Posted on: February 24, 2025

ErnestLemingway

Jeux: 255 Avis: 20

Could be a good game .. but it isn't

Well, at the beginning it looks really good: you have some not bad story with promising development, nice atmosphere, and very polished artwork. Also, exploration is very like Darkest Dungeon with extra side quests, whats also add some value. Unfortunatelly, its all overshadowed by some major flaws that ruins whole effort in my opinion: Your companions are just an disposable assets, they dont any level up and if they die or get discarded ... well, there a bunch of other nameless assets to choose. Only way to improve their performance is to equip them with items (everyone has exacly one slot), and upgrading such requires a bunch of prematurely finished expediotions to get enough parts. That may be insuffient tho, since your brave warrior may be whacked durung single fight by hailstorm of crit strikes and multi-target hits, so your time is effectively wasted. Apparently damage dealing capacity is primary mean to progress. Every character can defend, do basic strike and use 2 additional abilities, that are as generic as possible. Theres no synergy between any of them nor any scaling up or down in effectiveness (some propably has, but I dont see any difference). Its just do damage, do more damage or do some minor buff/debuff. Its very convinient tho, because there no tooltips and popups with explanations or reminders outside character submenu. Everything here seems totally random. Crits, evades, hits or misses, those just happens. Debuff are irrrestiable, since there no resistance. During encounters, you just choose someone with no idea, if they skills are increasing chance to success or not at all. Armor or damage dedution is only effect of buffing. To wrap this up, think of Vambrace: Cold Soul as bland copy of Darkest Dungeon with nicely hand-drawn graphics. It might be quite late to rant over 5-years old game (6 even!), but thats a bright example, that even the cuttest, straight from wallpaper protagonist wont save game with poorly designed mechanics.

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Posted on: March 2, 2025

MethusalemOrion

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Jeux: 478 Avis: 25

Unfinished Gem

This is a copy of Darkest Dungeon with a slightly different setting. But it is missing a ton of the content Darkest Dungeon has. In example: you cannot levelup anything. You just select some random guys for the run and use your 2 attacks and push through the enemies or die because of bad luck. This game somehow relies more on luck then DD. I thought this is impossible but here we are. But okay, this is not DD so ... I liked the art. It was pretty cool and well done. The story also seems to be promising. Unluckily I did not get any achievements (I guess the game is just broken) although I already found multiple costumes, did side quests and finished the first boss. But still 0% achievements. Even the one which you get just right after getting into the town. I dislike the game because of missing content/features and an inconsistent art. While the levels are cool etc. the map is a nightmare. The character on the map is drawn in a kind of "chibi" style. It just does not fit into the flair of the game at all. There are also no names on the map so you never know where you are going to. Navigation is pretty bad. There is no shortcut to put all stuff into your chest. So you have to click a lot. You and your team do not heal automatically after entering the city ... you need to go to your room and sleep. But it is a very unnecessary step. Fights are somehow unfair in some cases. If your enemies randomly are all counters to your team: gg well played. Sometimes you run into several camps in a row (for healing etc.) and then in the final moments you don't and die although your inventory is full of healing potions. You cannot use any item until you are at a camp. There are more such inconsistencies. It just looks like it was not worked out to the end and then just published. And since nobody cares about it anymore, it is not patched. Etc. To be honest: I don't see any point/entertainment in playing this game. But the art and sound is good.

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Posted on: March 24, 2025

Flaviou

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Jeux: 206 Avis: 7

Difficulty?? No good

The game starts well, but continuing you realize that you have thrown away money, few random scenes, the mechanics of the game are in favor of the enemy, there is no real randomness, the standard difficulty of the game is focused on enjoying the story, but once you get to the boss after the invasion you can't go on, so the difficulty is set badly, very serious error in a video game, in fact I uninstalled the game, it left me with a bitter taste in my mouth, because to continue I should waste time developing a winning strategy...... but if one wants to enjoy only the story??

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Posted on: April 28, 2025

SlySylQc

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Great art/soundtrack, punishing game

Well what can I say... After 2 hours, I found a crafting altar during a mission. Using it gave my whole team a debuff that brought almost all my stats to 0. Dying and resting didnt remove the debuff, neither any items I had which lead me to believe I was supose to spend hours farming materials to remove the debuff so I can start farming materials to actually play the game... Thats in the first * dungeon *. Sorry but Im not grinding 2 hours or restarting my 2 hour game to reach to same point. Talk about backward mechanics. The art ,music and story might help you go through those kinds of surprises. Its really good and the combat was OK enougn that I would have kept on playing. The game focus on story with a main characters but really want to feels like a roguelite. Not my cup of tea.

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Posted on: July 6, 2025

jnln

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Looks nice, but is no fun

Looks nice enough at first, but gameplay is repetitive and punishing with many random elements and a UI that does not give you needed information. I lost interest after two attempts to defeat the first boss. You have to replay the first map for each attempt. I don't want to do this a third time because it's ultimately boring and no fun.

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