Recent reviews by chronicdiscord

So, it is a rogue game, along with a level of Terraria thrown in. You get a couple wands and a potion and are set off to explore. There are secrets and means to increase your power that take some digging to really get. The deeper you get, the more challenges you find, and the more random.

Maps and loadouts are randomized, and sometimes, many times... Luck will take you right up the ass with a baseball bat covered in razorblades. Some of the enemy combinations are just, cruel.

But it is fun, and challenging, so I would say it is worth the buy.

So, grab your polymorphine and water, get your blackhole wand ready, and be careful out there.

Alright, so, this is just a first impression... But it is not a good one.

Interface is obtuse, colour contrasts are incredibly low in a lot of areas making it hard to figure out what is going on.

Graphics are on a level below that of Crusader Kings 2, now, that is a matter of the spites they use not lining up quite right visually. Yeah, the images look a bit off whenever you look at them. Like a jigsaw puzzle that you needed a mallet to gently persuade to go together.

Tutorial does not help you learn the game, like, at all. I have played a good dozen Grand Strategy games, I figured I would be able to see how things were going and things would come together and make sense. After nearly two hours, I am ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lost.

So, not recommended, at all.

Disappointing. Game is buggy and not receiving updates needed to correct the issues.

It hangs at times, unable to break free. It has actually crashed Windows.

Deeply disappointing.

I would argue this is not Crusader Kings in SPAAAACE! Rather, this is just the poor man's Crusader Kings, like Crusader Kings Lite, half the calories but also nothing of flavour.

I would not recommend this game to anyone.

Is it 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons? No. This game takes elements of 5th Edition and does whatever it wants with it, decent game though.

Does it have a good character creator? Meh. I would say Saints Row 3 does it better with sliders than this premade nonsense. You can make characters in a very tight set of premade constraints, mods let you add more, but you don't have freedom. No matter what you do, they will end up giving douchey looks in cutscenes like they have something uncomfortable firmly inserted into their nether regions. When you compare it to the likes of Black Desert Online or Skyrim you are going to be disappointed, but it is not garbage.

ESG? It does feature vitiligo, a condition effecting less than half a percent of the populace. So, Black Rock loves Larian.

Does Mod support make the game significantly better? Absolutely. Be careful you don't let it break the game balance by inserting unbalanced elements, a lot of mods don't just add items in specific places, they dump them into the tutorial area.

Is the story interesting? Sure. Deep? It does give you a lot to digest of the setting of the Sword Coast and Toril as a whole, but there are limits you will find troublesome at times. Minthara? Yeah, that.

Is it busting it down sexual style with the swag of a turnt out whiteboi? If that is your cup of tea, sure. But it will have you disappointed with the lack of depth in areas where games of years past were doing it better. The developers clearly focused on specific elements and even more clearly were under restrictions on what their game could and could not do in order to not compete with Hasbro's now doomed virtual tabletop system they were hoping would end tabletop and turn everything into a microtransactional utopia for corporate interests.

Approval? Sure, if you like DnD style games, this is above average. Nothing wrong with having a waifu/husbando simulator that adds a little gameplay around it. All of them are broken in their own special ways, but Karlach is bestgirl as she is the least messed up of the bunch.

They killed CSGO and replaced it with CS2, that was a very poor choice.

They should have just linked the item inventory of the two initially, and then moved forward as two distinct titles.

Much like how no one wanted CSS and stuck with CS1.6, this jump to another engine and different mechanics is a highly divisive choice and will only hurt CS2 by making the people who did not want to switch over but were forced to into a mess of negativity.

I get it, they wanted to make sure the community stayed united and they did not lose out on a single penny of that sweet sweet economy. Unfortunately, this may still end up disrupting that money printer.

I am surprised Valve made such an obviously stupid choice usually they are not that dumb, well, off to play Artifact.

