Veni, Vidi, Vici

This game kinda gave me a headache. Generally I like to be positive with my reviews, but the bright and saturated colors along with the eight bit style of music and sounds that pierce your ears, really make for a rather uncomfortable experience

"Veni, Vidi, Vici", or, in the words of Julius Caesar, "I came, I saw, I conquered". Very emphatic and also wrong, what happened here is the developer showed up, saw Steam, demonstrated they have no idea how to conceptualize a game people might want to play, and instead of doing any market research, used their non-existed skill to hammer out a pile of garbage that was then dumped on Steam through Valve's well intentioned but disastrous "Steam Direct" program. Which failed. They came, they misunderstood, they failed. At least they're not trying to charge money for this dumpster fire. What do you do in the game? The story involves a character named Delphine trying to remember what happened to the Arderan people, fighting rhythm-based dance battles with magical creatures to gain their trust. You use the abilities of magical creatures to navigate a temple on a quest to restore fallen deities. That's the nice way of putting it. This is more accurately described as another developer hamfistedly shoe-horning "Dance Dance Revolution" mechanics into other kind of game without even considering if it's a good idea. Hint: It is never a good idea. Needless to say, this was a complete and utter failure. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. On pricing, this is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good, and the cost of a game is more than just financial, your time is valuable too. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 4 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Nope. This isn't worth downloading. While this didn't cost me any money up front, I still feel ripped off.

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- s tier narrative - s tier soundtrack - s tier sfx - s tier character art - s tier environment art - s tier ui - s tier stability - s tier combat - s tier character design - s tier level design - s tier impact no flaws edit: gets doper every day

Игра 'Veni, Vidi, Vici' – это захватывающая пошаговая стратегия, которая позволяет почувствовать себя настоящим римским полководцем. С первых же ходов она погружает в атмосферу завоеваний и политических интриг. Геймплей, хотя и достаточно простой в освоении, предлагает множество тактических возможностей для достижения победы. Мне особенно понравилось разнообразие юнитов, у каждого из которых свои сильные и слабые стороны, а также необходимость тщательно планировать каждый свой шаг, учитывая особенности местности и потенциальные действия противника. Кампания достаточно длинная и предлагает массу разнообразных сценариев, от небольших стычек до масштабных сражений за контроль над целыми провинциями. Графика приятная, хотя и не самая современная, но она отлично передает дух эпохи. Музыкальное сопровождение атмосферное и создает нужное настроение. Единственным минусом можно назвать некоторую однообразность в поздних этапах игры, но в целом это отличная стратегия, которая способна увлечь на долгие часы. Рекомендую всем любителям пошаговых игр и римской истории.