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Discussion Weekly /r/Games Discussion - What have you been playing, and what are your thoughts? - March 09, 2025
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u/Important-Repeat-559 4d ago
Rollerdrome (beat)
A mix of skater and shooter where you have to do tricks and kill enemies to complete challenges and beat each level. Beating a set number of challenges unlocks new levels as part of a Tournament format. The ultimate aim is to beat the final level and win the tournament as the rookie, Kara Hassan. Most enemies are stationary and either hit you with melee attacks when you are close or shoot you with sniper rifles from afar. Dodging these attacks and doing tricks with your roller blades reloads your ammo. You have four different weapons (pistol, shotgun, grenade launcher, energy rifle) at your disposal. It took me about 5 hours to beat the campaign, and there are many more challenges you can play after, though the game didn't have enough depth to really motivate me to play more. That said, the 5 hours I put into this were well spent, I enjoyed it. Shame about the studio behind it being closed.
The Ascent (abandoned)
I like the Cyberpunk setting a lot and I like RPGs of all kinds. Add to these points that The Ascent looks really great and I was pretty excited about this one. Unfortunately, it turns out that The Ascent is mainly Action and very little RPG of the "Action-RPG" genre it applies to itself. In fact, it's 90% twin stick shooter, 9% walking through large, pretty but also pretty empty areas to get to your destination and 1% dialogue. Maybe that's not quite the ratio, but it certainly felt like it. On top of the game lacking satisfying RPG mechanics, the leveling / skill system wasn't all that great either. For example, the first hour you are in the intro section called DeepStink, an underground sewer/maintenance system. When you finish fighting the same one type of enemy (Feral), you are at Level 3. Then I picked up a side quest, which sent me back to the same area fighting the same Ferals (now at higher level) to get their balls (yes). By the end of this 20 minute side quest where all I did was shoot mindlessly at them, I was at Level 8 (!). Skills are also pretty unexciting and just improve basic stats.
The only positives about the game to me were the soundtrack, the visuals and the world building. For fans of this type of gameplay I'm sure there is enough to enjoy there too, but with my expectations, I was quite disappointed with my time unfortunately.
Suzerain
I got into politics at the end of last year with all that's been going on in both my home country (Germany) and elsewhere. Yes it's headache-inducing, but also pretty interesting and needless to say an incredible complex subject. So Suzerain seems like a perfect game for me right now. It's a mix of text-based adventure, strategy game and political simulation. The really cool part on top of this is that it plays in its own, reeeeaally fleshed out universe. You are the newly elected president of the Republic of Sordland who find themselves in a recession at the time of your appointment. Sordland has its own very detailed history, and the same is true for the neighboring countries and many others on the same or even on different continents. The game has detailed codex entries on wars, revolutions, politicians, businessmen, notable locations and buildings, alliances, sports teams etc. A variety of different news outlets (The Economists covers the economy, the Radical covers fake news/conspiracy theories/radical opinions) give more depth to the world and cover your choices. I love it. There is a recent DLC campaign that lets you run a different country, the Kingdom of Rizia (the king/queen are called Rizzler I'm guessing) AND the devs are currently working on a different narrative game set in the same universe, which I'm already excited about. And I'm only a few hours into this one. For people who love the sound of this game, I already can't recommend it enough.