Leap of Fate

"Leap of Fate" is an older game from 2016. It's a venerable 8 years old at the time of this review. It's a 3D rendered 2D top down twin stick shooter with a "Shadowrun" kind of theme as you use magic to fight near future sci-fi style enemies, fair enough I guess. The game does work and it can be played, but I found the experience a little underwhelming. On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers. The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed. Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing. They dropped the ball on this one. Because this is designed for consoles, it carries a number of deliberate design deficiencies. Compromises were made to cater to the inferior console gaming appliances that the game was designed for. These are unfortunate compromises and limitations that PC gamers shouldn't be forced to accept, but it's evident that PC was a second thought for the console-centric developers. The game is deficient as a result of these choices, and would have been so much better without the handicaps that designing games for consoles forces upon a game. Once more, console peasants have made gaming worse for everyone. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. While this is certainly of higher quality than asset flips and other shovelware fake games intended purely to exist on Steam for cards, it's evident that trading cards are the only reason gamers look at this. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? "Leap of Fate" has the insane price of $16 USD, for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Sixteen bucks for an 8 year old Playstation 4 game on PC. No thanks. For comparison, the $16 asking price for this game could get you games like "Assassin's Creed: Odyssey", "Dishonored 2" or "Doom Eternal". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this. Unfortunately Steam reviewers aren't presented with a "Maybe" option... if they did, that's what I'd choose. This isn't a completely bad game, but it's also not one of the best. As always, if you read my review and you can overlook the negatives I've called out, or they just aren't important to you, then by all means go ahead and buy this.

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cool game that doesn't get much love

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Still holds up tbh. Simple, fun, runs have good development but don't overstay their welcome, cool environments/themes. I don't want to oversell it - it's not a genre-defining game by any stretch, but it's very good if you don't mind the dated graphics. Speaking of which, the visuals really aren't much to look at by today's standards (or even when it came out, really) but the art style is nice, the voice acting isn't cheesy, and the game doesn't take itself too seriously which leads to it just being... fun. Something a lot of "modern games" seem to struggle with.

An action roguelike differentiated by a few unique mechanics (dash that teleports towards the mouse coursor, the ability to go back to stages you cleared to pick up the rewards you couldn't, such as heals), very tight, claustrophobic stages, high tempo, limited dashes/special attacks and an interesting, modern-occult-punk theme which is quite intriguing. If you're either an action roguelike fan or enjoy a setting and theme somewhere between Mage: the Ascension, EYE: Divine Cybermancy, Shadowrun and Secret World (with the caveat that there's not that much setting *material*, mostly vibes and snippets), I think you'll enjoy it!

- ...Гарри Джеймсович, куда же вы? - - Мне опостылела ваша школа магии, ваша манера разговаривать и ваша чертова мантия!!! - - Но помилуйте, Гарри Джеймсович, а как же родной, сердцу милый, Гриффиндор, как же друзья ваши, как же диплом, в конце-то концов, дорогой вы мой студент?!!! - - В гробу я видал ваш Гриффиндор, 100 000 очков ему под хвост собачий, в ресторанах общепита видал я своих друзей после выпускного, на кассе стоять изволящих, и в помойной яме видал я ваш диплом Государственного Магического Учреждения им. Альбуса, собачьего сына и самого черта шестерки, Дамблдора!!! И хватит меня упрашивать слезно, словно девица юная, Северус, чем ближе выпускной, тем у вас характер-то мягче, словно девка после бокала Лонг-Магленда!!! - - Но Гарри Джеймсович, а как же... - - Ко всем дементорам ваше "а как же", Северус, я устал, я ухожу!!! - Примерно так бы закончилась повесть об ушибленном в голову молнией волшебнике, если бы дело происходило во вселенной той игры, что я собираюсь представить на ваш суд. Leap Of Fate - когда даже продавец шаурмы в твоем городе - или масон, или тамплиер, ну или как минимум анонимный алкоголик. https://substack.com/home/post/p-162602366

Só quem jogou Mago a Ascensão vai se ligar no quanto esse jogo faz referência, mesmo que indiretamente. Recomendo.

It took way longer to get into this than I expected. It's a title that's somewhat hard to recommend, because I found the gameplay to be a bit on the boring side. It tries, but it has such a random method of quality that it's difficult to know if you're about to go into an area you'll enjoy or rather dislike. But, in the end I'd say we don't have nearly enough Cyberpunk roguelikes so this is a decent time.