Pit People®

A game that took me 3 tries to finally beat. The premise of a behemoth styled game with its wacky characters and plot mixed with a turn based rpg was super exciting. If done right this is easily a 9-10/10 game that would have thousands and thousands of copies selling each year even way after release, with a decently stagnant player base. But instead i think this game hits a low 7. I discovered the reason why it never clicked for me and so many people... there is next to no feeling of progression. A level 99 character compared to a level 1 character has very small differences in damage and hp. To put into perspective, i beat the main game around level 46 so i never felt a difference in gameplay. There is just no desire to do side quests or optional fights once u learn this because of a second issue... the combat length. Enemies and your troops have way too much health where everyone is a bullet sponge. No matter what strategy you may come up with, it wont matter after 2 turns as everyone just stand next to each other and smack away. A full team of 6 people hitting one person in a single turn is not even enough to kill a normal human. It is insane. Any strategy gets thrown out the window after 1-2 turns. The saving grace is the plot and characters. While the endgame and budget seems to drop late game as the animation quality drops and less voice acting takes place, there is still a good story here. One that connect to battleblock theatre which was a real gem in story telling to kid me in 2013. I really see the potential for this to have been a behemoth breaking game like castle crashers and battle block, it just wasn't due to development decisions that are very questionable.