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Dark Deity Seems Unfinished
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I just want to add that I'm aware the devs are working on updates for this game. However, I still think releasing an unfinished game as a finished product is poor practice, and I will always refund a game on Steam whenever that happens, regardless of who made it. I did the same thing with Cyberpunk, for example.
That being said. I'm glad the devs are taking steps to fix their game. I will probably come back to it at some point if things look promising 🙂
I would happily buy it in its current state for $10. There's a lot of third party games like this all over Steam and console download shops that aren't necessarily polished but provide good entertainment, but they do go on sale eventually and I have a lot of patience. I understand personal life gets in the way, and the passion can run out on a passion project. But also, I'm a cheap bastard who has a lot of games to play already.
On another note, I've been wondering lately if anyone's ever made an FE game on a graphing calculator. Was going through some boxes and found my old TI83. I wonder if modern graphing calculators have gotten a lot better?
Thanks for saving my money.
I saw this game and it seems more so trying to cash on the expectation's of a fire emblem announcement from fans who really like the franchise, one of the steam reviews said it also doesn't do anything different from regular fire emblem and rather than a homage to the game it seems more like a knockoff
Yeah, my friend talked me into getting it since he wanted to watch me play and knew I liked Fire Emblem-like games. I did a test run and watched your vid on it… and wasn't exactly enthused about it. Music was a huge red flag, as that is one thing that needs to be nailed with these kinds of games. You'll be looking at pretty much a static screen for a long time, so you need SOMETHING that keeps you immersed. Another red flag was map design and how simple they were. I love Echoes/Gaiden and Brigandine, but even then these were… meh. Meh at best.
However, there's also a good bit of, well, good in it. I felt the potential, but, as it stands… It needs some serious TLC.
I appreciate you making this video to help persuade people who were on the fence to not purchase this game. People should have higher standards when it comes to finished video game products. If we keep buying and making excuses for unfinished titles, then we're bound to get more lower quality games as time goes on.
It looks very unprofessional, like it was made entirely with default placeholder assets. It'd actually be better if they drew all of the graphics in Paint.net with a mouse; then it would be funny.
I backed the Kickstart campaign, heck I got Kickstarter for it, I'm only on chapter 4 at this point but its so far been fun for me, tutorials would be nice but after fiddling around a bit I figured some stuff out, hovering over stats or items tells you what they do, the weapon system is pretty interesting, different weapons are good for different situations and everybody has the types so its not hard to pick which weapon to use regardless of class, I find it amusing how early on clerics are actually some of the better units, its different for an srpg type, I'm conflicted on whether or not to continue playing before an update or to wait and finish up another game in the meantime
A personal nitpick of mine is that all of the palettes, especially the units' palettes, look absolutely flat and boring. One of the key points to the GBA FE artstyle's success was vibrant, bright, colors that really popped. Dark Deity's just look so bland and uninteresting, and it really brings down the overall quality of the sprites. A shame, since the sprites are absolutely amazing with great animations on par with GBA FE's.
Mfer really played a game for half an hour, saw a twit saying the map design was bad and asked for a refund
Dont know what you are talking about, im already 16 hours in and every map felt great, fun and did not look bad or unpolished at all. I already like it more than Fire Emblem and bought also the art book, because 16 Euro felt way to cheap for this great game.
Sounds like it wouldn't be good to buy from them even after they patch their game to be finished.
All the recent videos from the FE tubers definitely made me interested in this game and I was planning on buying it although I hadn't realised that they released it already. Thank you for the warning!
I've been playing the game, and it's honestly pretty fun, though it is flawed. Like Mangs said, the music is lacking (first genuinely good music imo happens on chapter 5. I'm not hopeful for the future.)
The sprite animations are very good, but the units themselves look dull, which is a stark contrast to the fantastic portraits.
Overall, it does feel janky around the edges, and could use more polish, but it is a fun game nonetheless. I would like to disagree on two points with the review at 1:00 though : One, I like the characters so far. They've got some charm and personality to them. And two, I feel that judging the game's balance based on early chapters because a unit can wreck havoc is not entirely fair in my opinion. He also doesn't mention what difficulty he's playing on, and my experience on Hero has been pretty fair so far. A friend of mine is playing on Deity and is getting wrecked. Saying "You can solo early chapters with X unit!" is also something you can say about most FE games.
