Review of v0.154...
3 1/2 Stars
I knew nothing about this game going into it other than I liked the artwork in the previews. The story is okay so far. Basically a medieval Venom.
The writing is very good. I only noticed a few typos. However there are massive lore dumps. You will easily spend ten minutes reading a conversation with a character talking about the lore of the game. I appreciate the attention to detail to wanting to give the game a rich backstory, but it would have been better to save the lore dumps for codex entries to the player can read up on it when they want to.
Like I said I really like the art. However there are inconsistencies when the characters are portrayed in different situations. The art is still good, but sometimes they look like completely different characters. And apparently there is only one tit size in this world and that's fantasy large. Sigh.
The battles are repetitive and get old fast. Aside from the mandatory battles you will have to do at least 1 to 3 battles while travelling from one place to another, and you will travel a lot.
I'm not familiar with the development of this game, but from what I've read in other reviews they've been working on it for 2+ years and this is as far as they've gotten with the more recent updates being underwhelming. I'm willing to give them a little slack because I know creating art like this takes time, but there are only five locations right now and I think ten more planned on the map. If it took them this long to get this far I'm not hopeful for the game to be completed.
And also apparently every new version breaks your save making you have to playing from the beginning every time. There is no reason to have this problem.
For all it's faults I did like the game, but like I said if they've only gotten this far in over two years and with all the other areas they seem to have planned I wouldn't be surprised if they abandon Parasite Black. I hope they don't, but I think their reach is exceeding their grasp.
3 1/2 Stars
I knew nothing about this game going into it other than I liked the artwork in the previews. The story is okay so far. Basically a medieval Venom.
The writing is very good. I only noticed a few typos. However there are massive lore dumps. You will easily spend ten minutes reading a conversation with a character talking about the lore of the game. I appreciate the attention to detail to wanting to give the game a rich backstory, but it would have been better to save the lore dumps for codex entries to the player can read up on it when they want to.
Like I said I really like the art. However there are inconsistencies when the characters are portrayed in different situations. The art is still good, but sometimes they look like completely different characters. And apparently there is only one tit size in this world and that's fantasy large. Sigh.
The battles are repetitive and get old fast. Aside from the mandatory battles you will have to do at least 1 to 3 battles while travelling from one place to another, and you will travel a lot.
I'm not familiar with the development of this game, but from what I've read in other reviews they've been working on it for 2+ years and this is as far as they've gotten with the more recent updates being underwhelming. I'm willing to give them a little slack because I know creating art like this takes time, but there are only five locations right now and I think ten more planned on the map. If it took them this long to get this far I'm not hopeful for the game to be completed.
And also apparently every new version breaks your save making you have to playing from the beginning every time. There is no reason to have this problem.
For all it's faults I did like the game, but like I said if they've only gotten this far in over two years and with all the other areas they seem to have planned I wouldn't be surprised if they abandon Parasite Black. I hope they don't, but I think their reach is exceeding their grasp.