FTL: Advanced Edition

If you are a casual gamer or don't have a lot of time to sink, don't buy. You just end up _wishing_ you could play this, but you can't. The game is really nice and addictive. Two things make it impossible for a casual gamer to play it: * lack of save game - you can only save when you exit. And the game gets deleted when you continue. The fans will tell you "but that's the point of the game". Fair enough. This is not such a big deal, though, as the game on easy is not that hard: I reached the final battle on the first play. Which brings us to: * impossible final battle - the first fight with the final boss is good, hard but not impossible. The second battle is way way harder than anything else. The strategies that you may have developed on other ships simply don't apply. You may have to upgrade the ship with a final strategy in mind... I'll never know. You spend a couple of hours to get a chance at the final battle, and you always come with a ship that is significantly different (the equipment you find is chance). Maybe if you do that tens of times, at the end you figure out what can work. I simply don't have the time to do that. If someone wrote a mod to make the end not that impossible, this would be a great game for the casual gamer too. Like this, is just a frustrating experience... :-/

Quick! The shields are down, there's a fire in life-support, and intruders have beam onto the ship, What do you do first? This game doesn't let up, and that's good. The UI is brilliant. If your ship blows up, you know it's because of your failure and not the game getting in your way. You get a honest feeling of being a Federal Ship Captain desperately trying to get away from the ever looming Rebel Fleet. The game actually puts you in moral dilemmas where you have to choose between doing what's righteous and doing what's right for you and your crew and without any silly bar or guaranteed result. Now the bad thing is it's short, most games only clock in at 30-90 mins. (of course you could see that as a positive.) Don't get me wrong they all different but after a couple of times through you'll become very versed in all the games scenarios and all they're possible outcomes. That is equaled out [IMHO] by the fact that it can run on even my P.O.S> laptop. A definite BUY

The more I play this game the less I like it

After 150 hours in this game I've won maybe 5 times, including once on hard! There are a lot of cool ships and strategies you can take to get to the end and fight the final boss, but it only takes one bad situation to screw it all up. For some reason I never minded starting over again. The game was good before advanced edition came out, now it's a classic without question.

FTL is a strategy roguelike set in space. To simplify it, your goal is to destroy the main bad guy’s ship. This sort of setup is very generic and for most games would be a negative, but FTL has a very specific focus. FTL only really cares about the journey, not the destination. While your overall goal is to be the hero, along the way you have complete freedom to craft your own story. Most playthroughs you won’t even get close to beating the game before you die to a pretty average, unremarkable ship. It gives the game a sense of realism, in that your character/ship isn’t special. You don’t have any unique advantages or anything like that, you are just an average guy. On the strategy side of things, FTL usually succeeds. It’s got a very solid gameplay loop in which you and the other ship trade blows while attempting to make the right choices when it comes to which area of the ship to target. The wide variety of weapons and crew members means that you wind up with a new ship everytime you play. The first and only misstep FTL makes is the balancing. There are a number of builds that are significantly better than some of the worst ones. Usually, it isn’t too glaring, but it can be hard for some players to resist the urge to min-max their ship. Presentation-wise, FTL has visuals that can be a bit basic, but they work very well with the overall vibe of the game. The ship designs all have a cohesive theme that differentiates each group of ships from each other. It feels great to recognize a ship type just from its shape or colors, and being able to use that information to guess what tactics the ship might use. The soundtrack fits the game and is much better than your typical background music... Due to GOG's character limit, this is the end of our review. Check out our website (https://www.mmmreviews.com/ftl-faster-than-light-review/) for the full review. TLDR: 10/10 (with Captain's Edition mod)