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Encased: A Sci-Fi Post-Apocalyptic RPG

Good, But Imbalanced.

Don't get me wrong-the game's decent enough, story's good and narration events add flavor to the game, allowing for expanding story telling. But, the game's imbalanced to extreme, making it extremely easy, even on the hardest of difficulty. Worse yet, "Criminal," skill tree(stealth mechanics), simply trivializes the whole game. Need an item from NPC? You could go through a chain of quests, or pay lots of money...or you could just steal it. Found a nice, shinny gun+8, but don't have enough cash? Well, you could grind for random encounters, sell all your inventory... Or you could just steal whatever you like. Have a tough battle ahead of you? You could come back after leveling up, a bit, optimizing your build, upgrading your gun... Or you could just sneak in and keep shooting enemies while hidden, without initiating combat... Finally got caught in a combat and you're unprepared, unequipped and unoptimized for open confrontation? Just pop a smoke bomb skill, from Criminal skill tree and hide in their faces, taking them out, one shot at a time. Yeah, it's ridiculous. It's the one skill you need in this game, it trivializes the whole thing. I can't be bothered finishing the game, because I have a stolen relic, that allows me to hide, while wearing power armor MkIII! Even if I'd bother to fight-nobody can seriously hurt me!

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