Posted on: January 16, 2014

Kjaama

Игр: 73 Отзывов: 5

Poor successor to the originals

Shadowrun for the SNES is one of my favourite games of all time, and I was extremely excited to hear that they were doing a new Shadowrun game with old-school values. Unfortunately the old-school "values" of Shadowrun returns are not the exploration, difficulty and balancing, but instead are low-grade graphics, minimal music/sound and a distinct lack of polish. The writing is, whilst not offensive, very mediocre. The multiple response options in dialogue suggest that dialogue trees were once considered, but ultimately the standard 'good/neutral/bad' responses all take you on to the same npc response. The combat is taken almost verbatim from X-com: Enemy Unknown, and while that's not necessarily a bad thing, the frequency with which Karma points (exp) are given means you are constantly several steps ahead of your enemies. I played through on normal and, barring the first out-of-tutorial combat (in which my minimal hp character had to survive two hits before they could act) I have never had to reload and have never looked in danger at any moment. Shadowrun returns is an isometric, turn-based, party-based rpg - my favourite genre of game. Yet it feels very disappointing and the fact that it is outclassed in almost every department by a SNES game produced some 20 years previously is desperately sad.

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Posted on: December 17, 2013

Jarmo

Владелец игры

Игр: Отзывов: 15

Simple fun combat RPG

The plot is very Shadowrun: science, cyberpunk, magic. Well written enjoyable stuff. 14 hours is how long I spent on my first run and I don't think there's much more to it, nor much replayability. Some things can be done in multiple ways, but you're still going a very narrow path. Like a super simple point and click adventure with combat scenes. It didn't feel overly short though, there's no random encounters or any usual fetch and carry missions or unerthly long mob fights to artificially lengthen the experience, so the main plot is comparable in length to most "normal" rpg's. Atmosphere, potential, pretty decent combat system. This cries out for a bunch of extra adventures, could become the Neverwinter Nights of cyberpunk.

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Posted on: May 14, 2014

Cleggster

Владелец игры

Игр: 69 Отзывов: 2

It's fun and midly addicting

Beautiful, hand painted backdrops in which you drop your character to experience the darkly neon Shadowrun. The combat is highly addictive with a huge amount of options. The adventure that comes with it, while very liner, is extremely well written. Seriously, some of the best writing I have ever seen in a computer game. Also, the content that has come out already from the editor is amazing. Ranging to tight storyline's to open setting exploration. You can guarantee countless hours of simple RPG fun. Save system could be better, but I have play much worse. And it will be fixed this Jan. In addition to another campaign with, expected, high quality writing. Defiantly a fun game. Especially for the price and no DRM.

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Posted on: July 11, 2014

michailv

Игр: 422 Отзывов: 2

Simple. Wonderful.

It feels more like a tabletop rpg session than any other game, really. Great story. Yes, you kind of know it's on rails, but it feels so damn good -- like playing with a really good DM. And it's a great length. I don't always want another 60+ hour epic. This never overstayed its welcome. And I loved that it was a murder mystery. Felt very different. A lot of people like the expansion Dragonfall more, where they tried to do more (added a persistent team, a hub, etc.) but I liked it less... it felt like it was trying to be more, but the cracks showed more too. Still great fun, though! Can't beat the setting ^__^

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Posted on: October 7, 2020

MissMisinformation

Владелец игры

Игр: 80 Отзывов: 3

Roger Ebert said it best

To paraphrase my favorite movie review of all time, for the 1999 "The Mummy", I can't speak for (many) individual parts of the game, except that I had an absolute joy playing it. I came to this game from larger isometric experiences like Pillars of Eternity and Baldur's Gate, so after my first evening of play, about 4-ish hours in, I did have to sit back and adjust my expectations. Comparatively, it's linear and sparse, with not much side content (only 2 or 3 larger optional missions that have their own maps) and not many interactables onscreen--you can tell, they're all highlighted. Skill selection for characters is wide but shallow (I played a Mage, for context). I finished everything in about 12 hours, plus some load screen dithering when RL conversations happened. I still had an enormous amount of fun. I think they got the atmosphere perfect, and I do really like the art style. It being short comes out a net neutral, or even minor positive, as it means I have something that's easily repeatable when I want to try different things, or I want an isometric game for a bit but don't want to worry about the plots I left off on. The NPCs that aren't merely henchmen are memorable in a tropey, noir-ish way, and the combat was tactically interesting even though I played on Easy--I still died more than once on some of the tougher fights. I like the Etiquette system, though I think it's not evenly implemented here, as I saw far more Corporate and Security options than Academic or Socialite. I got this on sale; I don't know if I would've paid the full $15, but since it was on sale I did pick up the other 2 games in the series before I'd finished it. I will definitely play this again.

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