I dig this style of videogame with abstract polygonal art, called vector graphics. They are timeless and always fun to play. Mindless distraction with a good coordination of both hands to know the inertia of your ship. Excellent for spending some free time without need of having your mindset focused in a story or whatever. No plot, just aim to get more score every time.
That's my only complain, the game is utterly fantastic already and it's fun to play even with the spurious bugs. The three stars are just because gog.com distribution does not update at the same pace that Steam updates do, I know because I follow a Discord channel of the game. Again gogites treated as second-class customers. Sad!
I have great expectations with this game. The demo already shows a final, yet limited, product with those two finished duelists which is virtually devoid of bugs. Really fluid game, the autoblocking makes the fighting more based on the precise timing and positioning of the blows rather than having to learn where the blow is gonna hit. The latter would have been really frustrating because the movements are quick and very difficult to conciously interpret in such amount of time (they are not telegraphied as in Mount and Blade, for example). Every possible action, from a simple attack to a flashy combo can be equally efficient, making this a very cautious and thrilling fencing combat. The setting is alright, the best time to fencing duels and the most diverse region where different cultures and styles could be matched, no need for anachronistically or impossible culture matches. The game would need a reliable method to grant online multiplayer in the long run, as I completely see this game becoming an insta-classic to be played over the years by a die-hard player base. I am hesitant to buy it here at Gog, however, as some other games are mistreated in favor of the other platform, mostly for MP and even for updates or modding; sad to say, I know.
What the title says. The color palette, pixel art and even the font is unmistakable from that Finnish freeware game called Liero, which was a battle of two worms fighting against the other with weapons and ninja rope. That dragged me into. If Liero was called Quake Arena 2D, this one is the Doom 3 top down. The permadeath is hard to value because you get the players divided: you are either a RL lover or you don't see the point in a shooter game which is already hard to beat. Definitely it is one of a kind despite the overused story of a military base surrounded by the warp and monsters.
The game itself is a jewel, I played it almost twenty years ago (phew!). However the port in Windows 10 doesn't make justice. It seems that there is a persistent crash in the game for whatever reason (mouse scrolling maybe?) which makes the game unplayable. I had to reboot the laptop as the only solution since I cannot access the task manager and Alt F4 doesn't work. In short I cannot play a game with fear that at every step it's going to freeze and thus, it is rendered as unplayable. A shame!
I had this game for native XP version and despite I cannot consider among the top RTS or played so many hours as with others, it has very redeemable traits which make it worth a shot. The game is of the type of RTS which has three strongly distinguished armies. The techtree is wide and depth. The number of units is enough. Pros: - Mechanic of upkeep: each weapon/shot wasted has a cost on your resources so that you have to maintain a flux of income to support the army; otherwise they don't shoot. - levels of height/depth means. You can and should move your units not only in the horizontal plane to take advantageous positions but also up and down. - AI editor: something which was made with care and few RTS games have. - RNG maps: something that other games of this style has not. Cons: - The motion is less fluid, or frantic as with other RTS. Of course this is due to the atypical setting, which is submarine and the boats move slower that expected for vehicles, crafts or spacecrafts. This perhaps requires some adaptation to the pacing. - The maps eventually look the same. Again, due to the setting. - As far as I remember the story isn't original. It's the eternal conflict between two human factions and an outsider third party in a distant sci fi setting. If you liked that Abyss movie you'll love this game. - In my case, the sci fi universes require a bit of investment to properly learn the roles of each unit and assimilate or link them to known, historical ones. In the case of submarine warfare they tend to be too similar one to the other as compared to land warfare. It's a game I would like to try again but it requires some commitment and ability to think on 3d to enjoy it the most. No other submarine warfare RTS can do it better, and I doubt somebody will try to do: it's a rare gem.
