Recent reviews by Dr Ravioli

4.4 hours in and just finished Ju Hee's route, was pretty good

As much as I love this game, I can't recommend something that causes a full system crash half the time when loading into an area.

I played rebellion as a kid and tbh I didn't understand a single thing. Got into stellaris as an adult, but don't really play it much because the games take too long. I wish I revisited the original, this is an excellent RTS and the devs have managed to not screw it up and even made a number of improvements.

On a side note, I don't really dig the half baked AI generated look to everything. I guess if you don't really work with AI it might look fine, but I use AI everyday and I just can't unsee it lol. Luckily only like 0.1% of the game is spent looking at portraits, and I can forgive the tech icons because it's not as freaky as looking at the smooth skinned weirdos.

Edit again: Extremely disappointing. The devs hate their playerbase. Avoid bamco games at all cost, especially anything balanced by Nakatsu or made in collaboration with Murray.

Edit: This game is infested with cheaters. Avoid it. I will continue to play because I hate myself, but I wouldn't try to get into a game so poorly managed as this one if I wasn't already invested in it.

I'll still recommend this game because at the end of the day the gameplay is insanely good, but the balance team make dumb decisions and corporate plagues the game with mtx. I'm in no way against mtx, but the way they've done it here is literally the worst implementation I have ever seen. The battlepass doesn't include the DLC character and is full of recycled garbage. It's embarrassing, but it's state honestly makes me think that the tekken devs did all they could to prevent adding it to the game but the failure of Bandai's Blue Protocol compelled Bandai to put their foot down forcing them to add it. At least that's what I hope lol, because otherwise there's no excuse for how awful the battlepass and mtx options are. Oh, also lets not forget the idiocy of the excel spreadsheet for banning pluggers instead of just giving them a loss. Baffling decisions made by the devs honestly make me question how they even managed to make a good game in the first place.

With the Medieval Kingdoms mod this game is mint

Game is in a reasonable state, plenty of viable decks to compete with

Masterpiece of a game. Hard to go back to older titles when this game does nearly everything right.

Feels like many steps backwards from 3K and even older games. The world feels pretty empty. The outposts are more annoying than anything. It's a lot like Attila and older TW titles, but the only thing that it does any better than them is graphics. Still fun enough to play, wish there was a mediocre option because that's what it is. I hate the UI though, it's like they copied AoE4's UI and ignored all of the negative feedback that game got for it's UI. 3K's UI and QoL features are very intuitive, really wish they improved upon it rather than starting from scratch again. Haven't played WH because fantasy RTS doesn't interest me, but from what I've seen they are worlds apart from this game in every aspect aside from maybe graphics. I did get really awful performance when I was sieging a capital city, idk what happened because it continued after the battle so maybe a memory leak or something but it was literally unplayable even after dropping all the settings to low from ultra.

It's fun. Loading screens aside, I enjoy pretty much all aspects of the game. With mods this'll easily go from a 7.5/10 to a 10/10 game.

Pretty good game, the game AI (not the generator) is pretty dumb though. Wish the diplomacy options were more than the average civ game, but oh well. Maybe in the future. The species creation thing is really cool, being able to use any video or picture you want is fun, and the AI generated filler text spares you the pain of fleshing things out. Looking forward to the future.