Night Spasm

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38888018-United-Critics/] Please follow [b]United Critics[/b] for quality reviews[/url] [h2]Night Spasm Review[/h2] [h1]Bad weather brings bad luck[/h1] Night Spasm is a 2D pixel game and open-world action-adventure RPG with intense turn-based combat system. The two good friends and co-pilots were going to do their daily job and fly to the destination of the flight but encountered a heavy storm that took down the plane along with everyone on it. The pilot and co-pilot, along with his sister, woke up in this mysterious realm and gets greeted by our own man MOG = The Man of Good. [h1]The Game of The Play[/h1] The player wakes up after the horrible plane crash in a small camp. He and his friends were rescued by MOG. After getting to know the basics of the game by MOG and what your mission is, you’ll get to roam free and explore the world. When I spawned into the world, there was some free food and stuff at the beginning by the portal and then I began my search. I started with wandering south, going down on the world to see if there was anything special I would encounter. Found a cave and died, found some people in danger. Tried helping but died again. So then finally I continued going down till I found some wetlands. There was a small dirt path that led me to a cave where I met a humongous women. She came from the town of giants not far away and seemed to gotten a likin to one of the characters. I went outside the cave and stumbled upon the town. You will find places like towns or caves that is story quests. Which means that inside that place there will lay something or someone that is a part of the main story and progress of the game. The story can be a longer one with options of speaking, good to know information, small side quests or just walking to the next person of highlight. While others are short ones like obtaining a crew member. Some story quests you will find missing passengers all over the world and you can assign three of them to accompany you. They will help fight enemies and some might have a higher level or some kind that the main character doesn’t have. The characters and passengers level up by fighting enemies and winning those fights. So the game is bit mainly about farming up levels, upgrading weapons and armor, do story quests and unlock more of the story. [b]Menu Tab in Game[/b] The menu tab in game is where you have the tabs for either the players inventory, their stats, crafting and even settings. The following Tabs are what there is in the Menu. [u]Portalpack[/u] The Portalpack is the players inventory and as the name says, it’s a small pocket with a portal in it that leads into a storage space in another realm/space. There’s 9 categories to sort out all the items and makes it easier to find everything. Weapons – Armor – Special – Recipes – Foods – Materials – Utilities – Collectables – Gifts. It’s also in the inventory where you’ll find the base teleporter which teleports the player to their pocket home in another realm. [u]Skills[/u] The Skills tab is where you can watch your characters attack and defend moves along with how much damage they do and what they’re specialties are. They show more specifically what pluses and minuses they have. [u]Equipment[/u] The Equipment tab is pretty similar to the Skills tab but here you equip the weapons, shields, armor, and accessories to your characters. Sometimes the player can find weapons or armor that are only designed for each gender. Which means that only that gender can handle the weapon, with its own different stats to it. But most of the time the player will only find casual weapons that are made for anyone. [u]Stats[/u] In Stats the player can see the characters “Generic” tab where it shows the player level, max HP, EXP and some of the Combat Stats. If the player goes down to the second tab, “Combat Stats” They will be able to see the combat stats much clearer. [u]Crafting[/u] The Crafting tab is where the player is available to craft any of the recipes that they’ve found or earned. The player finds crafting recipes in chests or can be earned from NPC’s or just simply bought from one. When exiting the crafting, the player gets sent to their inventory. It’s just to exit the inventory and the player is back into the world. [u]Time Stamps[/u] Time Stamps is basically your savings. The player has in fact 32 slots on from saving on, and they are always able to overwrite any time stamp with a new stamp/save. The time stamp will say the amount of time the player has been playing, how many “Ckoins” the player has, their currant location and which time stamp it is. In other words how many times the player already have time stamped. [u]System[/u] System tab is basically just settings for the speech bubbles and audio. Its also where the player can [u]Return to Title Screen[/u] or [u]Stop Game[/u] [h1]Visual & Audio[/h1] [b]Visuals[/b] The game has the look of Arcade Games or Game Boys. The simple 2D pixel style where they somehow make a difference on the floor and walls. I know some games does this bad, where the player doesn’t see a difference between walls and floors, but Night Spasm did a quite good job with this. There’s a few times that the player can have seen something that collided with each other but for the main part it’s all proper seeable The simple pixel style but still going into such detailing with even smaller pixels in towns, environment, characters and/or items. I’ve noticed that some structures are overlapping the character animation. The player is also able to walk through some structures that is supposed to be walls or fence. The characters animation gets behind the structures textures, and it just looks disturbing. Most of the times I’ve seen the top of the characters head/their hair, get behind the structure textures by fences that are short walls. They are separate from the ground animation and overlaps the characters textures. Would be good to fix that small error with overlapping structures and character animation. The game itself is beautiful but some paths or structures has either the walkable path closer/on the structure or too far away. That the character is a few in-game meters away from a wall or bush. [h1]Pros and Cons[/h1] [b]Pros[/b] [*]Story. [*]Crafting varieties. [*]Large amount of weapon collections. [*]Map design. [b]Cons[/b] [*]The item collector tab on side doesn’t have a top/end. Covers half screen when collecting items. [*]Audio settings only available while in-game and not from main menu. [*]Overlapping structure textures on character animation. [*]Some wall structures does not have an invisible wall, makes it walk through with structure animation on top. [*]Cutscenes beginning or resetting errors. (Like for some puzzles in the golden doors) [*]Not able to end a fight and lose, needs to fight until the end. [*]Confusing time functions in game. Hard to tell which time is day or night when sleeping to a specific time. [*]No map, easily getting lost. [*]Needing to pay just to sleep through the night in-game. [h1]My final little thoughts[/h1] The game is unique for itself and reminds of the classic Gameboy games. But the story and gameplay in general is a bit confusing and with a lot of extras that haven’t been added to the game yet. Like when inside the pocket realm house, there is two rooms, one with different doors for different DLCs that haven’t been released yet and another room where there is a door and when trying to open it says the door has no purpose yet. And the game has no map over the world, so the player needs to search the world for all the story places. And biggest one of all is the clock and time, they just give numbers, but which numbers is when on the day? Rating: 8/10 [b]For full review press[/b] [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/UnitedCritics/discussions/0/3839927185132885396/]here[/url]

