Mirador

I was really excited for this game, supported the Kickstarter, and was a play tester, but overall I am disappointed by the unrefined partial game that Sauropod has published as a "finished" product. The game feels repetitive, and doesn't feel rewarding at all, after an hour of so of playing I feel like I've gotten everything I can out of it. [h1]The good:[/h1] [olist] [*]Art style [*]Interesting concept [*]Challenging boss fights [*]Sentinels you make for you kill players and collecting loot 24/7 [/olist] [h1]The bad:[/h1] [olist] [*]Only 2 characters to choose from with no difference other than visually [*]No character progression or inventory or anything you are always the same loadout and skills. [*]Sentinel fights are either easy or impossible, lots of their weapons have weird hitboxes or undogable attacks. [*]No inventory management, what loot you collect you can't organize or easily access [*]UI is hardlocked for controllers and mouse and keyboard support is laughable [*]No tutorial, hints, or help messages or explanation of any kind on how to play the game or even building your sentinel [*]If you delete your sentinel to build another you lose [b]EVERYTHING[/b] all your work grinding bits and pieces are gone. [*]Only two maps, but its a stretch calling them maps, more like mini arenas you have to spend an unjustified time walking between [*]No story, or lore, or flavor at all, or end goal there no progression or anything to work towards, other than rebuilding sentinels you totally deleted. [*]Sentinel "customization" feels meaningless. 95% of your choices are visual and have no effect on the fight at all. You only choose the weapon and special moves your sentinel does. Everything else just looks pretty. Your names isn't even displayed after you spend all this time getting pieces to make your Sentinel. [*]Servers are mediocre at the moment, once you finally build a Sentinel good luck uploading it so it can work for you. [/olist] There's lots more small issues/bugs, but that to be expected from an Early Access game, which is what this should've been launched as. Selling and pretending that this is a finished game is quite frankly wrong. The devs seemingly only reply on their Discord is "it's on our road map" which should you really have a road map if you've actually made a finished game? I wouldn't buy this game at this time. Maybe when the "roadmap" is complete with the game it would be worth playing. I'll be requesting a refund.

Graphics are cool but its far too basic and you cant upgrade your character at all. Not ready for release (this is the second abandoned game by this author)

Combat isn't well developed. Damage happens before the animation, the bosses can be quite unfair. Many times you won't be able to start a game. For a game entirely focuses on boss fights, this one fails at it's core components and needs to be reworked. Wait on this one. Hopefully it doesn't go the route of Necropolis.

Game does feel simple and barebones not gonna lie, but that's fine by me at the moment. The developers [b]need[/b] information like this and I'm sure they will add more things into the game. Problems I'm getting so far is that at times I just stop moving and got to move my controller stick again to continue moving, I don't know if its a ping issue, however that is probably the best thing to assume. Also as soon as I start a run to fight more sentinels, I would load, but be put back into the lobby due a server issue, although developers I'm sure noticed the issue and is hot fixing it. Another problem that I noticed a lot is that during fights I tend to be getting hit after dodging against one of those sentinels with the single shot pistol from their basic attack, I noticed if I dodge in a slight linear fashion when it looks like I'm definitely dodging the bullet it would still hit me. So in order for me to dodge, I would move sideways or more angled towards the sentinel. I'm fine with the combat system for now, nice and simple, damage on some sentinel abilities may need to be nerfed, maybe implement some equipment items that will also give your character buffs, more dodges, abilities, different throwables to spice the combat system up a bit. Overall, I'm enjoying the game at the moment and the sentinel creation I think is pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cool, the price I think it's pretty reasonable, but everyone has their own personal opinion. There is a lot of cool things I would like to see added as well such as player cosmetics, more character choices (possibly different combat styles), different sentinel intros before the fight starts such as how they stand up, or some cool flashy super hero landing or maybe some text shown to show the win rate and rating of the sentinel. I'm excited to see how this game will develop in the future.

Company laid off almost all of its employees, not looking good for the future of this game

I wish I could recommend this game as the idea is really cool, But within the 50 minutes I played I found that The game control tips are set to controller even if you are on keyboard and mouse. The hits you land seem very unsatisfying. The loading times seem to vary from very long to very short. Using a controller seems very jank. The hit detection is not great meaning you have to dash every time the boss attacks or get lucky ot avoid a hit. But on the bright side the soundtrack is nice and the environment is pretty. Overall I would have loved to get into this game and play it a lot more but it felt more like a chore than a fun game hopefully it is made better in the future as it has just released

The game itself is fun, and has a foundation for a very nice experience. However, I cannot recommend buying it, as it does not appear to be being developed anymore, and it is still very bare-bones, with an obvious lack of content. If you do try it out, do so with a friend.

I wanted it to be good, but in its current state with the lack of empowering your character, the bosses hurting you before the animation hits you, it feals unfear and unpolished. Should have been marked as an Early Access game and not a full release.

This game is just undercooked. A cool idea with very shallow gameplay as well as being technically buggy. Will crash on launch sometimes and doesnt allow for custom keybinds on controller