Reviews by D S3

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Platinum Edition
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4X city builder

The 6th iteration of Civilzation is now a turn based strategy game slash city builder. While in the previous games you built a city on a single tile, in Civ 6 you build the city around the first tile. First the districts, then buildings, wonders and whatnot within the appropriate districts. This means you can't just build everything willy-nilly, you have to make some tough decisions, but with a bit of experience it allows you to build some ridiculously powerful setups. Especially with the governors and policy cards (and secret societies, and heroes, and...).

There are some other changes, like the splitting of the tech tree into technology and civics, or now you can combine the same combat units to make them stronger, provided you have the technology, but none as big as the district system.

The rest is similar to the previous games: many different civs, each with multiple avenues to victory, and the expansions add a little extra on top of that (apocalypse mode with overtuned disasters, secret societies, corporations, etc). The new art direction fits perfectly, and each civ having their own theme that changes throughout the eras is a nice touch.

All in all it's a worthy addition to the series, a great game that allows for hundreds of hours of entertainment.

by D S3, Hungary - Mar 22nd 2024
Warhammer® 40,000™: Mechanicus
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Atmospheric tactics game

In WH40k: Mechanicus you command a cohort of the Adeptus Mechanicus, your job is to investigate a Necron planet, and of course to deal with the threats.

The combat takes place on procedurally generated maps, it's kind of like XCOM, but with less RNG. You have your tech priests and their auxiliaries, basically use the latter the soak up damage and the former to shoot everything that moves. You can go melee, but the ranged options are just far-far superior. It can get a little easy (and samey) in later parts of the game.

Before you get to the combat you explore the necron tombs, chose your adventure style. The tricky part is the more you explore (and the longer the fights take), the faster the planet "wakes up", meaning the mission you are on and all subsequent ones will get harder. But the more you explore the more likely you'll have better equipment, and that makes your job easier. It's easy enough to manage.

On the campaign layer you advance the story, upgrade your stuff, and pick your next mission. You'll get options from several individuals, one wants you to explore and catalogue stuff in the tombs, the other to burn down everything, another wants you to get resources, yet another to help your pinned down troops. Their musings are hilarious.

Mechanicus oozes atmosphere. The writing, the visuals, the music, the "voice acting" of the high priests, all the little details show that a great care went into making this game. If you liked XCOM you will probably enjoy this one too.

by D S3, Hungary - Mar 20th 2024
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
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Gorgeous game with amazing music

Ori and the Blind Forest plays like a more linear metroidvania, you unlock new areas and abilites as you progress, and you can return to previous areas if you want. There are the usual skills, dash, douple jump, climb, and also stuff like bash, that allows you to launch yourself (well, Ori) off of lamps, or even enemies and projectiles, which is a very fun way to move around.

Ori is a great platformer with amazing soundtrack and visuals, and a story that will get you tearing up. Just like the difficulty spikes going from normal gameplay to the boss encounters will.

by D S3, Hungary - Mar 20th 2024
ELDEN RING
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Elden Ring

Elden Ring is Dark Souls 4: The Open World in everything but name. It's a bit closer to DS2 than to DS3, though the stamina bar might as well not exist here either.

The open world itself is nice, early to mid game is amazing, but the late game drags on just a little bit longer than it should. (Though going through every nook and cranny probably didn't help.) It has a lot of content, but there are quite a few reskinned and/or copypasted bosses in the open world, in the side quests, and even in the main dungeons (think Asylum/Stray Demon, Smelter/Blue Smelter Demon, etc). The main bosses are generally well done, and I quite liked the gimmick bosses too, most were great spectacles, if a bit easy. Mounted combat is a hit or miss with melee weapons, like literally, and continuous circle-strafing with ranged, makes some OW encounters easy to cheese.

All in all it's a great game, well worth the price.

by D S3, Hungary - Jan 5th 2023
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