Lovecraft and pixels. Review m.E.A.T. RPG

Gloomy plot ARPG, saturated with hopelessness and evil. Big world. A lot of loot.

The project is declared for platforms: Windows, Linux.

Our hero is the owner of a small mine. Things are not going very well. For a bribe, the sheriff allows us to use prisoners in the works of “for re -education”. It is cheaper than hiring normal workers. So we are greeted by this world saturated with cynicism and pain.

The gameplay is a research plot ARPG, and with the elements of a diabloid. Enemies are constantly being revived, a varied and often interesting loot falls from them.

After a small but rich training, we will be offered to choose a specialization. I took the arrow. As it turned out later – a good solution. Because they will give a long -range skill that allows remotely and, with a neat game – painless for themselves, to deal with opponents.

The game has a large amount of interesting loot. I really liked the stylization of objects. These are authentic bottles of cloudy glass, dynamite checkers, revolvers and other Khabar characteristic of the North American continent of the middle-cow of the 19th century.

Battles in the game are realized in a peculiar way, but interesting. There is a resource management. The process is simple, but, for example, an extremely effective throw of dynamite into the thick of enemies is not a panacea, t.To. there are few checkers and they should be spent wisely. The same applies to cartridges. Shooting some tramp by spending a dozen bullets is a rather luxurious pleasure. From him, at best, a couple of charges will fall.

You can, of course, rush into the hand -to -hand person, but this does not roll with everyone – some adversaries (there may be a whole detachment) to the hero from a pair of successful shots. Some bear also “takes away” from several strokes.

In general, the hero is willingly, soundly: rats, dogs, horses, snakes, spiders, bats, wolves, gries, moose, Indians and this is not a complete list. Togo and look rush into the attack of evil patrolmen on the street. The danger comes from everywhere, and the hero is not Superman and this is cool creating the atmosphere.

The character is pumped by using this or that weapon. If we operate in hand -to -handmade, the attack will grow. If we shoot, accuracy is growing. Everything is good and logical.

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In the game you can find towns, camps of Indians, caves, multi -storey buildings, hidden locations and all this is well worked out and arranged.

I want to note extremely convenient management with a good word. It is mastered on the fly.

Technical problem

Almost until the last moment I have not seen a single serious minus in the game. But one still overtook me and I want to tell you about him.

Saves are unstable. Having played for four hours in a row, fingering good things, leggings, cartridges – kept the game. And then switched the window to find a new video on YouTube. And then distracted something and turned off the game by closing the window. All my successes were burnt in blue flame. There were saves from the previous launch of the game. Say that it was upset – it’s too soft. In general, you need to persist and get out of the game only in a regular way.

Consider the pros and cons of the game, let us summarize.

+ Very atmospheric dangerous, gloomy world.

+ Pixel but pretty graphics.

+ Great musical and sound accompaniment.

+ Perfectly designed multi -level, complex locations.

+ A lot of interesting Luta. Good resource management.

+ Cool battles, many evil enemies, different battle styles.

– Unstable conservations. You can easily constrict a few hours of the game.

– Sometimes skill casts further than you can see on the screen. Unknown. Sometimes this leads to incomingal, which, in theory, should not have been.

– There is no Russian language. Very small minus, t.To. This is a pure indie, the initial-medium knowledge of English is enough.

The conclusions are objective

Good game both in the plot plan and as an adventure-study. It is interesting to study the world and its secrets. A mass of enemies. A lot of content. You need to ensure that the conservation does not break.

The conclusions are subjective

I was unlucky to read the works of Lovecraft’s works in an unsuccessful translation. At least so knowledgeable people said. Since then, everything, at least by some side by Lovecraft, causes antipathy and boredom. But having played this game, I can say – I would like Lovecraft’s work to be exactly as shown in this game. A non -standard, extensive story. A sense of danger, which ultimately becomes constant, real hopelessness and aggression of the world, a bunch of small details that you have to think of yourself, secrets. I liked it very much. If it were not for the broken preservations that were pretty chopped up by playing experience, it would be just wonderful.

PS: probably did not reveal all aspects, could miss something. I will be glad to supplement/adjust the review or answer questions in the course of communication in the comments.