Posted on: January 27, 2018
Firndeloth
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: Rezensionen: 2
Diminishing Returns
Things started well. The game looks beautiful and is frequently charming in it's emoting if not quite so often in it's dialog. I'll also note that I played on Harder difficulty and later looked up plays on youtube to see what difference that made--pleasantly surprised to find it meant new obstacles and enemies had be carefully added to the game rather than the standard damage buff/debuff. Unfortunately the longer I played the game the more confused I became. What started out as a straightforward platformer with a lot of confidence in its story telling gradually slipped into a lot of strange sequences of running around frustratedly repeating things or trying to figure out what on Earth the game is asking of me. The limtied upgrade slots which at first promised decision making ultimately felt tedious (especially with resources being weirdly imbalanced), with the one or two fun and powerful aids losing out to quality of life upgrades that felt like they should have just been plot/gear progression auto-upgrades for how much better they felt. The game relies on an old-school save point system except when it doesn't. Some bossfights have well placed save statues near them, others are a painful retread away and yet others (as well as some story scenes and such) have more modern checkpointing. This inconsistency makes it not only stressful but confusing when long, tedious and/or difficult sections have neither convenient save points nor auto-checkpointing. More often than challenging fights and areas, though, I encountered tedious ones that required a lot of back-tracking or trial and error. Sometimes this was intended, others it was poor communication--neither was charming. Finally that narrative confidence comes off less well hours in with the story seeming as jumbled as the save system. Or the mechanics--at one point far in Iconoclasts decides it is a stealth game, too. It isn't a stealth game. There's a lot I wanted to like, but it becomes toothless and tiring.
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