Posted on: June 20, 2019
slamdunk
Gry: 417 Opinie: 51
half-baked and rushed but kinda unique
As a pen and paper RPG, I like playing around in Numenera's setting but the game mechanics are pretty flimsy and low stakes. That's basically all you'll get here out of Torment: Tides of Numenera. The premise of Torment is that you fall out of the sky one day, with no memory of who you are, and with only a broken mystery device that'll give you any clue as to who you really were. You are presented with two potential companions, who hate each other. Like all companions in the game, they start off very promisingly, but ultimately they're pretty inconsequential. You then go to town to solve a variety of different side quests, to get you closer to fixing The Holy MacGuffin. I played the game under the assumption that it'd be fixed nearly right away, and then the plot would kick off, but NOPE! That's the whole game! You chase after this mystery device. Each subsequent area you move to gets more and more constrained, until a tiny little railroad track of plot takes you directly to the Big Bad's doorstop. "Join me or die." Etc. One major difference than in PNP is an extremely broad wealth of character building options. That's not the case here. Your options are: Fighter, Mage, Thief. If you don't intend to play the game more than once, pick Mage. They are psychic and they can read thoughts, and this adds character depth to the people you interact with. Skill checks in this game are beyond useless. Just spend your Fudge Tokens and you'll nail each one. Combat is a mere afterthought. Supposedly, this game raises philosophical questions, as its namesake Planescape: Torment does. Nah. Just enjoy the scenery and flavor. I want to say this though, this game has the absolutely without question the best descriptions of vendor trash and worthless junk I have ever seen in any video game ever. That's something, I guess? The game is fine, if you like reading. I beat it, which is more than most games I've played. 2.5/5 for being wholy mediocre with a little bit of fun writing.
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