This game looks like something done 20 years ago. Interface is terrible, runs like s@#t and to play with friends requires you to publicly expose route to your server running locally. This is not a casual game, quite opposite. WIth high price and no demo version I had to pass and request a refund.
This one is an easy pick if you have bunch of bros to play with. It's a bit better on a couch but online experience is very good as well.
Game runs if my controller is turned off. As soon as I turn it on it simply crashes. Looks like an interesting game but I'm not gonna play it on keyboard and mouse.
Very slow walking simulator. Game wastes your time by forcing you to move at snail pace or making interactions unavailable until you click some other options first. Server room puzzle is a pinnacle of BS. Game gives you correct answer right up your face but forces you to slowly walk around the room clicking numbers until it works. Protagonist even comments to not have time for this. WTF?. It is not a puzzle, it is a torture. Graphics can be considered good looking on first glance. There are 2 types of surroundings - Solis interiors and planet surface. First one looks generic. Confusing, similar looking rooms and corridors. Planet is purposely designed with very limited line of sight. It is night, it is storm, you don't see s#@t. It looks nice on screenshots though. Story is boring. Cliche "something happened in the base", "you're on your own". It is presented mostly as recordings of former Solis crew. At the end you'll learn that the mystery is there is no mystery. What a twist! Gameplay is not existent. I've read previous reviews that nothing matters and though about linear story. Well, sure story is linear but they managed to take it into next level. These very few moments when game "entertain" with this impossibly short QTEs you can simple put your controller away and watch the animation as your response will not change it. You can find one type of item you collect to open doors, level access cards that seem to be always provided when you need them and bunch of irrelevant clickable collectibles to provide some illusion of interactivity in game's world. Map is just terrible. You can only see it with this small screen on your wrist so you'll constantly zoom in and out to read labels and see everything else. It doesn't show your exact location. This frankly looks like missing feature, not a design choice. One good thing about this game - it is short. Not worth full price unless on huge sale.
This is one of these rare games you finish and have no idea what to play next as nothing seems to be close. Game has its flaws. You need to give it a chance as beginning is somewhat lacking. But after few hours of gameplay it really starts to shine. It has very good story. An open world is balanced in a right way - just let the game lead you and you'll visit all it has to offer. Acting is great, graphics look awesome. World is beautiful and surroundings varied. There is a sense of progression and becoming badass. There is ton of content and you'll hit 50 hours easily with just following the story. It has an end game where you can stil find something to do after completing main storyline. If I had to complain about anything it's the missed opportunity of making gameplay much more entertaining long term. There are these different fractions like rippers, marauders, militia, different kind of zombies. There are camps and locations these groups protect. You can sometimes experience how game nicely implements interactions between them. Moments when horde of zombies fights group of militia are precious but rare. I can imagine what could be done if you could manage your own camps and drive this encounters more often. It could give this game another 20+ hours of fun. Shame there is no mod to support this idea.
I bought this game to experience yet another great RPG couch coop experience with my wife. We quickly learned game is unplayable in this mode due to bizarre design decisions that breaks whole fun of playing together. Mostly forced split screen that, unlike two previous Divinity games, is always on no matter how close both characters are. We put the game aside waiting for this to be fixed as the launch was rough and some things were expected to be unfinished. That was like... 2 years ago? I know people love this game for how great the story is but unfortunately might be I'll never experience this. At least not the way I wanted - together.
Art style looks nice. Story is a little bit vague but I liked the mood. It is dark and funny at the same time. The worst part is game controls. I played on controller and it seems sticks are very poorly supported. With left one you control character and you target your shots with right one. Both work really bad and I strongly recommend using dpad instead of left stick. Still I'm recommending it, especially on sale.
I finished around 30% of this game and it was more or less 3 stars experience. It is mostly puzzle game with small arcade elements. Art style is very interesting but makes it hard to spot important objects. Some puzzles were illogical. Number of accessible areas grew over time making it difficult to decide where to go next. I prefer when game challenges logic not memory. Unfortunately I didn't finish the game. I had to restart it due to some issues with sound and when I loaded my save it occurred I lost about 2h of gameplay. If you die you start almost exactly where you lost. But it seems it is not persisted. There are special places you can save and only those work between game restarts. This is rather stupid and I don't understand why it works like that. Anyway this game is not worth doing all those puzzles second time.
It's not really a game as you just click on things to progress. There are no puzzles. Story is terrible. I'm not even sure if it suppose to be funny or not. It looks like this was author's goal but jokes about little girl taking drugs twice within first hour of gameplay... I dunno, not my type.
I skipped this game after an hour of boring clicking through dialogs. There were no puzzles. Story was sometimes funny but mostly goofy. It looks like a team of teenagers put this up together. Within this hour there were 2 scenes of main character (little girl) taking drugs. Not my type of comedy for sure.
