Flowstone Saga

Хорошая игра для очень узкой аудитории: для людей, которые хотят играть в «Тетрис» на очки, но зачем-то под видом ролевой игры. Честно признаюсь, я явно не тот, на кого Flowstone Saga рассчитана: сыграв несколько сотен партий я всё же задумался, как бы смешно это ни звучало в контексте видео игр и потраченного времени, а не заняться ли чем-нибудь более полезным, нежели укладывание фигурок стройными рядами — проходить дальше не буду. Если всё же захотите попробовать, то учтите, что тут в среднем раз секунд в пятнадцать начинается новая партия по уплотнению полимино.

It is a good game, maybe some problem with pacing being slow, but now it is horribly bugged to the point of impossibility to finish playthrough. There was a lot of minor bugs, but when after defeat at last boss I was suddenly thrown on the world map, and then boss cowardly removed the portal leading to location where he waited, that was it, that game locked me out. Save reload didn't help either, it's a hardlock. Do not recommend until thouroughly patched.

I wish I could recommend this game, it has a lot of great ideas, charm, a fantastic soundtrack, but the overall experience is being held back by some major flaws. I absolutely loved the game in the first hour or two and thought I had found a true hidden gem, only for my experience to get worst and worst as the game goes on. The battle system is great at first, until you realize a few hours in that there's not much point in thinking and caring about most mechanics, just clearing lines as fast as possible does the trick, even on hardcore. There is a class system but class levels caps off really fast and there's no point in switching to different classes, so that gets stale very fast too. After a few hours in, you'll pretty much be doing the same thing in loop for the rest of the game. The overall gameplay loop is also repetitive and pointless. There is a story, but you visit most of the dungeons because some villager asks you to fetch some item in it, and solving that fetch quest is required to progress the story. Would have been nice for the game to feel like an actual rpg adventure, but it simply doesn't. And speaking of the story, it's not great, and it gets in the way of gameplay with some terrible pacing. From the midgame onwards, there will be a few moments where you'll be spending 20-30minutes in cutscenes without any gameplay aside from some small tetris puzzles. Everyone keeps yapping but the writing is mid and the story doesn't actually progress much. The game also has bugs and softlocks. I mostly had issues in the later chapters, my game got softlocked during a fight and I had to restart the game, and then again during a cutscene load. I have seen reports of other similar bugs, so I think it deserves to be mentioned.