the version on gog is quite broken. Fortunately, it's fairly easy to patch (instructions in the gog-forum). But I don't get why gog didn't do it themselves. They did for other games
very poor port of an otherwise great game
and again, GOG delivers a broken game. Pirates! itself is very good, but the big brains at GOG managed to fuck it up yet again. 1. On Win10, it seems to have trouble choosing the right audio output. 2. Whenever I close the game, a big screen, asking me whether I was sure that I want to quit, covers a considerable portion of my desktop, covering everything behind it. There is no way to get rid of it, except for terminating the GOG Galaxy process from the task manager. This is unacceptable but sadly just another entry on the long list of things that GOG promises to fix but doesn't give two shits about
I don't think I've ever played a game that was so incredibly overrated. The visuals are great. The art design really resonated with me and the idea of a non-verbal game is also something I can get behind. Now I remember when it came out and basically became a viral hit. I'd played the demo to death and really wanted to play the full thing but never was able to realize it until today. The anticipation probably did it no good at all. Maybe I'm just not in the right headspace right now, but I'm not sure if a single minute was actually fun. Sure, the visuals and atmosphere are appealing. But that's about it. Puzzles were either boring or frustrating and none were particularly hard (maybe 3 that I actually enjoyed). The controls also really held it back. I played with a gamepad and they actually managed to f up two-button-controls*. I also really despise timing-based puzzles, of which this game has A LOT. The biggest problem about the puzzles was that I could often clearly see the solution but was unable to solve it despite that (usually because of the timing-based nature), which is the most frustrating thing ever. They also kinda went the "Dark Souls-route", where you "have" to die multiple times to figure something out. Generally a fun idea, but here it just didn't fit at all. The movement is way too slow for that and the puzzles weren't challenging enough to bring satisfaction upon completion. Also, this game has little to no story. People might tell you that it's just very subtle (which is true) and that there is a lot of depth to it (I don't think so). Sure, some intriguing things happened here and there but nothing was ever really "explained" (not even visually) and it felt very unfulfilling overall. I'll try to read up on it and find out more but this is about the game itself and not its supporting literature *) admittedly it was the movement that felt clunky and not the two buttons
nothing special. Basically a lot of scripted Gwent matches with a bit of story around it. Found it quite boring after very little time and it's generally very slow paced. You don't get punished for losing and it feels like kind of a grind. Get it in sale if you really, really like Gwent
