Posted on: November 8, 2020
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Machinators
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Not enough deckbuilding goodness
This game seemed like the dream combination or roguelike deckbuilding and turn-based strategy-RPG but it becomes apparent that the deckbuilding aspect comes last within those elements. That might be fine for other players but I was hoping for the main focus to be deckbuilding. This game does a lot of things right, though. So if you want a game that flaunts great resource management, tactical depth, 2D graphics, the feeling of progression, amount of content and borrowing from old school CRPGs, then you've come to the right place. There's a story mode, endless Realm mode, in-game codex and on top of modifiers such as difficulty to really suit your taste. All this initially enticed me to play the game but I went in the wrong assumption that this was a deckbuilder. It's not. The cards are there to just play your characters' moves and steer you in a particular direction for builds. The meat of the combat is actually the positioning, turn order and just choosing the cards that will quickly get enemies to 0 HP. There's no deck building from scratch, earning new cards from battles, rarity tier of cards, a "universal" deck for all characters and not enough synergy cards that work universally. In fact, the game comes pre-defined with a deck per character with those character build specialisations, which actually lock off and restrict the kinds of cards they can use, which is an unbelievably stupid mechanic. I was hoping to assign ANY deck to ANY character, making my own deck from scratch, applying universal synergies and hoping most of the game's mechanics would revolve around the cards and not resource management. I don't want supplies or runes to worry about, but cards in my deck that would INSTEAD offset those resources. The deckbuilding aspect feels tacked on top of an already good tactical game, I think the game would be better off if they ditched it and went with traditional levelling up with skills and perks.
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