Shadowrun Returns

Overall I do highly recommend this game. With that said, there are many areas of improvement that it needs. Balanced feedback below. Positives - Combat feels great! - Fantastic writing! Great story, fun character/NPC interactions! - Plenty of weapon, equipment and spell options to find, earn and purchase - Love the stylistic approach, environment is engaging. - Strong rewards for quest completion, feeling of progression and satisfaction - All characters are fully healed after every fight, very helpful thank you! - All equipment used is replenished for each major area as party members are “hired” and hired NPC’s come with full gear. - The ability to hire party members for each major encounter is a great system, allows for experimentation and is a ton of fun vs permanent members. - Appreciate the short campaign (took me 22 hours), fun but not overstaying it’s welcome. Negatives - The games lists “archetypes” under each race, yet every race has access to the exact same list of archetypes. This makes listing them pointless and in fact confusing, because if there is the same list for every race, why list them by race type then? Again, confusing as in what am I missing? - Cannot see enemy health during combat does nothing but create annoyance, does not enhance the game in any way - When I click something, if I pick up an item, the text that describes it fades away very fast, often times forcing me to pick between reading what the item was that I picked up (shown in the upper left corner of the screen) and the description (in the middle right side of the screen) - While overall I love the combat in this game, a lot of it doesn’t feel very intuitive. For example, how many action points do I get per character? After looking it up, there are 2 actions each character get by default each turn shown on their character faces in the UPPER RIGHT hand corner, yet the combat actions are in the lower left, makes no sense why the action points aren't shown by the actions that can be taken. - Often times clicking on something moves your character to it, but requires a 2nd click to engage it. Annoying. - Items for purchase don’t show comparison to what you already own, making it tremendously challenging to know if what you’re looking at will be an upgrade - When you purchase gear, if you don’t equip it RIGHT WHEN YOU BUY IT, which if it’s your first time playing is VERY easy to miss, it’s not on your character at all and you have to go find it. STUPID. All they have to do, if you accidentally do NOT equip what was just purchased, ask “do you want to equip this?” Simple. Even Dragon Warrior 1 from the 90’s asks you this… - No open world, just individual locations pre-set which is fine but makes the game quite linear. - Unable to turn the camera angle making it VERY annoying when I cannot see something and simply want to TURN the camera so I can. Nope, cannot. - The matrix is simply annoying. I get the impression the devs thought it would a fun, unique and compelling idea for players. It’s not. It’s just annoying. Especially annoying when the game keep switching between the “meat” world and the matrix. Super annoying, not fun in the slightest. - The monotonous combat music is rather annoying - Could use more spell upgrades, only reaches level 3 which based on campaign length makes sense, but would have been more fun with additional options.