I really wanted to like this game. However, even heavily discounted, I felt like it's not worth the price tag.
- extremely dialogue heavy. 1 hour of playtime was about 20% gameplay.
- the dialogue is incredibly cringey. Compared to a game like GOTG, which somehow managed to nail the tone of the characters while still being distinctly different from the movies, and this felt like "We have MCU at home"
- there are so many long drawn out spell animations. No way to fast forward or skip. It gets repetitive and old fast. Imagine playing Slay the Spire but you have to watch a 20 second animation every time you play a card.
- The cutscenes can be skipped, but there are just so many, and it really could just as easily be dialogue so you could read and skip.

The whole game just feels padded with so much unecessary stuff that doesn't respect your time.
The gameplay might even be fun, I liked XCOM, but there's just so much that gets in the way of you experiencing it that the game feels like it doesn't want you to play it as much as it wants you to watch it.

If you can get past all this stuff, you may like it a lot if you are a turn based tactical fan. But this was a pretty big swing and a miss for me.

Also, Denuvo can take a hike.

Reviewed on Feb 25, 2024


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1 month ago

I feel like I’ve encountered games that try to draw you in merely on graphics they reflect the genre you came for. I sometimes find they with Star Wars merchandise; it’s pandering and the quality of the game suffers