Othercide

What a nice surprise. I'm in love with the Art and the whole universe, kinsa dark and poetic. But style and visuals are not enough for me, and I admit being surprised at the depth of this game. Yes, few classes and few skills, but the more you play, you more you realize adding more would just be two much. Having few but mastering it is actually very satisfying. So yeah, very good surprise this game is to me.

Will update review later. For now, I love the menu music; feels cinematic, and this is coming from a person who knows nothing about this universe going in. Mysterious lore feels like alternate universe silent hill or something. the boy is slowly coming to mind. the combat takes brainpower to beat well. I've played Xcom and I know there is joy in operating like a one brain team. this game takes that and dumpsters it. one must die or be sacrificed, to some extent. choose your pain? i guess? Its fun and runs smoothly for how gorgeous it is. although, the in battle music could have some more variety - especially for how much thinking i have to do to win perfectly. very creepy 8/10

quiero que la maestra de espadas me pise

So you have this units that cannot heal, have special abilities that costs their own health, many enemies, each with their own specialty and MANY missions to go trough, what could possibly go wrong? A lot, I assure you, but in a good way. Having no health regen (actually there is the easy difficult that has it) really push you on puzzle it out in order to win without getting any damage. The game has this interesting timeline turn system in which based on how many actions you do, you are pushed further in the turn order, so sometimes you risk it: you make the girl execute 4 attacks, to kill this monster before it kills its sister, but then she skip her next turn. It's a Rogue-Lite: after losing a run, you start again, but you unlock improvements that makes the game easier, balancing how well you played the run before to how much will you be advantaged in the new run. The game is hard at the start, but with all the improvements unlocked you'll get to the end eventually. This game really push you on taking decisions: "consuming 5% health to double my defence for one turn, and basically receive no damage, or maybe the enemy won't attack me let's see....oh wait this guy is gonna shoot the other girl, it will bring a lot of damage to her, but if I spend more AP points with this other girl, maybe I can save her,...wait but then this one we'll be exposed for an entire turn, they are gonna rip her apart, who do I save?" these are basic questions I have with myself while playing one mission I would have loved to have more feedback animations, like, if a character defense is high they can take 0 damage from an attack, but the animation still shows as the character is been "damaged", with the "0 damage" popping up, would have loved to see the character like, parrying or deflecting the attack. Dodging also have no animation, sometimes I miss the text pop up. But that's the only concern.

GG

Good

I wish i new about the dying mechanic in this game. I just feel like it was put in to add depth to a very short game. I like the timeline usage but I hate investing in a character that dies. It just turns me off to even wanting to waste time on this.

Wonderful game.