Recent reviews by Aki-San

it's okay to scratch your Ark-Press-E-Simulator-Itch.
It's okay if you like to lick psychodelic slugs.
It's okay if you like to build giant, ugly factories.

pros:
- runs great, even on potatoes
- ADA
- okayish modding tool (sadly necessary)

why not 7 or higher?
- people who want small or beautiful factories cant work without mods
- by far not as deep or polished as factorio (S.N.S)
- just a factory build simulator, literally nothing more, as you dont even have proper building shapes
- needs modding from the get-go to fix a lot of basic things
- power generation is just d... not good nor balanced.
- limited in practically every aspect without modding (zooping range, wire range, item and fluid speeds etc.)

- holy cow, once you start building proper factories, you notice how bad the blueprint system actually is. instead of just marking (like the delete system) what you want to make into a blueprint, you have size-limited "3D Printers". so you need to figure out your build first, then go back to the printer, rebuild it there, than go back to your building to increase it...

- it gets worse and worse, the more you try to do, the less you can actually do:
no glass walls/windows except flat foundations, not all roof, wall or foundation shapes (why have round foundations but no walls?!?). no proper windows. no proper settings to change speeds, item amounts, research speeds, slots, power generation, production rates, no re-growable nature, no placeable decorations, no mass upgrade etc.

all of that should be basic stuff.

i swear i had more hours and a review on this already.
prolly steam bugged out.

TLDR: "fortune smiled upon you"

The game is well made. Fun to play. interesting classes and level designs.
the loot feels actually worth it, the fishing is pure fun.

overall, this is a good game. nothing more to add, except...

DO NOT TOUCH TL2! Play this instead.

It's a decent game, a fun take on the castlevania genre.
But it's short, limited on overall content and differentiation.
The artstyle is.. what people might call an "acquired taste" at best, but i would say it's rather unpalatable for any connoisseur of the eastern arts.

But. On sale its worth its money, i would say.

Edit: constant crashes can ruin the fun

The base game is bland and lacking what made MW4 DLCs so incredible.
Top tIer mechs.
Top tier weapons lab.
Top tier AI.
QoL features...
Fun and interesting characters...

you can probably be through the campaign in like 5 hours.
if you count waiting for hours in the travel screen, you get prolly 15 hours out of it...


I recommend the YetAnother Series, Pilot Overhaul mods, AI mods, objective jump, remove ship animation, advanced zoom and the vonHUD.

personal flavor like mechs, maps, sound and graphic mods will enhance the game even more, but are not "necessary".

so far its okayish. AI and Menus could be better. it looks decent but overall its clunky as heck.

TLDR: dont expect rimworld...

This is a real gem! Superb looking map with a lot of details,
proper spacing of environmental things (trees, rocks etc.).
flat spots nearly everywhere, wheres a scenic location.
spawn map seems logical and decent so far.

i cant even comprehend how people say lost island is even close to this. they are leagues apart.

what a piece of... not art. (garbage).

60gb for that empty piece of boringness? no real nice overworld features. no nice giant basebuilding spots. man. are the only good map makers outthere the valhalla/ragnarok guys? maybe there are a handful of nice POIs, but i just flew around it and it was worse than the island. and far from ragnarok or valhalla. on top of it, nearly every nice surface is plastered with trees. im pretty sure they never thought about nice views or base building.

They missed out on upgrading BG1.

- still only 6 party members.
- you can not use the best chars from 1 and clara cant be saved.
- timed quests (not a fan of)
- less items and nearly no QoL fixes
- not quite as good of the humor from 1
- literally no difficulty curve. you kill a dragon in a 30 mins fight and the next room have Kobolds you literally oneshot with your fists.

Overall not a bad game, if it wouldnt for the crashes and save bricking.
Very nice voice acting, cool visuals, enjoyable looting and fighting.
some of the tower defense / wave fighting is annoying / tiring.

TLDR, you cant go wrong with it.

welp. it seemed promising, but once again made by someone who has ABSOLUTELY no idea of gaming.

- you do NOT use unskippable tutorials
- you do NOT make the options menu UNACCESSABLE in the tutorial with insanely loud music
- AND you do NOT make the options menu NOT accessable via keyboard.
- horrible control scheme. this clearly shows the dev has no idea of gaming.
- feels like a mobile game to pc port
- most things arent properly implemented nor tested.
- you can have more than one page of contracts, but no way of scrolling...
- on this topic: the UI is a joke (mechanically). it looks okayish but literally nothing is done well or thought through.
- nothing in this game can be "overcollected". you literally have to manually check every single page.
- there are no visual indicators for nearly everything.
- the balance/grind is an absolute joke

TLDR: not worth the money, not even for like 3 bucks.