Recent reviews by howi

I played this game when it was still in beta ~15 years ago.
They changed engine meantime, graphically it is better,

And still after so many years there is no proper scalling option in menu? This is literally joke.
I installed to check if it is better then it was 10 years ago, it is not.

Comparing to Mad Games Tycoon This game feels just bad.

I thought I know what I am buing, but interface is so lacking that it is hard to play it. I struggled to find information I needed for next decision, and with such game that is really bad.

This DLc is totally unbalanced!!!

I Lost just bc 5% of population was not vaccinated (not even sick), and I did not click to vaccinate on community before game over (which is UI painfull when you agree to vaccinate only higest population, and you need to look each of them)? Like what unreasonable it is for fail, when you lose with 95% of people healthy and vaccinated!!!
Not to tell that you need to complitly forget about any new fraction system, because there is no resources/time to build anything for them.
And I am on lowest diffculty, WTF is this balance? I cannot imagine how insane is to level it up by even one level...

And tried again, and now I failed in moment I gave last needed vaccines... Dont buy it now, it is bugged.

Even that I had fun playing, some solutions are too teribble.
1 Grind. Dont mind as this is core of the game, but come on... You need to go 4-5 times to same gate set on proper level to get mats you need (you get 1 of item only!!! ). And that is for everything. You dont get anything you get from lover lvl, so you do over and over same boss. It just boring.
2. You dont feel it is Solo Leveling - you are restricted on number of shadows (leveling os those is pricy, and give almost nothing), any upgrade you do just slighlty makes you better. You dont feel powerfull at all, mostly you feel week.
3. Sending hunters to gates is too much clickology. Fine feature, but terrible designed in execution.
4. Constant need for connection. If your internet will lag, you are screwed. Heppened to me during boss fight. Why you can no do that on the end of fight, but every second during it? I read you working on disabling requirement for constant connection, but even then someone mess up it to begin with.
5. Save points are setup terrible. I was reset to begining just because game didn't acknowledge my parry and took my 3/4 of life, resulting like 4-5 stages of story gate reset. So basicly because of poore design 15 minutes of my game were thrown to trash.

Looks like they wanted to do single player game with co-op missions, but in the end you get too much grind like in mobile/gatcha game it takes from. You should not take such systems 1 to 1, or you want to cover how small amoiunt of gameplay it have with that.

For those interested in how far in story it takes you comparing to anime, half on 2nd season not covered. Nor + or - just informational.

TL;DR wait for promo and for a lot of adjustments, even as a fan of mahwa/anime.

Great solo Action/RPG game, with nice MMo addons.

Update after more time

Ok, so first, the underground is too micromanagement heavy.
I did not find how to easly move resources between, so building anything there is just terrible.

Second, asteroids management of payload is terrible. Everytime it resets to some default, which drive me crazy!!!!

Third, issues other mentioned like homeless people with empty homes, unemployment with existing jobs, train tunel not transfering services, all is there sadly.

If you will disable underground and asteroids, then you have really nice game with some bugs they need to fix.

But then why this relaunched edition even exist? Few new things just dont recompensate for what we got. I hope they will fix all of those before they will go for new dlcs, if not then this game (or rather this edition) is lost.
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I am at 33 sol, and I love it!!!

I played original, one but without all DLCs, so for lower price geting all that was released is great (I did not bought bc of low reviews complaining on bug fest)
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I like cleaner UI, better graphic, performance think is better as well.
New things like laws voting and going slowly to prep your own governance is entertaining.

I agree that those improvements should be free for owners of original one.
And If you already had all DLCs, then it should be given to you for maybe max few bucks top.

But for all knew things, and if you did not have chance to play into DLCs (or game itself), it is really great value.

After all epizodes, I can say it have good writing, good animation, good acting.
It is mostly interactive story with managing team dispatch game + minigames for hacking.
And for me it works perfectly.

Nice game

Even in early access this game is really good.

Only annoying thing is limit of employes (especcially on begining) and little sound stuttering with big amount of visitors.