Horizon's Gate

Clearly a product of love. I felt like I was playing a game from my childhood. Really suggested for lovers of exploration and old tactics games. The class system and crew building are lovely.

Initially I did not recommend this game to controller users due to the strange control scheme. While I still believe they are a bit clunky, I've figured out how to make the most of them. You'll still have to use the mouse for certain features (such as checking your specific current morale value), the usability is drastically improved if you set your stash display type to 'Grid' rather than the default of 'List'. You cannot scroll the list view on controller, so using it limits your carrying capacity significantly!! Aside from this, this game is a lot of fun. I was impressed by the scope of everything, and the mechanics seem pretty deep with plenty to dig your teeth into. A lot of reviews mention FF Tactics but I also got a lot of Divinity Original Sin 2 feelings from this game, though I'd say it still seems unique enough to be difficult to put into easy boxes.

Fantastically addictive game. Travel isn't an arduous labor, there are plenty of ways to generate economy and each "stage" of the game opens up possibilities to do different things. Mathias Westlund did about half of the music which is a big plus for me, as I like many of the games he's done the music for. Very few things are extremely tedious and the pixel graphics are super refreshing to see for someone that grew up on NES. Minor quibbles would be the ending itself is a little lack luster. The exp system can be somewhat frustrating given that you have to make a character kind of suck to train them up into the next class, if you're cross classing. But it's just a mechanic of the game and it's fine. It probably makes less of a difference if you adventure out earlier. I probably wont play it again as the story is fairly straight forward, but I got nearly 70 hours out of it and $20 and I think it's well worth the investment.

the gameplay may be good, and while I don't mind the primitive graphics, there is no excuse for the horrible UI which makes it hard to access even some basic info like character race.

<3

5 party members. many classes.

Shining Force meets Uncharted Waters: New Horizons.

8

good