Posted on: November 21, 2020
Lookda
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Tactical party combat with a bogus story
Tower of Time is very atmospheric. I was pleasantly surprised by the game’s mood, the beautiful environments and music. In the upside-down tower, you find a skeleton in a skiff floating on a dark lake, and see detailed manufacturing plants in the far distance long before you descent between the machines. The gameplay reminds me of Dungeon Siege from 2002. Your growing party presses onward on a linear path while fighting endless mobs. Combat takes place in arenas, which support simplistic AI pathfinding in a tactical game of positioning. It is not about violence and bloodshed. Huge axes swing without sound or impact. That does not mean that the combat is bad, quite the contrary. Encounters are handcrafted. The result is balanced combat that becomes progressively harder. You find optional fights that are challenging and offer interesting loot. Some of the stronger loot breaks the typical rpg rule of more is better. An item can drain life, but provide a large decrease to casting delay. This allows a glass cannon build or shifting healing from passive individual healing to placing party healing totems. The balance brakes later in the game. The variety of options allows builds that are too powerful. Spells that hit an area with damage over time become obsolete. Where epic difficulty provides an enormous challenge early on, requiring varied party setup and slow time to survive, it provides hardly any challenge on later levels. The game tells you to play on a just doable difficulty. This might be true, but also replaces flexibility by min-maxing. At high difficulty, the choice between a physical axe and fire sword is replaced by picking the weapon with most penetration. The story deserves some mention. It is unique and starts by complementing the atmosphere. I was enthralled, till the Organthe. From there the story derails, completely. I found it bogus as hell, and worse. After completing the story (100+ hours), I’m left confused about all the non-sense.
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