The game is VERY combat-heavy, which was a disappointment. There's only one way in, and it's stealing a janitor's uniform. Unlike a real RPG, where you have unlimited possibilities, here we are bound by the game's design. Unfortunately, while the game seems built like a PnP RPG, it doesn't operate like one. Once I figured that out all the pieces fell into place. This is why it was flowing strangely to me. Each "chunk" I felt was one night of gaming for a pen and paper gaming group. As in, created as if it were ran as a PEN AND PAPER adventure. Then it dawned on me: Dead Man's Trigger is a Shadowrun adventure. It seemed broken up into discreet chunks, and the story didn't seem to be flowing in a manner in which I could grasp. The campaign, Dead Man's Trigger, threw me for a loop. I'll also add that I've been a big fan of the universe for a long time. Here's the basics: Shadowrun is an old pen and paper RPG. Shadowrun Returns is a competent tactics RPG with a decent pack-in campaign, an awful saving mechanic, and endless possibilities. SuperFieroStatus's review of Shadowrun Returns *
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Oh there's also quite a bit of mods for it too that are interesting over at Nexus sites. It's nowhere near as in depth or mechanically bewildering like hardcore games like Temple of Elemental Evil but shares some elements in the module like approach to story progression. However, the setting is great, the feeling is good, the way the game is made suites these things, and the main story is pretty good, has a nice twist. Certain sections also feel a bit 'contrved' too. The balance feels a little off too (some classes are really hard, like adept, some are easy, like rigger) In some places the dialogue feels a little sparse. I played the game early, it's probably been improved, but in some spots it feels soft. You'll progress through main acts, which are adventure/puzzle like sequences then branch off into combat or hacking sequences.Īs much as I liked it, there are some drawbacks. You feel like you are moving through a module act by act. This suites the game well in how it feels. Isometric scenes that are reminiscent of black isle era. (It's cultural significant in the time period it was written and has a creative twist to RPGs of the day) This reboot really brings a lot of things together nicely, it's satisfying to play if you like that kind of dialogue focused game with lots of reading.įirst, SR has a nice slick graphic style. I'd never played the PnP but have a sourcebook and rulebook for it (i am weird, i collect such things) I like the world and what it portrays. I went into SR not really knowing what to expect. The descriptions here are so beautifully written from the point of view of a runner, that you really do feel like your infiltrating a corporate world you despise.Ī lot of love went into this, and I enjoyed it! Less 0 The descriptions here are … MoreĪs a janitor they make you clean up all the blood and gore you left last night, you see what corporate drones take the fall for all of the fallout you caused. So you stay in the building overnight and next day you emerge as a janitor to see if you can social engineer your way to the safe.Īs a janitor they make you clean up all the blood and gore you left last night, you see what corporate drones take the fall for all of the fallout you caused. You pull it off, but you can't get the payload. The game does a great job of conveying what a suicide run this is. My favorite part of the game has you make a full-frontal run on a big corporation. I ended up selecting my favorites quite often, making them feel like my team (My man Levi! <3) I like that you could assemble your own team for a lot of the missions. The intro's to every scene and the dialogues in the scenes were solid and gave off a great Shadowrun feel. It took me half of the game to figure out there was an Overwatch function, but after that you could almost hear the symphonic music as the bodies hit the floor.īut what really hooked me in was the clever and evocative writing. Like most tactical RPG's this is basically one big feast of cover-based slaughter. Happily so, because there is a lot of it. Shadowrun returns is a tactical RPG with an isometric view and a nice smooth engine behind it.
Why? Because it turned out to be quite neat. So, like a corporate tool I blew about 60 bucks in the Steam Sale, and then spent the next months playing the game I got for free.
Around the time of the Steam Summer Sales, Humble Bundle gave away Shadowrun Returns for free.
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