Recent reviews by Traearc

If you can get the game to run, the game is amazing.

I have to say this game suprised me, the story is in a round about way but in the end it really made an impact on me. The ending I really enjoyed, this is how I think ending should work, it gives you a sense of completion and gives you an expectation on a continuation. I will say this, if you like playing an evil character the ending might disappoint you. It personally makes sense to me why it played out the way it did but, just wanted to give a heads up.

My first playthrough took me roughly 30 hours, granted I am a completionist so I take my time, granted I expect the game would of taken me longer if I didn't hit a bug where one of the people I needed to find spawned her behind a wall with no way to get to her.

I only played with guns and human neuromods and on normal I had no issues except lil annoyances when outside the station. My 2nd playthrough I plan on playing on nightmare and only doing typhoid neuromods.

Anyway for me the best praise I can give a game is if a game can get me excited to play through it again that says everything, even games like Witcher 3 or even the Mass Effect series I had to wait for almost a year before I had the drive to jump back in.

All in all, if you enjoyed Dishonored 1 and 2 buy this game, if you like shooters with an element of RPGs buy this game.

First off, I am going to say that this game is a decent game, I do not recommend it because at its current price I do not think it is worth it.

Pros -
Story - The story is actually an interesting concept, and for the most part it plays out decently. There are a few moments in the story that irk me, mainly because more could've been done with that moment, or it basically forces you into an option you wouldn't do yourself.

Combat - The combat is engaging, I guess some people have found it hard, while some have found it easy. I am one of the ones that finds it easy, its a bit difficult starting out. Once you level up it gets easier, I went Technomancer, with Dagger and Gun. The gun makes fights a whole lot simplier, so I would recommend the dagger and gun build for people who want an easier time in combat.

Graphics - Graphics are good, not as good as Witcher 3 but still passable, and the animations are better than their previous titles where everything felt stiff, again, not as good as Witcher 3 but still better.

Upgrade System - The weapon/armor upgrade system is in this game just as it was in like Bound by Flame, very simple upgrades all around though, basically weapons have 4 upgrades crit, dmg, distruption(stagger), and armor pen. Theres also multiple levels of the upgrades. These upgrades also give the items visual upgrades which I really enjoyed seeing, just means they put in a little extra work to the upgrade system. I still think more could've been done with this system, but its nice to have an upgrade system regardless.

Cons -
Companion AI - The companion AI in this game is a joke, half the time I will look around and I will have 3 enemies on me while my companions will have 1 and somehow I will beat the 3 enemies while both my companions are almost dead and the 1 enemy they were fighting is at 90% hp. Its just really bad, the only thing companions in this game are good for is to soak up some attention from enemies but sometimes that doesnt even work.

Companion Stories - Its sad, but there is pretty much only 1 companion that had a story that actually made me care about them in anyway. The rest of them were either generic stories or just werent well done.

Traveling - Ok this would have to be my biggest gripe with the game. It reminded me of when I played through Dragon Age 2 with always going back and forth through places I have already been, except the respawn rates of enemies are so fast that by the time you get back from a 2 minute mission they will have respawned and you will have to fight them again, and the quest givers like to hold back quests to extend the play time of the game so you get a quest, go complete it, come back to turn it in, than he gives you another quest in the same area you were just in. Really annoying.

Voice Acting - The voice acting in this game is mediocre at best, especially the main character. He just sounds the same no matter what emotions he should be portraying.

Karma System - So I seriously have no idea what this system does to be honest, I truly can't think of anything to say about it besides when you bend down to drain an enemy(kill them) a popup shows up saying -1 karma, or if you do something good a popup shows up saying +1 karma. I never found any point in the game where my karma actually affected anything. I put this under cons because a useless feature in a game takes away time from features that they could've refined more if they focused on them rather than putting in a feature that doesnt do anything besides doing simple math.

Exploration - It really isn't worth it to do any exploration, through out the whole game I found 6 "purple" items, 2 of them I didn't even wear because they were worse than what I was already wearing, 2 pieces were off a boss from a quest chain, the other 2 you don't even get till you are right outside the last boss encounter. The majority of equipment upgrading I found was off enemies or from vendors, not from chests. I only found 2 purple pieces in chests.

Weapons/Armors - The amount of weapons and armors in this game is a let down, but thats not the reason this is a con to me, just like the Gothic series that had a minimal amount of different armors, this game doesn't make the new armor or weapons feel like a true upgrade. Take the Technomancer gear sets, from all the armor I saw on vendors or that I found through out the world they had 3-4 different chest pieces, 2-3 boots, 4 gloves, 1-2 helmets. Sure you can mix and match but since the only pieces that could get fluid regeneration on them were the technomancer equipment I felt that I had to wear that equipment. The heavier armors had more variety but since I didn't use them besides for equiping my companion with them, it just didn't have that much of an impact on me.

All in all, this game is decent at best, I never got one of those moments that made my heart race or gave me chills that I have gotten with so many other RPGs out there now a days. I would recommend waiting till this game is 20 bucks or less before snagging it up.

So, I saw that Technomancer was coming out soon and decided to give this game a shot before it came out to see if the developer was any good. Sadly I probably wont buy Technomancer because of this game.

Pros - Weapon Customization, Story has decent premise, Interesting idea for main protaganist, decent art.

Cons - Animations are god awful, Voice acting is meh to bad, combat is god awful (Granted I was a warrior, I can see the combat being alil better as a ranger with a dodge.) Characters are forgettable, story even with a decent premise fell short, Serious lack of enemy types.

My biggest issue with this game is the tedious nature of the enemies, especially the minibosses/bosses everyone of them has an AOE and they can end up just spamming it over and over again so it basically goes like this, run in and hit the boss 2-3 times depending on weapon than run out rinse repeat for 3 minutes and that if they are alone. Everything has so much life that you question how your character is supossed to be powerful, you hit like a freaking mesquito with a 2 hander.... Anyway I trudged through this game all the way to the last boss, and when I got the last boss to 20% and died because I grew tired of the tediousness of the fight I decided its just not worth my time, Ill just go watch a youtube video if I want to see the ending.