Torment: Tides of Numenera

I'd highly recommend this one! The depth of the story forme is absorbing plus the graphics is still somehow at par with modern games today. When I play this this gives me the old feeling and vibes of classic isometric games which are mainly focused on story. The only drawback is the long text conversations which's I'm kinda feeling lazy and prefers more action and gameplay.

I could not even get through an hour of this game. Maybe I did not give it enough of a chance, but a non combat game for DND, this is NOT a spiritual successor, the only thing that connects this to Planescape Torment is the "Torment" used in the title. If I could go back in time, I would definately NOT buy this game. VERY dissapointed.

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.

생각보다 짧지만 내 선택들이 불러온 엔딩이 매우 맘에 들면서도 슬프고 잔잔히 마음에 남았다. 한권의 책을 읽는것 같은게 토먼트 시리즈의 묘미가 아닐까? 아쉬운건 [spoiler] 전투력 때문에 린을 쫒아내야만 했는데 내 선택에 나중에 후회했다. [/spoiler] 그래도 재밌어!

This is a messy game to say the least for every good thing this game does there is something equally bad to balance it out, so I'll try and summarise it as best I can... 1) The Setting/Theme Probably one of the few things this game does well, the game has an intriguing setting. We are 1 billion years in the future, civilisation has reset itself nine times, each leaving behind traces of their history/technology known as the Numenera. This unique setting allows the writers to throw a large variety of sci-fi ideas at the player (e.g. the ability to psychically change the past, or having constructs becoming sentient), however alot these sci-fi ideas are thrown at the player very early on, and often don't share a common theme nor are they explored later on in much detail, and as a result players just don't really get the time to fully digest these ideas or understand the consequences to their actions before already having a completely different sci-fi them thrown at them. It's an unfortunate example of quantity of quality. 2) The Story The writers of this game clearly went all in on the setting, and this shows in the story, which is little more than a stretched out journey to fix a McGuffin. Most of the story is unravelled right at the very end so throughout most of the game you are really left in the dark especially when it comes to understanding the motivations of the antagonists. Which is a shame, since it was an interesting story, just not paced well at all, and the only thing there that's holding the player's interest are the sci-fi themes often self contained in single side-quests with nothing to do with the main plot. Other than that the only driving force to keep the player going is some vague psychic threat whose motivations and purposes are not clear. 3) The Characters While this game does feature a diverse cast of companions, none of them have any real reason to stick around the Protagonist. They all have their own personal stories and character arcs sure, but its not woven into the main plot at all, in fact I have no idea why most of them would even bother to risk their lives over something they have no control in. In fact for a while I genuinely thought that the Last Castoff was actually using the tides to mind control them as his puppets, but no just bad writing I guess... 4) Game Design The rule with films is "show, don't tell", with games it's "Do, don't show". The designers of this game clearly didn't get the memo since there is a lot of exposition in this game, and when your setting is based 1 billion years in the future where technology has gone in ways beyond your imagination, you'd probably want to avoid exposition dumps assuming you'd want your players to follow along. Cause otherwise you are just spouting techno-babble like a Hideo Kojima game, I'd understand if you have a low budget and want to avoid high detailed animation or cinematics, but a basic slide show would help us understand what is going on even a little. 5) Bugs/Performance A surprising amount of bugs and performance issues in this game, I had one where I could not save or load previous games, in later sections like the Bloom I had notice significant frame rate drops, which is quite odd to see in a crpg game, but I guess it does happen time to time. 6) Conclusion/Recommendation I can't recommend this game, not when it's competitors are significantly better, it's not a bad game by any means just not very engaging, but if you like the Numenera setting than you'd probably enjoy it, however I'd say pick up Pillars of eternity or another CRPG title instead.

A disappointment. I couldn't play past chapter 4 I believe. You feel like this was rushed. Not at the same quality of writing as Planescape torment. I wonder why. It had a very successful Kickstarter campaign so they certainly weren't hurting for resources.

amanzing creativity, impecaable immersion.