Kresnik said:
So, I've played about 2-3 hours over the past couple of days and honestly... my opinion is pretty much formed by now. I think I'm gonna trade it in tomorrow.
The game is just too gimmicky for my tastes, and not in a good way. I was always aware I'd be buying a game filled with AR stuff, but I never thought it would be as frustrating as it actually is.
Basically, there's various different parts to the game. I'll start with the bad - the non-card based AR stuff. Holy shit, it's annoying. To catch an Invizimal, you have to follow certain instructions based on stuff in the real world. So for example, it might be making sounds that come out of your Vita's speakers which you have to "follow" in the real world to get closer to it. Or it might teleport around and you get a vague arrow pointing to where it is and you have to go and find it.
So for starters, as you can tell, there's lots of real world interaction. And the biggest problem with it is - it's all time based. I've spent plenty of time wandering round my house following these sounds only to be told time ran out and the invizimal got away. And to be honest, I don't even want to leave my room when hunting for Invizimals, but the game will take me all over the place.
To be completely honest, I'm stuck in the game at the moment. I'm following this arrow towards and invizimal I'm supposed to catch and it's NEVER where the arrow is pointing me. And since that's the next objective in the game, I can't actually proceed until I catch it. It might be pointing me through the wall into another room, but fuck that - I don't want to play a game that way.
The card-based AR stuff is slightly better. Once you've "caught" the Invizimal, you have to do various minigames with it i.e. guide it through an obstacle course; dodge projectiles it fires at you; play pinball with it. These actually work for me, but they're not much fun to be honest - they're just gimmicky mini-games, the kind you'd find in Little Deviants.
You also have to do a little AR mini-game every time you build a building in the game. It'll be in pieces and you have to pick each piece up, rotate it round and then put it in place. This also wasn't much fun at all.
The good stuff is everything else. The story is told through live action cutscenes that are Command & Conquer levels of stupid, and I absolutely love that. The battles in the game are like a 3D 1v1 brawler - you move around in a 3D space and fire projectiles or close range attacks that need to recharge and use up a bar. They're honestly quite fun. There's also various stat building on your Invizimals which is a lot of fun, much like any RPG you can allocate stats as they level up to make them stronger.
There's also a minor city building aspect to it in that you build up a little stronghold with various structures in, which I quite like.
Honestly, without the AR rubbish I'd quite enjoy the game. But the AR is the game. If you're interested in that kind of stuff, i'd say absolutely go for it, but for me I really don't like it and the rest of the game isn't worth keeping tbh.
Luckily, I paid £4 for it when I bought it and CEX are accepting trade-ins for £8 cash or £10 store credit, so I've actually made money on the game, so I can't really complain :P
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