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Exposition: The Game. This game is wordy like a visual novel, but has NONE of the polish or proper story-telling. I got bored VERY quickly (and I am usually very forgiving) and just couldn't continue. It's also sorely in need of proof-reading and an editor. EDIT: If the dev updates the game I'll be happy to take another look at it and update this review if necessary.

[h1][b]Night Spasm[/b][/h1] [b]Night Spasm[/b] is a rich indie role playing game with various gameplay systems as well as an interesting plot. [h1]Pros:[/h1] ✅ Big areas to explore ✅ Many secrets to find ✅ Good writing and plot ✅ Completely Free to Play [h1]Cons:[/h1] ⛔️ There are some character clipping and puzzle glitches ⛔️ Doesn't differentiate itself by a whole lot from the usual RPGMaker game [h1][b]Gameplay[/b][/h1] The gameplay is mostly comprised of familiar RPGMaker systems like turn-based combat and exploration, with some unique and welcome additions. [u]Exploration & Puzzles[/u] The game is divided by areas and has towns, houses and forests to explore. Each place may contain some useful items, a chest or even a hidden passage with secrets to discover. Since the game doesn't give you much direction, it's up to the player to traverse the areas and figure out where to go. If something is too difficult or impossible at a certain point, like some puzzles which require a specific number of points to unlock, it's possible to come back for them later. The puzzles are scattered throughout the world and have varying levels of difficulty. [u]Combat[/u] The combat will be familiar to anyone who has played traditional RPG games and RPGMaker games in particular. It provides you with lots of weapons and items at the start, so you can figure out your playstyle and start off easily, though it can be a bit overwhelming to newcomers with the number of items it drops on you at the start and the text showcasing them on the side of the screen. [h1][b]Graphics, Music & Writing[/b][/h1] The simplistic style and graphics combined with the witty and sometimes cheesy writing, provide the game's charm. It has decent jokes and an engaging plot, although not revolutionary. Something the game does very well is use pieces of indie music that aren't too well known, which gives a breath of fresh air in the RPGMaker marketplace where the tracks are usually the same royalty free tunes. [h1][b]Technical Aspects[/b][/h1] 🔹 This review was completed on a Desktop PC. The specs for this unit are as followed. 🔹 CPU: Intel I5-12600KF 🔹 RAM: 32GB DDR4 🔹 Graphics Card: GigaByte GeForce RTX 3070ti The game is optimized very well with windowed and fullscreen options. Some in-game glitches may happen, such as characters clipping and puzzles not loading correctly, but nothing that breaks the game entirely. [h1][b]Conclusion:[/b][/h1] [b]Night Spasm[/b] is a very enjoyable role playing game that surprised me as someone who has been exposed to dozens of RPGMaker game on steam. As the game is completely free, I'd highly recommend giving it a shot, especially if you are new to the genre and want to try it out for the first time.

