DYSMANTLE

Начало игры очень обнадежило, но после десяти часов игры стало скучновато-нудновато. Враги респавнятся и они достаточно сильны. Причем, апгрейд оружия, на который я так надеялся, мало что решает - видимо, авторы искусственно поднимают уровень монстров, уравнивая с игроком. А потому прокачка теряет какой-либо смысл. Ну, почти, так как какие-то плюсы мы все равно получаем. Но главное все-таки потеря динамики. Гринд и беспрерывное выбивание одних и тех же врагов. Надоедает, честно говоря.

I wish I'd never started this game as my autism enforced me to finish it. It fails on so many levels like depth of mechanics, convenience, control and game-flow. - The game is about destroying and looting, yet there is a delay of about a second until items can be picked up, which permanently enforces you to either wait or micro-backtrack even with increased pickup radius. - They even added a delay between cycling weapons in a single-player game. You can't double or triple click in order to switch two or three weapons, since the commands will be ignored during the delay, instead of being queued in. It is so slow and unresponsive, it is easier to switch into inventory and equip items, especially when you want to cycle through 2-3 items. - Movement feels very sluggish like controlling a person on ice-skates. - You can't use your mouse to aim your hits properly like in other games with isometric view. This is for a ton of reasons that gog will not allow me to elaborate. - Powerattacks can only be done when you face an enemy near you while being aim-locked onto it. Since the lock activates much too late, you need to do it manually every time. - Monstermovement patterns are easy to read, certainly to compensate for the sluggish playstyle. They are also literally blind. - Have fun planting and harvesting over 500 seeds into the ground, costing you hours of lifetime only to watch a senseless animations and press 1 button every 2 seconds. - Dying is not something you need to be afraid of in this game. - Most open world areas are filled with tunnels that restrict player-movement, treating the player like a toddler, which directly corresponds to how the story progression is handled. Not recommended, even when discounted, unless you are a controller-cowboy that is okay with a very slimmed down survival game experience and sluggish game-play and controls.

As someone who lives in the country and often drives to or from work at dawn or dusk, I have often wanted to chase down whitetail deer with a crow bar. Now I can

Because I tend to only write negative reviews :( The game is mostly fun and enjoyable, but it does so many things terribly wrong/badly. First of all, locking fast travel between camp fires behind paid DLC? That's just wrong. You can fast travel between some towers, but there are only so few of them and the locations can be awkward. If you die a second time before reaching your corpse, the new corpse overwrites the previous one - you lose the loot. Switching between tools is incredibly tedious and frustrating. Maybe a compromise for controller support? I mostly equip two tools to avoid switching, but I'll need to manually equip situational tools every time. Same for trinkets (passive bonus). Bugs around controlling your tools/weapons. Sometimes you swing at the cursor's direction, sometimes at the direction the character is facing. Sometimes it happens in combat and you keep swinging at the air when you run away from a monster behind you because your character somehow doesn't want to face the monster. Speaking of running, you can toggle running so you don't have to hold the Shift key all the time to run, but it can change to walking in combat, inconsistently too. WTF? Some tools can do AoE, but sometimes the game thinks it knows better and automatically turns the character to a different angle, incredibly annoying. You can force the correct angle by manually clicking once per swing/attack, but then sometimes due to timing the attack might not register so the character stands there like an idiot for a second before you click again. It also makes auto attacking useless (by holding down left click). A few things that require a lot of resource to upgrade but become obselete very quickly. Once end game comes there is no use for pretty much anything :/ Boss fights are boring. Although it's not really an action game. But random turrets on the road can 1 or 2 shot you. Have fun! The view angle and distance don't help. The trip back to your corpse can be a long one.

It's seemingly an "open world", but it's not open at all. You need to loot certain items from certain places to get that upgrade, so you can advance to next area. Also, it lacks the "base building" and "sandbox" features nearly completely – at least I could find them. Picking up has weird delay, you need to run back and forth to pick up. On the plus side, it's very good and polished in its own area: smash & collect tube runner. Combat is all about tactic.