Recent reviews by Se7en

Honestly, I really like this game, but theres a few real issues. Most irritating of which, in my opinion is the exams that immediately follow the tutorial. The first one, the destruction exam, pits you against a ship that has a smaller crew than yours. Seems easy. You're to defeat the ship without boarding it. Again, no problem. But you're to do this in 10 minutes. it takes 45 seconds to even get your ship up to speed, much less turn it (god forbid you get stuck up against the wind, that could eat up 2 minutes or better), all while the AI out-maneuvers you effortlessly. These exams should honestly be for mid level players, not situated right at the beginning (and as a barrier between you and a nice little starter package). There should be more realistic practice in between the tutorial and these exams, since there isn't much direction in the game itself. Honestly, I can get over it, I'll keep at it till i eventually get through it by skill or luck, but this kind of thing turns away a huge amount of gamers, and that's a real shame because this game at it's core is a really cool thing. I'm not saying nerf every enemy and make it super casual friendly, I just know that people being introduced to game mechanics don't really wanna get stomped on right off the bat. Maybe introduce some sort of arena training mode with AI of different difficulties (or in different ships ramping up in difficulties) to give people a place to learn the game without risking their ships, the cutter is always available yeah, but it handles and operates so much differently than a ship of a bigger size. Anyway, this is just my two cents, your mileage may vary. All in all i think this game has a lot of potential, even if it is currently somewhat unforgiving.

If you like long periods of intense boredom/running, punctuated by very short, very violent periods of panic and futility, this might be the game for you!

All jokes aside, this is an a great time-killer that can easily immerse you, or make you want to snap your keyboard. A few key issues I'm hoping they will address in the future are:

• Optimize, optimize, optimize! This game is beautiful, it has the potential to look like a work of art, but it is in DIRE need of optimization while still somehow being playable.
  
• Some better form of matchmaking to root out the chinese that have flooded the NA server. It is not conducive to maintaining a good audience in America if I have to learn Mandarin to play your game. It may seem like this is a nationalistic/racist sentiment, I assure you, it is not. You will CONSTANTLY be getting matched with our neighbors from the Asian countries.
  
• While thoroughly entertaining for all of 30 seconds, til we all die, whatever it is that makes the plane eject all 80+ [strike[passengers[/strike]enemies at once is definitely gonna need a fix. If its somehow intentional, make it it's own game mode and call it Cold War, cause all it is is an arms race.

Thank you for reading and I hope you have found this helpful somehow.