Posted on: August 5, 2021

Honsoku

Spiele: 497 Rezensionen: 12

Solid & Scenic, but not Inspired

After 10 years, Foster returns to Union City and finds it bright and gleaming. He starts at ‘look at what Joey did with the city.’, progresses to ‘what did Joey do to the city?’, and ends at: “JOEY, YOU DID WHAT TO THE CITY?!?”. To be clear; this is an adventure game. It is story heavy, and low intensity. There is effectively zero combat, timed puzzles, or much other than dialogue, cut scenes, walking around, and interacting with objects. I don’t know why this game has an ‘action’ tag on it. This game is about as much an action game as Driving Miss Daisy was an action movie. To the game’s credit, it does keep the story moving at a brisk pace and avoids a common adventure game pitfall of item overload. Almost all temporary items get used fairly shortly after being found and my final inventory wasn’t extensive. The game also has a built-in hint system. So this is an easy game to get into if you aren’t generally a fan of ‘click everywhere, try everything’ adventure games. Gameplay will probably run you 6-10 hours, with a lot of dialogue & cut scenes. It might be a lot shorter if you use a guide and skip everything you can, in which case, go play something else you heathen. The game certainly has its share of issues. The dialogue is decent, but predictable. NPC pathing is a bit wonky and leads them to be slide-walking into you at times. Some of the gesture animations are poorly timed, screwing up the impact of the dialogue. The NPC character design suffers from ‘Current Year’-itis. The built-in hint system isn’t very context sensitive, so you can get hints for completed parts of the current objective. It can be an annoyance at times to get to the correct menu choice on a NPC before it wanders away. None of these are show-stoppers, just pebble-in-your-shoe irritants. I don’t typically play adventure games, but I found this decent enough, if tepid. On the gameplay & story alone, this game is a mid to low 3, but it is getting rounded up to 4 for the art.

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Posted on: August 4, 2021

ReclaimedComputing

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Spiele: 760 Rezensionen: 103

Great Story, Mediocre Puzzles

I often times don’t enjoy point and click games because they fall into certain stereotypes that I dislike. In some ways BASS does do better but in others it falls into the same traps. The ways it fails are that, just like in point and click games, many of the puzzles revolve around trying to combine items regardless of whether they appear to go together. I prefer if they make logical sense. The game at least tries to justify it with their hacking game. Basically you can search for devices in the immediate area and swap parts of one with another in order to get a device to do what you want it to. It is at least unique in the genre although they got it to be annoying by making many hacks time based. Often times I understood what the game wanted from me but I felt annoyed at having to keep waiting on NPC navigation to line up in order to do what I knew needed to be done. Other times I didn’t know what the game wanted at first. For instance why would I have thought to use a toaster to interface with a satellite dish ? One thing I will give the game credit for is their hint system. It has possibly the best hint system I have ever seen. It doesn’t outright tell you at first but gives enough detail for you to figure things out. It also has a cool down so you have to try to work things out before asking for more hints. The only downside is some of the puzzles not following logic which makes it needed more often then I would like. I must sound like I disliked the game but overall I didn’t. Some puzzles I will give it praise for are the Linc Space puzzles which I enjoyed. The story was also great. I thought I had guessed where it would go, then thought I must be wrong and was confirmed right all along. There are a good set of characters and good progression although the beginning has a pretty slow pace. The voice acting was superb all around. The graphics were a nice art style with a good use of colour although the hair detail could have been better.

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Posted on: February 15, 2024

Locorock

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Spiele: 143 Rezensionen: 1

Nice Hint System, Middling Storytelling

+ it is somewhat funny at times + nice graphics + thank you for the hint system - the final segment/chapter is disappointing - the puzzles felt a bit uninspired and overly reliant on the hacking mechanic - for the love of god why am i still moving at a snail's pace in 2024 NOTE: i played beneath a steel sky a week ago for the first time, so nostalgia holds no sway over me

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Posted on: April 26, 2021

FallingBright

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Spiele: 1108 Rezensionen: 71

A joy to play

What a great experience here. While I am a big fan of the original, this game didn't need a bit of nostalgia to stand on its own two legs. Wildly charming, truly funny dialogue. Great cinematics, with almost Dreamcast esque aesthetics with its beautiful cell art. It can be a bit clunky at times with the controls, but nothing that hampered my enjoyment. It is interesting as it has a point and click type approach to game flow, but with controls rooted in console gaming. Highly recommended for any lovers of adventure games, old or new.

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Edited on: September 21, 2025

Posted on: April 9, 2022

FearlessAdventurer

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Spiele: 435 Rezensionen: 12

Positively surprised

Well-made and modern sequel to an adventure game classic. Some nice locations to explore in an interesting world with lots of potential. Would have been nice to dive deeper into the world and its characters, some things felt a bit rushed, like just scratching the surface of a more complex world in the about 11 hours of playing time. The hacking was a nice addition to the gameplay. I just wish there would have been more visible effects to all of the non story relevant hacks you can do, or at least achievements for it. Locking up the poet in the VIP lounge was fun, though... The game's obviously optimized for consoles, so best controlled via gamepad. And it works well with one, aside from a very few occasions where it feels a bit clunky. Technically it's okay. The graphics are solid but nothing extraordinary. And it's relatively bug and glitch free (latest version). I only had to reload a savegame once, early at the city gates, because I was stuck thanks to a glitch that didn't let me enter a door I had to enter to continue.

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