Posted on: November 2, 2024
Plaid_Gloves
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Different, But Ultimately Very "Meh"
I'm not the sort to bash games just because I enjoy complaining. And this really isn't a "bash," so to speak; for what it is, the game is a quality piece of playable art. But if you're looking for anything other than that (like fun, for example), I'd recommend steering away from this one. The art direction is its core strength. With its minimalistc visuals and soundtrack, the game really nails the quiet, eerie, depressing atmosphere it's going for. The experience left me feeling more emotionally hollow than many of the over-the-top apocalypse settings of some AA and AAA titles. Whether or not you will enjoy this hollowed-out feeling will depend on your taste, of course, but for my part, it served as a pretty good deterent against starting another campaign. And that's saying something. After your first playthrough, the game unlocks an "all dogs" mode where you can play, ostensibly, as an entire troup of fluffy shiba inus. As great as that sounds, the game just really couldn't pull me in enough to want to play it again, no matter how many shiba inus it promised to let me shove into a minivan. See, there are games that are addictive because they are simple, and there are games that are fun because they are difficult. This game is both exceedingly simple and brutally difficult (on any setting beyond the default). But the way it combines these two things just feels... empty. Repetitive. Joyless. I love tactical turn-based strat games, so it's not the mechanical genre that I dislike. There's just something I can't quite put my finger on that makes this experience feel excessively flat. Each playthrough will take you less than five hours, which is a really disappointing length of time for a $20 game. Endgame consists of dry "play it again but with even MORE difficulty" challenges that try to stretch out that time but fail to motivate you to actually play more. It's a quality indie title, so I wish I could speak higher praise. But the fact is that it's just "meh."
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