Moves Of The Diamond Hand

I love it. I'm not sure how far in I am or how done the game is at this point. The stories are so compelling, the art is top tier. Each game they make I feel like they're redefining what their apex is, which is all you want from such a singular developer. The dice and disguise system is brilliant. Bafta material, or whatever high brow award you want to give it.

It's extremely difficult to describe how much I love Moves of the Diamond Hand, since there's a lot that makes it the best of the best that Cosmo D has to offer. First of all, there's the dice mechanics. I really enjoy the give and take of trying to optimize your dice rolls through leveling up your skills, using various items to the best of their abilities, and using disguises to compensate for bad luck. I also really like how you can lose yourself in the world as a first person observer. You can act as any kind of character - so long as your aim in life is to join Circus X. It's really nice to play as a character who isn't pigeonheld into looking a specific way, and by extension, having a specific gender. Before playing Moves, I wouldn't have considered myself to be an RPG enjoyer, especially those that are open world. While a lot of people love the ability to explore and do whatever they want to do, I find that to be extremely daunting what with learning the layout of the land and the history of the world I'm exploring, not to mention learning the game's specific mechanics. Luckily, I had already played Betrayal by the time I jumped into playing Moves, so I at least didn't feel daunted by the amount of choice I was given in the first chapter of the game. However, I did find it hard to take in everything that opened up once I got to the second chapter. There's so many new locations, dice mechanics, and mayoral candidates to learn about. Eventually, it clicked for me. After I had gotten a grasp on the game's mechanics and started taking notes on the world's lore, I felt like I was getting more of what makes Moves truly unique. I rarely found myself without a disguise, I searched through every garbage can, and I frequented the vending machine for my most frequently used item: Glowing Green Gum. I still don't believe I used sandwiches to the best of their abilities (not to mention some other late-game mechanics), but that's just another excuse for me to replay this amazing game. I highly recommend Moves of the Diamond Hand, and I'm also extremely excited for all that will be added in the coming months as the game eventually releases a full version.

"CRPG but by Cosmo" was all it took for me. From what I've played, there is enough going on to make it interesting. It's more or less an expansion on mechanics from Club Low, so if you want a taste you can go play that. Unlike a lot of recent dice CRPGs there are resources you can expend to help with rolls, which makes it less of a wardrobe swapping simulator than some others. Other than that, the game has a distinct style that I like, but maybe you won't. But if you're reading this, honestly, it's probably for you.

真正的独立游戏杰作，虽然只做了两章，七条路线只做了四条路线，但体量和完成度已经相当高了，off peak系列在我看来一直保有高质量且互相紧密结合的场景美术、音乐、叙事，同时玩法也在不断进化，从off peak的步行模拟到tales from off peak city有逐步开放地图内容供探索的设计再到betrayal at club low实验拼点玩法和小规模多路线地图，而此作moves of the diamond hand在前作获得意料之外的成功之后作者决定干票大的，因此游戏规模进一步扩大成了类似杀出重围的半开放城市图（丰富的隐藏地点探索、区域间的连通、多出入口、流程多路线、复杂建筑路线和打通回环自然是少不了的），不少流程都有意做了多解法防止你在单个检定上卡关，但后面机制升级后其实没点的技能检定也可以用一些强道具强行绕过去，虽然道具贵但是……省着用压根用不完。玩法上在继承拼点玩法和披萨构筑的同时新增了大量和披萨地位相当的辅助机制，如检定升级超过某个阶段后可以自选一个永久辅助骰、道具、衣服、饮料、三明治、借贷、偷窃、表演、演说、简陋的潜行躲怪物（搞这玩意干嘛？？）、过马路走太慢领罚单等等，Cosmo D的野心远不只是做一个继承betrayal at club low系统的续作而是采取扩大数倍的系统和游戏内容来以一种混合trpg检定、crpg世界模拟、Imsim路线构建的方式呈现一个庞大的游戏世界，相比之下在此之前的四作都只是小规模刻画反映出世界的一角。虽然游戏贵但体量也是实打实的，目前抢先体验版放出两章体量已经超越前作总和了，而且计划七条路线只做了四条，最终计划有五章，可以预见内容量会非常大，希望后续内容和玩法的增加能保持目前的频率。

Music, atmosphere, characters, everything's like in the older Cosmo games just on steroids. The only downside is the fact u can easily grind health and mana so it isn't as punishing as before, so if u already played Betrayal At Club Low and u know the basics or if u played the demo I recommend u to play on higher difficulty instead of normal. I would also like to compliment the story, so far there's only 2 chapters as I'm writing this, and in these 2 chapters pretty much everything's connected. Also I would like to point out the different views on things from npcs, you will talk with one npc who will tell u his point of view on something, then you will go to the other one who says totally different thing from the first one, and they all have a pretty solid arguments for their opinions so it makes you thing about the topic, but also a possibility of one lying and potentially using u to get to his goal. Ofc your not rly a good guy here, cus ur using a campaign to get to ur own goal, making you pretty much a bad guy in the story, no? U can choose who you will promote for campaign and who you will sabotage, making sure ur candidate will be on top with votes, and all of this settles a good ground for future story which you will probably be able to alternate based on your actions. Cosmo kinda put a hard task in front of himself with this one but if he pulls it all together I think it will be great. Also I recommend anyone who was invested enough in reading this review to buy the game, especially if u like weird and abstract motives in the games, after all if you spent ur time reading this it means u were thinking about buying it, and I can say with certainty that its worth every penny. 10/10 experience

Similar to Cosmo D last game (Betrayal At Club Low). Moves of the Diamond Hand is a dice rolling RPG game where you're going to resolve sitations by rolling your own dice, split into 7? skills that you can improve with XP, against your opponents. The start of the game can feel a bit unfair, but as you improve your dice and get some tresholds it becomes more and more manageable. The game gives you many choices to approach and resolve situations, with many ways to give you an edge. During the demo I felt a bit stuck at some point because my dices were too weak to solve some situations, haven't had that problem with the current state of the game... All in all, still an early access game so can be a bit rough around the edges, with some missing pieces of content, but haven't encountered any bugs. Definitely recommend if you liked the previous game ! If you like probabilities and edging your bets it's a great pick in that category.