Grotesque Tactics: Evil Heroes ($20 Parody RPG)

[theshadowcult]

Found this on steam. It's a tactics type RPG for PC... i don't actually think this game is anything special, but seeing as there are so few...

http://store.steampowered.com/app/46450/

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a Review.

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The ten hour play length is very disappointing, and i think the art looks crap, but the game still looks like fun, and it's only 16 if you buy it now.

[Crawdaddy79]

I've always held an appreciation for odd-ball games that no one has heard of. I'll have to keep this one in the back of my mind as my determination to finish Morrowind wavers - and then there's Fallout: New Vegas... yeah I'll probably forget about this one.

[theshadowcult]

It's actually pretty goode. It's not worth the asking price, but any strategy fan should definitely pick this up when it hits 10 dollars. It's one of those games where it does some things well and some things badly, but overall it's a goode game.

It seems to have some weird game design choices though, like the camera is tethered and not directly controlled, so after you move the camera it keeps moving like an air balloon tethered to the ground.

It also has a large open world, but you never get to explore it. What i mean is, it's a fully open world like Sacred or Gothic, but you are limited to fenced off fight areas, and when you want to move to the next one, you have to talk to one of your party members... there aren't even any load screens apart from the initial map load, so you teleport from town to arena and back again... even though when you look down the mountain side from the first town, you can clearly see all the monsters and treasures you have not picked up yet, and the areas you have been are cleared, and the chest lying open... it is so strange, why would they go to the trouble of making a seamless open world, but then not let you actually use it?

Don't let that fool you though, that review above is pretty spot on, it has some bad flaws but it is a goode game.

[KAC]

Hey Australian guy, there is no "e" in good.

[theshadowcult]

Hey Pakistani guy, an Ass is a Donkey, the term for buttocks is spelt "Arse".

[KAC]

Hey Pakistani guy, an Ass is a Donkey, the term for buttocks is spelt "Arse".

Haha, no!

ass2    /æs/ Show Spelled
[as] Show IPA

–noun Vulgar .
1. the buttocks.
2. the rectum.
3. Slang . sexual intercourse.

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Origin:
bef. 1000; var of arse, with loss of r before s, as in passel, cuss, etc.; ME ars, er ( e ) s, OE ærs, ears; c. OFris ers, D aars, ON, MLG, OS, OHG ars (G Arsch ), Gk órrhos, Armenian or̄kh, Hittite arras; akin to Gk ourā́, OIr err tail

[theshadowcult]

I have rapidly changed my opinion of this game, i can no longer recommend it to anyone, for any reason other than novelty...

I knew it was supposed to be a parody going in, and i though that would be goode, however while a parody made out of love or for the sake of humour can be exceptional fun. It is, after playing most of this game, now obvious to me that this is a parody made out of hate

After almost completing it, it feels like this game was put together for the sole purpose of aggravating the player, it is riddled with every mistake and bug you have ever seen in any of the old grid based strategy games... It even has features placed into the game that ONLY serve to aggravate the player further.

Examples: The game auto saves before any event or boss fight, until near the end when you fight a boss who can one hit kill you and the game decides without warning to not auto save once after the begining of the map! {EDIT} Which wouldn't be a problem as if your characters die you can bring them back to life in the temple in town. However you have two characters who if die it is instant game over{/EDIT}

Or when you are not in combat, the your characters still move along the grid, but you only control the main hero, and as the other characters don't move one to one, this often means your squishy characters will end up INFRONT of you melee champs, which is even worse when your on a two grid wide path... {EDIT} To clarify this, your characters keep moving, and will walk infront of your main hero after you have stopped moving him{/EDIT}

Another is, in games like FF and the like where the heroes get special moves that activate after doing or taking set amounts of damage. In this game the heores have "Obsessions" Which apart from the main hero are all negatives. The main hero Drake, shouts out an Inspiring Speach that boosts attack damage of allies nearby, but after a few turns lowers Drake's attack for a couple turns, ok, that sounds goode, it works. Now lets look at some others.

The rouge teleports away from an enemy, blind EVERYONE within range, and because you have to group your guys together to stop the enemy killing your weaker units this often only leaves free space BEHIND the enemy... meaning he teleports behind an enemy and gets surrounded and killed, after blinding all your melee units...

Or Holy Avatar, the "Hero" spoof champ. Who puts everybody within a 5 by 5 range to sleep with his tall tales, often meaning you only have one or two guys who can even act for the next few turns while the enemy ranged units who ALL have a longer range then your archers pepper you with out worry.

So far after 10 hours (i want to finish this), the only really goode part of the game is the simple economy, in which equipment is bought and sold for cost, but enemies don't drop gold, so you have to carefully manage your money, when spending on potions/healing, because there is only a limited amount. Surprisingly this actually works well!

[Crawdaddy79]

I've always held an appreciation for odd-ball games that no one has heard of. I'll have to keep this one in the back of my mind as my determination to finish Morrowind wavers - and then there's Fallout: New Vegas... yeah I'll probably forget about this one.

And forget about it I did. In fact, I don't even remember posting this post, but found it in a search for threads about Grotesque (which I bought in an Indie bundle for pennies on the dollar).

I agree with all of the complaints about this game. It's cumbersome, frustrating, and even the dialogue is painful to click through in its attempts to be funny but I feel like I'm missing the humor. Like the jokes were made by people with autism.

I'm determined to finish it. I don't understand why. Found all the maidens and it seems I'm past the halfway point. Maybe I'll quit when I get closer to the end.

[GanjaStar]

its the bad translation from german that ruins the jokes.