Posted on: December 26, 2019
SkeleTony
Games: 463 Reviews: 13
'Difficult to play' isn't 'Old school'
First of all, while most know all about Cleve's controversial), downright bizarre (and VERY racist/bigoted) political assertions I am not going to base my review on such here but for those who care about such you may want to spend some time reading what he has to say before purchasing, especially if you are not a straight, white male who hates 95% of earth. I avoided the $40+ price for the game when I purchased on Steam -I paid $10 and the game worked so poorly that I soon afterwards ended up requesting Steam to delete my account and over 50 games I paid for. Yes, that bad! I am not opposed to difficult RPGs. I enjoyed Wizardry 7 for the most part but there are some games in which the difficulty is not in the form of 'Hey that puzzle was really hard!' but instead take the form of 'This game feels -not like a difficult game- but instead like doing a lot of hard work!' Grimoire is such a game. The interface/UI is just plain convoluted, forcing you to ask "WHY do things this way?!". I normally give RPGs bonus points for having a lot of character builds but Grimoire is full of confusing and stupid crap in this regard. Puzzles make no sense and neither do some of the character races such as the male Nagas/Giants. Don't even get me started on how an 8 person party rides around on a giant sea turtle through underground tunnels! I don't give a 1 star review because I like 2D artwork/graphics and here they are as good or better than say Wizardry 7. There are a very few 'That was ok.' bits but still most of this game feels like working some sort of office job where every day is an exercise in trying to get people to do simple things in strange ways because of bizarre company rules . Notice the positive reviews on here are all 5 stars and most of them do not give actual reasons why the game is good. They instead just say something like 'I agree with Cleve's politics and am only here to counter all of the negative reviews .'
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