Posted on: October 2, 2023

sherlock_holmes9

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A forgiving FTL, with a good story

The primary unique factor behind Crying Suns is the story. It's a fairly decent take on a Space Opera, with lots and twists and turns, some obvious, others unexpected. For anyone who likes the story, the similar (but different) space game "House of the Dying Sun" is good and worth a look. The gameplay is good if you like tactical space battles, but yes, it could be considered repetative, though the enemy factions all play somewhat differently. I found it diverse enough to be worth completing without feeling like a grind. Personally I found a couple of the combat features superfluous: Anti-squadren weapons seemed pointless to me when you can have an anti-battleship weapons instead. Same for the ship "effects" - they're mostly too ephemeral to be useful. For my part I just ignored those and got on fine, but maybe they'll suit other playstyles. The art style is unique and very well done, even if I did occasionally struggle to make out features in the pixellated people; I guess that's an "artistic decision". Well worth it.

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Posted on: November 3, 2023

oldschoolrox

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Spiele: 154 Rezensionen: 19

FTL-clone with style but lacking depth

Crying suns has lots of style but lacks depth. The core principle borrows heavily from FTL, the battles, story and presentation stand on their own. The art is well crafted, the art direction seems inconsistent to me though: the animated sequences and characters are pixel art and everything else is high res 3D. This resembles the storytelling - the world and factions are worked out in far more detail than the characters, which is kind of typical for science fiction writing. Gameplay is ok, smooth and without any noticeable bugs, very repetitive though. Once you learn the controls and the very basic mechanics of the battles and events nothing new will happen. Basically each of the 6 chapters are exactly the same with some random events and slight story progression. Also, boss-fights are the same as normal fights, just lightly harder. The final fight is just a few boss-fights after each other. Design-wise I don´t like that you can´t load a saved game after you die, but have to start over the entire chapter. So for example, when you are taken down by the boss at the end of a chapter then it´s 2-4 hours of gameplay you just have to repeat. That should give you some sense of urgency I guess. But for me it just results in playing on "easy" all the time because I don´t have that much time to waste.

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Posted on: June 18, 2022

gearhead191

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I've enjoyed my time spent with it.

It's fun. I spent almost 3 hours with it and enjoyed it thoroughly. It's well priced when on sale and I would feel content with my purchase even if I never go back to it. That being said, I probably will play more of it. I'm still in chapter one and starting to unravel the story a bit. If you're not sure, try the demo, it's free!

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Posted on: January 22, 2023

Woffelson

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Spiele: 15 Rezensionen: 1

Aesthetic world building done well

People might have mixed preferences about games like these. As a roguelite kind of game Crying Suns works pretty well, although I can see why some people get bored fast when grinding things. Nevertheless, Crying Suns is a very strong game in other aspects than just the mechanics. Personally the melancholic post-apocalyptic sci-fi story set in cosmos was just the itch I needed to scratch, along with the strategic battles giving some variation to the game's pace. Aesthetically I really enjoyed the artsyle and music too. (I also recommend listening to OST on deluxe edition/Spotify/etc, it has also some additional parts not heard in-game.) Storywise the game is carefully built and the lore seems immersive when you take your time to read it. This in mind you could consider how much you can get out of this kind of game. At least I got just what I wanted.

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Posted on: September 24, 2019

Iothil

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Spiele: 98 Rezensionen: 32

Great game with great visuals

Plays pretty great, polished gameplay, reminds me very much of FTL with an actual story. Visually extremely well done, and the soundtrack is dope. My biggest gripe: the way shipweapons work and the way you "customise" your ship. Long story short: there is a bunch of different ships, everyone has a fixed upgrade roster, e.g. ship A can't upgrade weapons to bigger than 2, ship B can't have more than 2 squadron bays, etc. Interesting, but just a tad too restrictive. Ship weapons are either ship-to-ship weapons that deal reduced dmg to squadrons or ship-to-squadron guns that have area, additional effects and are rather interesting to play with, but deal NO dmg to the enemy battleship. Not really bad in itself, it just seems a bit half-baked for what otherwise seems like an amazingly well done and polished game.

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