You send your 4-Squad on missions to derelicts, to explore, interact and fight card game battles, upgrade skill tree (new card abilities) and follow the story. I am not into card games, but this one caught me. I love the unusual art style and the atmospheric music, that let you immerse into this world.
The Samaritan Paradox maintains its retro aesthetic with great low-resolution graphics that are complemented by atmospheric high-definition sound, music, and voice acting. STORY: The story is told in inventive ways and gets off to an engaging start. However, it seems rushed, and the modern penchant to "subvert expectation" hurts the ending. Additionally, it finishes abruptly and with a sense of incompleteness. The 10% of interactable objects that have no purpose or information is another sign that the game was shortened. PUZZLES: If you manage to gather all the hints required to solve the puzzles through interacting with things, inventories, and people, the riddles are not that challenging. I did not follow this rule and got stuck twice, trying out all the overcomplicated solutions I could think of. Until finally, with all hints, it always turned out to be the most simple one. There aren't many objects that are challenging to locate with the mouse pointer, and those that do tend to be inconspicuous rather than small. CONCLUSION: If you enjoy point-and-click adventures, you shouldn't hesitate to purchase at this price.
I do not mind hard riddles, where you have to even use RL sheets paper to solve them. But here they simply make no sense. You have to randomly try everything on everything, and I have no interest in a mindless time-wasting. You will see what I mean, when you have to figure out the "Cayne-Fuse" Everything else seems ok, as far as I played the game. Wasted potential.
Dex is kind of DeusEx but 2D side view platformer. In an "open world" zone-devided map with varied themes, you lead the female protagonist Dex through the main story ark or side quests. As you progress, there is a skilltree, an inventory and upgrades to be managed. In the first 5-10 minutes, you have to overcome the steep learning curve to master the keyboard + mouse controls. But the games does a good job to help you through an it will be a smooth sailing from then on. Soundtrack is epic, great voice acting, good atmospheric background sound.. Story is interesting and kept me playing the game, that turned out to be longer than expected. Buuuut...I had always the impression, that the game is not finished yet in case of content. - There are only a few interactable characters. - Lack of free choice. For example: you are forced to upgrade Dex to progress. - Optically the game is ok, but there could be more animated gfx. - Especially the cutscenes where very short. - Here and there you notice, that a final polish would improve the game. Overall the flaws have only a minor impact on the game and it was worth the time.
+ nice in-game nerdtro + music and sound is ok + no searching for inconspicuous small areas to be clicked on o immersion never catches me - devs have no clue about perspective drawing - devs have no clue about writing: everyone talks the same style, dialogues are like the same person is always talking - devs have no clue how to design riddles Every 5-Star Reviewer did not play the game with riddles enabled on their own. Because there is absolutely no logic behind them. For example **** SPOILER **** You need to access the only working computer in an internet cafe, which of cause is occupied. The only way to get the seat is to seize a car repair shop next door, crash a lifting platform in to the roof to scare a cat of the next shops roof, then cut the mechanics dog line lose to chase the cat, they of cause by most convenient gamedev-logic run into the internet cafe to fight there and scare of the only other customer. ******************* I stumbled through this by chance, baffled, and it only gets worse
The game offers Eugene's special battle field control with seamless zoom for a perfect overview and control of the territory by each unit. This allows encirclements to cut off the enemy. The emphasis is largely on tactics and strategy, but it is not exempt from micro-management. You must also keep an eye out for each unit's limited ammunition and loaded off-load condition. My skirmishes were mostly fast paced and stress free thanks to the live game speed adjusting and the possibility to pause. The big disappointment was the multiplayer part of the game, which is totally behind an online-DRM. No possibility to play LAN games. You are forced to register for an account with Eugenes Systems with your serial key.
90% of the time you are not playing, but -watching load screens, every click on a mech in hanger results in a load screen -watching 3 transition animations on EVERY jump -waiting : some options/clicks take several seconds to process on an 8core CPU -waiting : slow auto camera movement between mechs and ship sections -waiting : for own mechs to move -waiting : for even slower movement of enemy units -waiting for ai to calculate - ... The game has unpolished Missions and a wasteful game programming leads to high CPU and unbelievable high RAM usage. And the slooowness ... it takes forever to get something done Bugs make Iron Man mode unusable, you have to repeat a lot and loose progress. -
I read every mail, checked out every corner of all locations an every path to complete a mission. With all achievements unlocked, is there anything more to say about the game?? If immersive Scu-Fi is on your wishlist, don't miss out on this one.
