Posted on: August 27, 2024
Zenalis
Games: 89 Reviews: 5
Not Worth the Discount Price
I considered being a lot more verbose with this review, but hungyeung has said much of what I was going to. He's absolutely right, the star systems were copy-pastes of each other, the gameplay pretty much ignored everything but combat. There is one thing he forgot to mention that's stuck with me since I bought the game just because of the sheer laziness it shows. On (if I recall frequent) occasion, when you were near one of these cut and paste jumpgates in one of these cut and paste star systems you'd get a bit of dialogue between two pilots. Pilot One: "Look at that ship! That ship is awesome!" Pilot Two: "I've never seen anything like it! That must be really expensive!" This encounter would feature the same two (male) voice actors, regardless of the species the pilots belonged to, and regardless of how that species' voices would be otherwise presented. This included systems populated entirely by Thule, who were exclusively female, save for apparently these two pilots who were twentysomething surfer dudes despite looking exactly like all the other Thule. Also also, whoever gave the lead male VA his lines should've slapped him. In response to some alien describing, "the schismatic Thule." the main character asks, "The 'Charismatic' Thule?" In what dialect of English do schismatic and charismatic sound anything alike?! I know the recording probably wasn't done ensemble, but that almost makes it worse. YOU HAD THE SCRIPT RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU! THE DIRECTOR HAD A COPY OF THE SCRIPT RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM OR HER! One of the greatest Elder Scrolls memes comes from the accidental inclusion of an unprompted do-over by Linda Kenyon into actual game dialogue, but Ascaron just took the botched reading, said, "Good enough!" and went with it. So yeah, in conclusion, poorly made as hungyeung said, but also tremendously lazy.
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