Posted on: July 11, 2023
xXBalthorXx
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An actual review of an OK game
While I get the complaint about poor product descriptions, here's some actual thoughts on Hero's Hour and its DLC. You will see this and think "Oh, it's HoMM! Or well, an 'HoMMage' to it at least". And on a very superficial level, you'd be right - Hero's Hour borrows a lot from HoMM for its strategic layer design and mechanics, and in terms of looks, systems, etc. That's fine in and of itself, but it creates a certain expectation: that it'll try to live up to such a genre-defining saga. That it'll learn from the best and at least deliver something of comparable depth and polish. And that's where, for all but the most casual and nostalgia-blind gamers, this game fails. HH is not a terrible game. There's some fun to be had with it's kinda wonky, silly and chaotic auto-battling system - though little is found in terms of tactics. The overworld gameloop of expand - defeat - grow clicks well enough (on a surface level...). The AI is stupid, but not utterly incompetent, good enough for the first couple maps. But once that 'brand new game' feel wears off, once you start diving deeper and wanting more, it just falls flat. There's absolutely no "Campaign" past the rudimentary tutorial. This means all "content" will be experimenting with different map types and trying the three or four overarching builds between all Towns. Because despite each of them having different mechanics and some unique skills, the lack of depth in the combat layer really boils things down to just a handful of different playstyles. Balance has been off since launch (when I started playing this), and through its ups and downs it's never quite settled right - this release represents a big balance patch (2.5.0) so I'm hoping it's better than when the DLC launched, but expect things to suck or be massively OP, which will make your early experience likely worse. Beyond that, it'll just start to feel very repetitive, and few things will help spice it up. Get it on sale if you really fancy it. It's ok.
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