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If humanity stopped developing cure because someone lost "authority", the original game would be impossible to lose.

Everything makes you lose the "authority" resource at crazy rate, be it infections, deaths, non-compliance or "panic" (???). Ever imagined a close game where barely any humans survive in Greenland when the cure is finally delivered? Well, that's not happening. You'll lose the game when barely 10% of humanity is infected and 1% is dead. Why? Because you lost "authority".

There's no way to gain "authority" other than buying it with money and freezing its decline twice. Infection and death rate succesfully declined after a lockdown? Who cares, humans still won't trust you. What they'll do is start complaining about the measures that helped them as soon as the situation improves a bit.

Very weirdly balanced game mode. I want humanity to fight for survival, not for approval of doctors. It doesn't make any sense.

Played the base game back on Battle.net. As a purely PVE player, all I can say is that it's a forgettable experience. Graphically the game is pleasing, guns are fun to use, but beyond that everything is mediocre to terrible.

Story is absolute trash: stupid bad guy doing stupid bad things, we're good, let's stop him. Plot doesn't exist. Characters don't exist. When you pick a little part of the story, it kinda makes sense, but it's always completely irrelevant.

Lore? It's even worse. "Big floaty thing flew to us and made everything good, then bad things happened and it stopped working." That's 90% of the lore. How the thing works, what it did, what happened, why happened — not explained a single time. And don't bother googling of god forbid watch lengthy lore videos — this information just doesn't exist, inside the game or outside. I'm not even sure Bungie itself internally has any idea.

Mind you, gameplay is kinda fun. There's a variety of enemies, guns and stuff like that. I did enjoy all that sci-fi pew-pewing. "Classes" are bland, but who cares.

Whatever, according to the recent news, everything I've played is being removed soon to save disk space (lolwut?), so this info is no longer relevant.

Pure awesomeness!

Awesome story, awesome strategy, awesome humor, awesome graphics, awesome music, awesome achievements.

While being a fan of the RTS genre for a long time, I've never played any "dungeon" games before and I fell in love with this game instantly.

The only real problem is that not all units and technologies are viable - units because of being weak and techs because of requiring too much investment.

Okay, it's an April Fools joke. But how about making a single character not 100% disgusting? How about making a single funny joke? Mere talking to them is painful. Ugh.

The only exception is probably the "new girl", but big flashing lights
!!!DATE HER!!! >>> cutie <<< !!!DATE HER!!!
don't make the experience any better.

If you're a fighter newbie who wants to play the game for the plot:

DON'T.

Difficulty is ridiculous even on the lowest difficulty setting. The only moves that get explained through gameplay is jumping, which you never need outside of pointless platforming challenges. Enemies stunlock you, and the only remedy is reading the docs. Combos are 2-frame precise button mashing, so if you're a fighter newbie, you're screwed. Oh, and HP persists between fights with no way to heal and the game auto-saves. Good luck.

And even when you manage to get though all this, the only "story" you get is talking to random unrelated characters, reading their single-line replies and picking up random cosmetics. I didn't expect much, but that's even worse.

The game is kinda pretty though. That's all good that I can say about it.

I've bought 2 games on the release day during my whole life. The first one was StarCraft II almost 10 years ago. Today it's Ori.

I guess that means Ori is the best game for me. Not something I would have expected playing Ori and the Blind Forest several years ago and dying hundreds of times to enemies and environmental hazards only to suffer from the sad story in between all these failures. I loved and hated it, and in the end, love prevailed.

Hello again, Ori, I missed you so much.

P.S. The game is a bit laggy at some points, I hope it gets fixed soon.

Beautiful game, graphical style reminds me of Ori and the Blind Forest. Backgrounds, characters, animations — everything is excellent. The set of moves is simple, inertia is non-existent, but the game really expects players to perfect their skills within these limitations, so expect to die a lot and miss speedrun sections by 50 milliseconds. Story... exists, separate from gameplay — "press X to watch" once in a while. Music is relaxing and fits the game, though the last section may benefit from something a little more intense. Also includes a nice song in a random spot.

