Posted on: February 21, 2020

zenorogue

Games: 29 Reviews: 1

Not good

I have seen this game recommended somewhere. I read "innovative real-time combat that lets you pause or slow time" and I was like "hey, how is that innovative??? turn-based games exist since Chess and Go. Next time they will make a 2D game and say how innovative this is". I have decided to try it anyway and I still find this marketing weird. - I think the system of bringing only four heroes into the battle does not fit the general design of the game. I have been investing everything in the first four heroes (and usually choosing alignment choices to make them more powerful). Playing all the heroes would be more fun (let me use all their skills) and more logical, given that ALL of them are displayed exploring the Tower. - The combat became repetitive from some point. - In the combat, it was difficult to understand what is going on (tell my heroes and summoned allies from the enemies). The combat arenas were too large to display everything clearly, and they were repetitive and looked nothing like the environment you could see during the exploration. During the exploration the corridors were narrow, but during the combat, everything was 20 m wide and enemies attacked from all directions. - The story becomes annoying from some point. Not coherent. - The graphics performance was very bad on my computer (GTX 1060). Also, the architecture did not really make sense. - Items are boring. Inventory and crafting interfaces are cumbersome. - They have added "roguelike" mode which does not seem to be a good thing... A good roguelike is designed in a completely different way than a RPG. You cannot just apply permadeath and story reduction and call it a "roguelike". You need something to make every playthrough seem different (item variety, procedurally generated dungeons, etc.)

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Posted on: November 21, 2020

Lookda

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Games: 416 Reviews: 53

Tactical party combat with a bogus story

Tower of Time is very atmospheric. I was pleasantly surprised by the game’s mood, the beautiful environments and music. In the upside-down tower, you find a skeleton in a skiff floating on a dark lake, and see detailed manufacturing plants in the far distance long before you descent between the machines. The gameplay reminds me of Dungeon Siege from 2002. Your growing party presses onward on a linear path while fighting endless mobs. Combat takes place in arenas, which support simplistic AI pathfinding in a tactical game of positioning. It is not about violence and bloodshed. Huge axes swing without sound or impact. That does not mean that the combat is bad, quite the contrary. Encounters are handcrafted. The result is balanced combat that becomes progressively harder. You find optional fights that are challenging and offer interesting loot. Some of the stronger loot breaks the typical rpg rule of more is better. An item can drain life, but provide a large decrease to casting delay. This allows a glass cannon build or shifting healing from passive individual healing to placing party healing totems. The balance brakes later in the game. The variety of options allows builds that are too powerful. Spells that hit an area with damage over time become obsolete. Where epic difficulty provides an enormous challenge early on, requiring varied party setup and slow time to survive, it provides hardly any challenge on later levels. The game tells you to play on a just doable difficulty. This might be true, but also replaces flexibility by min-maxing. At high difficulty, the choice between a physical axe and fire sword is replaced by picking the weapon with most penetration. The story deserves some mention. It is unique and starts by complementing the atmosphere. I was enthralled, till the Organthe. From there the story derails, completely. I found it bogus as hell, and worse. After completing the story (100+ hours), I’m left confused about all the non-sense.

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Posted on: March 27, 2019

Koyote.272

Verified owner

Games: 56 Reviews: 3

Excellent little game

Good gameplay that overstays its welcome a bit. Honestly, the game could have been a little shorter, it becomes repetitive at one point. However, I am not going to lower the score because of that. Also, the game could have paced its difficulty better. Hard is not really hard, it's more normal. Story becomes better as the game progresses. Dialogue could have been better but I understand the limitations of an indie game. Good job devs, for a fair price you get 40-50 hours of very fun gameplay.

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Posted on: January 31, 2019

Elentari42

Verified owner

Games: 9 Reviews: 2

Tactical RPG fun with Quenya

I really enjoyed this game even before I found out that the elvish conversations actually start with a greeting in Quenya. Now I am in love with it.

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Posted on: March 1, 2020

sfusco83

Verified owner

Games: 204 Reviews: 4

Phenomenal Game

This is a phenomenal game. If you like tactical RPG's, I highly recommend it. I've put 70 hours in, some on normal, some on hard, most on epic difficulty and I am now heading to the 6th level of the tower, so I still have a ways to go to finish the game. This game has given me some of the most epic and satisfying battles I've EVER played in a tactical RPG; some battles can last for 30+ minutes and include a lot of tactical micromanagement of your characters. The game does real-time with pause right by giving players a limited number of skills and different maps to fight on. The problem with a lot of cRPG's in my opinion is that there's too much choice: too many items, too many skills, too many spells, too many characters, too much dialogue. This game follows a less-is-more approach and I found it to be just right. 4 characters to command in battle and equip is just right. The only complaint I have about the game is that I found it to be too easy. I am playing on the hardest difficulty (epic), and by the time I reached level 4 of the tower, I started intentionally handicapping myself by playing with only 3 characters because the game got too easy. Even with 3 characters, I am still winning battles too convincingly so I might have to drop down to 2. I wish the devs would make another difficulty level for the most hardcore fans. I also think that RPGlite mode should start where the regular game starts because by starting directly at the tower, the player misses a lot of important chests and equipment that can be gathered beforehand and there's a really tough boss fight coming up and your party has very little gear. Replay value is good if you are willing to get a little creative. I'm going to replay on RPGlite mode with all different characters for more variety and challenge. Thanks to the developers!

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