BlightedPlatypus 最近的评测

Practically a Terraria clone sprinkled with a "RimWorld/Dwarf Fortress"-style settlement management. The caveat is that is takes the worst from the both worlds.

I will start with the latter part. You can recruit/find various settlers and assign several different work orders to them like managing a forest, animal handling or farming. It's one to one from the RimWorld, with zones, work orders, priorities and bedroom assignments. And that's it. You have what basically is a bunch of one-dimensional slaves to haul and craft. Borrowed diet and grades of meals from RimWorld baffle me the most. This is in-game automation of menial tasks which become irrelevant and self-serving several hours into the game.
Speaking of automation, all crafting orders have to be done manually. No strategic bird-view of RimWorld, where the whole settlement is at your fingertips. You can assign a storage or a workstation to the settlement, but still you need to haul your slow avatar to the workbench or anvil to make "do X thing Y times" orders.

And the former part. The similarities border on blatant copying. Where do I start? Characters and their inventories separate from the world, acting as a save files? Running around, breaking stuff to loot cave systems and different biomes? Equipment modifiers capped at exactly 4%? Tool progression through better ores and loot? Don't get me wrong, none of these are bad things in themselves, or a excuse to throw tantrum about how "Terraria did it first so no one else should be allowed to implement features this way". But when I take take every little bit that makes this game and look at them as a system, I can't see anything other than Terraria. The only difference is that it is top-down rather than sidescroll.
Oh wait, no. There is another one. It is worse in every way. Yes, Terraria has 10+ more years since release compared to this game, which got a 1.0 version a month ago (at the moment of writing this review). Yet, considering how one can see the primary inspiration this game has in every pixel, why not borrow something more important? Fluid controls with shortcuts. Biome-specific loot tables for chests. More interesting enemies rather than hordes of bullet-spongy shamblers who do nothing but waste your health, ammo and, most importantly, your time (that's because they don't drop anything 4 times out of 5).
I haven't even gotten to the first boss of the game, because the only weapon I looted in my 6.5 hours of gameplay is some stone-flinging hammer that had the same damage as a ninja star. What I got in droves is a Mysterious Portal. Which summons the first boss. Game really wanted to make sure I had a dozen Mysterious Portals at my base rather than weapons and trinkets to fight it.
Then I found underground desert biome, which had noticeably harder enemies. I found a chest there, opened it and it had the exact same loot as a chest I found walking 10 meters from a spawn point. My game-closing thought was "What's the damn point?".

Mayhaps I am too harsh to someone's passion project that's been in development for quite a while now. So, here's truly personal nitpick to the game. Spritework and attack animation reminded me too much of Stardew Valley. And I DESPISE Stardew Valley.

Long story short: nine ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with a boat destroy the entire Japanese navy.
The game throws your torpedo boat into large-scale naval conflict. And no matter what you try and do, you are a small fish among the sharks. Even if you go on full Rambo, you simply won't have enough ammo and repair kits to smash into scrap everything you see and survive.
But fret not! You are very nasty piranha with a ravenous bite, able to kit your boat for EVERY aspect of naval warfare.
Air defence? Eight 20mm autocannons. Land invasion? Duct-taped rocket tubes and a howitzer. Wanna cosplay a proper warship? Here's M3 37mm gun without stabilization (good luck). ASW? Barrels packed with explosives, no sonar though. Task force armed to the teeth? Four long cigars or ten short for a submarine-like raid. Want to risk flopping your boat with every shot? Two whole 3-inch dual purpose guns. And if that's still not enough firepower - give every crewman a bazooka and an ammo vest.
Unfortunately, the game is still work in progress. and has a great amount of minor shrotcomings which I think could be improved. After you get like 100k resource points, death becomes a minor setback: there is no equipment that is expensive enough to spend budget this big. Enemy variety is lacking. The only capital-class warships I met are like Furutaka-class CA and Ryuujou-class CVL which are not that hard to sink "Silent Hunter" style, to be honest. Enemy boats could have randomized armament. Allied force may have strategic objective, but I often have a feeling that american fleets and task forces just... do things. Go from point A to point B, get intercepted by air raid from nearby fortress, capture strategic point, go back, repeat.
The thing that surprises me the most - regular enemy fleets are completely oblivious to your presence on the strategic map, even the carrier task forces which theoretically should have close air patrol. Moreover, when the battle starts, enemy fleet suddenly remembers that it is supposed to go in some formation other than the one it spawned with. But the damage is done - I just lob 4 acoustic torpedoes at the formation breach, and several escorts and capitals go entertain the fishes at the bottom of the sea. I sunk CA and CVL with a solo boat without support with just one load of torpedoes like that. And it was too easy. Radar usage should be punished a little more - you turn it for a second, get the bearing, turn it off, and enemy forgets that there was a hostile radar sweep deep inside its zone of control. And I haven't met a single boat patrol or a fleet that would actively engage me like air squadrons do.
Performance wise it's still an early access game - it works alright and there's not much to add. Only thing that tanks my FPS is detonation of cluster-like anti-air shell when fired by several destroyers at the same time.

