Posted on: February 13, 2023
Megabyte
Games: 549 Reviews: 112
A lore-fiend's dream...
In a word, this game is very unbalanced in what it offers the player. When it's at it's best, the game stands with the greats offering cooler arenas and locations then I have seen in just about any other game I have ever played and facing off with interesting and different creatures that are actually fun to figure out, despite it's punishing nature. But it needs time to build up to this and once it's shown you all the enemies it has, the battle quickly loses it's luster and just becomes an obstacle you have to get through before the interesting details can begin leaking out to you again about the world itself. It's a shame, really, but it makes the game both easy and tough to recommend at the same time. If you are a lore-fiend, you will find a lot to love here, but you will likely cheat your way through before you finish to just stop getting aggravated when some guy you didn't know appeared behind you launched a missile up your ass and now you have to trudge all the way back to the battle to try again. If you are an action fiend, you will likely love the challenge at first, but get bored with the same waves of exploding guys followed by flying guys, followed by walking guys you will see for most of the game. While the world building works very well, the action gameplay supporting it stops doing so well before you finish, be it from frustration or boredom, depending on your game-style. And to this end I would say check it out if you can get it on sale. I'd hate to miss that story and some of the coolest battles for the sake of the lamer ones, but I wouldn't want to have spent full price because of them.
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