It feels more like BS1 and BS2 than the other 2 sequels. The story is quite good. There is zero pixelhunt. You run into familiar faces. I comes with hint system that did a good job no telling more that I did to knew.
I liked M:Exodus better than the 2 past games in the series, but I like games with open world design. This game also has levels. Some of those levels are claustophobic corridors just like the levels of the previous games, and others are open maps. You could argue in one of those maps you start in one tip and only makes sense travel to the other tips, but still is a map. The true open maps let you explore and if you are thorough you'll find the best improvements for your weapons. Also will find settlements where you can "chat" (you don't talk) with locals or deal with foes. Don't hold your breath for Ins, Stores or minigames. The friendly settlements are tinny. You get to drive vehicles at times. The first one I drive I got stuck quite a while 'cos I didn't know how to get out. It's the same key you used to get in, but the other actions you can do in this first vehicle are explained to you. The selection of mutants could be bigger. In general I expected a longer game, I did enjoy my time with it though. The saves systems is a little different than before. You have slots, each slot allows you to keep a different play-through. When you load the game at the main screen, you get inside that slot and and can't save or load in other slot any more. Inside the slot you have just one manual save, and 3 autosaves. Every time you save manually, you overwrite your previous manual save. Each time the game saves automatically, the older of your 3 autosaves is lost. This system worked well for me most of the time. You only need to be mindful about when and where manually save. The story is OK. It's not mind blowing but is good enough to keep you interested. I got the good ending playing in normal at the first try without googling. I feel at least in normal the game is more forgiving than before. There are littler to no mods for this game.
Is a TPP Action RPG, I.E. you control only you, there is no party. The combat is OK. I played pure mage, is quite viable if you don't mater to run a little to keep your distance. I used only 1 (one) summon through most of of the game and added a 2nd in the late game. You can pause and save at almost any moment, in middle of the combat too. The graphics are good for the time of its release. The storytelling is good within the game, I'm not sure I like the path franchise takes with this game took. I can't explain without expoilling it. It has a couple of unique mechanics, dragon morph and mindread. Mindread is the chance of getting extra info in exchange of lossing some experience points. Dragon morph is the ability of becoming a dragon and fight flotating / flying foes. Comming from Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity, I missed visiting cities/settlement from other races. There's very little of that in this game. It seems it was planned content that Larian had to cut off to meet the deadlines set by the publisher. Such a shame. If you want to play at higher resolutions, the size of the font may be an issue. You may wanna check at videos on youtube of the game. The only mod for font size I found was optimized for 1366x768 so I played at that resolution. My sight is far from 20-20. You may use the same mod for higher resolutions and be confortable. PS: Some other reviews say so, but it doesn't feel like Gothic I nor Gothic II to me. Their controls schemes are similar but Larian's and Piranha Bytes' world building is quite different IMO.
Is not the perfect RTS, but is certainly the best in the Star Trek universe. The campaign will take you the TNG, DS9 & VOY era. It is set just after the events of ST:Voyager to be more precise, but the 3 series are referenced. Each faction has its own campaign so each map you play feel like an episode. You can also play a selected map outside of a campaign. Once you played the campaigns, if you are willing to forefit the 3D combat, you can install the mod "fleet ops". "fleet ops" its free full revamp of the game. You need to own Armada II and then you install "fleet ops" on top. It doesn't have a campaigns but it can play a map of your selection with random initial placement of each faction and all the other factions controlled by the PC. You can parametrize how many faction will be in the map and the difficulty. I have spend over a thousand of hours playing in skirmish mode, playing with harder settings every time.
In "Finding Paradise", as its predecessor "To The moon", you spend most of your time learning a story presented in non-linear way and exploring stages. You also resolve low complexity puzzles and you may engage in a handful of short combats (100% skipable). It is fair to say its RPGMaker game with 6 hours of gameplay and very simple mechanics. It's also fair to say it has very good story structured in a very smart way. The story not only will evoke emotions also invites to philosophical reflexion. I do admit "To The moon" story was a notch better in my opinion, but just a notch. If you enjoyed "To The moon" you can't afford not playing "Finding Paradise". The music is excellent and its carefully used to set different moods at different parts of the game.
You know those games that are know for showing you the story, the mechanics, the objectives rather that tell you about those, but sooner rather than later you are googling stuff? This isn't one of those. It is build in such way you'll figure out what is happening and what you need to do from what it is shown and what you did in previous puzzles. I didn't search for a walkthrough, I never needed to check one. The story is quite straight forward, you could argue it has 1 twist. I completed the game in around 4 hours without caring for achievements. And that number may be inflated, I began the game wasting time trying to loot boxes and barrels as it was an RPG. The challenge curve goes up slowly and never becomes seriously challenging. I never tried to perform anything more that 3 times before succeeding.
When I want a point&click with tidy mechanics, funny story, cool puzzles and despise for all what is politically correct I go for the next entry in Deponia series. Keeping that in mind Deponia 3 doesn't disappoint one bit. IMO is as good as Deponia 2 and better than Deponia 1. I saw the controversy about the protagonist's fate and some negative reviews in that regard. IMO that is 100% anecdotic and reversible, give some thing we learn in this very same game.
