Morality Games
Arcane
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If you just blaze through the game on Normal not caring about tactics and just let your defeated units heal in camp without giving a shit about perfectionism, this is a fun trilogy.
I did. I got so pissed with Gotcha C&C options where you are presented with 3 random options with no clue on how it could end up and then they kill characters, or do other random shit to them. I kept losing people to this shit, didn't care anymore and tried to kill my whole caravan to get some end game screen after which I planned to uninstall the game (it didn't help that the shit initiative system made me not care about tactical battles as well). But when I got to 0 villagers game continued and kept asking me if I want to do stuff that will sacrifice villagers for other stuff and I kept sacrificing my 0 villagers to get other bonuses LOL. After a while it also got boring and uninstalled that shit game. It was worst shit game I played that year.Yeah, i think none of us ever got to a point where we noticed. it really is a visual novel with combat scenarios though
Come to think of it, I may have hit the nail on the head. Banner Saga took its cue from chess. A turn limit timer that encourages people to make moves quickly and provides bonuses to the least damage to yourself vs. the enemy might have gone a long way to accentuating the positive aspects of the game play. It's best enjoyed as the speed dating version of tactics.
When the game got really boring for me, I started to try to lose on purpose. You can't. Even if you lose all the battles, the game continues. The only game over you can reach is in the final battle.That sucks, and would have really killed my immersion, but how in gods name did you even get to this point?The game had a lot of problems, but what really killed it for me was probably the fake-gameplay caravan management, where events kept appearing even after all your villagers died of hunger (which should have been a game over).
Despite being a mechanically shallow game, I gotta applaud the devs for having the balls to
and the game still continues afterwards.kill off the protagonist if player chooses wrong in chapter 20