The graphics really hold their own, though the story is pretty much stock plot #37a. Nothing too taxing either in game play - or plot. Game-play spoiler in describing a game breaking bug follows: In a frozen area you find a lost squad member. After repelling a few waves of hostiles I believe you are meant to be able to (but can't) blast your way out of the area (through a blocked pass) before the dude freezes to death (which he does). Searched the interweb and found (1) ways to un-glitch this - which didn't work for me; and (2) that the bug is known about after game release, and the last comment on it I could find was many years after game release but still many years old now - so don't expect it to fixed ever. HOWEVER you mileage will vary and you well may not have this issue. Also at this point I had had my fun and the game was starting to outstay it's welcome - so I wasn't overly butt-hurt about it.
Usually I only buy heavily discounted games but as DC looked so cute I opened up my wallet and let the moths out. DC has one gimmick - the hole - and the length of the game is about right due to this; any longer (under 2 hours) and it would feel stretched. There is something really enjoyable about swallowing things. All the puzzles are really basic so no brain-strain. The game is entirely mouse-driven (sometimes you even left click!) The dialogue (text only) is a simple back and forth between characters and I found mildly amusing. Personally I won't pay full price - but remember the aforementioned moths. Worth wishlisting and getting it on sale.
I was of the mind that RPG open worlds were a platform that lacked that ability/structure/thingie something to tell stories well. Chat with NPCs often is a wooden exposition dump that is little more than prompt to get a turb that is guarded by a chicken so a peasant can make soup or other meaningless - increasingly repetitive - tasks. The Witcher 3 changed all that. Other reviews have waxed lyrical - so see them. Suffice to say that is one of the best stories that I have read/watched/interacted with. The choices/interactions are meaningful, and one can't know the consequences prior, which creates true feeling about outcomes - upset, sad, peeved, jubilant or outright funny. My favourite quest so far is getting home renovation supplies for a tolllllallalaa - cracked me up.
So you've inherited a farm. Wake up, oooo - better pull out those weeds. This would be easier with a better hoe. How do I upgrade the hoe? Go mining. Go to bed. Wake up. Plant crops. Need more money. What's a good source cash. Go fishing. Go to bed. Wake up... water crops... this would be easier with sprinklers..... Ooooo!! I can get the heartless soulless AI to like me!! Gift gift gift.... 100 hours later. Mmmm - now I know what I'm doing I'll start again and 'progression' will be faster.... 100 hours later. And time never went so quick. It will eat eat your life... I mean you real life.
God help me but I have to use the words "I wanted to like this game"... but The lasting feeling that I have is the developers spent all their time and money on some things (the armour is spiffing) then ran out of both. A lot of animations look like place holders, and there are the usual comments about dialogue etc. If you want to run about a huge world RPGing it up then this may well scratch that itch. I would give it another star if I weren't RPGed out. I give it a tired two star meh.
I played a couple of hours but undertale failed to engage me. At all. Perhaps if I grew up with games - and knew the memes and all that... but all that goes straight over my head like a punch line to a joke one doesn't get.
Title says it all. The movement of the aircraft feels divine but had no desire to play for hours and hours on end. Wouldn't play full price: about half feels about right.
