your units respond at all because sometimes when a target is out of their range they just don't do anything, or they attack another target completely ignoring the one you want them to attack no matter how often you repeat the order. They sometimes also don't like to move really and selecting the units themselves can be a bit of a challenge in certain situations.
That is a rather central front on which it fails sadly.
Mind you there are good aspects to this game too. The Upgrades you can get for your outposts and their towers feel impactful, the three kinds of towers feel distinct and your units all fulfill a different role really well.
The design of the areas and enemies is always nice to look at even on replay and the soundeffects really don't have any big negatives either.

There are things to like about this game but as it stands it did ultimately leave a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.

It's a great game but I hate the forced Iron Man Mode so much

While I do think that this game is enjoyable to play I have to say that there are a few things that really bother me about this game.
Like your units aggro range just being too damn big making attack-move commands kinda risky since some units just might split up if you don't babysit them, or enemies focusing on wounded units not helped by the fact that those same units seem to insist to be at the very forefront of the fight no matter how often you try to give them a backline position and maybe how painfully slow the stronger infantry is.
But those are things that could be patched. What bothers me about the difficulty design is that any higher difficulty setting your number of saves is limited. Now mind you I think it's great that you can save and are not forced into an Iron Man mode but it just doesn't feel good. Want to take many breaks? Better not switch your game off of maybe use one of your saves. Sometimes I feel like I have to make one simply because I just don't know which way the attack wave will take and if I guess wrong it's game over (maybe add an arrow on the map). It also makes me not want to do risky maneuvers for fun because I either have to probably waste a save for that of risk my entire game.

Now this review has been rather negative up to this point yes. But despite all those things I still like this game. It looks and sounds good, has a nice style and it's just fun to clear the map build up your economy and fight the hordes.
It's a good game but flawed.

Look it's a cheap kinda crappy Tower Defense Game.
It's not very balanced, feels somewhat cheap with the bosses and combat as a whole feels just weird and uncomfortable.

This game is not worth 15€. Not even close.
If you get it extremely cheap and want to laugh at it and be confused by some design choices go for it but that's all I can get out of this game.

Such a uniquely bizarre game.
A must play in my opinion

Look very promising now that I can play it for myself.
Gameplay is fun, base building easy and quick and the game looks great aswell.
My only complaint would be that it doesn't sound... punchy enough for my taste but that may be just me.

Can only recommend to try it out for yourself.