Overall, I would neither recommend nor detract anyone from trying it. Either wait for it to get some polish, or be aware of its quirks and deal with them.
The game is completely worth it’s price it, overall just a great game. 2 patches have already dropped fixing various minor bugs that were identified and added quality of life UI changes. I encourage any tactical/strategy RPG fan to get it. It’s a steal.
honestly i felt the game looked clunky by watching mangs play it idk
Man, wish I hadn't rushed to buy it after E3. Wish I'd seen this video before sinking in 8 hours. Can't refund. Feels like I've been scammed. It's an rpgmaker game also btw. Not a great sign.
Yeah it's what I thought. You should play Valkyria Chronicles instead
Yeah, I agree.
The menu is lacking, and feels placeholder-ey, the music in particular is pretty awful, and balance is all over the place. I'm pretty tolerant of that kind of stuff, but it's still pretty glaring.
It definitely feels undercooked. It feels like it needs another 4 or 5 months minimum, maybe 8 or 9 to make it something special.
It's got good bones, for sure. It just needs to refine what's on them.
As soon as I realized the game came out quickly, I knew it was gonna be at least somewhat rushed, seems my suspicions are true.
I got an ad for this game before watching. Funny how that works
Fire Emblem Heroes should bring these new characters as a Crossover.
Don't forget this a very small team.. literally one programmer. One. The smallest of small teams. He's working real hard and he's In the discord constantly and is friendly and helpful and puts fixes out near daily.
I refunded it and bought Vestaria Saga.
Some people saying the game is perfect and polished on the comments is yikers , you guys do realize If you dont give proper feedback with what could be improved or fixed you are not helping the devs at ALL right?Wait to be the game fanboy after the devs update and improve the game
I just bought the game today and after seeing this I’m questioning if it was worth it. One thing I do like so far is it has a built in randomizer which was cool
Well that's unfortunate. After watching your first impressions I was considering buying this game but now I may hold off till some of these problems are fixed. Sounds like they should have either put this game in Early Access or not released it for a while longer. I don't know how long it would take for them to build the late game and what not but it could be a relatively short process with 2d pixels compared to 3d. Hopefully the devs will have good news soon or this game is likely to be forgotten before it can meet its potential.
I personally haven't had problems (outside of noticing a dialogue misshap) with the game, though I've only put 11 hours into it. I don't have much experience with fire emblem map design, but the 11 or so maps ive been through haven't had anything wrong with them. I see your problem with incompleteness, but again, I haven't ran into any crashes or glitches (I've been cognitive of) so you saying that the game is incomplete confuses me. What makes a game like this complete? What about it, that you personally experienced, breaks the game in it's entirety? I'm pretty sure the game only has one one or two developers, so some of these conspiracy theories in the comment section bother me about the devs trying to make cash by their E3 release date. Dark Deity is a passion project and these people shouldn't be villanizing the devs. I again personally believe that you should put a bit more time into the game as I don't think your criticisms are deadly or serious enough to the point of refunding the game. The game has had 3 updates to this point even including the fact that Dark Deity is incredibly indie and I don't think their team includes more than 10 people.
Being honest criticism is also good. It wont do good for the developers if you didn't give full feedback and they wont learn next time as a result
Do bonds give combat bonuses such as crit, hit, attack, defense and avoid boosts like in Fire Emblem? Or are they just there for story purposes?
I mean as someone who played most of the game now (normal mode to try out the new mechanics, 3 chapters left). The game feels finished, granted the recent patches improve the experience a lot and that one map isn’t great but every other map feels unique and the giant box at least makes sense considering where you are and the objective of the map. Granted maybe they should have gone into early access for the 1st week but it feels like a full game overall. The recent improvements have got rid of a lot of my overall complaints as well. I know where you’re coming from though, day one wasn’t as great as it maybe should have been for some. I’ve experienced no game breaking bugs but a few people did. Plan to play Hard with 110% enemy growths after this play through for some harsher difficulty.
tbf I always like to think in pricing compared to enjoyment. Im more strict on a 60 dollar game as on a 20 dollar game. That might be me but I still am. Because you can assume imo that in case off a 60 dollar game there is a more experienced team behind it so I expect the game to be better.
