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THIS COMMENT CONTAINS SPOILERS!!

DO NOT READ IF YOU WANT TO EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING FOR YOURSELF!!

Now to my opinion on it. It's an amazing atmosphere and the setting is wonderfully bleak. I was immediately intrigued by the game and its premise. But that fascination did only last until I realized that the AI is hard scripted to always pull the same moves. This completely kills the tension as you realize that nothing is at stake. From that point on it's just a test of patience to replay the game until you've got all the positions figured out. Also, the sheet with the enemy buildings is incorrect, I don't know if that's on purpose.

tl;dr This game has an amazing premise and it would be a real blast if expanded upon. But in this state it's rather bland of an experience

Mike Klubnika1 year ago

I completely respect that. There's definitely a lot of room for improvement in terms of gameplay, sadly I was under a very tight deadline so I had to cut the AI down.

I am curious about when you realized the AI was hard scripted. Was it on the very first playthrough, or a second one?

Sparkus1 year ago

My first suspicion arose on turn 3, when the AI hit all 5 shots for the second time. From that point on the AI always hits so after losing my first playthrough I was pretty sure that it is at least cheating. I had proof at the start of my second playthrough as I noticed that the AI shot the same 5 buildings on its first turn as it did before.

Hula Noob1 year ago

To be fair, I only played it through once because I couldn't stomach playing it more than that and treat it like a game that has to be beat since the whole atmosphere was so oppressive. I really get the criticism but from one gamer to another, I feel like "winning" or "beating the enemy" really is not the goal of this game.

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