Welcome to This Is Not A Review. In these articles we discuss general impressions, ideas and thoughts on any given game, but as the title implies, it’s not a review. Instead, it’s an exercise in offering a quick recommendation (or dismissal) after spending enough time to grasp the ideas and gameplay of a thing without necessarily playing it from A to Z.
The subject of this installment: Dragon Marked for Death, developed by Inti Creates and published by Nighthawk Interactive.
HIGH Dazing an Aragami and the whole squad wrecking its face before it can recover.
LOW The battle system lends itself to plenty of repetition.
WTF Nobody on the ship finds Phym annoying?
HIGH Running over ‘Unbread’ in the overworld.
LOW Occasional Lag.
WTF The multi-stage levels.
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HIGH Quirky humor with a silly tone.
LOW Multiplayer feels tacked on.
WTF Why does bread pudding explode?
HIGH Solid variety in the environments.
LOW Combat in the Creation Engine, without V.A.T.S., and with constant stuttering and lag.
WTF Charging $60 for what feels like alpha access.
HIGH Getting lost in the game.
LOW Actually getting lost in the game.
WTF Murdering adorable creatures to learn alien languages.
HIGH Balanced perfectly between silliness and seriousness.
LOW Some puzzles took hours to figure out.
WTF Just about anything is possible, and I do mean anything.
High It’s a visual novel disguised as a party game.
Low Characters seem to have weird double standards.
WTF The entire game.
HIGH Headshot!
LOW Online multiplayer is a ghost town.
WTF The Windjammers-as-a-fantasy-RPG structure.
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