BEAUTIFUL DESOLATION (страница 1)

Well first of all, please note this game is not an RPG, some people say it should be obvious from the store description, but the game has some combat in a form of a mini-game late into the story (like 6+ hours in), so you can see why it can be a little confusing if you saw those. Besides, the game looks like a modern version of Fallout, and after playing the combat mini-game I wish it had more of that. Honestly, I would just compare this game to Cayne which is a free game by the same developer, the same format, just on a bigger scale. So as with any traditional point&click adventure, the focus is on the story, puzzles and choices (just with an isometric view). About 1 hour into the game you will realize the game has a limited open-world design, you have a little map with a few points of interest, but you will unlock more locations as you keep solving quests.

I completed the game around 15 hours with no hints, a lot of it was backtracking due to confusing puzzles. It has some replay value, you can choose a side between different factions 3 times during one run. I am not exactly sure about the dialogue choices, based on what I saw I think the game has some form of karma system. There are many things that I like, mainly the visuals and certain characters. The beautiful locations of this game should not be underplayed, it is ****** gorgeous, the environments are very creative and have an insane amount of detail. There are a ton of animated character faces with unique personalities, and in general, the game just has a really good art direction.The UI in the game still needs some work, there are some missing hotkeys and it could use some questline updates instead of just reading old dialogue.

So why negative review? There are a lot of issues but I can put them into two categories, the 'convoluted puzzle progression' and 'voice acting consistency'. Now you might be saying - "Beetle the voice acting in this game is great wtf are you talking about". The voice acting starts decently enough but it gradually declines to a point where it killed my immersion. I will say that the main characters did a decent job for the most part (the brothers). However, some of the side characters are hard to tolerate, borderline comical voice acting that does not fit the characters or the universe, you feel like someone is just casually talking into a mic. The actual writing in the game has some issues as well, for some reason you always have a choice of in-universe dialogue and 'FOK OFF' - I am not offended by the cursing in the game, it just feels out of character with polarizing responses.

Ultimately the puzzles are what killed this experience for me. Now, this is the game where you have to look for hints in a dialogue, which in itself is not a problem, but even when I managed to follow the hints, sometimes the game was not behaving as it should. I was doing a quest with 2 skeletons which for some reason stopped abruptly in the middle and randomly resumed 30 minutes later after I gave up. It often feels like you get new quest lines in random places with no obvious triggers, essentially forcing you to check every location just in case. You have the option to read the previous dialogue in case you miss the hint, but I think the game needs a summary of current objectives so you not looking for key-words through an ocean of old conversations.

Pros:

+ best looking P&C game I ever played, gorgeous locations and animation
+ many unique characters with creative personalities
+ it has some interesting story choices and mini-games
+ replay value is okey, 2 runs will cover most of the content
+ achievements

Feedback:

Hotkeys - please add shortcuts to dialogue logs and radio, I was using those menus a lot.

Object detection - sometimes the quest items and interactive areas are hard to pick from the background. On some occasions you need the item to interact with something you thought was a background. I just realized something, I played the whole game with a robotic dog scanner, would have been kinda cool if she would run up to things if you idled in the area. Oh crap thank you robot scanner for noticing this stupid item that pulsates small waves that bland into the background.

What is up with people making robot noises - they killed immersion of the game for me. It sounds like a dude trying to talk like a robot, it's hilarious, I wanted to take this universe seriously to some extent. The quality of voice acting goes from 1 to 10 every 5 minutes, what happened?

Convoluted Quest lines - it can be difficult to know if you are still doing a certain mission or if there are new events. Maybe you could have a summary of the current objectives. Perhaps if old characters have something to say they could have a sign over the icons in logs, "as in they contacted you on the radio". Honestly I would just put something over the map saying- "hey, you did not finish exploring this location stupid"

Overall Thoughts: 6/10

To me, this game constantly feels like looking for a needle in a haystack. There are some great moments but they are spread too far apart to have an enjoyable experience. It's not just about good looks, I want that voice acting to be consistent, I want to take this universe seriously, but I can't because you were trolling with some of those side characters and it killed the atmosphere. At the very least, the objectives should be a bit more transparent. It could be a decent game, but I think the devs took more than they could handle, hence you have all these consistency issues with quests progression, voice acting, and UI.

Мне лично не понравилась. Пустые локации. Пустая беготня. Пустая игра. Детализации мелких предметов нет . Кому то зайдет сюжет. Мне не зашёл. Пробуйте, играйте, получайте ...