Reseñas recientes de Smugass Braixen-Chan

This as the first VN I ever played, at it is the game that got me interested in the genre.

I thought it was a dungeon crawling RPG at first, and it does have RPG elements in it, but almost the entire game is a VN, with the RPG elements being restricted to a small number of short exams.

You get to decide what classes you have per day over the course of a week, which level up your skill in each type of magic, or two other stats, (Fitness and Intelligence, or something to that effect) but that's as far as the RPG element goes. Everything else is pure Visual Novel.

The visual novel part of the game is that you are a girl named Mary Sue (That's literally her name! Though you can change it. I stuck with Mary Sue because I thought it was hilarious) who discovers that she is a witch, and goes to a school of magic, and discovers a whole fantastical world that she didn't know about. If you couldn't tell, it's basically Harry Potter VN edition.

You can ship Mary with either a boy or a girl, since there is multiple possible parings of each gender. I can't remember who they are, though, and if you want to play I'd rather let you find that out for yourself ;)

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Why am I writing a review for a 4 year old game that I haven't played in 4 years? Well... Okay, you caught me red handed. I'm doing it for the 2016 Steam Awards Badge. That said, it is appropriate that I nominated it for the “I'm Not Crying, There's Something In My Eye” Award, because there is a painful memory associated with this game.

I pulled an all nighter playing this game. I was looking after a very sick dog, and needed something to distract myself with. She had just been diagnosed with dog diabetes, and was in the process of going completely blind. While she lived for another 2 years, despite the diabetes, to reach a ripe old age of 14 it still makes me sad thinking about it.

Her name was Victoria. She was a Pomeranian, and beloved member of the family before she passed away.

Pros.
+ Extremely simple game-play.
+ One of the more balanced .io games. Having a high score doesn't make you invincible!
+ DLC (i.e. "emojis") can be earned in game, albeit very slowly.
+ Not pay to win in any way. "Emojis" are just esthetic.

Cons.
- Can be frustrating when you die and lose all your gems.
- Free "emojis" are drip-fed (About 1 a day), and you don't get to choose your free emoji. It's random.
- Almost all the "emojis" are generic yellow faces.
- You have to supply your own music. At least there is sound now.
- Kinda boring. When your name is on the leaderboard, there's no tension because at that point you tend to not care if you die or not.

This game does exactly what it set out to do, almost flawlessly. But that's not very hard when you're aiming pretty low. 3 stars.

tl;dr Since most of the reviews here are complaining that the game doesn't work. I am obligated to counter that with a positive placeholder review. I usually wait until I am very far into a game before giving an official opinion, so don't bother watching this space.

I logged into Uplay before purchasing the game just to make sure the servers hadn't crashed or something. Then I downloaded the game, messed with the settings until I was happy with them, then started the game. It works without issue. No phantom issues with Uplay. No phantom game breaking bugs. It's almost as if there is nothing wrong with the game.

If I had to have 2 none-gameplay related complaints it would be 1. Massive Screen-Tearing on intro video, though I have Vsync turned off so that's technically my fault. No option to turn off Volumetric Lighting completely, and no

Nice to have, but you could easily go without it. I haven't really noticed any real difference between vanilla areas and the areas added in the expansion, honestly. Only get this if you haven't got the game yet, and can afford the gold version, or if you want to complete your game and it comes on sale.

TL;DR
Why you should get this = It adds the Capital of Poland (Warsaw) and Hungary to the game

Why you should NOT get this = Doesn't change the gameplay at all, as far as I can tell, and there is a lot of eastern Europe that is still missing.

I have no idea what I'm doing. 10/10

Minimum Requirements are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥!
I downloaded this game thinking my computer could easily run this game at minimum settings and it runs like a dog (And still looks like a pile of steaming ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ anyway). If the "Minimum Requirements" are anything to go by, they TRIED to make the game runneable on older machines but it fails utterly thanks to horrible optimisation.

Pros
- Doesn't require a super computer to run
- Challenging game-play that doesn't require Superman's reflexes and Batman's intelligence to get past the third level.
- Visually pleasing, doesn't rely on hyper-realism
- The storyline is decidedly not about people murdering each other in a gory war between good and evil

Cons
- Very weak cliche storyline
- There isn't really much time during the actual level to plan what to do and it can quickly devolve into a mindless click fest (Usually to your detriment in later levels)
- Somewhat counter intuitive interface

I rate this 3 moe out of 5 kawaii

Trademark abuse at it's very worst in that this game would have been much better received had it dropped the X-Com label. The game has barely anything to do with the X-Com franchise anyway.

The fixed camera angle is a little annoying and you can't choose not to pick up a weapon if you run over it but the game is perfectly serviceable as a budget title. The game does get a little repetitive, though it does have the occasional special objective to spice things up a bit; but I didn't notice because I was having too much fun blowing up aliens!

One blemish is the voice acting of the Professor. He's rather annoying and his voice does chime in when ever you're lost (Followed by an arrow which will tell you where you need to go), but ONLY if you get lost so only the most wangsty players will find it an issue.

Pros;
- Fun
- Lots of aliens to shoot, lots of (unique) guns to shoot with
- In game help doesn't completely lead the player by the nose
- Bug free! (Something you don't see anymore)

Cons;
- Repetitive
- Fixed camera can get annoying at times
- Voice Acting is horrible
- Quite possibly the ugliest game I've ever seen!
- Why is it even called X-Com?

My suggestion would be to get this with the X-Com: Complete Pack. Probably not really worth it on it's own.

It's a really bad sign when the only positive Metacritic user-review was written by the developer.

This game is $10 more expensive than Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 and offers NON of the content. You're better off just watching the trailer, because that's all you really get. The gameplay itself is rather poor and confusing, with no way to predict how visitors will respond to price changes except for a message box that is the info-box equivalent of a broken compass.

They only included enough content in this game to fill up the promotional material. This so called "Game" serves no purpose other than to legally steal your hard earned money. DO NOT LET THIS GAME ROB YOU!

Disregard Civilization, aquire Colonization.

Seriously, it's a standalone expansion pack, so unless you have an extra 10 bucks and want to give vanila Civ4 a shot I'd just go strait to this one.

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If you're familiar with Total War you will NOT be familiar with this. Rather than focusing on your army and it's compossition, placement and what not, Colonization puts in the role of governer, not general. Micromanaging a number of towns and exploiting the new world's natural resources and dealing with those bloody natives, either peacefully or by blowing their brains out with your supior technology. The overarching goal is to declare independance from Europe, but if you fail to complete the goal in time you still get a score victory for your efforts.

As for combat, you have an overly simplified % chance of victory. Though you can't actually take an entire town in a single turn like you can in Total War. Conflict lasts over several years. But unlike vanila Civ4 (And here comes one of the biggest preferences to Col over Civ) unit production is quite involved, so you wont end up having a single conflict over a single city last over a few decades or even centuries.

So in a nutshell: War game meets Colony Simulator :p