Took me 3-4 hours to die 300+ times while getting around 85% of energy balls. Will probably take these numbers to 500 deaths and 5-6 hours to get 100% of balls and get all achievements.

PROS
- Dragons: you don't get to play as canon characters, but the main chars of the game are good
- Beautiful: impressive art style, everything from tilesets to loading backgrounds is gorgeous
- Cute: main dragon character causes cuteness overload
- Story: simple, but touching
- Gameplay: nothing revolutionary, but solid; puzzles, combat, bosses - everything is fun
- The one and only HTTYD game which isn't cheap low-quality cash-grab without any soul

CONS
- Short: I managed to play for 9 hours, most players will probably finish sooner
- Desire for more: seriously, the game feels like it's designed for more content

I'd say the game is mandatory for How to Train Your Dragon fans. Developers who put heart and soul into a game instead of inserting a popular franchise into a microtransaction-ridden mobile garbage must be supported. If you think 10 hours aren't worth whatever price you see, get it during sale. But please, don't skip it. I want more games like this.

(Eng/Rus) When I installed Amorous, I expected a game of finding the one correct order of clicking random dialog options to get access to fap content and not much more. I mean, it's a p0rn game from artists with questionable reputation — my expectations were low.

I found more. It's a pretty positive game that just feels good to play. Sometimes it's tricky to initiate discussion, but once you do that, it's close to impossible to fail, unless you try hard to be a d0uche. Even though majority of characters don't exactly match my romantic preferences, it's fun to talk and interact with them. And it's sad to see them become a button to watch a single intercourse scene once their quest is done.

What I found interesting/funny (not sure how exactly to categorize that) is the handling of the transgender characters, which is a hot topic in the current politics. Transgenders are accessible both as a date and a player customization option, which isn't something unexpected, but the writers didn't subscribe to either SJW or anti-SJW ideology and found their own path.

There're downsides too. Music is pure torture. Playing as a female is only partially supported — writers did their job for the most part, but artists showed their laziness and disregard for the option.

Who knows, maybe I'm just new to the whole sappy p0rn genre and the novelty makes the game interesting to me, but I enjoyed it quite a bit, and in more than one way.
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Когда ставил Amorous, думал, что придётся выискивать единственный верный маршрут в дебрях диалогов, чтобы получить доступ к фап-контенту. В конце кконцов, что можно ожидать от п0рнушной игры для фуррей от производителей с сомнительной репутацией?

Однако я нашёл нечто большее. Игра оказалась очень позитивной, в неё было банально приятно играть. С некоторыми персонажами было сложно завести беседу, но как только начало было позади, провалиться практически невозможно — если только ты не отыгрываешь полного козла. И хоть большинство персонажей не соответствует моим романтическим предпочтениям, с ними приятно говорить и проводить время. Обидно, что по окончанию их квеста они превращаются в единственную кнопочку "запустить пр0н".

Любопытно/забавно (не уверен, как охарактиризовать), как игра обходится с трансгендерными перснажами, которые находятся в фокусе политических разборок на Западе. Трансгендеры есть как в виде персонажа, с которым можно встречаться, так и в виде настройки главного героя, что, в общем-то, ожидаемо, однако писатели не подчинились ни SJW, ни анти-SJW идеологии до последней запятой, а аккуратно и деликатно остались посередине.

У игры есть и проблемы. Музыка — абсолютнейшее издевательство над ушами. Женские персонажи поддерживаются через пень-колоду: хоть писатели достаточно разветвили текст истории, художники явно поленились и забили на эту опцию.

Кто знает, может, просто жанр сопливой п0рнухи для меня нов, и поэтому игра показалась мне интересной, но от игры я получил удовольствие, и более, чем одним способом.

If you enjoy mindless grind, dressing dolls and daily quests, this is the game for you.

Unlike Destiny, it has cohesive lore. Unlike Anthem, it has loot worth looting. Unlike Division, trading is the only PvP.