Recent reviews by Lokirian

Ist das Spiel gut?
Jein, das Spiel hat eine interessante Grundprämisse und ist in der Grundstruktur ein vielversprechendes Spiel aber an vielen Orten herrschen teilweise Bugs welche absolute Spielspasskiller sind.

Wird es mit der Zeit besser?
Jein, das Spiel gibt neue Möglichkeiten und zeigt Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten auf. Zusätzlich hat es eine Interessante Road-Map mit Inhalten die kommen sollten. Leider hört es dort aber auf, seit dem Release gibt es (fast) keine Updates mehr, das letzte Update wurde sogar Rückgängig gemacht und seit dem herrscht stille. Keine Ankündigungen, keine Updates einfach nur Stille.

Würde ich das Spiel empfehlen?
Jein, wer mit einem einfachen Spielprinzip Glücklich ist, auch in einem Spiel mit teilweise ätzenden Bugs und der Möglichkeit, dass keine weiteren Updates mehr kommen sich abfinden kann der hat hier sicher ein paar stunden Spass. Wer jedoch eine echte Simulation möchte, komplexe Inhalte mag und gerne seine eigene Bierbrauerrei führen möchte ist hier glaube ich fehl am Platz.

Persönliches Schlusswort zur Empfehlung:
Ich kann beim besten willen das Spiel zum aktuellen Zeitpunkt nicht Empfehlen, die fehlenden Updates, Bugs und vor allem der schlechten Kommunikations des Entwicklers (auch bei einem Einzelentwickler) machen dies für mich Unmöglich. Was schade ist, weil ich das Potential des Spiels erkenne und gerne mehr davon hätte, es macht mir sogar Spass. Aber ich würde es aktuell eher weniger Starten weil ich keine lust mehr auf die gleichen Bugs und die ein Dimensionale Spielweise mehr habe. Ich hoffe der Entwickler kommt bald zurück mit einer Nachvollziehbaren Entschuldigung, ich hoffe es geht im gut und das er am Spiel weiterarbeiten kann und es nicht eins der verlorenen Titeln wird.

I would call this Teaser so far better as Arcadia, but not much! (I'm sorry for the Insults Devs, and i'm sure you tryied to do the best. But for me it wasn't so great so far).

This short Demo is filled with:
- Cutscenes ... and more ... and more ... AND MORE!
-> Gothic never felt like you're in a movie, it was awesome because you had (close to) no UI, which throwed you out of the flow, all this Cutscenes disturbe the flow from beeing the Nameless adventurer.

- A way to simplyfied conversation system with missing options.
-> A big plus of Gothic was his big Conversation Menues and reactions from the Characters.

- A Main Character which talks a lot ... and it isn't funny, informativ or anything else except anoying
-> The Original Character only talks if you initiate the talking, so you feel like you're the character. With this new Cut Scene talking i have 0 connection to the Character.

- A basic tutorial with 2 Problems, 1st you can't do ANYTHING except following the Path at the Start. And even if you can walk free, the Tutorial is only boring Pop-Ups.
-> If you could gather the items at the Start, and the tutorial would bring a faster, tutorial would be way better.

- The Movement feels Clunky at best, i even would choose the Original Movement back over this, BUT to be fair, this is just a Teaser, and i gues this would be adressed.

- Horrible unnecessary "Choosen One" Feeling all over the Place (Explosion, surrives with no scratch), "this one is different" and so on.
-> The only moment, i realy felt like a "Choosen One" in the Original was as the Narator sayed: "And he will change everything". But no other character or situation give me a feeling of beeing a choosen one.

- Events with absolute no Logic. An Explosion, and shortly afterwards there is no one Stealing, so they knew what to steal and what it was? And it wasn't on the Lift, cause why would you explode it then. Why comes it in the deepest night and not at Day? Why are no Guards / Transporters around to unload the Stuff and load back up the Ore. Why would Diego trust me any bit after the explosion of the Lift, with his knowledge i could be the one which did this. And this was only a teaser ... expecting this in the Game makes me realy worry. Also destroying the only way which connect the outerworld to the Prison?
-> I don't say Gothic was Perfect in Logic, but it wasn't so bad over board it had like every 10 minutes something to think about.

