Scars of Mars

Des Idées de jeu très intéressantes,un gameplay original, fun et dynamique et le tout dans un cadre enfin hors des gamineries et niaiseries habituelles. Malheureusement le concept n'est pas poussé à son maximum, le jeu est bien trop TROP court et réduit à son minimum, on frôle même la sensation de démo légèrement rallongée, ce qui est rédhibitoire, surtout à ce prix.... Dommage il y a clairement quelque chose à exploiter dans le style et le gameplay, j’espère que les développeurs iront plus loin la prochaine fois! A tester en promo (genre 5 euros) dans tout les cas pour les fan de rogue/rpg, je pense....

I can understand this one being a bit of a hard sell. The art looks bad and is most likely AI-generated, dungeon exploration is very lackluster is terms of style and variety, metaprogression is largely simplistic statistical upgrades, and the game only lasts around 2-3 hours unless you count replaying the game on harder difficulties or doing the bonus Challenge modes, both which shallowly recycle the same content but with artificially inflated stats. But damn, in spite of all that, I really enjoyed my short time with this due to the very memorable and unique combat system! Moving your party members around on the grid in real-time to put them into position to attack while simultaneously dodging enemy attacks made for a surprisingly exciting dance, and it gets even deeper with mechanics like increased damage if you take the risk to counterattack an enemy during their attack, and how you can prevent a large enemy AOE from spilling out to your allies if you place an ally in front of it to block with a well-timed shield, among others. The game was rather challenging even on Normal and the boss fights were great spectacles that kept me on my toes. In addition to the great combat, the buildcraft wasn't half-bad either with a lot of potential for different party makeups, and I had fun playing around and optimizing with the different weapons and frames/classes. Perhaps it's not the deepest or most balanced since my playtime was short and I did end up sticking with a fairly generic party (tank/sniper/flex/healer) but it felt fun nonetheless. If it looks interesting to you and you're a fan of dungeon crawlers, I'd encourage you to give it a try on sale, at least. I truly wish more games would look to this for inspiration and adopt these combat mechanics, and if possible, I'd like a more developed sequel!