Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

Игра, которую я возвращал несколько раз, но скидки всё-таки победили. И не зря! Главный совет новичкам: не ставьте сложность "Одержимость" сразу. Достижений за это не дают, а вот нервы потратите, пытаясь разобраться в механиках, которые игра объясняет довольно посредственно. Потребовалось время, чтобы понять, что молот эффективен против брони, а стрелять нужно чаще. В остальном — крепкий проект. Контента в игре достаточно, исследовать мир интересно, платформинг не бесит. Если сомневаетесь — берите, игра стоит своих денег!

Played it through and I think did everything story- and side-questwise. Did not do collectables. This had the makings to be a great game in my book. Beautiful graphics, interesting story, fantastic movement and a powerful female-assumed protagonist. It's an open-worldish game. You have an area where you can roam and they are a nice size. Not huge and confusing, open but somewhat linear that you always get where you are going even without the aggressive waypoint-icon. There were three areas in total with the last being linear so you do get to see the world a bit. Early on you get some movement skills that make it fun, exciting and fast to roam through. Combat is, well, third-person action, so you have your blocks, parries and other skills. You have a companion with you the whole time that helps in combat and can gain different skills for you to be used. This game has a good combat system with many possibilities to approach a battle and none of the opponents are punching-bags at any point of the game. At finest it's like rhythmic dancing with the bosses and that tickles me the right way. Very satisfying. You don't have a stamina system, so you can freely dodge, parry and swing your weapon as much as you want. It has variety of side bosses and bigger opponents plus the big bosses. It has a good amount of side-questing and stuff you can bump into while going through the areas. You can upgrade your armors and weapons, but I didn't think it that necessary as you do most of the damage with other means. I did it while playing, of course, but thinking after the fact. Now, why is it not a great game? 1. It drops the ball with the story at some point. The more meaningful pieces lose impact when for some reason you don't have enough background to that emotional moment. I'm quite sure I honed every corner and talked to everybody but maybe still managed to miss some beats somewhere. I don't know, but I was angry and confused at the story more towards the end. 2. You know when you have a action-rpg boss, right? Now, you go there, get killed, get back up and try again, right? Then you after some amount of tries beat it, fantastic, right? You get the rush when the energy bar hits empty, right? This game does not have many big bosses and two of them glitched for some reason so I could not do the finishing move that you need for the game to progress, it soft-locked. The amount of frustration when I quit game, load back and start from the point before the boss just to try it again. The rush mixed with being very pissed does not make it easy so it takes a couple of tries to beat again and then faith that it will work this time. It did work the second time both times but F ME this does bring a game down a notch or three. With that said, I think you should try it. Maybe your system doesn't get the bugs and it was a good game even with them problems. On sale, of course, this was about 8€ summer-sale -26.