- Lot of Armors dosen't look as they got stolen from the Guards befor. Neither look most of them weared. Also the bright shiny Armor totaly looks out of place. Also i see a little of the Old armor in it ... but i realy have a concentrate a lot and have 2 pictures side a side to see that.
-> I missed the Shadow Leather Armor alot. The new one looks more ... strange, and the heavy armor looks freshly forged. The new Helms totaly look out of scenery.

- The new Character looks like a good adventurer, which just did a misstake, even his armor looks nice, i don't think a prisoner would wear this on his entrance.
-> A simple top and a simple Pant. would totaly be fine for the Start, earn your stuff like you did in the Original.

-/+ UI Looks copy Pasted of a Sci-Fi game instead of an Fantasy / Medieval Game. But is hold simple, the markers remove a lot of exploring for me, cause just run around if it have a marker go there, take it and go on. The new Menues and the Quick Menu dosen't look to bad, but it dosen't feels like it's gothic.
-> Give the Player the feeling back he is the Character. Give him early on a Bock, which would be the Glossar and give hime some accesbags which he looks for the Items he got (Dosen't have to be a Backbag, and it dosen't have to be realistic) but let the Player BE the character.

-/+ A new Combat system which fix some of the clunkyness of the original, but make you feel like you're a natural born Sword fighter instead of the importants of learning new Stuff. It also looks like you can improve this, with maybe more damage, less stamina per hit and maybe even new animations, but i think the new combat systems feels way stronger than the older one.
-> From an Free Action Combat system to the new one is a strange choise, maybe some people like it, i don't (not that the old one was realy better to be fair).

-/+ Great looking Menus, but they throw you out of the Game feeling.
-> In Gothic close to no menu ever threw you out of the game, even the Inventory worked totaly fine over the Ingame UI and was like Naturly there.

+ The Grafic looks neet, even if this is a secondary point.
-> Everything bad i could say about the grafic is 99% a performance problem which is totaly normal in a Teaser

+ The Music dosen't sucks, but it neither feels as great so far as in the Original To be fair, the Teaser is to short to make a real comparison.
-> Go on!

+ I like that you can't easly leave the Starting area by walking through the doors. It feels a little more realistic as in Gothic 1.

Over all, i think a Gothic Remake is nice, and a lot of people like it. But from that what i saw it's a nono. Please stick to the Gothic Simplisity and don't add to much Modernication into it.

For me personal it would be a buy, cause it's still an okay game ... but not a Gothic. I would not wanna recoment this to anyone which i would show the love to gothic.

I see potential in this game, if it fix it's slow and borring tutorial, overwork it's menu (inspecialy the Optionmenu Ingame, move this Buttons in the middle of the screen), and make the grid better to snap so you can't missplace them it would be a recommendation for a good indie City Builder.

I will Recommend it because of it's potential, else it would be a pretty close example of an okayish game which surrives a little over bad games.

This is the Game you ever wanted, you will Love it, you will hate it and will end in a harmfull relationship you can't go out. You beg to stop and the game will show you who have the bigger one. And belive me this game have a BIG one. It will throw you on the ground and will give you the plesure and torture you never wanted but always deserved. This game is your to go if you're a person who don't like to beat easy Games as Dark Souls or any Clone of it. Just start in Iron man, open a door and cry for the rest of the Game because you lost your whole Squad in one round. But even if this sounds like a sarcastic hell. THIS IS FUN ... i know you say "what is fun about this?" and it's simple ... play it and you can understand ... cause only if you play it you can understand it. 5/7 Perfect Score!

Test it out for yourself, find out if this Game is for you, i can't recommend it, but you have up to 2hours to fefund it, which was fine for me.

I realy liked JA2 back in the days, but this feels wrong in mostly everypoint of my Heart and Soul to play this.

Pro:
+ They tryed new Stuff
I realy wished i could say but thats it for me.

Contra:
- Looks like it's mobile Game or out of the early / middle '00.
- Animations are Clumbsy and feeled like they had to be rushed to be out on a 3 month project. (Even the first 2 important Animation Scence you're not sure if it's just buggy or horrible Animated)
- Just few Merchs to choose from ...
- ... and you only can pick a Small Team ...
- ... which not have a newbie / Pro rank system just a Pro / Con list.
- Humor feels pushed, not Natural (if you can't do it Natural ... leave it out)
- Troubles with some Hardware(?) Combination (Touch? Drawtablet? Controler? idk) couldn't use my Mouse i.e. for 95% of time even with no Controller Attached.
- Story was frish ripped of and '80s/'90s action movie.

