I’ve been revisiting anno 2205, infamously the ugly duckling of the Anno series of RTS games. I don’t mind so much the fact that it’s different, lacks customisation and random map generation - I’m bothered because the game is so slow to progress through on challenge settings, and it feels like a game designed just to artificially waste your time; in other anno games, you can always pull tricks to dig yourself out of economic crisis - selling off assets and surplus goods, completing quests for other parties, or taking loans. 2205 is very very confined in terms of what you can do to financially recover in the early game and forces you into a lot of military events.

  • Yaky@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Not an avid gamer and play mostly indie.

    Tunic. Was recommended for fans of Outer Wilds (fantastic game), but I see no similarities. Tunic’s cover art looks like a Zelda ripoff, world borrows from Hyper Light Drifter, and the game plays like a Zelda + Hyper Light Drifter ripoff, but very poorly tested, unfair, and misleading at times. I get the impression that game designers had zero external opinions and very little playtesting.

    Exploration is “bump into every nook and cranny to find a way forward”. Bosses are absurdly difficult, clearly catering to the “git gud” crowd, and do not feel fair (as a counterexample, HLD felt difficult but fair). Puzzles are all backloaded to the latter half of the game, they are mostly fun, but at least one relies on a mechanic that is never hinted at nor used in the game otherwise. The untranslated manual, main gimmick of the game, is misleading at times. Midgame apocalypse / dark world is not that, it’s… Night time (not putting the spoiler because that is just absurdity)

    Yes, I finished it, and got the good ending, which only elicited “Um, ok?” from me.

    • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      45 minutes ago

      I’m not sure which mechanic you’re saying isn’t hinted at, I was able to complete the game without guessing at anything.

      There is also an invincibility toggle in the game if the combat isn’t your thing.