Torment: Tides of Numenera

Imagínate esta en una partida de rol de mesa, bien, ahora imagínate que el narrador de dicha mesa es un novelista frustrando, ahora imagínate que dicho narrador también tiene problemas de verborragia y no para de tirar data inútil que no ayuda a la trama; pues eso es este juego. En general, se dedica demasiado tiempo y demasiadas palabras a cosas raras no esenciales en la trama, que son complicadas por ser complicadas, que no aportan nada bueno a la atmósfera y que no brindan al jugador ningún tipo de entretenimiento.

Torment: Tides of Numenera is a spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment. I loved Planescape and it became one of my favorite games. When I heard that there technically existed a second instalment I was hooked; but inXile didn't actually get permission from Wizards of the Coast who owns the Planescape IP to make an official sequel so it's not actually Planescape 2. But it spiritually follows the universe and if you've played Planescape you can easily connect the universes. There's a lot of similarities and references and they succeeded creating a similar vibe to the Planescape setting albeit the sci-fi element. There was A LOT I didn't get to experience in this single playthrough I've completed at the time of writing this review. Entire sections I've missed, multiple endings, characters I never met or fought alongside etc. and with the percentage dice roll mechanic and pool drains it's even more challenging to experience everything (unless you're a petty save scummer... well I'm that too...) but I actually like the system a lot. It creates variations in your playthroughs albeit subtle at times. The combat was great imo. Now, I know that better systems exist out there but I wasn't bothered by the fighting. Tides of Numenera is primarily a story based game just like Planescape and I felt like the combat served its purpose. You're essentially not super strong and need to be smart and efficient with your pools not to drain them too fast. The story was amazing, the exploration felt just like Planescape along with the option trees… and the loading screen art was well made too! But I also have some criticism. Sometimes when interacting with NPC's with dialogue trees or just the NPC’s with single comment boxes you'd walk straight into them, noclipping into them, instead of engaging conversation; this was a frustrating bug that I felt they should have fixed by now. I was also a little frustrated by how easily you could part with a party member by mistake by miss clicking. It can ruin the immersion. There should absolutely be another dialogue box in between to correct a miss click. I don't particularly like the character artwork. Some of them are decent but it doesn't fit the aesthetic of the game in my opinion. I also didn't like when the narrator took over a conversation, the names of the NPC's I was speaking with were regarded as the ones speaking as the narrator. It's a weird way of formatting the dialogue in my opinion. I also wasn't a fan of the merecaster UI; especially when one or more of your pools were drained and it abruptly cut the light effect of the pools. When I'm used to pause the game by hitting space it often frustrated me that in combat the space button was mapped to skip character rounds by default. Whether you disable or enable v-sync if you're having a long conversation with someone at some point the dialogue box starts to slow down and becomes unbearably slow; it's way worse with v-sync disabled but that was frustrating. Sometimes the single dialogue comments get stuck in the game and the only way to remove them is to find where they're located and click on them again which is tedious. But other than that, it was an amazing game! The 95 hours I took to complete the first playthrough was well worth the hype. Since I bought the Immortal Edition I also got 5 e-books (among other cool things) which I will be reading so the universe definitely isn’t wrapped up for me yet.

I started playing this because it looked like Disco Elysium. It's not as good, but it's definitely in the ballpark as far as style goes. I just got to Act 2 and noticed that only about 26% of players have the achievement associated with that progression, which really calls into question how enjoyable this game can be for a mass audience--if only 1/4 of players have made it as far as I have, maybe it's not that compelling. Still, if you like RPGs that don't rely too heavily on combat mechanics (while still forcing you into combat once in awhile) this may be for you.

There is really nothing in this game that makes me want to get back to it. Dullest gameplay I've encountered. Uninstalling because there are so many better games out there, and time is limited.

 Lire que c’est le successeur « spirituel » de [i]Planescape: Torment[/i] (PS) laisse un peu dubitatif : ça veut dire quoi ? Ben… oui, pourtant, c’en est bien le successeur spirituel ! On y retrouve une histoire très riche où il est possible de presque tout régler à coup de lattes ou en discutant, avec un personnage principal hors du commun (peut-être un peu moins hors du commun dans [i]Tides of Numenéra[/i]).  J’ai été très déçu d’arriver à la fin : c’est le genre de jeu dont on a envie qu’il continue !  Les relations avec certains personnages sont touchantes, quant aux fins possibles… difficile de dire ce qui semble être le mieux !  S’il fallait trouver des points négatifs (non, je ne parlerais pas de la durée : ce serait trop cliché), c’est le fait qu’on ne puisse pas vraiment bien savoir à quoi correspondent les flux, qu’on ne connaisse pas non plus le niveau de la jauge de chacun (mais ça, c’était aussi le cas avec l’alignement dans PS).  Le jeu est peut-être aussi un peu trop facile et peut donner l’impression de relever plus de la fiction interactive. Néanmoins, on sent qu’on peut réellement influer sur l’univers et que les choix qu’on fait peuvent changer beaucoup de choses.

Why did I buy this ♥♥♥♥...

not fun to play