Shunmaster 最近的评测

This is the perspective of someone who beat the game on normal difficulty and got S ranks on all missions.

Playing through this game was such a joy. The scenario of having a TRPG where you are heavily outnumbered, but use a plethora of equipment to close that gap with the enemy worked well. Instead of having a certain number of moves and attacks per turn, any action you want to take instead costs a character AP. It falls on you to figure out how much you can get away with with each turn. Maybe you don't move at all and just shoot, maybe you have a character place mines and run into cover, or maybe you charge in and grenade everything. The amount of options you have per character per turn allows for you to really play it your way, especially with what skills you use for each character. There are some stealth missions as well, but a majority of them aren't too complicated provided you follow the paths that naturally open up. There are two missions I can think of that were a pain, but just remember that there's more options than you might initially think.

The world building bits from the confidential files can be overwhelming, but the core story itself is definitely enjoyable, even without completely internalizing them. The structure of the story works well for getting invested into finding out what happens next and the character interactions. It's quite difficult to explain without spoiling, but I wound up hooked after the first chapter. One thing that this game does struggle with is inconsistency with the translation. A sizable amount of it reads well, but there are occasional hiccups where you can tell that someone didn't QC the dialogue for that portion. It didn't bother me too much, but I can imagine that it'd bother others.

The audio of this game is fantastic. The jingle before each mission and the preparation menu song are stuck in my head, and the battle tracks resonate with the somewhat frantic nature of the game while blending in nicely. The sfx is nice and crispy as well: The ring of the Mosin Nagant cracking skulls, the crunch of mechs hulking forward, the hum of force fields, and the sound of a grenade blowing up a group of enemies. these are the some of the sounds that you'll hear, and it doesn't get tiring. I can't stress enough how good it feels to annihilate an enemy (large or small) with the tools in this game.

However, I will say that the game doesn't pull its punches. It definitely can feel overwhelming with how many enemies there are sometimes, especially later on with the longer missions. There are also some missions in the early-middle portion that can feel like big hurdles, but do remember that you can look at an enemy's detailed information at any time if you hover over them and press the corresponding button (L3 on controller, what I used). The game is also quite long, so be aware that you'll commit a lot of time if you want to make it to the end. Although, I'm sure that not going for S ranks would make the game easier and shorter.

Overall, I'd say this game is absolutely worth it. It is absolutely worth it for $25 USD and I hope that this game spreads to more people.

This is a pretty fun deck building game. There are so many draw cards, I love it.