Coco the Freak 最近的评测

While im not new to Tower Defense Games and strategy Games (heck i started gaming with the Settlers and C&C back in the 90s) this games is .. wierd.

First of all, the Art is realy nice (and the main reason this game caught my eye). Didnt pay much attention to the sound as i was playing on my Steam Deck while i was on the way. As indicated by the compatibilty rating, some text realy is barely readable with an OLED Steam Deck.

But all that goes out the Window, when the Gameplay-Loop feels unsatisfying and unbalanced.
Might be me, as i have seen people who beat the game, but not beeing able to finish even one of the two maps that follow after the tutorial, on first try by a looong shot (like not even half the waves before dying) first confused me, after the second try angered me.

- Did those two Damage Upgrades i bough after the first level even do anything? Didnt feel like it did anything at all, so why do they exist?
- Whats up with that Turret-Pre-placement that doesnt make sense because guess what, "those flying enemys there come from a direction you have no turrets in, sucks to be you huh? lol"

That those Turrets are unable to deal with the enemy waves at all in the very first wave is nuts if you try to compare yourself with a tower defense game ... like ususaly your able to defend at least the first couple waves with barebones towers like tower 1 wave 1, 2 towers wave 2 and get more resources out of the waves to build more towers. here you have to first invest those same recources in miners and get some change when defeating enemys (and im not even sure all enemys drop that stuff..).

I want stress that im not against hard games. But this didnt feel like a hard game ... more like an intented surprise kick in the balls, as bad as it sounds. And im not even a tiny bit motivated to go online and look up what i did wrong, i just wanted a fun game without the need to study.

So after that experience im gonna give it back and look on to other things.

Just play XCOM 2 ...

Dafür, das es erst die Early Access ist, ist das Spiel schon super! :D
Die auftretenden Bugs gehören zu einer Pre-Release-Version einfach dazu und führen teilweise zu interessanten Situationen. (Wenn die Spielfigur beispielsweise durchs Wasser glitcht und nicht mehr Schwimmen kann --> Schwerkraft tut ihr Ding...Fallschaden wurde ja auch erst implementiert xD )
Ich warte gespannt auf jedes Update und schlussendlich das fertige Spiel!