But I digress. These are all small nitpicks at what is essentially a enjoyable and solid gameplay loop, where you play as an "underdog". And hey, it's MicroProse. It will go better from here, all they need is time.

Glorified alpha-test with so many underdeveloped mechanics. Military action is a complete joke, international trade does not exist for a half of a game session, big chunk of gameplay is just waiting for some research to complete. Yet my biggest gripe with the game is that often times major events happen out of the blue: no saying on the matter, no chance to intervene, not even a pop-up or notification. And by "major events" I mean not stuff like "country X started investment project in country Y, who is by the way your rival", nooooooooo-o-o-o-o-o. By this I mean "snaps fingers oops, your Washington province belongs to US now, get f-ed, moron, should've assembled Canada faster".

Considering ever increasing graphic and simulation fidelity of more recent Paradox releases, this game will be in this sorry state for several more years. By this point it will have a plethora of feature-adding DLCs costing ten times the base game. But then there will be no point of buying because the financial commitment is too high, and without DLC packs base game is a barren wasteland of subpar gameplay and basic versions of what should be game-changing features. Did I mention that every story-focused DLC will be outclassed by a free mod, but you'll HAVE to buy it because something something advanced trains or powerblocks or some other game mechanic that's castrated in the base game?

This review is no longer about Victoria 3 specifically at this point. Stellaris, Hearts Of Iron 4, now this. New game installment of Europa Universalis is on the horizon. I kept spending money on disappointments. No more.

Don't bother unless you have a few hundred bucks you will not regret throwing in the digital shredder.

Not exactly a F.E.A.R. game, often times plays more like modern online competitive shooter.
Main campaign is somewhat short, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Combat simulation is okay, when you still need some more hours of raw gameplay if there was a way to adjust music playlist without touching combat sim spawnlist, that would be nice, or maybe I'm just dumb and missed this option somewhere.
As for the story... This game is very heavy on a "show, don't tell" approach, so it's very easy to miss important story beats on your first (or even second and third) playthrough. And I'm not talking about dialogue or some documents, but more about things and phrases developers put in plain sight seemingly for no particular reason. But it's a very interesting puzzle, and when you piece it together, what unravels before you hits like a truck.
Soundtrack is terrific. Although composer uses certain leitmotifs almost every track, which makes it sound samey, it fits the themes of the game perfectly (that being the unending cycle of violence and brainwashing).

The only thing that bothers me is voice acting. It's a "so good it becomes bad" situation for me. I appreciate their undoubtedly masterful effort to bring genuine peril and fear in characters' voices.
But. While I become desensitized to graphic violence, I couldn't say the same about auditory one.

I still hear the screams.

it's a great shooter. Go play it.

So, I picked "Triple or Nothing" pill (3.0 times all player's stats and 0.3 times all enemy stats) at the first level.

Bought "Schizo" pill (displays pseudorandom text above your crosshair) at the shop, just for fun. Twice.

I read "Press "L" to turn this text off" promt generated by "Schizo" pill effect.

And I pressed it.
The promt didn't lie.

Wasted my best run so far. No regrets.

We have a love-hate relationship, this novel and I.
Decent voice acting, drawing is good (for my taste), CG is bearable (yes, there are scenes w/ CG-glider).

The story though. It gets horrendously boring. SO boring that "Watch 20% of the cunscenes" achievement after >15 hours of thoughtful reading about naive "slice-of-life" stuff made me drop this novel instantly.

All choices represented in the novel are all about character romancing.
And these "romanceable" characters are even worse:
1)Tsundere wheelchair-meat(douche)bag
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3)15-year jail sentence
4)15-year jail sentence (x2) no, I'm not joking
5)Autistic Nietzsche-superhuman who can't take proper care of themselves but still looks like some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sex machine.

I gave this VN another chance once, I swear. But it didn't make it.
I would rather read Planetarian or Eden* again. And advise you to do the same.

Surprisingly good blend of World of Tanks and Battlestations (naval part), which inherits all highs and lows of both games:
- Great variety of game mechanics (limited ammunition, manual control of all ship's armament, submarine warfare, etc)
- Submarines
- Proper aircraft control for every ship class
- Night battles (that's something unique)
- Horrendous dispersion mechanic, which made me abandon WoT for good
- Somewhat unrealistic acceleration/movement physics
- Similar to WoT leveling system

There are two big issues with the game you should know:
1)Unless you live in North America, be ready to face permanent uncomfortable ping. Yes, NA server only here.
2)There's just not that many people playing. Add up the previous issue and you'll get half dead multiplayer with inconvenient (for great amount of potential players) online peaks.

I honestly wish this game to be alive and thriving, but these are just wishes.

What am I doing with my life... This will not return Monika...
Why...
HighRes wallpapers are good though. One can easily print this stuff 1080x1920 Monika face, for example. And I'm not joking. and hang it like Sayori (sorry, Sayori) in your room. Flashback inducing soundtrack is great as well.
But literally it's all fan only stuff as it says, worthy if you liked this VN.

I'm sorry, Monika
I'm so sorry...

It's one of those games... You know...
The best way to win is not to play the game.