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Who needs free time when this exists

The "Image sensitive" accessibility mode for those who suffer with photosensitive epilepsy still leaves in many things that may cause seizures or other problems regardless of if you suffer from a condition or not. I have been unable to finish the game due to getting severe headaches on (what I presume to be) the final fight, and have had similar experiences during other parts of the game, just not as bad as this one.

Just to clarify due to the developer response, I am primarily referring to the distortion effects during certain battles as well as the cutscene after opening the cat door, all of which appear to be unaltered with image sensitive on (might be a bug). Obviously please don't take my word as law, but the mode does not seem to be working as described.

Update: Despite my better judgement I have now 100%ed the game, the migraines were not worth it.

Between switch and epic games launcher I have around 1800 hours in dauntless, and I gotta say, this update is very disappointing. For those who are new I'm sure you will find some joy in the game, and having each weapon have its own legendary effect is nice, but weapons already had their own unique ability. The disappointment furthers when you realise that lots of the unique abilities for each of these weapons are just reused from either the old legendary weapons, or they are copied from lanterns, which seem to be gone for some reason. Most of the new weapons seem to be reskins of pre-existing weapons, some of which used to be premium cosmetics, but have now received 1 colour change and everyone can get them. Also, not having weapons for each element in each weapon 'type' (or class, idk what to call them) is just annoying as you can no longer have a main weapon type since to get elemental advantage, you have to switch. Somehow though none of that is even the worst part of this update, it's the new levelling system. For those who are new, many years ago you used to have to level up each weapon (and armour) individually similar to how you now do with armour. This model was then abandoned, in favour of you crafting things and then only being able to upgrade them once using a resource for reforging. Reforging was to do with the weapon xp, where each weapon type gained xp as you used it until you got to level 20 and could reforge (prestige), setting you back to level 1 and giving you this resource. This was good, but it had the problem of long grind for no reward, as going past reforge 10 served no benefits. Reforging has now been scrapped, in favour of having weapon xp tied to the individual weapon, oh and now the weapons go up to level 60. The reason I quit playing trove years ago was due to the mindless grind, and this update is probably going to cause the same. There's also the changes to the perk system that make all the build you used to have non functional, but this already feels like too much of a mindless rant so I'll stop here, and update this review if (and hopefully when) the game gets better updates.

tldr, update has ruined the game for many existing players, but new players can probably find an hour or 2 of joy in it all

Truly the game of all time

I played A LOT during the demo and was super excited for early access and now that it's here I can say, the wait was so worth it. Definitely would recommend picking this one up and I cannot wait to see how windblown evolves throughout early access. Well done Motion Twin.

My game of the year without a doubt, ATLUS never fails to deliver peak games.

All in all Black Future '88 is a pretty good roguelike. The movement and general gameplay feel fluid, and the other systems (stims, perks, curses) feel balanced. There is on the other hand a fair bit of screen shaking and flashes which might be troubling for some players. The biggest problem I had with the game though is the achievements. Most of them are fine, but things like "Dash 10000 times" and die "Die 150 times" really annoy me since you are most certainly going to have to spend a few hours repeating the same inputs to get them as they wont happen naturally over the course of gaining the other achievements. Other than that some of the extra rooms which you need to visit for achievements feel like a really low rate of appearance, especially when they only spawn on 1/2 specific floor(s). Then again, if 100%ing is not what you care about, then this game is great, and despite not having an update in many years I would say it still holds its own in the ever expanding list of great rougelikes out there.

-spent £60 on an album
-got a free game alongside it
-10/10 would buy again

I will admit, I didn't get this through pre-order (mainly cause Plaion messed up but whatever) so while I am thankful that I can get this, what the hell were Starbreeze thinking not keeping this a pre-order exclusive. I hope to god that this wasn't their decision and was forced on them by deep silver because otherwise they need to get their priorities straight. I love this game so much but the amount of problems with it right now really make it difficult to support everything they do.

Despite all the problems the game had at launch, it is actually good, and with content updates coming soon its definitely worth picking up but until there is enough free content (as they plan to follow payday 2's dlc model for lots of content) wait until a sale.