Great and surprisingly well-written team story with dull, repetitive combat makes for an overall good experience despite its flaws.
I'm honestly shocked by how much I found myself caring about not only the team dynamic but every individual member of the team pretty quickly. Even secondary characters introduced in the story are fantastic. This game lives because of its characters and their interactions. Even when you're just cruising around exploring, the banter between your team is fun and helps to entertain when the gameplay is lacking. Though, they maybe could've toned down the combat dialogue a bit. I'd often hear the same lines spoken 3-4 times during one combat encounter.
Without harping on it too much, the gameplay leaves a lot to be desired. It's not actively bad or anything, it's just bland. Especially compared to how much personality the rest of the game has. They're really trying for that Mass Effect team combat dynamic but they don't come anywhere close to hitting that.
This is a small nitpick, but as a completionist, the collectibles in this game are a nightmare. The collectibles are scattered throughout the game and the game has no backtracking so every single one of them is missable. There's chapter select, but using it reverts your game back to the state it was in at the time of that chapter so you can't even use chapter select for clean up. Some of the collectibles are also quite hard to see. Your scanner eventually can be upgraded to mark upgrade materials, but not collectibles. Choices were made.
Overall, the game was something I enjoyed and looked forward to playing entirely because of the story and characters. Though, I think I might've enjoyed it more as a TV show than a video game.
+ Great characters that I quickly became invested in
+ Good story overall
+ Fantastic soundtrack / song picks
- Bland combat / gameplay
- Terrible collectibles
- Repeated dialogue during combat encounters
I'm honestly shocked by how much I found myself caring about not only the team dynamic but every individual member of the team pretty quickly. Even secondary characters introduced in the story are fantastic. This game lives because of its characters and their interactions. Even when you're just cruising around exploring, the banter between your team is fun and helps to entertain when the gameplay is lacking. Though, they maybe could've toned down the combat dialogue a bit. I'd often hear the same lines spoken 3-4 times during one combat encounter.
Without harping on it too much, the gameplay leaves a lot to be desired. It's not actively bad or anything, it's just bland. Especially compared to how much personality the rest of the game has. They're really trying for that Mass Effect team combat dynamic but they don't come anywhere close to hitting that.
This is a small nitpick, but as a completionist, the collectibles in this game are a nightmare. The collectibles are scattered throughout the game and the game has no backtracking so every single one of them is missable. There's chapter select, but using it reverts your game back to the state it was in at the time of that chapter so you can't even use chapter select for clean up. Some of the collectibles are also quite hard to see. Your scanner eventually can be upgraded to mark upgrade materials, but not collectibles. Choices were made.
Overall, the game was something I enjoyed and looked forward to playing entirely because of the story and characters. Though, I think I might've enjoyed it more as a TV show than a video game.
+ Great characters that I quickly became invested in
+ Good story overall
+ Fantastic soundtrack / song picks
- Bland combat / gameplay
- Terrible collectibles
- Repeated dialogue during combat encounters
FallenGrace
1 year ago