...This is a phone game

[Thwackinator]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvG4WcCfRZA

[Kalgert]

I do wish you would have found a video from anyone other than IGN. Those people make any game look bad with their piss-poor gameplay.

That being said, I will watch the video and come back to say what I think of the game, if it does look like a "Mobile game" or not.

Edit: Watched it, I think the game looks pretty for certain, can't know for sure about what I think about the gameplay because IGN is run by people who don't play videogames. Will have to wait for proper gamers to play it first.

[A57RO]

Regrettable but I actually have to agree this was my very first thought as well that it looked like a mobile game.

[PortalShifter]

OK that actually looks shockingly bad. $20 for this, maybe.

[Lupin III]

Maybe not mobile game bad... but it definitely already looks really dated, like PS3 era... comparable to God of War 3, and the gameplay doesn't thrill me at all. Watching the chick round-house kick a crystal was funny though.

[Jeck]

Looks perfectly fine to me.

[Allwynd]

I don't know what the OP means by "mobile". From the other comments, I'm assuming it has something to do with graphics quality.

For me, when I read mobile, I think:

- oversized UI
- bad controls
- simplistic and dumbed-down gameplay
- tiny zones/maps due to hardware limitations
- bad and simplistic itemization
- reliance on microtransactions and loot boxes/gacha

From what I saw in this video, I saw none of that, but my concern remains that the game may be overly simplistic and not very interesting - thus very low replay value. I did not watch the whole video so I did not see glimpses of the UI windows such as inventory, skill and character windows so I can't say anything else.

But it doesn't look like a mobile game, but I'm concerned it may be too dumbed-down - just action combat and collecting loot. I hope for some light puzzle solving, some dialogue, some story, maybe some simplistic crafting like rune words or gem slotting like in Diablo 2 - put an emerald into a weapon - get poison damage, put it into an armor - get poison resistance, put topaz into a weapon - get electric damage, put it into an armor - get electric resitsance and so on. Also some skill points so you can choose how to advance your characters.

My other concern is that they are showing pre-developed characters and one major word they use is "Co-Op" so I'm concerned it might be some session-based where you get 4 people and join a single scenario, kinda like a dungeon in an MMORPG and after you complete it, the game ends and you have to pick another one.

[Inquisitor Zalinto]

Just do what I'm doing for all the games I don't like and don't have interest in - I'm not on their steam discussions for no reason lol

[Wolfman]

Thanks for posting this gameplay footage. I was almost on my way to buy this game.

[Bilbo's Bath & Shire Gel]

Originally posted by Wolfman:

Thanks for posting this gameplay footage. I was almost on my way to buy this game.

Should probably check a different gameplay video to be sure. I wouldn't base a decision off something from IGN.

[The Red Blade]

I've seen some games that look amazing in trailers and previews, but turn out to be clunky and buggy in reality. At least this is a realistic portrayal of the game and what to expect. Am I the only one that's reminded of Godfall while watching gameplay? Kinda makes me think of Godfall with a Dungeons & Dragons makeover.

[BigCheese]

This looks bad.

[saberlost]

did she just kick the red crystals to loot them?

[Kalgert]

Originally posted by saberlost:

did she just kick the red crystals to loot them?

That's IGN for 'ya. Doing things in the worst way possible.

[Cardgage]

Originally posted by Kalgert:

Originally posted by saberlost:

did she just kick the red crystals to loot them?

That's IGN for 'ya. Doing things in the worst way possible.

That's not IGN, thats design.

[Zaku]

yeah, the game looks really.... jank. The animations are poor, the ui is unhelpful at best, the healing makes no sense, sometimes they just regen health out of nowhere seemingly, other times they use potions, the combat looks so dull and uninteresting as well.

it's hard to tell what's going on. There's no way ( at least in this vid ) to know how long your skills are on cool down, how long they last or what they even are and what they do. If there are buffs and debuffs, there's no way to know as they're not shown on screen. Another thing is there is an obvious loot system, problem is that it's never shown. The inventory, if it exists, is never opened or investigated in any way.

Big problem for me is, if that wasn't all bad enough, wheres the charm? The cinematic at the start was nice but after that it's gone. None or at least Few of the enemies speak, the characters your play as barely even grunt, let alone speak to one another, there is 0 interaction between them.

The whole game looks fake. I was really excited for this, but if no improvements have been made since this, i hope Tech Demo for windows XP, then hard pass