I finally get to try Hard Corps and the superior one the Japanese version. That being said depending on your computer you might deal with slowdown/music issues for Windows. If you have that go to properties Compatibility and set it to Windows 7. Theres still a bit of it for me but its so much more playable that way. Pretty barebones but thats ok its a good collection.
If you want a more concise review watch MandaloreGamings review on the game on his youtube channel. Now its similar to XCom looking at it but if you play it, it stands on its own big time. Now one things to say is the fact that it isnt that hard, the early game is the hard part, in fact it gives a lot of things to the player. However the game allows you to do so much with cognition point system its crazy. My big gripe I have with it is simply some things are too broken. This game gives me a Final Fantasy Tactics feel to me where you can customize your Tech Priests so much to your wim it makes you think about how do you want to make em to be. Now theres no job system you simply pick a level tree and levels are permanent so watch out. Basically it works like FTL except you dont get chased. You are trying to level your tech priests as much as you can before the final boss. But if you find the base game too easy you can adjust the difficulty, and its not just Easy, Normal, Hard, you can actually adjust what the game is like. For example you can turn on permadeath, you can turn on a option where it tells you what to push if you hate guessing. You can adjust your own or your enemies HP. You can make it if you can a revenue of blackstone (You need them to level priests) etc. Admittedly I havent beaten the game yet but I feel satisfied just playing it.
