Recent reviews by Alex Schaus

I keep coming back to this game to be bored by an on-rails walking simulator where I learn how to navigate its user interface. Seriously, how many HOURS do I need to spend in a prologue? I don't want to be told a story that I walk through. I don't have time for this. I have a couple hours here and there and I WANT TO PLAY A GAME. This is so mind-numbingly boring.

I really, really wanted to like this. But the ship repair bugs make it a no-go for me. I do not have time to futz with these bugs. I have a couple of hours here and there to play PC games and I am not wasting them on a game, even Early Access, that hasn't figured out how to get UI options working right. There are critical functions, like repairing the ship, that should be OBVIOUS and RIGHT IN YOUR FACE if you've collected the loot for them. Of the 3 hours I've spent playing, an hour was spent trying to navigate the awful user interface. And for that reason, it's a no for me dawg.

Update: After thinking about it, why doesn't that stupid BOT help out with repairs? It can collect Materia and operate the weapons systems, but it can't repair the ship? Come on.

Update after the shader compilation issue was fixed: it's phenomenal.

This game has SO much potential. I really, truly, desperately wanted to enjoy this. But...I hate jumping puzzles in my shooters. And this garbage game seems to have gone off the "oops all jumping puzzles" cliff.

Seriously, WHY do you devs have to ruin your shooters like this? You check SO many boxes and then dash it all upon the rocks of "you know what we should have in this map? lots of jumping and falling to their death and then suddenly teleporting back to someplace near where they died...". Talk about breaking the illusion...why not just teleport to the end of the stupid jumping puzzles?

I love almost every other bit of this game...peak looter shooter. But I'm uninstalling this. Again. Because of the stupid jumping puzzles.

Walking simulator. Too linear. Too eager to force you into certain playstyles. This is not Skyrim.

"Oh I'm so exhausted from waving this wand! Good thing this lizard dropped a cucumber. Just what I was hoping for. Well, I better get to more walking."

Waste of time. Back to Skyrim.

Horrible balance. Abysmal matchmaking. Full of trapping and stuns and 'sorry I win because...'. Got a good team that works together? Great! Fun to play, despite the terrible design decisions and weaknesses of your chosen class. Got a random pug and ranging from level 7 to level 30 and gearing all over the place? Have fun getting curb stomped.

And can we talk about balance? FatShark, why bother with a user-selectable difficulty rating when you're just going to let the random number generator determine it anyway?

Boring walking simulator. Beautiful. But boring. I just wanted to build a character and run some fun stealth action missions. How can you not get this right? I've spent the first 4 hours walking and talking to NPCs. Boring. Boring. Boring. 3-4 minutes of action. Whatever. That ratio is not fun for me.

Edit: I tried again. I tried to play it the way the game MAKES you play. It's awful. It's just a bunch of button mashing. This was a horrible experience and not fun in my opinion. I wanted to be able to play my CLASS, with its STRENGTHS, not get constantly pulled into a melee. The only way this game wants you to play is button mashing. Keep clicking that right mouse button and get ready for C and Space Bar. The game is dog water.

If you like melee button mashing, over-the-shoulder POV click-fest where you time button presses to counter and dodge, and just generally like a whole lot of chaotic gore (so much that you can't really make out what's happening but gosh it sure is blood-soaked!), then you would love this game.

I don't care for it. I was hoping this could be played as a 3rd person shooter. The classes, having stealth, having ranged weapons, having jump packs, these really seemed to be a good fit for me. It is not.

I really wanted to enjoy this. I bought this in the hopes that my son and I could play together. I tried 3 different classes and utterly failed at all of them. I probably didn't spend enough time to learn to play, but any game that punishes the player for playing their class, in my opinion, is fundamentally broken. If I don't want to play a chaotic melee button smasher, why does Space Marine 2 force me to play that way?

Not fun. Awful controls. Stun locks from bosses. FWIW, I have a very limited time to play games and when I do, I want to feel heroic. I don't want to get stun locked by smoke from an enemy I can't see and then papercut by minions. Spent half the time yelling at the screen and rest walking around this walking simulator. Hated it.

Pay to win garbage. Played 30 games with a Necron deck. Modified as I went, careful to choose combos that would pay off if the right cards came up. Can't make it happen. Lost 25 out of 30 and nothing really to show for it. At least I didn't waste money on this garbage game. And yes, maybe I just need to learn to play, but I gave it enough time to learn and it's just not fun for me. There's this one in a hundred chance that some cool interaction happens but otherwise it's just watching my troops get wiped out and my leader get hammered by every other faction.

I'll go back to playing the tabletop game. This Disney Lorcana wanna be is not for me.