Recent reviews by solar56

I am not a gamer (I like this game, but man do I suck at it)

This is what Hitman wishes it was (I mean it's way less intricate since it's just the shooting aspect, but also way more fun imo)
Plus you only have to pay once for this whole game unlike Hitman, there is mods, but they aren't built into the base game and to get the delux edition on this sale it's only an extra 3 dollars (very worth rn)

ANYWAY, enough of me being bitter about Hitman, This game is insanely fun, I don't really have much to say besides that. If you like shooting things in games, and don't have friends to play with (or don't like online co-op, or prefer sniping over actual gun fighting) then this is amazing.
Highly recommend if you see this while it's 90% off. Still recommend without the price drop, but only if you have the money available - I myself would wait for another price drop if I saw this at full price, but I also do/did that for like every game besides bg3

they charge 40$ CAD for like 20% of the game. On top of that, they don't even separate them, you just click stuff for it to tell you to pay more for that content. 90% off is a trap to get you to buy the rest

The game that should prove to straight men that straight women's standards are rock bottom and they definitely have a shot😵‍💫
If Gale can get chosen by a person then so can you

I love pineapple on pizza, I just didn't want to kill the other people. Now I'm stuck with this pineapple hater achievement :(

Very fun game btw

So this is a good game. The "not recommended" is for people like myself who are considering the game without ever playing a civ game before (or similar games), if you like this type of game I do think you'd like this a lot though. It is worth a try, but I will say my 7 hours is just from the tutorial and half a game since I wanted to play one through, and the game feels slightly addicting, but also tedious enough that I don't want to keep going.

So I don't recommend it unless you think you would enjoy that. If you're pretty on the fence I don't think it's worth even this massive sale - unless you have some pretty disposable money. If you want to try some new games or like the managing, building, waiting etc. type games you'd love it and should definitely act on the sale.

Like if Settler's of Catan is your favourite game and you'd enjoy playing it even by yourself (but with more rules) then this is the best game ever. If you only like Settler's of Cattan because of the people you're playing with (me), or don't like it at all then I definitely don't recommend it.
Still gonna gain a few hours because I still want to finish at least one game, don't know if I'll ever play again though - maybe I'll change my mind, so far I've just wanted to go all out war cuz it's so tedious, but can't because it takes too long to train enough troops to win a fight that won't a million turns and takes even longer if I don't focus on other aspects of growth

*destroys magic armour*
*cast dominate mind, mind maggot grenade, charm person, or madness*
- me every moderately difficult fight

I was told this was the best game to play after Baldur's Gate 3, and as I get to the end that was totally right. It fully feels like a stepping stone to get to BG3 and is also just fantastic to play.

Pros:
- Honestly having so many levels feels very satisfying even compared to BG3 where you only got 12
-The fighting is just really fun. Took a second for me to get used to the small changes (like turn limits, source, and no resting needed for spells), but it was certainly well done and had so many possible moves/spells.
- Characters are great (Sebillle ily), and a fun plot that I enjoying playing out
- Voice acting is very good (Sebille VA ily)
- There's so many options for armour that all have different ways to boost you, so many different designs, ability combinations, sets to match etc. (not being able to level it up is a little unfortunate, but I think it makes sense for the game so I wouldn't say that's a con)
- Making your party specialize in different areas and have different abilities is so fun (which realtes heavily to the fighting, but in general it's just great)
- the support abilities are so much better here than BG3 - partially because I didn't need to worry about wasting a spell slot, and because some only took 1 slot which would be all i was left with, but also they were just legitimately better

Different than BG3 (not really pros or cons, just differences when comparing a relatively older game to a modern masterpiece):
- The characters (side characters and main ones) don't have nearly as much depth in this game even though what we get from them is great
- no cutscenes (again, these points aren't giving any negative points in my eyes, just stuff that could make it even better if it came out now)
- Levelling up doesn't come with as much customization and changes
- Aspects of the story (and side characters) are both a bit more convoluted and simple, as well as just harder to follow - still good
- There's no long resting, and short resting (using bedroll) is only for restoring health. Honestly besides missing the camp that aspect was actually more convenient
- Oh yeah there's no camp clothes, and costumization options due to no cutscenes, but there's also more armours and lacking informal clothes doesn't do anything
- there's no dice rolling which I missed even though it was kinda nice that I didn't have to worry about rolling a 1 lol
- Moving and actions are counted in the same 4 moves (the amount you can walk per move depends on character) which I can see being better or worse. I like both

Cons:
- The levelling system can be a little annoying and I ended up needing to look at level maps which I guess is elaborated on in my next point
- The game doesn't feel like it guides you enough or gives you quite enough freedom (to be clear this is a grievance, but isn't nearly as bad as that makes it sound, just something I encountered a couple times). There were times I would accidentally stumble into enemies who were too high levelled, but they were already aggravated (or I couldn't talk my way out) so I would have to load before I met them and just avoid them until I could reach the correct level. There was also one major time that I didn't know I had to trigger events in a specific order (or a couple times I thought something would trigger another event so I avoided it only for it to not matter - like going on that kids boat in act 1) and what I needed to do wasn't really said which led to me kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ up a part of the main story... Also led to me not getting resolution on Peeper and reloading continuously to save him for half of Arx only to realize he had no relevance after the arc he got introduced in and I had just not casted Spirit vision where I was supposed to
- The persuasion (or I guess this applies to tags and just general interactions too) aspect can be annoying, maxing it for the main character is the move, but it can still be annoying just because occasionally your allies will be the ones to be spoken to, especially after battles if you aren't the closest one to the NPC. Then you have no persuasion and are lacking your tags which can lead to another issue. Also had to reload a couple times to bring my MC closest to the NPC before a fight ended or to intentionally trigger conversations that my allies accidentally did

Anyway I'm sure there's many more things I could add (and I probably should've waited until I actually finished, I'm sure the end is great) especially to the pros, but if you enjoyed BG3 and see this review, yes it's a fantastic game to play after BG3. It's got no major issues, and is just great, if you're craving another game like BG3 (or just craving any game to put some hours into) this is the one

This game makes me feel like ♥♥♥♥, nothing in it feels at all satisfying, but that also seems to be the point considering the message after each completion. Shockingly there's no happy ending to the game about murdering someone.

Well worth the price though, under a dollar for a couple hours with a unique concept is pretty great. Definitely made me want to play a game where at least I can be decent even if everyone else sucks though lmao

These poor developers just wanted to make a car game, but got stuck with Batman :(

(it is cool so far though. A bit dated, and it seems like it'd be a better with a controller, but I'm enjoying it. Personally wouldn't buy it at normal price, but definitely worth it with the summer sale - especially if you're a superhero/DC fan like myself)

We don't talk about how long it took me to find those last few, I refused to use the hints because I'm a big boy, but it just made me more embarrassed seeing that I spent 30mins on this