Pendragon

Fans of Into the Breach will like this chess-like strategy game set in Arthurian times.

Yeah your game is so clever, it turn off the action confirm at boss fight so cause a loose game. The resolution is only available at 23hz I can't select the option, so why you add this option?? GARBAGE GAME. I don't want to give affirmation to a program loss game.

Let's get the good points down: Player directed story (tick) Chess style combat with stances and specials and fatigue (tick) Art style (tick) Music (tick) Core (story) gameplay loop has been nailed. Now the bad stuff Firstup the camera zoom in/zoom out is sickening, jarring, disorientating and there are better ways to hide the fact your characters are not animated but this was a pain. In map mode the camera bollocks is just damn annoying and I'd rather have a static camera to see where I am and what options I have instead of feeling as though I'm partially drunk. Also the camera zoomy thing takes bloody ages to complete...I'm not feeling the atmosphere, if anything it's broken while I'm waiting, and waiting, and waiting... Secondly the text spams onto the screen in a variety of ways, from full screenwide lines to speech bubbles to context text dialog choice boxes - each has it's own style and it's a mess, a graphic design failure of the worst kind. I understand that it's trying to make the most of what is essentially a lot of text to convey mood, motive and action in lieu of visual graphics but not like this. If you're a really slow reader it might feel nice but as a quick reader my eyes are being pulled about all over the place and it's nasty. Thirdly - only two characters available at the start. The rest are unlocks. Fuck off developers for doing this. Stop doing this. Locking the difficulty I totally understand but not the characters. Wanky choice. Poor choice. Developers: stop locking your game FFS. I'm not motivated to carry on, I'm motivated to drop your game and slag it off online. Like this.