Thrown into the new world I found the story development really decent with enough of open ends and miseries to keep you going. Even if swamped somewhat by less important side quests. The companions are well written and very versatile so I guess job well done here as well. The graphics are stunning, carefully crafted worlds/ships/star bases with the strong sense of alien all around. Again well done. And that is it. All good stuff to comment about. I found the combat system boring and quickly repeatable. Not really engaging. The cut scenes with companions attacking are too many and not well timed that additional ruins the game play (at least for me). Yet, as some other comments say, the plot of the game nose dives somewhere around the middle of the whole game. To call it an epic trashing is by far not an overstatement. I have no idea what has happened but the change to the pace and story depth in the game is so abrupt that it had to be something serious. Tragically from that point the game is dead boring.
I"m not real a big fan of adventure games due to the fact that most games design puzzles for superhuman skilled players. Not my pair of pants :). Here I was attracted to the graphics that are very appealing to the eye. Also the way animation are done is just excellent in getting emotions through in a very simplistic way. My feeling of dred towards puzzles was completely lifted after 5-10 min. Riddles wre not always that easy but at least I could see a logic behind them and only on a few occasions I had to look up for solutions in a FAQ (try to figure out by your self where the key at the end of the game should fit into... ). If you had no FAQ at hand the authors left you a really nice help system where you could get a very nicely drawn cartoon with a tip to the given puzzle. And in order to access it you need to do some pew pew with a key :) Another really great additions ware mini games! :) I enjoyed these very very much. specially the debugging part :) All in all I had surprisingly lots of fun playing in this title and sincerely can recommend this title.
Steamwold heist is one of the very few games that I played more than once. That game was truly entertaining. My initial enthusiasm to this new addition was unfortunately quickly put down by the grind. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the grind. The game is unfortunately getting quickly very repetitive and even if the graphics are really good and the concept with cards and cogs is decent, it was not enough to keep me engaged. Even the section of characters was not really sufficient. It is simply the battles that are just dead booooooring. Boss fights were just simply the worse. Prolonged chop chop burn burn scenarios that went for loooong minutes. I had no pleasure there at all. The apex of boredom hits the fan at the end of the game when you have to rind through 41000 life points of Behemot and his two 6000 life hands… . I bit my teeth and ended this sad episode of my life.
After getting this game in its original form, that is before 1.3 patch, the game was barely playable. I understand that devs meant it to be a flashy RTS but seriously, the game was so majestically out of balance that it was killing the whole fun of it. At least for me. Units can go puff in a blink of an eye, your resources were super scarce, their harvesting slow, the overall control live was resembling holding a sack of mad squirrels and special abilities were too slow to be useful. Great RTS, jeahhh. The patch 1.3 turned the table. The game now so much more controllable and enjoyable. Why? The pause button. Yes, it is an RTS-Pause genre now ;). The use of skills makes now actually sense! You can use tactics and all your resources with sense, Whow ;) somebody call the police. The pause in the campaign is simply must have in order to enjoy the game as much as it gets. The campaign itself is ok, not marvelous but ok. It is also very heavily scripted so if you know the triggers you can abuse them to the hearth content.
