Operencia: The Stolen Sun

I saw someone describe the combat in this game as "swing-y", and that's the best word for it. The flow of combat can swing wildly, due to too many combat situations and abilities being based on RNG. Overall, this is a decent game with good production value. But all too often, the swinginess of combat makes it more frustrating than it needs to be. There's a fine line between a game being challenging and being outright unfair, and unfortunately, the game frequently leans towards the latter. Bosses (and a few regular enemies too) often have abilities for which the player's party have no defences or counters against: a lot of these abilities are status effects that essentially put PCs out of commission for a few turns. That's never a fun experience as a player, to not be able to do anything while PCs' turns get skipped over. Whether you find this game enjoyable or not will depend on your patience for dealing with frustration. Personally, I didn't feel the rest of the game was outstanding enough to make up for the annoyances of combat. IMHO there are better dungeon crawlers out there.

It's not a bad game, but you quickly find out there is no depth at all in this game. There are only about 9 skills for a mage, and similar arounts for the other classes. There is zero replayability and you can reach the top tier skills very early in the game. This all renders it somewhat uninteresting to finish. The graphics are above averave for the genre, but the voice acting is atrocious and the puzzles very simple for the most part. Overall, it's ok if you are a big fan of these types of games but it does nothing interesting and has a very limited scope.

little mistakes, but good!

The game seems shallow, rushed, and unpolished, despite being priced alongside higher-end games. I found it impossible to become immersed for a number of reasons: - The opening is poorly optimized, with flicker and frame drops, poor audio mixing drowning out voices, and massive overuse of filters and blurs. - The art feels obviously rushed and incomplete. There are many places where sketches/text stand in for missing animations/cutscenes. It feels like they were reaching for AAA, but ran out of money partway and had to ship with a lot of placeholder art and narration. It would have been better for immersion to aim lower and achieve a consistent look & feel. - The disconnect between looking (freely in 3D) and moving (confined to a grid) is jarring. A ninety-degree rotation occurs in around 1/10 of a second, and is so heavily blurred as to be dizzying. - I had zero connection to the characters. When you first take control, you have three party members, each with half a dozen unique, named skills. It feels like taking over someone elses D&D campaign halfway through. - Touching an enemy model in the game world pauses time and transports you to a 2D space where you fight a turn based battle, a la Final Fantasy. It takes you out of the moment -- kinda like in The Return Of The King, when The Mouth of Sauron strides out to face Aragorn, and then it smash-cuts to a 2D animation where they play Pokemon for the fate of Middle Earth. - The voice acting ranges from "decent" to "just awful." It really takes you out of the story when the monotone robot lady drones out "I've never a creature like that before" with all the emotion of Ferris Beuller's teacher. - Progression seems limited and shallow, and the combat felt very gimmicky. Nothing occurs in real time, so combat is closer to a card game, choosing which cards to play based on resistances and the gimmicks of the round. The game isn't awful, but it's a 2.5/5, rounded down to 2/5 because it's priced as a high-end game.

says it all. excellent dungeon crawler in every aspect. i played it on Xbox so not a verified user here.