Titanium Court

It's unique. I found the gameplay weird and repetitive after a short while. The story and 'weirdness' wasn't interesting enough to retain me.

This game is an incredible experience tied down by a story that I personally find completely unbearable and honestly in bad taste for a game worth 15 dollars. However, I cannot say anything else bad. I love this game for the gameplay, but I really don't like the story, and I cannot really recommend it for that reason, hence the negative review. The writing quality, despite my personal distaste for the story, is utterly incredible. The game is a simple but compelling match 3/resource gathering stage that then becomes a tower defense using the map you have built and resources you gathered with the match 3. Runs really won't take longer than 10 minutes at most. It is compelling, almost addicting, and I did run after run after run trying to explore everything, discover secrets (of which there are plenty) and talk to these wonderfully charming characters! Spoilers ahead. [spoiler] The game did not like that last bit. The story revolves around your presence in this world essentially sucking the magic of it away, and the primary way it enforces this is by making you feel guilty about talking to these characters. They start to become "stale", in an in-game sense. They loop their old lines, stop moving, stop being people and just characters. By interacting with these characters you are taking away their personhood. I know they didn't have any to begin with but this is mostly lore. It is better (or at least, one of the characters tries to convince you it is better) to not talk to anyone except for the forced dialogue, ignore most the writing in the game, and simply march forward as a drone. Why? I don't want to say I have a right to these characters, but I paid 15 dollars for a game that does not want me to experience it. It feels like the game is punishing me for enjoying it too much. I don't wanna tell the developer(s) to make the game free, but if the game WAS free I could understand the point of intruding on something that was never meant to involve you in it, but I had to pay money to go in a place that I am not welcome. [/spoiler] I have more to say but it would turn into an angry rant and honestly, that's not what I want. The writing is funny and charming and really weird, which is a compliment. Get it on sale if you want it, because it is a somewhat worthwhile experience, and I really hope you like it more than I do.

I really wish I could recommend this. It is a very novel and creative indie game. Unfortunately the game play gets in the way of that in a major way. It combines connect-3, economic development, and an almost roguelite experience. This is unique, and works well in many ways. The systems involved are surprisingly complex and nuanced, while also being surprisingly poorly explained and developed. Loses felt frequent, rapid, and arbitrary. You will also need to play quite a bit to get to the interesting story underneath. If you can look past the game play to the creativity underneath, then Titanium Court is worth your time. However, if you want to enjoy your play time spent with it - I cannot recommend this game.

A game whose very narrative gets in its own way. A strong recommendation if you love meta commentary.

What is this game's DEAL??

Gameplay is weird and repetitive. The little I could play, since the tooltips, pop-ups, meta commentaries and the boring story keeps getting in the way. I'm an old timer. My business is "Start New Game" and just go for it. Remember the old days when Mario didn't think he needed to explain why eating mushrooms made him bigger, and why he was jumping over turtles heads to kill them in order to rescue a princess from the evil hands of a giant turtle-lizard thing? Not one line of tutorial, not one line of a "clever story"? Good days. This one, not for me.

I might have cried in the latter part of the game and my profile picture is somewhat related to it. Didn't expect to shed a tear for a silly game about silly magic people. Good game.