#Spacebase startopia ps4 review plus
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The game would really benefit from a 2x speed option, or some method of speeding up time. To revisit an earlier point, each stage taking 15 to 45 minutes seems to be intentional. Just personally, I would have much preferred to have focused on the economic sim aspect of the game, without the combat. Thankfully, Spacebase Startopia does a good job of slowly introducing you to the combat and a really good job of smart navigating itself to complete encounters without too much direction. I could never find a middle ground that made it enjoyable for me. Yet, I always found myself lacking the materials to craft them, or by the time I had upgraded them enough to make them viable, the level was completed. Two of them can generally win any encounter. The mechs that you can build look really cool, and there isn’t a lot of requirement in having a lot of them. The general encounters are usually solved pretty quickly by the automatic response, but when you get to “boss” style encounters, the game requires you to be focused on the combat more. The combat becomes more and more prevalent as you progress and I found myself floundering because I just didn’t enjoy it enough to truly invest into the system. I understand that for a greater audience, RTS style battles in management sims are a good idea, however, I do not enjoy it. I am not a fan of introduced combat in these style of games. My biggest gripe came about four hours in, and this is very much a personal issue.

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There’s easily 20 or so hours’ worth of gameplay in the campaign alone, and if you aren’t a fan of free play in these style of games, the campaign will keep you busy. There’s a fair bit packed into it too, and it gives you the option of jumping to any previously completed stage if you want to go for the completionist playthrough and get the challenge achievements for each stage. Each campaign stage will take you between 15 to 45 minutes on average. The campaign does a good job of introducing new concepts with each stage. On higher difficulties it amplifies this feeling of running out of time and keeps you in a somewhat tense situation in later stages of the game. More aliens arrived, I needed more staff, needed to build more things. I found the more I expanded my areas, the more and more panicked I became. It offers you three difficulties of play, and even on the lowest difficulty the game will offer a certain level of challenge you might not expect. It makes what can be a somewhat slow-paced game easy to invest the required time into it. The narration is mocking, the cutscenes are humorous and the overall style of the game is just a joy. It breaks up the somewhat tedious at times gameplay to keep you invested and investing your time into the game. It is always within reason and it’s not overused. There is a lot of comedy in the game, but it never overstays its welcome. It tickled that part of the brain that it needed to, and the relation to GlaDOS goes miles in making it feel homely. The best of these definitely being ‘GlaWIN’ which is a GlaDOS style of voice. The developers have hit gold here, in that they give you a few different voice options for the A.I. It’s a sarcastic, blunt and rude, and hilarious voice. The best thing about the game, is the A.I that narrates the game for you, and explains what’s happening at any point in the game.

#Spacebase startopia ps4 review plus

It would help keep it feeling fresh and not stagnant when you’ve been on one stage for forty plus minutes.

Personally, I think a rotating soundtrack would help in overview segments, especially in a longer play session. The sound design in general is pretty good, and you end up becoming aware of what the different sounds mean in relation to what is happening in the game pretty quickly. I found myself getting a little bit tired of the same “space” music after playing for a while, but with the quick swapping between decks and floating over rooms it gets broken up somewhat nicely. There’s about 20 different songs, and they are all pretty unique.