Recent reviews by DebugOctopus

Legendary.

It's like CK2 but slicker and better.

7/9/2019

There were times I played this game out of pure spite. The first (and last) nation I played was Judea. There were 15 attempts. Once the ball got rolling, however, my nation was unstoppable.

And that's the problem. When you get unstoppable, the game is very boring since the internal politics are too easy to manage. A lot of people online are making hay over the mana issue. While it does suck, I'm not sure that removing it is the silver bullet everyone seems to think. Internal politics (especially in a Rome game for Christ's sake) is where most of the mechanics should be--I'd say 50-60% of the game should revolve around people--like in CK2. Right now internal politics is around 15-20%.

I'm not sure how they'd change the game so much to accommodate. I wish them best.

I was really excited to play this game when I got it. I had just finished Dragon Quest XI and that was my favorite game of 2018. However, I was really disappointed with this. I felt that the characters didn't have much charm--the voice acting was sub par(lots of pauses between sentences)--and the story was full of filler to make it last longer. It was like if your mom just kept putting water on the kool-aid pitcher when it got low. That's what the story felt like for me.

The graphics were pretty neat I guess.

Not recommended.

This game is really fun. It reminds me a lot of Mario Sunshine in the gameplay and Paper Mario with charm and tone. I'd really reccomend it!!!

Best damn puzzle, bullet hell, rpg, shooter, dating simulator out there.

This is like a really easy World of Warcraft. I like it. It's a very chill game to play with friends but if I were playing it alone I would be bored to tears.

(Review Written before endgame)

Want to feel like a god? Look elsewhere. This game is about digging up cards in the dirt.

The bulk of this game has you flattening land for your followers so that they can, in turn, build structures to live and prosper in. The world is made up of layers, like a cake, and you peel those layers to shape the land. In order to unlock spells (that are completely worthless) and expand your influence, you need to collect trading cards in buried chests scattered across the land. To dig up chests and flatten land you need a currency called 'belief' and to get this you need to collect bubbles of 'belief' on top of your peasants' houses. The generation of this belief is on a timer and you'll find yourself waiting hours to do anything substantial. Basically it's a facebook game.

Did I mention there is a cash shop where you can buy power and progress (Thus skipping the otherwise forced wait)? Oh yeah, there's that too. I was hoping this game would be the "re-genesis of the god genre" but it wasn't really. I don't know how I might have thought that-- oh wait, the developer said it, silly me. Multiplayer might be cool in the future-- that is if it actually becomes... ya know... MULTIplayer. Right now it's just an AI skirmish mode where you play against a bot. When you go to the multiplayer lobby you are inundated by a flood of fake IMs from a 13 year old girl or something. It's weird and a bit creepy. Somebody wrote her dialogue, winky faces and kitty faces included. By the third match and subsequent IM deluge, I started to hope that the writer of this was on a pedophile watchlist.

However, this game is not currently finished. It is a steam early access title and I will update my review as it becomes appropriate.