Don't get me wrong, i don't say this is the worst game in Existence, but i say it's still not a good JA or a Game I can enjoy (inspecialy with no mouse recognition). It was Horrible just to finish the Tutorial. Please just let this Series Die, and stop butchering it for Money. I Prefer to play JA2 way over this.

First of all this isn't "the worst game in a while", it's a neet idea. So Why dislike it then? Simply because of this:

Pro:
+ Looks nice
+ If you got a little into it, it's funnish (but not more)
+ Levels are kinda Nicly designed (but again not more)

Contra:
- UPDATE: Will be fixed in Next patch! Original: Lacks of Basic Controller Stuff (A / B can't be double keyed for Accept / Jump | Decline / Slide, and even if unbind them end in keeping them as Accept / Decline Button (which Result in the impossibility of switch "B" to anything)

- Clunky Holding system, either you have to hold the button or not. If the game Choose to do it for me sometimes it's just bad. Please remove this Button for sake of the Game.

- UPDATE: Looks like it was a pretty rare BUG! ORIGINAL: Hidden Levels, after starting the game using the first menu point to get to the Game i had just an "empty" screen with a background picture. And i first found then Challanges, which are kinda Levels, but mostly only for a period of time. In the Dev Menu (which should not be visible for Players in my Opinion) i finaly found some Levels.

- Clunky Controls, even if i saw way worse controls like this, i have to point out that this game is a 100% about movement so a "Not" bad Control of your movement is just not good enough. Inspecialy, you can run on walls ... but you can't go arround Corners ... but you can Jump arround them and even get some High. This is not how it should work, also sometimes you try to Run right, hold right but your character still move left.

UPDATE: Remove this complain about duration of the Game and Value of it (Appears i had a bug which looked some levels for me, which was the biggest Part of the Game, so the Original point lost every foundation)

Last word, i will keep an Eye on this game (i will refund it) and give it later on another Try! Hopefully it will get fixed a lot of it's current Problem.

UPDATE: Changed to a very positiv experience after talking to the team. We could fixed some of my issues, and also some bugs. Mainly Groundbreaking bugs for my first Experience tbh. Keep this work up guys!

If you Search for a Sim City done right, you found it. A lot of options to config your City and Manage it. I Realy like the Game the only down i can give the game is the DLC politics (BUT WAIT), the addons are not nessesary to get a great game, and (mostly) every DLC is worth it's money (Personal Opinion).

If you liked the Original Legion TD from WC3 or Squadron TD from SC2 you prob. will miss some stuff in early time. The game is fun, it realy is (like the Originals) and new Races will come (for free), so i'm fine with Waiting for it.

In best case you bring a friend with you and have a lot of fun trying out tactics.

The Server have sometimes a little bit Trouble, but the two Developers work hard to fix, and communicate well on Twitter and Forums.

So i look forward to this game cause it's amazing and i can only recomment it to every TD player out there.

Stuff i personly totaly in to:
- Very fast Fixing of Problems (less then 48h for a stable solution in a 2 man team ... good job guys)
- Cool Races to start with (Element, Mech, Forsaken, Grove)
- Master Mind (would be a shame to miss the mixed races)
- New Races (hopefully following soon)

Stuff i personaly miss is:
- Ranked Mode (Seperated from Normal mode, so we can Try Stuff in Normal mode and not ruin a Ranked game)
- Offline Mode (vs. Bots / Custom for Lans ... eSports etc.)
- Next time a stress test (Like 3-4 Open for all Free Weekends)
- More Races (will come, even for Free)
- More then around 2'000 Players online at the same Point ^^

Etwas alt das merkt man dem Spiel auch an, es ist eine Mischung aus Patrizier und Skyrim ausserhalb der Städte hat man eine Weltkarte und in Städten kann (muss aber nicht immer) sich frei bewegen. Das Kampfsystem erinnert an alte Rollenspiele welche effektiv mal überarbeitet werden sollten. Das Wirtschaftssystem ist interessant aber man ist nicht darauf angewiesen, auf direkten kampf kommt man jedoch immer, auch wenn man die Chancen verringern kann. Die K.I. der Gegner ist teilweise Schwach bis nicht vorhanden. Dafür sind die Möglichkeiten grandios was Truppen und Moral angeht, unterschiedliches essen bei grossen Armeen ist z.B. ein muss. Alles in allem finde ich das Spiel genial auch wenn man ihm sein Alter anmerkt.