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Anachronox

Story good I guess, gameplay not so much

This more an opinion on the game than a Review. First of all I have to say the game ran perfectly fine on my Windows 10 Laptop. I played in windowed mode because I found it better to look at than playing fullscreen with low resolution. Second I have to admit I didn't come even close to finish the game. The story seems to be good but I just couldn't push trough the slow and boring combat. The graphics are as you would expect from an old game. Nothing too bad and very playable if you don't mind old school 3D game looks. As far as the worlds go I think they are very well put together to set a certain mood for the game and area you are in. Nevertheless the level/mission forces you to back track way too much. The big problem of this game is the gameplay. The combat is just straight up boring. It is kind of turn based in the sense that everybody has a meter which fills overtime and when it is full said character can perform an action (move, attack, special, item). There is also a movement system which is a good idea, but as far as I experienced it is just too limited to be really useful (besides the one boss fight I finished). Although there is a varaity in enemy types (melee, ranged, hybrids) there is not really any stratagy in beating them so it comes down to hiting the enemys with your standard attack until your special meter is filled (and you can execute a special attack) or they are dead. What really kills it though are the way too long animations. So additionally to beeing dull it also takes very long to beat even weak enemies. The story seemed to be good and reasonable well presented. You start as a loser on the quest to pay your debts as a starting point to something bigger. Since I didn't get that far maybe later on the story will be amazing enough to drag through the combat, for me it sure wasn't in the 5-7 starting hours of the game. Overall I can see that the game has a certain charm but for me the story in the first hours couldn't compensate for the dull combat.

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