Posted on: September 16, 2015
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I want to love you, Arcen
A great concept where you play a giant Tiamat dragon(!) stuck in the middle of a 4X game played out between AIs where you try to influence each race until they become even, make nice, and form a federation together. Where it fails is mostly that it's even more obtuse than Arcen's other game AI War (I tried AI War for 10 hours; I couldn't take more than 1 of LF). In fact, it's almost to the point where it's a Paradox strategy game (Victoria, Crusader Kings). I see the screenshots are very careful not to show you the main strategic screen where you'll spend most of your time. It's 90% staring at walls of tiny colored texts. Not even pictures of the races, not even different colors! Tell the races apart on the map by icons of the exact same color. Every piece of info is scattered around instead of the most obvious place you'd need it. You would think something as basic as your money supply would be on the main screen. Nope! You must go to the inventory screen. Multiple ways to do the exact same thing and no way to gauge how any of them are more worthwhile. Each planet has 4 stats but they all affect similar things so why didn't they just have a single stat for that? Buying a tech for +0.3 manufacturing worth it? It costs me $1000 to purchase a scientist to reduce a single tech research from 8 months to 7 months...okay? Is that good? What's the time frame? Who knows. It's just a bunch of obtuse numbers. The combat is Critical Mass, except there's a billion objects flying around like a bullet hell shooter so there's no point to carefully maneuvering. Each race is very different but there was no in-game way to tell their differences as far as I could tell. I saw that the ground combat specialty race had a high ground combat total strength and that's it. The game doesn't even tell you the victory condition! There is no manual. There is no strategy guide I could find. It's one of those games you have to comb through forums to get the complete picture. I'll have to pass.
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