Torment: Tides of Numenera

 Lire que c’est le successeur « spirituel » de [i]Planescape: Torment[/i] (PS) laisse un peu dubitatif : ça veut dire quoi ? Ben… oui, pourtant, c’en est bien le successeur spirituel ! On y retrouve une histoire très riche où il est possible de presque tout régler à coup de lattes ou en discutant, avec un personnage principal hors du commun (peut-être un peu moins hors du commun dans [i]Tides of Numenéra[/i]).  J’ai été très déçu d’arriver à la fin : c’est le genre de jeu dont on a envie qu’il continue !  Les relations avec certains personnages sont touchantes, quant aux fins possibles… difficile de dire ce qui semble être le mieux !  S’il fallait trouver des points négatifs (non, je ne parlerais pas de la durée : ce serait trop cliché), c’est le fait qu’on ne puisse pas vraiment bien savoir à quoi correspondent les flux, qu’on ne connaisse pas non plus le niveau de la jauge de chacun (mais ça, c’était aussi le cas avec l’alignement dans PS).  Le jeu est peut-être aussi un peu trop facile et peut donner l’impression de relever plus de la fiction interactive. Néanmoins, on sent qu’on peut réellement influer sur l’univers et que les choix qu’on fait peuvent changer beaucoup de choses.

One of the worst games I have ever played. Combat is the worst combat I have experienced in an RPG, and the story... well i couldn't invest myself in the story as it is boring linear and pretentious. Avoid at all costs, in case you are looking for a story based RPG search elsewhere (the original Planescape:Torment and Disco Elysium are good choices).

[spoiler] each time, you are to decide, who may live or who may die (which happens quite a lot during this game)... [/spoiler] ...you feel nothing nothing at all. Because this game was never able to establish any kind of connection with the characters - NPCs, allies or even the main character. So it comes down to A LOT of reading but in the end I didn't really care about the outcome. I'm a gamer who always wants to finish games, but I didn't even bother to reload to explore the other endings (and receive their achievements), because I was only exhausted and happy to finally have this game of my list. ...and to be honest: Since I didn't care for any of the characters, I wasn't even interested to find a better outcome... (in sharp contrast to Mass Effect, which made me play through all 3 parts 6 times, just to get the best ending)

Played this until my vision swam from fatigue, 10/10

This is a messy game to say the least for every good thing this game does there is something equally bad to balance it out, so I'll try and summarise it as best I can... 1) The Setting/Theme Probably one of the few things this game does well, the game has an intriguing setting. We are 1 billion years in the future, civilisation has reset itself nine times, each leaving behind traces of their history/technology known as the Numenera. This unique setting allows the writers to throw a large variety of sci-fi ideas at the player (e.g. the ability to psychically change the past, or having constructs becoming sentient), however alot these sci-fi ideas are thrown at the player very early on, and often don't share a common theme nor are they explored later on in much detail, and as a result players just don't really get the time to fully digest these ideas or understand the consequences to their actions before already having a completely different sci-fi them thrown at them. It's an unfortunate example of quantity of quality. 2) The Story The writers of this game clearly went all in on the setting, and this shows in the story, which is little more than a stretched out journey to fix a McGuffin. Most of the story is unravelled right at the very end so throughout most of the game you are really left in the dark especially when it comes to understanding the motivations of the antagonists. Which is a shame, since it was an interesting story, just not paced well at all, and the only thing there that's holding the player's interest are the sci-fi themes often self contained in single side-quests with nothing to do with the main plot. Other than that the only driving force to keep the player going is some vague psychic threat whose motivations and purposes are not clear. 3) The Characters While this game does feature a diverse cast of companions, none of them have any real reason to stick around the Protagonist. They all have their own personal stories and character arcs sure, but its not woven into the main plot at all, in fact I have no idea why most of them would even bother to risk their lives over something they have no control in. In fact for a while I genuinely thought that the Last Castoff was actually using the tides to mind control them as his puppets, but no just bad writing I guess... 4) Game Design The rule with films is "show, don't tell", with games it's "Do, don't show". The designers of this game clearly didn't get the memo since there is a lot of exposition in this game, and when your setting is based 1 billion years in the future where technology has gone in ways beyond your imagination, you'd probably want to avoid exposition dumps assuming you'd want your players to follow along. Cause otherwise you are just spouting techno-babble like a Hideo Kojima game, I'd understand if you have a low budget and want to avoid high detailed animation or cinematics, but a basic slide show would help us understand what is going on even a little. 5) Bugs/Performance A surprising amount of bugs and performance issues in this game, I had one where I could not save or load previous games, in later sections like the Bloom I had notice significant frame rate drops, which is quite odd to see in a crpg game, but I guess it does happen time to time. 6) Conclusion/Recommendation I can't recommend this game, not when it's competitors are significantly better, it's not a bad game by any means just not very engaging, but if you like the Numenera setting than you'd probably enjoy it, however I'd say pick up Pillars of eternity or another CRPG title instead.

Deep. Almost profound in its epic engagements. Choices here reflect the character of the player. It will reveal your values and personal philosophy to you as you unlock the mystery of yourself. Wicked Fun!!!

[h1]++[/h1] Univers toujours aussi original et fourni Dialogues vraiment bien écrits, beaucoup de possibilités Ambiance musicale sympa Possibilité de résoudre 90% des conflits avec des dialogues Pas mal de personnages secondaires originaux Scénario vraiment sympa / Quêtes secondaires biens écrites [h1]--[/h1] Graphiquement un peu inégal Quelques bugs de finitions Un ou deux combats obligatoires qui deviennent vraiment trop durs quand on est spécialisé "dialogue" comme moi Chapitre final un peu expédié Une tendance à surcharger le joueur en quêtes secondaires (comme il faut parler un peu à tout le monde pour avancer, on finit par débloquer toutes les quêtes secondaires alors qu'on cherche simplement la bonne personne à qui parler pour une autre quête déjà en cours)

An incredible game, only wish it was longer. Hoping there will be a sequel