ComixPlay #1: The Endless Incident

This game is pretty cool.

Quite weird stuff. It's literal, digital comic book, and quite nice digitalization as well. It's not just a VN or a scanned comic book, you don't just read page by page, but you got dramatic panel by panel reveals, whole page panning, focus on dialogues, etc. The art and story are the good part of old 80s superhero comic, if you like old X-Men comics you'd find the art and writing feel very familiar, and even enjoyable. And in between readings, you do turn based rpg battle, with quite some strange twist. At first it starts simple, but basically, you can only field limited amount of member at a time but each member has specific interaction with other member. So you must think what combination should be on the field at any time, and what formation you want to do since different formations give different benefits. Basically, weird but good. Not sure about replayability or length, I assume it got as much replayability as any other comic book. And you can actually remove the battle part and just read it as a comic book. Get it when it's discounted.

I really wanted to like this because the concept is so cool. I would love for someone to give it another go. But I didn't really like the comic or the combat. Game-play was okay, but very repetitive, and the presentation isn't great. I thought the comic's art looked better, but still not great, and the story didn't grab me. I think the biggest problem was too many characters. Not enough screen time for each coupled with their uninspired designs means I lost interest. Which is a shame because I thought the intro was really strong. I liked the alien design quite a bit.

If you enjoy comics, and gaming.. you NEED this. Cheaper than most comics on the market! http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=642497562

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Highly recommended for fans of comics, mutants, super powers, and turn-based battles. It is only the length of a comic, but the price is right. A steal on sale. I really hope they make lots more, we need more comic games. +Visuals, presentation, artwork +Sound +Fun turn-based battles with some depth +Variety of options +Writing +Comic reader format +Variety of heroes and powers -No voice -No key rebinding -Some awkward controls -Some abilities are lackluster -Inconsistent text placement for reading -Fairly short, just a couple hours