Posted on: December 11, 2021
Patias
Verified ownerGames: 665 Reviews: 28
Wasted potential
What we have here is something that could have been an excellent and memorable Beat 'em up, but which is unfortunately just average. It's hard to understand what went on in the developers' heads. The look of the characters and settings is great, and the controls are very fluid, they work very well, but these are the only two elements that hold the game together. There are a huge number of stages, but they are highly repetitive, using almost always the same scenarios, with very few variations. The same goes for enemies. It's impressive because, from the beginning to the end of the almost 7 hours it took me to beat the game, there are basically five or six types of enemies, whose only change is visual, and even the visual changes are minimal. The music is completely expendable, and when the game tries to bring a different freshness to the gameplay, inserting levels with different purposes, like stages of racing or just breaking things, the situation gets even worse, as they seem to be there just to "cover hole". They are short and bland. As if that wasn't enough, both Asterix and Obelix have very few attacks, practically no possibility to trigger combos, there's not even a bar for special or possibility to improve your abilities. Basically you're going to press a button or two the entire game, against enemies with very bad AI. Finally, there are no extras, nothing, just the ability to select a stage after winning the game, and the settings don't allow button remapping or resolution switching. It's just unbelievable! If you're a fan of the franchise (as I am) you'll be able to have some light fun, although you'll certainly get seasick very quickly. If that's not your case, skip this game. It's a title with great potential, but one that has clearly been sacrificed for a rushed release, or something like that. It deserves 2.5 stars, but as GOG doesn't allow it, I'll give it 3 in hopes that future updates will improve gameplay a bit.
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