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(12-25-2012, 07:41 AM)Ed Wrote: »
(12-24-2012, 07:16 AM)SeaWyrm Wrote: »So whaddya think?
Hopefully we haven't overhyped it...

I'm afraid you did overhype it, at least so far i haven't seen what's so great about it? I love the art design, it looks and sounds beautiful but i don't find the gameplay that good. It's not challenging, it's not interesting, you just kind of click a bunch to kill dudes and that's it? I hate having to keep track of all the upgrades and shit i HATE rpg elements in games that aren't rpgs, they're an awful excuse to make the game "challenging". Also, the narrator dude doesn't shut up ever about things i already know like "FALLING ISN'T GOOD DON'T FALL DOWN STUPID" and while there's the option to mute him i don't trust the game to clue me into what to do without the narrator.

It pisses me off that i can't use my generic usb joypad and i don't think i can map the right stick with joy to key so i'm fucking stuck using the mouse and keyboard.

(12-25-2012, 09:21 AM)Ed Wrote: »level just gives you extra slots for potions, but the potions act pretty much the same as an stat boost in a regular rpg. That's not so bad though, what really feels like a chore is keeping track of the "somethings" to upgrade weapons and unlock special abilities, i get that you're supposed to strategize and pick the best weapon depending on the situation but so far i've been using whatever the game has given to me and i've just breezed through it with no problem.

That doesn't mean i'm not gonna keep playing it or that i'm not getting any sort of enjoyment out of it, it's just disappointing that i didn't find it hard to put down at all. Personally, i think things shouldn't "get better", they should be good from beginning to end.

The game goes more for variety rather than challenge or strategy, as a result, it feels "empty". The combat lacks substance, some of the weapons are there only for the sake of having more weapons. I did use all the non-ridiculous deities or whatever that made the game harder but that just gave the enemies different properties like more damage, health, etc. That didn't make the game more complex nor did it required to strategize, the enemies just take longer to kill/you die faster.

Something i'm very nitpicky about and i feel like maybe it isn't fair to criticize so hard sometimes is animation, but i do feel like all the animations except the main character's are terrible, they're just keyposes shaking without in-betweens. I don't know how to explain it further so i made an example:

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See anything wrong with it? That's because it's just 2 keyframes manipulated to give the appearance of movement, but there's no in-betweens so it transitions from one keyframe to another instantly, things don't move like that in real life.