Recent reviews by Black Baron

Devs decided that having fun isn't allowed, and decided to blanket nerf upgrades for most mage or crit builds with the 1.1 patch. And by Nerf, i mean essentially nuke, as it removes all stat increases for equipment for those builds when you upgrade equipment. Changing the balance of your game this dramatically AFTER your release 1.0 just feels lame and scummy.

Keep in mind, the devs decided THIS was a better path than optimization and bug fixes...

Really great game, pretty light on the 'RPG' mechanics, but a blast to play as long as you don't get filtered by the parry mechanic.

A very good, faithful, remake of a classic game.

A fun deck builder thats easy to sink many hours into. Only real downside is it gets a bit repetitive with the early battles in a run to build for taking on the area bosses.

After a few goes with this game i can say that its really just not very fun with how its tuned right now. They have somehow managed to frontload all difficulty into the very beginning of a run, either you take off with good modifiers or you don't. But the worst part is it doesn't really feel like i can make much of a choice during the game. There is only one right way to place or upgrade building depending on your luck with artifacts, which really takes the entire point of playing the damn game away. If i have to start every and end every mission doing the EXACT same placement/ replacement of buildings and only mix things up because i got a decent artifact every once in a while thats not very fun, it might as well be autopilot.

Its a real shame, because the art direction and feel of the game are great, but it just feels so constricted of player agency that its suffocating.

Most of the content here is a big improvement over the base game, missions are longer and more complex, as well as the addition of new enemies that require more diverse strategies to kill than just spam bullets.

This is an easy recommendation if you liked the base game.

Overall a pretty fun game that has a pretty dynamic balance to combat and progression. Only cons i can think of is that some of the translations are a little spotty. Also some helpful stats aren't visible on some items/weapons when you equip attachments. Would be really nice to see every affected stat or effect proc rate on an item.

Fun Game that can be punishing, its fun to sink hours into learning the best strategies to clear levels.

Hotfixes made the game dramatically easier however, especially the reduced enemy range. On planet surfaces or long hall ways the player has a dramatic advantage over the AI as they won't engage from too far away, even with rifles.

Fire and sawblades need a bit of balance, flamethrowers are either instant death or a joke depending on your character/Armor, but there is not really a way to strike a balance between as only one armor set in the early game has ANY fire resist so you are pretty much stuck running impactor. I think this can be mitigated by adding 1 pt of fire and cold resist to a couple of the other armors mitigate feeling too locked in one armor. (until you get access to the carnage armor set with even more flame resist).

Bartering is VERY effective early game for building your armory, especially if you unlock a chip that produces moderate value items in your ship that a corp with item chips needs. I peddled a few dozen items of morphine and food on mars and came out with some item chips and a metric ♥♥♥♥ ton of good weapons, armor, backpacks, and rigs.

Overall, i highly recommend the game, hours of great fun that can get your blood pumping.

Was a fairly fun fighting game that felt the need to go back and censor itself for no reason.

Worked fine the first few days, the game is really fun but now EAC keeps saying its not installed and makes me unable to play. Going to request a refund since it won't let me play anymore.