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Don't remove the necktie.

DATTEBAYO!!!

Probably the worst tcg I've ever tried. No confusion as to why it was not successful. I loved it.

overdose of dopamine directly into your frontal lobe

they quite literally call me v1

As far as crpgs go, it doesn't get much better than Owlcat. Crpgs are about their stories, their characters, and their rich character/class customization. This game doesn't shy on any of those regards. You level up some like, sixty times in a run. My current party is a single-target dps and another character to clear fodder. Everyone else just exists to make them stronger, it's great.

Games Workshop is inundated in below average literature and storytelling, it's not a secret. I'm happy to say Rogue Trader is not included in that. At least in Act I and II, the story is actually quite well written, and characters such as Argenta or Pasqal are the most faithful (pun intended) representations of their occupations. Argenta and Idira have Lae'zel and Shadowheart levels of banter. Player dialogue is also great, varying from "Suffer not the xeno to live." to "It's ok I trust you," twenty seconds after meeting it, which would get all but a handful of people in the Imperium executed immediately. Just uh, remember that Warhammer is a universe built on war and suffering. If you're a good person, sometimes that's the reward for itself.

With the genre having such 'fluid' narrative and gameplay, it's bound to have bugs. The thing is, though, these are not bugs that take 70 hours of game play to reach, a lot of them are seen right from the beginning. If you played the Pathfinder games before they got definitive editions, you know what to expect. Though, honestly I don't have THAT many problems with Rogue Trader.

• You can't rotate regional abilities.
  
• LOS is cooked and your long ranged units will suffer from the invisible walls everywhere
  
• Sometimes you just can't move the voidship in combat, which can screw you over
  
• YOU CAN'T ROTATE REGIONAL ABILITIES? AN ENTIRE CLASS IS BASED ON THEM
  
• Sometimes you use an area ability and it literally does nothing with no combat log info
  
• You can remove like 25% of the fights in each area and everyone would be ok with it
  
• While you're at it, do it in your other games, and your next one, preemptively
  
• A billion talents and no way to search for the one you want is diabolical
  
• Mid-combat/scripted spawns occur in the middle of the battleground and often act immediately, usually resulting in a party member being killed without any counterplay
  
• Yrliet unique ability into Bring it Down doesn't work lmao

Anyways. I think it's a great game, and honestly, the game is much easier than Owlcat's Pathfinder titles. No pre-buff, no healing pre-batlle (you heal after each engagement), and most enemies have the same tricks in their sleeves as you. Actually, they spend a lot of their time killing each other. You will be fine if you play now. You'll be better if you wait. If you can wait, I'd probably do that.


Also, you can romance the navigator AND a xeno. Owlcat does it yet again.

only one person needs to own it and everyone else can play via the trial in uplay, kinda fire

they turned sniper into a melee dps

the guy who made this just commented on my profile (maybe with a hijacked account, maybe not) asking me to try this game lmao. man didnt even give me a copy. ALSO I just looked and they deleted the comment which is hilarious, didn't mean to call you out bro. didnt expect anyone to see this review, I respect the grind tho

it's roguelite fire emblem. if that sounds interesting, you'll probably enjoy it for a few runs. translation is alright, and the mechanics are just shallow enough that you probably won't play super long term. still, in the meantime, it's fun.

This is the dev studio that made that flash game called Rebuild, which is CRAZY, first of all.

In contest with the colors, and the art, it's not a particularly happy game. Awful things can and do happen, with little time to recover in between. For example, in my first run, Tammy died at the beginning. I felt responsible, even though it wasn't truly my fault. It set the depressing tone that I wasn't completely aware existed in this game. It's a game where I can genuinely say that your choices do have some measure of weight. There is a built in mechanic for NG+, so you can get different endings.

The deck-building is weak, and there should be more character interactions than there are. A lot of RPGs get away with having only a few character specific events, because those characters stick around with you in your party and pitch in on conversations. This game doesn't have that, and it leaves you wanting.

Perhaps one day there will be a remake that adds some more content, and fixes those issues of mine. But it's still a great game, and if you like visual novels, it's worth a play (or two), in my eyes.