Posted on: January 20, 2016
Andre_geo
Игр: 371 Отзывов: 27
Think twice before getting this game
Well, in spite of all the very optimistic comments the truth gameplay experience is not really all that sugarcoated. I have got this game on Steam right after the Cove was released (so no final dungeon) , was observing how it was evolving over the time, played through updates and the final version. Now after an extensive gameplay I must admit that the game is so very unbalanced that it will divide all players in about three groups: 1) New and casual players who will go as far as level 3, perhaps 4 and get quickly repelled by the steep difficulty ramp. New players who survive will move to tho next categories. 2) More involved players, some of them still remembering the hardship of THE famous Nethack, who will search for strategies and will manage to reach level 6 with various characters. At this point most of these players will get fed up with the random generated deatblows on characters who took weeks to build. 3) Very dedicated players who like to be punished and feel pleasure from chains of failures. Think about an archetype of a good sadomasochist. So why all this whining, you may ask? I do admit that up to the level 4-5 I had lots of fun with the game, the idea with heirlooms, statues etc is fresh and nice, boss fights in the first 2 levels are tough but still fine if you approach the issue with the right strategy. I'm convinced that the gross of the positive comments are coming form this bit of the game. Yet, as you reach level 5 everything seems to become less and less balanced. All my negative comments are to the LATER GAMEPLAY. Not the easy or fairly mid game. Here are my thoughts: -Skills are fine but the scaling of them is appalling if you compare how fast resistances of the enemy are going up. It's a classic scissors approach where you are given allure of leveling up but in fact you just try to catch on with the enemy e.g. For your +5 damage the enemy gets 10 plus a bonus 25% resistance or dodge 25. - At the highest dungeon levels the death rate is actually much higher than at lower levels not because the enemy is smarter than you. There is simply no good strategy to defend or quickly defeat the enemy who is pounding in you with a great effect and you score a bunch of misses and do silly damage. - Heal as you get pounded but just take a look on the scaling of all heal skills. Your team is half dead before you can get anything sensible out of them. - Bleed and blight are getting seriously weak if you check how little damage they do per round. You can pile them up but then every time you have to overcome the resistance... so not much help here either. -Camping is the very last think you should do and buffs are now limited to 4 battles. So if you get ambushed you loose one already at the start, get massacred and your guys freak out from stress. -Trinkets are useless for little benefits they provide. -Handling quirks does not mater because your 6 level characters can die easily with 3 blows at the highest dungeon. So why to invest any money? -Level 6 has NO benefits for the gameplay. No super quirks, no 3rd trinket slot, nothing. Just measly bonuses in damage and resolve :/ The game is a simple meat grinder made to be initially nice and challenging but only very few people are meant to finish it. Not because they are smart or so. It is a test how much time and resolve you can muster before you become disinterested.
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