Whilst this isn't going to be a particularly "helpful" review, this game is as title, excrement. If it saves you from wasting £9 on it, then well, it WAS "helpful" to you then wasn't it? If you negrep it, ignore, buy anyway and hate it, well don't come crying to me. Good job I got this when it was on a free promo....... ah, now, THAT should be all the warning you need, GOG rarely put anything other than "shovel (of shit) ware" up on free promos. As usual the catch with it being given out free for a few days is that, it's excrement.
It looks and sounds quite good, but the game itself is just an average RPG whose elements you've seen before in a 1000 others. It is rather linear as well, which is minus point for me. Another minus, you have to use the supplied characters, you can't fully create your own. It's basically similar to "Torchlight" without the tons of junk and is slower paced. Levelling up is rather pathetic also. Oh and the rigid camera angles do not help. I played for one evening then the next decided to call it a day when I hit two "impossible" battles. I could have restarted on an easier difficulty setting (I started on "normal" - I don't recommend you do this) but I could see this problem happening again later in the game, and it just didn't make me want to keep on playing to see what's next. I also have many other as yet untried games to get around to - life's too short too waste too much of it on Tower of Time. "Tower of Don't Give it Much Time" would be a better title! :D In just one word, it's "humdrum". And that's why it was given away on a free offer a while ago........ do NOT pay the full £19.49 for it.
Now we just need the "how to" for that to be common knowledge! The devs have unfortunately turned very greedy indeed. £38 for the full "Necromancer" edition of the main game? You GOTTA BE KIDDING! I was lucky and got it on a free offer last year. As I do indeed love the game (though many don't it seems), so I did buy the DLC upgrade for it when that too was on offer last month. So I've paid about £6 overall for it...... and I'm happy with that. Or did I waste money, could I have unlocked that content with a simple bit of script editing? I'll be pissed if I could. But this, no, it may just be the cost of a pint of shitty bitter the pub, but for just six skins? No...... ditto for the "Summer" themed one as well. These should be free DLCs. I also notice over on Steam in the run up to Iratus being released, the devs were promising a "Steam workshop" to encourage the community to make there own units, skins etc....... that was VERY welched upon. Why? Because a big modding community doesn't hold us mugginses to ransom with paid for mods, ie DLCs.
Yes, the devs have unfortunately turned very greedy indeed. £38 for the full "Necromancer" edition of the main game? You GOTTA BE KIDDING! I was lucky and got it on a free offer last year. As I do indeed love the game (though many don't it seems), so I did buy the DLC upgrade for it when that too was on offer last month. So I've paid about £6 overall for it...... and I'm happy with that. But this, no, it may just be the cost of a pint of shitty bitter the pub, but for just four skins? No...... ditto for the Halloween themed one as well. These should be free DLCs. I also notice over on Steam in the run up to Iratus being released, the devs were promising a "Steam workshop" to encourage the community to make there own units, skins etc....... that was VERY welched upon. Why? Because a big modding community doesn't hold us mugginses to ransom with paid for mods, ie DLCs.
Even on easy this is just stupid. Stupid batshit crazy hard. It does take some of the fun out this otherwise ok roguelike FPS shooter. I recommend another similar game in style to this, "Immortal Redneck", instead. This will just have you going bald years before your time! :D
It crashed as soon as it got to the end of the initial "on the ferry" scene. I'm being lazy really as it is probably something that was easily fixed, but this isn't my kind of "game" anyway. It being one of many GOG's "hey here's a present....... oh, wait, it's a dick in a box" type free offers is the only reason it's in my library. Pay £7 for it and well....... you've been done Dick! Nice paid for review there "janishewski"! Noticed some of devs give you a full set of positive votes too! So everyone, "DON'T ignore the old tirespinners reviews"!!!!!!!! :D And as for you "ShepardJCS"........ what. the. fook? Is that it? Just ":)". That's your informed and detailed review...... stick to doing reviews on Steam mate!
Again like a previous reviewer said, "pause to view the map". Well there's no pause at all to even view the map in, and that didn't exist anyway! :D That sums the whole kit and caboodle up. It's just nothing but "eh?", "eh?", "don't geddit". Gameplay consisted of wandering around a forest type scenery, occasionally chopping away giant tree roots and smaller aggressive tentacle type roots. Finding the odd statue and shrine etc, but they either did nothing, or left you wondering "yes...... and....... what just happened?". Looked pretty and animations looked very professionally done. For that it gets one extra star. I got this on a free offer so can't complain about value for money. But full price it is £11 here in the UK. Robbery for just the ten minutes I persevered before uninstalling.
Especially with this being on a free promo, usually GOG only put the er...... dregs on those. But this does work, and it looks quite crisp and clear, despite being "cutesy". It is quite difficult and the levels are all very randomised as well....... so how far you get is often as much luck as skill. The finger twisting controls (though they can be remapped) actually made my hands hurt, so prolonged play wasn't really possible without getting laid up with carpal tunnel syndrome! :D Would never buy it for current full price of £12, but would pay about £3. Just lucky I got it for nothing.
So I *have* to give it one star. It simply didn't work. Of course it might for you, if so then great, but fo me, it's still just a one star waste of time. Luckily I got this when on a free promo offer. It consistently CTDed, I couldn't even get past the training missions. It would not last more than 5 minutes without a CTD. So you all you disgusting "hey we don't like your opinion! You have to give every game five stars no matter what whether it's shit or good or works or not, it's the GOG review page law! So we're gonna downvote you and then get all my mates to do so and get them to get all their mates as well" negrep gang rapers, well go suck one, or two, or a whole mile of 'em. The game is STILL ONE-STAR because IT DOESN'T WORK! Hi InkPanther, hi lupinshadow, hi Breja, hi Falran!
Another ultra-rare (for me) 5-star review. Well, 4.5 stars rounded up! First thing I thought was, "Yuk! Another Blood 2!" when I saw the graphics and animations and the general feel of movement through the game world. Easily as low-poly, dull, bland coloured and downright ugly as Blood 2's "Monolith engine". But when I got playing it was "YES! It's Deus Ex all over again!". Ok, it's not *exactly* like Deus Ex, but the RPG style character progression and useage of an inventory and choice of going for a brute force fighting character, a stealthy spy or a technical hacker makes it quite similar. Deus Ex is better, but System Shock 2 is a close second. Every one seems to call this a major landmark of classic gaming from the turn of the century period like Deus Ex, well, I did experience Deus Ex, but I never played SS2. I played SS1 but was hampered by having a PC too poor to really run it at the time. I can see how it has got it's reputation built up over the past 24 years! But again, it does also show it's 24 years of age in it's gfx. Poor cosmetically, but superb functionally (where it really matters)!
