Recent reviews by Khorm

A+
Take Factorio. Remove tower defense and sci-fi and replace it with comfiness and fantasy.
Game could use more in depth tutorials as it never delves into anything past the most basic concepts. Did you know you can deliver milk from farms using pipes? I found by a complete accident... game never told me that.

Wishlist:
- Better tutorials,
- Unit animations - mining, wood chopping etc. (Factorio is impossible to beat on complexity, but its not comfy. This game could work better into comfy factory niche)
- Building animations
- Pastures being pastures with actual animals (Even better make workers herd wild animals into them)

They balanced this game by rolling dice... that's how awful it is. One area will have underleveled joke enemies and next area will kick your ass inside out, and make itself a helmet out of what left from it.

Its 2021 for god sake I should not be forced to waste my time by sending party to an area and get absolutely obliterated by unhittable, spell resistant enemies because I am meant to come here later, with some more levels and spell buffs.

The game has hundreds of bugs making some classes impossible to use, and some items doing nothing. Spells that should be an upgrade are actually downgrade. Yes they are fixing them, and quite frequently, but they are basically on a crusade against the forces of Bugwound, spewing infinite fixresistant bugs.... It will take a while....

Hope you don't enjoy being a spellcaster or you will have a very, very miserable life, at least untill the endgame. Once you can pick every single spell penetrating feat, ability, item, hack, mod and dirty trick under the sun so you can actually not have your spells resisted... sometimes. Lets face if you either buff or are a dead weight.

I recommend coming back in a year or two when most things are fixed.. you'll get a better game and probably for cheaper.

This game can be amazing, it allows for incredible amounts of freedom with objects placement and if you have creativity sky is the limit.

But dear God the UI... this game had to have a specially selected internal team of maniacs whos only focus was to make the interface as obscure, unfriendly and complex as possible.

Often used section like Staff and Research as placed inside "Zoo" menu at bottom even though there is abundance of free real eastate available on the left of screen. Instead you get notifications for avatars visiting your zoo... great...

Hope you enjoy watching youtube tutorials since the in game ones barely cover anything.

Simple things like aligning barrier evenly to a path are next to impossible as the game will only snap angles to already existing sections. I had to google how to actually make square straight path as the game does it in the most obscure way you could imagine.

There are also few bugs... where the game will prevent you from building things for no logical reason. Including those fun situation where you delete something that already existed and game wont allow you to recreate it until you restart it...

Its basically a discount Ys: Memories of Celceta. Has all of its issues but now in lower quality.

Definitely playable. No crashes, good fps, controls work fine (using xbox controller did not work in windowed mode unless it was borderless for some reason ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).

- Has the same awful Strike/Pierce/Slash system which forces you to cycle party members every second enemy or you do 0 damage, paired with awful switching controls whcih instead of allowing you to lock one type to one button are dynamic and change depening on which character you control,
- Utter trash camera that is to close and allows enemies to attack you off screen (but of course your ranged attacks such as arrows magically dissolve after travelling maybe 2 meters). Also Some bosses re-position your camera which in a game where you have to target your dodges is very... helpful and fun...
- This one can be totally me but roll/dodge system doesn't seem to be quite accurate. I am often getting hit while outside of visual boundaries of attacks.
- Map is useless - which is probably why they put some stone markers with directions to major areas as well.

Grade B-
Even though I will be sinking some more hours into this I cannot recommend this on a principle. Six DLCs, numerous patches and it still is an absolute BUGGY MESS!! Basically if you care about storyline at all, prepare for disappointment and many trips to wiki and searches on how to fix quests. Save a lot and often.
Not a terrible game and definitely can have fun in it especially with mods, but don't expect an immersive experience.

Was fun until awful checkpoint placement in Lazarus lab wanted me to replay WHOLE section... no Ill rather not play game with bad checkpoints....

Grade B+ - fun but gets repetitive in later scenarios.

Good value, keeps you busy if you like to optimise and tinker with stuff. The problem is that the later level differences feel really small, sure its different layouts, maybe you need more janitors or use AC instead of Heaters, but it really ends in a cycle of hiring and training staff to keep up with incoming patients.

The Good: It's Valkyria Chronicles 1 with fresh paint
The Bad: It's Valkyria Chronicles 1 with fresh paint

Edit After completing Story: The game also has a bug and if you're unlucky it wont unlock true ending scene for you.

The game mechanics are identical and barely anything was improved, or fixed.
- You still get rewarded only for beating missions fast, if your whole squad was annihilated in the process? well who cares right?,
- Bulls*it bosses that ruin all fun and can only be beaten by using the exact gimmick, usable only by exactly one character, and only at exact spot. And no, the game won't even hint it. Read it up online or get ready to rage,
- Bullet spundge enemies in later stages, will take 30 shots to the back of their head while you sneak up on them, turn around, murder you and then yawn as you took quarter of their health,
- Scripted enemies magicaly appearing out of thin air. Nothing personal kid!
- Zero intel on what units are required on missins. Better load it up run around to see what units you need and restart unless you love wasting time,

Grade: S

If you have a mindset for improvement and optimisations this game will absorb you like jogging on swamp.

Grade B-
The Good: It is a slightly improved Shadow of Mordor
The Bad: It is a slightly improved Shadow of Mordor

If you like SoM and wanted more of the same this game delivers. But if you actually want a meaningful interesting story based in the world of Lord of the ring then.... this is not it. Characters are shallow one dimensional Mary Sues, plot makes no sense whatsoever and has less consistency than a Nazgul, but hey if you wanted to slaughter some orcs and dont care about sotry game has that a plenty