I had never played a roguelike game before Hades (more like, had any interested or finished one), so after it and how much I enjoyed it, I wanted to give one a try.
I love wii games so after some research I decided to give Baroque a try.
I am still not quite sure if I regret it or not.
Gameplay wise, Baroque gets boring really fast. As most wii games it’s slow and clunky and repetitive. It’s a lot of walking through randomized levels and a lot of item managing. The fighting is slow and not really challenging, you mostly worry about being underleveled or being outnumbered in a small room, and at some point the only thing on your mind is in which level you are so you can keep track of what NPCs you can find on that floor.
What kept me going, though, was how much the entire mood of the game was so…perfect for it. Baroque is set in a clearly post apocalyptic world, all of it distorted and off putting. The outside of the tower consists of just a small number of NPCs who don’t really tell you much, but I was so interested on what little they had to say about the world and how they live in it and how it got to this point. It took me at least 4 runs of the tower to understand one of the NPCs was not weird, but just a mind reader and was just telling me what my character was thinking, and then it all started making sense.
A bunch of cutscenes I did not understand bit by bit started making more and more sense the more I went into the neuro tower. The themes it treats are very interesting to me and the overall mysterious and moody vibe it gives made me really enjoy the game, despite it being not very good to play.
It’s quite a confusing game. I don’t recommend playing it without a guide. There are a lot of plot bits you will miss and you will not understand the game if you don’t follow one because most of it is just not very…intuitive.
It’s a game with many, many flaws and I can’t say I truly enjoyed playing it, but I also can’t say I hated it because I really enjoyed the plot as confusing as it was to fully understand.
I love wii games so after some research I decided to give Baroque a try.
I am still not quite sure if I regret it or not.
Gameplay wise, Baroque gets boring really fast. As most wii games it’s slow and clunky and repetitive. It’s a lot of walking through randomized levels and a lot of item managing. The fighting is slow and not really challenging, you mostly worry about being underleveled or being outnumbered in a small room, and at some point the only thing on your mind is in which level you are so you can keep track of what NPCs you can find on that floor.
What kept me going, though, was how much the entire mood of the game was so…perfect for it. Baroque is set in a clearly post apocalyptic world, all of it distorted and off putting. The outside of the tower consists of just a small number of NPCs who don’t really tell you much, but I was so interested on what little they had to say about the world and how they live in it and how it got to this point. It took me at least 4 runs of the tower to understand one of the NPCs was not weird, but just a mind reader and was just telling me what my character was thinking, and then it all started making sense.
A bunch of cutscenes I did not understand bit by bit started making more and more sense the more I went into the neuro tower. The themes it treats are very interesting to me and the overall mysterious and moody vibe it gives made me really enjoy the game, despite it being not very good to play.
It’s quite a confusing game. I don’t recommend playing it without a guide. There are a lot of plot bits you will miss and you will not understand the game if you don’t follow one because most of it is just not very…intuitive.
It’s a game with many, many flaws and I can’t say I truly enjoyed playing it, but I also can’t say I hated it because I really enjoyed the plot as confusing as it was to fully understand.