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Nobody saves the world was a little disappointing for me. Coming from the Canadian developer Drink Studios, I was enthusiastic about this title after playing their fantastic Guacamole series. As they do with each of their projects, Nobody Saves The World is a new kind for the studio, a Dungeon-Crawler RPG. At a glance, the game is fantastic, with the fantastic artistic style and the fun attitude of the developer. It even comes with some interesting original ideas.
So what is the problem? Nothing really great. But if there are no big bottoms, there are no big high either, just a kind of repercussion meh. Personally, I think that this game was so boring for me: they made a frightful dungeon exploration robot.
The game turns around any1. That's right, it's the name of the protagonist. I think it's a pretty good introduction to the sense of the humor of the game. There are a lot of word games, references and idiot characters.
In fact, there is not a single character who takes himself seriously or who takes the world seriously. What is good, all games do not need to be serious, but I have always found it a bad excuse for a bad narration. A story that does not take seriously could mean that the story is superficial and not really worth talking about it.
Do not hurt it, humorous games can have very good stories. See Undertake for example. The secret always lies in the way the game treats its own history and its frame. Games as UNDERWAY manage to choose a few important moments to make sense with just lights of seriousness to give weight to the whole room without losing its humorous mind.
Is humor good, at least? Not for me. This is another problem with a story that claims that it will have an allergic reaction if it is less than ten feet from another approach than humor. It becomes super predictable and humor is often at its best when it is unexpected. I will not laugh when I fall on the fortieth character with an idiotic facial expression that refers to a video game or says something random. At best, my reaction was: Ha, I understood this joke. Good.
I thought that children would like that maybe that. And of course, they would probably appreciate it more than a half-blazed game critic, but again, I think designed for children is another bad excuse. Many humanistic stories for children have a lot of thought, so much that relives to adulthood can add a new meaning. Not so much with Nobody Saves The World.
There is no interesting booty in this dungeon exploration RPG. You can probably tell my tone that for me, it's a complete disconnection. I mean, maybe it would not ask me any problem if the game had interesting dungeons, but damn, it is the good old slog generated in a procedural way. And you know what it means: they want you to grind. As we all know, the procedural generation is supposed to increase replayability. What should be good, because I like grinding in the Dungeon-Crawlers. That's the goal, right? Yeah, but not when all I'm looking for is gold and levels. No matter what the dungeon you do, everything you get is the same, the number is only increased. Agree, but maybe there's something interesting to spend money? No, unless you find interesting to do 5% physical damage or undergo 5% less physical damage.
And the progression? Unfortunately, it's also a kind of rubbish. Yes, the game has this interesting unlocking system of new forms. They all have unique capabilities and attributes in which you can switch on the fly. The problem is that it's boring again.
The unlocking process is so complicated because when you get a new form for the first time, they are given to you without any other skill being unlocked. You only have one basic attack to a single button until you have finished more quests in this form. When you end up level and unlock a new form, rather than being excited, you hate it because you finally unlocked capabilities for your current form, but rather than playing with its time to start playing again Something with a single button again. This game just wants you to grind.
The big cherry on the cake is that, since there are no interesting upgrades and no element at all, there are no combinations or friendly constructions that you can do. There are some synergies here and there, but nothing to really reward smart players, nothing to break the game. And yes, I believe deeply that breaking the game is one of the biggest joys of dungeon exploration robots and, to a lesser extent, RPGs as a whole. At the very least, RPGs should offer creativity and expression, which is missing from this game.
It may sound hard, but no one saves the world really throwing all my black beasts into a barrel and gave him a nice layer of paint. To give this game some accessories however, the cooperation is fun for a little while and the game is played well. The paint layer is, without lying, a beautiful artistic style. It's just that the grind is really zero, and it makes you die of The Intro Dungeon. Oh yes, I was supposed to talk about positive points. The best thing about this game is probably that it has a very long potential game time, and if you have a child or an occasional friend with whom you want to relax and hit monsters, Nobody Saves The World could be a Very good game.
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