Night Spasm, sizi gerçek hayattaki felsefelerinize ve dünya görüşlerinize göre oyun içi kararlar almaya teşvik eden, tek oyunculu, felsefi bir rol yapma video oyunudur. Sıradan ve sıradan olmayan oyuncular için tasarlanan Night Spasm, hem eğlenceli bir görev ve dövüş macerası hem de sınırsızca çalışabileceğiniz, sorgulayabileceğiniz ve yorumlayabileceğiniz zengin bir hikaye anlatan kişisel bir öğrenme deneyimidir. Hikaye, görünüşte bir uçak kazasında öldükten sonra kendilerini gizemli bir dünyada bulan üç hava pilotu olan Theodore, Vander ve Evana adlı üç ana karakterin hayatını konu alıyor. MOG olarak bilinen bilge ve dost canlısı bir büyücü tarafından ölümden kurtarılan pilotlar kendilerini, bir zamanlar güzel bir dünya olan ve talihsiz bir sonla karşı karşıya kalanların hayatlarını kurtarmak için tasarlanmış, şimdi ise hırslı ve korkunç bir düşman tarafından savaşa kilitlenmiş olan "Ada"da bulurlar. Nedenleri bilinmeyen bir hayalet olan Inevit, pilotlar dahil sayısız yaratığın hayatını kurtarmaktan sorumlu sihirli gücün kaynağı olan "The Rechance" adlı mistik bir varlığı ele geçirdi. Oyuncu olarak, hayaleti devirmek ve Ada'yı eski ihtişamına kavuşturmak için bir koloni oluşturma konusunda pilotlara rehberlik etmekten sorumlusunuz. Ya da belki bu karakterler için aklınızda farklı bir plan da olabilir…

Great RPG with a classic vibe! Sophisticated fight mechanic that seems complicated at first but isn't when you get rolling. Developer continues to update and streamline game play. Looks to have hours worth of content. Music is super good and gets stuck in your head, too. Hidden gem for sure.

** "SEMI-STRONGLY POSITIVE REVIEW" ** (This is a personal review, emphasis on PERSONAL. Basically it’ll be more focused on how I FEEL about this game. So there isnt going to be a lot of “general” perspective/actual critique on this game, rather, there will be more of “my” perspective.) Although the game’s system runs on RPG-Maker (not usually known for the highest caliber of games), I’ve really found myself enjoying this game thoroughly, oddly finding myself immersed and invested into the story. Yes, it is INDEED very wordy and story driven, but to me that is exactly what makes up it's "charm". I'll try to summarize it as well as I can : essentially, the story follows 3 buddies : Theodore, Vander and his sister, Evanna. They pilot an aircraft before a storm results in a crash. No one survives the incident, however every single person is somehow transported to “The Island”, which is sort of like a mythical dimension.Apparently they’ve been transported because of an individual :“MOG”, who introduces the trio to the island. MOG explains how the trio are entrusted to take down the forces of an evil “Inevit”, who is apparently causing mass destruction throughout all the dimensions, including the earth’s universe. We proceed to control the trio as they venture throughout the island completing events, finding civilisations and as well as survivors. My favorite event in the game as of now has to be the “Largenial” arc. Very wholesome, and i'm sad i cant really view more of the Largenial arc at the moment. (Gotta love the “casual suprise dinner date” spiralling into Aliana and Theodore doing totally appropriate stuff together during the visit) I've seen negative reviews on this game, and I understand where they are coming from, in that they lost interest quickly/ the game is “poorly made”, and that its overall not very enjoyable. But personally, i have a really short attention span yet i enjoy every last bit of the game, even down to the music despite it being somewhat repetitive. So i don't see why some random bored person without much experience on this platform wouldn't enjoy this game.Especially if they don't really have that many games to play (yknow, being that they dont have much experience on this platform) In summary, my point is that the negative reviews are warranted, but they are written by people with much more experience, so obviously they have seen much better games than this. However, I personally still enjoyed it (keyword, PERSONALLY). And if someone with a short attention span can play this game and can still somehow enjoy it, maybe you could try giving this game a shot? Or you could, yknow, take their advice and leave this game alone if you dont care for long-winded stories as much as I do **NEGATIVES** I only have one gripe with this game and it’s the combat system, or rather the way it’s “labelled”. I have no issues with the game’s turn based mechanics, I just don’t understand why “the combat system is listed in acronyms”. Despite MOG going in depth about what each acronym stands for, and having gone through a good handful of battles, I have no idea what certain things even mean or do in a battle. I can only remember BD, standing for Bonus damage, and HP standing for health/hit points. There are many more acronyms that I struggle to remember snd understand, Like UC, SA, what the difference is between “atk”, and “damage”, SP and a few more. If there was be a system or item whereby, I dunno; you could read/make a handbook that explains what all the "combat terms" mean (or something), I feel that it would make the combat that much more enjoyable. Aside from that, i really have no other complaints, its a thoroughly crummulent game in my eyes. I might even go as far as to say it's one of my favorite game's i've ever played, and that I love it!

Great game. Highly recommend. Fun game with cool story mode.

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