Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector

Хорошая, интересная, чарующая ролевая новелла. Прикольная механика с кубиками. Отдельный кайф это мир и история. Получается такой сай-фай на экзистенциальные темы. В конце прям грустно стало :с Кто боится английского - есть хорошие русификаторы

无聊晦涩。接近纯文字冒险。

There is a question to ask here, which is who this game is for narratively speaking. While I imagine I agree with the developers politics on most things, I think it is also important to mention that this game borders on political pornography. I wonder what the right thing to do here is- break the strike, or save the workers? No ♥♥♥♥ its saving the workers. I wonder if the corporations are bad? Yes, they are. Should I trust this person who tried to screw me over? Of course dummy, that's how you get access to their quest. I am not complaining because I disagree with this, but because it's just so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ uninteresting. What do I actually learn from playing this game? The cool world-building of sleepers, and corporate wars with collateral damage has already been done quite well in the first game. The politics of this world and why it sucks was also done very exhaustively in the first game. Yes, there are some cool moments, and cool lore bits, but I feel the marginal benefit of playing this over the first one is really quite small. I liked the first, and felt it was far more interesting in setting and story than this one. The gameplay is good, and I like the missions where everything becomes a lot more tense and resource heavy. But the classes are laughably unbalanced. Even a simple think through or playtesting should have revealed this, and while I don't expect a narrative game to have a perfect rpg system, its so egregious with how some of the abilities are. I have mixed feelings on the dice break system. I think it is good to highlight a kind of exhaustion, but the fact you cannot repair semi broken dice means sometimes breaking them on a mission is ideal. If this was intentional, okay. But it adds this sort of weirdness to the gameplay. I think this game is for people who already agree with the politics it is going to tell you and just want to hear that. I do agree with the politics, but I don't think the point of narrative games is to be told how right you are again and again and again. Disco Elysium was made by a guy with a bust of Lenin on his desk, but try taking every socialist option and see how nice it is to you. The first citizen sleeper had the dlc with the refugees, which was quite nuanced and gave you a pretty big choice at the end that was probably different between similarly "left wing" people. I would also not mind if the game was more lore focused, and so the politics could be less complicated. But the lore is designed to tell the political story. Cool in the first game, but struggles when you want to make a sequel. It always works out, everyone can always work together if they put their minds to it except the obvious bad guys. Of course that can be the point of the game, but there is never any texture, or nuance, or layers to this. It really is that simple. This is a good game. But I do not recommend it as a narrative game as I feel it is the equivalent of 20 hours of affirmations.

Great story, wish it was fully voiced.

Both games are great and really well written. The timer seems intimidating on first, but in my experience it's easy to optimise and do everything in one run, so playing on hard is recommended.

This game has captured my soul. The first game was a beautiful exploration of a dystopia. One where the corporate powers had — as is common in sci-fi — wormed their tendrils between the stars. The connections between lightyears were powered by transactions and the labour of those who deserved more. From this, you awake. A Sleeper. A product of distilled greed. To take a human life and turn it into a commodity. But that part of you that is human, that is sapient, refused to remain a product. Like the first game, you awake on the run. Not quite the same, but similar. Like the first game, you stumble your way through a world that knows more about you than you do, and your blind actions send ripples through the world in kind. But unlike the first game, you are not as trapped as you were. Companions find you quickly, and from the very beginning — even before you make a choice — you have a friend. You find many friends, some who stay and some who don't, but they shape you. By the end of it all, you are something touched by the world you have wandered through. Something whole. Not quite human nor machine, but certainly both. My only complaint is that it ended. I wanted to be immersed in this world forever. But a good story knows when to end, and my bitterness proves that this is still true. While I hope there are more stories from this universe, this is a great place to stop if not. Pick this up, please. It's worth the full price.

一周目通关了正在做其它的分支ing。 老实说我比起1更喜欢2的剧情，两部故事各有各的闪光点，并且这一部也见到了很多第一部的老角色，如果先玩第一部你会读到很多惊喜的，推荐打折的时候购包游玩~~ ———— 游戏变得更难玩了，体验超烂，求你们找个会做玩法的人来做，碎骰子机制玩得我真的有点红温了，头一个小时甚至坏过一个档，而且重骰概率太拉了，属性点上去也2→2，如骰啊。 关于开局角色的感想↓ [spoiler]塞拉芬这个角色可以让我原谅我在游戏机制里吃过的所有屎，并且给这个游戏打一个好评[/spoiler]