This title is becoming increasingly slow, bloated, and buggy. As the title has developed it has become bogged down by additional features that reduce the reliability of it. I kinda liked the unusual evolving strategy of the game, but I cannot abide a thing that becomes worse the longer it is worked on. What was originally a fairly straightforward game has instead become a cluttered and crashing one. Shame.

Originally the greatest team-based first person shooter available to buy, Team Fortress 2 has become increasingly distant from its clean and professional roots. The game remains an enjoyable shooter where teamwork and coordination trump individual skill, but its cohesive art style and balanced gameplay have been set aside.

Artistic quality and cohesion have been overtaken by flash and marketing tie-ins. Basically cosmetic items have become more important than the game being clean and easy to navigate.

Gameplay balance has been upset by the introduction of new weapons which out perform the default ones, additionally the classes have somewhat lost track of their original purposes, Demoknights being the worse offender of that trend.

Still a great game, and even free now. There is no downside to playing, but I question the value of buying anything from the store in order to get a premium account.

So you know how there are B movies you can enjoy and B movies you hate? Well, Warlock - Master of the Arcane reminds me of those B movies.

There are a lot of problems: the AI is utter ♥♥♥♥, may as well assume constant war with everyone... The borders will randomly disappear or render incorrectly... The portals to other worlds are useless because of the previously mentioned constant war... Made units become increasingly useless as the game progresses and heroes become unstoppable killing machines that can walk through armies... Missions are complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ because you can accept or refuse them, but refusing them makes you pay the same price as failure. There are more problems than there are good things.

At the same time, it is ridiculously silly how overpowered your heroes get, so there is a bit of enjoyment in your godslayer taking on literally every unit an enemy has.

I would not recommend it to anyone, but it is not unplayable or even unenjoyable. There are ideas that seemed interesting and there are a good number of units to toy with. It is just really badly done.

This is one of those B movies that if it is on and you're bored, well, you may get a little fun out of it. I wouldn't recommend you buy it, but if it is playing anyway and there is nothing better to do, there are worse things to waste your time away with.

This game rather quickly convinced me it was a mobile game, and was not meant to be played on a computer.

It all went to hell when that happened.

The gameplay was a bit simplistic, but acceptable, I've played dumber games. The RPG elements didn't really appeal to me, they didn't do anything to make the game more interesting. The balance of the battles was not very consistent. There was a ticking resource for all your actions that you could recharge with a tapping minigame... An annoying minigame that was not remotely enjoyable.

Basically, this is a time waster that has been ported to PC and has not gotten the needed revamp to add fun to the game.

Unfortunately, I don't generally look for time wasters on PC, I have TeamFortress 2.

Link suffers from a great many faults, not the least of which is the one you encounter right out the gate... Its resolution. It has a screen resolution for ants. I don't mean it is small, I mean it is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tiny. You can use Alt-Enter to go full screen, but then it will look and feel horrible to use. Mind you, the horrible feel does not go away at window mode, it is just less noticable because everything is so small. The user interface feels sluggish and awkward in turn.

Game crashes, a fair bit more than one would expect for a simple X-COM knockoff. I don't get where they think there is anything rogue-like about this, this is just ♥♥♥♥♥♥ X-COM. It is actually why I had it on my wishlist, I like X-COM.

But I don't like this. Where X-COM ramps upward in difficulty Link kicks you in the balls and laughs about how it has stacked the deck against you before sitting down and dealing you a hand. Any cockups with your resource management will kill you, the margin for error is so stupidly small you will regularly be ruined by no true fault of your own.

Inexplicably the game's icon is of a red dragon head, I don't get that, probably a relic of a previous game they were using the engine for and just forgot to provide their own for the new game.

There are moments of Engrish, where it takes you a second to realize what they are trying to tell you. I know one should not hold some spelling and grammar against a game, but it is dreadfully unprofessional.

I wanted this to be fun, and strategic, and engaging - I got buggy, and random, and frustrating.

Link needs some major redesign of the early game and a much better quality assurance team before I would ever recommend it to anyone but the most die-hard of X-Commanders looking to test their mettle.