The game is a fun strategy game, reminiscent of King's Bounty. However, so many of the battles are full of it. Like when it places your most powerful character in front of a tree and make him useless, or your characters that are archers are forced to go last, and therefore are useless as the computer always puts characters in front of them. Also some of the levels are awful! The second world, I lost after killing all the enemies because the objective is to find the "eye" before they do, and obviously since they are all dead, my winning should have been a default, but because I was the only one left alive, I lost? This is crap and it is not fair, and after hours playing it to have this become an ending, forget it! 3 stars is generous and I should give it 2 because of this cheat. If you can get past this, then it is probably worth playing if you get it for less than $5
This game got a lot of good reviews and I admit, it can be fun and addictive. However, so much of the game is repetitive and often you get stuck being unable to do some upgrade because you are out of something and you need to go and regrind through one of the dungeons, which has horrific hit detection (I lost track of how many times I took a "hit" which I clearly dodged) and often puts you in the room next to an unavoidable hit. Some of the bossess are next to impossibile and it gets frustrating when you lose, often due to the hit detection, cheating bosses, and being saddled with pathetically weak weapons, which you have ZERO control over selection. So much of the cult upgrades are cool, but when you upgrade to make your starting weapons more powerful, guess what? IT DOES NOT DO IT!!!! Even at the highest upgrades, I get a sword with a 1.7 attack and that is about as weak a weapon as there is and I mean, what the heck? Why can't your cult, while building outhouses, mines, temples, and stuff, not be able to build something to empower your weapons to balance the game? I got the game cheap, and it IS very fun, but they disappointed me so much in the execution that I doubt I will buy the DLC or any sequels unless they fix a lot of this crap!
I loved Bioshock, but there are so many times where the game cheats in combat, such as the Doctor, who you can blow away to zero and then he comes back full strength, because apparently you have to beat him in a puzzle like fashion, plus sometimes, the plasmids fail to work properly. The Big Daddies are cool but are an unacceptable pain in the a$$ to face and frankly I feel the developers decided to do this rather than find other ways to make the game challenging, seriously, there is zero way to beat one without getting hurt a lot. Anyways, as a budget game or free as I got it from prime gaming, no complaints, but I would be PO'ed if I paid full price for it back in the day!
Sanitarium is an amazing and chilling story and worth a playthrough. My only gripe is the water puzzle in chapter three and the chalkboard puzzle. Those two are just bad and is the reason this is a 4 star and not a 5 star game. The main actor is not superb and some of the script for the inmates is over the top, but it is really creepy and fun!
I could not even get out of the first area as it said I could not climb the ladder until I transmitted my conclusions? It gave no indication how and why would I need to wait to leave the beach before doing this? The acting is dry and stale and done with no emotion and after 20 minutes I was fed up with the doldrums, the crazy electronic device that "helped" but did nothing and another story by Benoit Sokai that took a wrong turn at the beginning.
It must be Win 11 that is the issue as it runs on my Win 10 laptop, but neither of my Win 11 computers. Gog should fix this before letting it sell on their site!
The Xbox version of this game used a joystick and the PC version does not, which makermakes it hard to participate in the swoop race and even just walking around is an irritating waste. This is something that should be fixed, but of course I doubt it will. The game also is kind of unfinished, which this game is known for, but at least the Pazaak game is not as cheating as it was in KOTOR 1. I got it for free and would say for anything $10 or less, it is worth it, but it is better if you have the original on an old xbox to be honest.
It looked like this would be fun with its quirky artwork, but it reminds me of painting with legos and there is no game to it, and it gets super dull quickly. It was a great concept, and poorly executed. Do not buy unless you just want to draw cities out of cartoonish buildings.
It is fun and there are a lot of Star Wars characters, humor, and story-telling that reflects the universe. Sadly, the joystick controls are not the best, sometimes causing jumps that miss when they shouldn't, plus there are several areas that you do not know are falls to the death except the hard way. Otherwise, it is great, just know the Naboo race is a pain in the butt that you will have to repeat numerous times.
I have always loved this game. The puzzles, the pop-culture, the humor, the voice-acting, this is the best game ever! A few of the puzzles are obtuse, but they are all logical, just be patient and you will get this game!