For a 20 dollar game dark deity is not bad. Especially considering that this is the very first game those guys made. Is it perfect? no. But tbf what game is? To me cyberpunk was way more outragous since that was a full 60 dollar game made by a team that made games before.
If this game was priced 40-60 dollars it definitly was not worth it. For 20 dollars you can definitly do worse imo.
Yikes
I don't get why they just didn't release as Early Access. That's what it's there for…
While the game definitely has issues, I think a Cyberpunk or No Man’s Sky comparison is too harsh.
Cyberpunk was made by a big name studio who rode off the goodwill of their past successes, had a massive budget, were on the biggest stage at E3, and had celebrities to promote and star in the game. Only to put out an unfinished product that they lied about “Working surprisingly well.”
And No Man’s Sky was sold entirely on lies. At least Dark Deity wasn’t nothing but a con.
I think people aren't really taking into account that fire emblem also has a bunch of big empty maps. Like a big desert that has like one little mountain at the side but its entirely empty aside from that, sometimes it just fits the theme and it's fine. Sure the map design isn't amazing in Dark Deity but it's not unfinished.
This is the same thing I did. And I totally agree with Mangs. This game has so much potential, yet even the price I do not think is worth in its current state. I'd rather hop on an emulator and play the gba fe rom hacks. But hopefully this game will truly be worth 20$.
Refunding the game is a huge dick move and a slap in the face to the developers. They're without a doubt continually working towards polishing the game, and your refund request will not help that in the slightest. You got content from this game for your channel, and enjoyed what you played of it, right? Dark Deity isn't a AAA game, it's indie, give it a break. Game development is difficult and extremely time consuming.
Uh? I thought it was a beta?
I have 59 hours into this game
One of my biggest issues with it is the quality of the attack animations. They simply suck and the sound design doesn't help them one bit.
The statement " game needs a bit of polish" is an understatement in my opinion. The music, map design, character art, sprites / Sprite animations, storyline, Bond dialogue, and classes all need quite a bit of help. It feels like this is a lesser version of the GBA games it's inspired by and those games came out over two decades ago. I fail to realize how Pixel Sprite animations in 2021 can be drastically inferior to those it copied in the mid-1990s. My biggest complaint other than the subpar animations will probably be how they handle giving you characters in the story. They just feel jam-packed in without care or reason oftentimes and power creep my units that I've been using since the beginning where I feel kind of dumb not to use them because they're very much stronger. But then I'm now using units I don't really care about just so you can progress the battles faster and then I end up skipping the story anyway for the most part so…. What am I left with? They have the formula written right there and I get that they want to do something different, but if they're sticking to this fantasy setting where a bunch of medieval knights and magicians are coming together to take down dark gods and solve warring countries problems at the same time…. that's quite the task to do. I don't think they did it too bad but this game needs a lot of help and love. I can't get attached to any of the characters it gives me, I couldn't give less than a shit about the problems they're facing, Even something like their word choices and diction that the characters use don't even fit the timeline or setting. It's off-putting and it feels like I'm reading a fan comic of fire emblem. Voice acting is all right but sometimes it can be very cringe especially when they give you that Chad Knight early on. Once he was introduced I turned off all voice acting It just ruined that for me. I stopped reading the text because it was just really boring and honestly I'm incredibly disappointed. Albeit this might be nitpicky all of this stands out greatly when you compare it to it's inspiration. I guess my expectations are too high for an indie game but when rom hackers can do a better job I just don't get it. I'm in like chapter 14 and I'm going to drop it until they do so. P.S. I just remembered. What in Gods name are these background portraits. I mean honestly around chapter 9 or whatever one of the backgrounds was trying to show the ocean after they got off the ship but what in the fuck was that??? My little brother could probably draw what they tried to with his own shit. Smh
I want to address something about this game. I didn't want to, but it has become so obvious that it's become an elephant in the room now.
This game is being shilled and brigaded. A lot of FEtubers are making videos telling you to buy this game now, or reviewing it and telling you to buy it now. These reviewers all got free copies of the game, and are doing giveaways.
I also think that a lot of these posts and videos actually sprang up as a response to this video. The timing cannot be coincidental.