Recent reviews by Blackshell

D&D for people who have no friends. Top notch.

Jokes aside, surprisingly flexible world and gameplay, great music, great atmosphere, great worldbuilding. Main story is just okay, and main playable characters are a mixed bag, but if you immerse yourself beyond that, it's an amazing game.

Like a battle royale but without the looting and running around bored nonsense. Good shooty-tooty skills are enormously important, only second to tactical planning and execution. Fully destructible environment is truly awesome and gives already complex game mechanics a huge whole new angle.

Downside: crashes a fair bit (about once per 6 hours of play time), and has no capability to re-enter the match when it happens. The polish feels a little under AAA game, but definitely much more than I'd expect from a small studio like this.

8.5/10, definitely try it -- especially since it's F2P!

The bulwark of your denial is giving way.

Play out your civil engineering and local politics dreams that could never be realized in real life!

It is what it says on the cover: a remaster of the trilogy. Tons of improvements, but some flaws still live on. Perfect for re-experiencing the trilogy's magic, or even experiencing it for the first time.

Blade Symphony promises a fun deep sword combat game, and instead delivers:

- An extremely poor tutorial that tosses you into a bunch of situations without fully explaining them or your controls, giving incomplete instructions, and humiliating you with "simple" stuff that is too hard to do.
- Terrible, illogical naming and documentation. Why does "block" not block on half the swords, and which swords do what? What in the name of all that is good is a "string" and why do I care?
- Poor, laggy control scheme. Expected better out of a game where timing is everything.
- Bad clipboxes
- Bad event detection (parry happening well after one player finished swinging, swings going through one another)

It feels like an extremely gimmicky game to be played only by its devs, or the few people determined enough to find out all the quirks making gameplay difficult. For the rest of us, it's an experiment in futile button mashing hoping you get the ever so elusive "timing" right. Count this sword hobbyist and gamer disappointed in this utter waste of money (even at its sale price)