[Torma Usuda]

Installing A Valley Without Wind 2 just in case it's the Legend of Mana 2 of my dreams.


That Humble Bundle has AI War, though, and while I explicitly don't want anyone to play AI War, I want you to at least read the Wikis about it. It's a fucking mess of a game, but I spent like 4 hours trying to learn how to play it without getting anywhere, but the idea is great.

See, the idea is that you're a very minor empire in a region where the other side has already won. It's the anti-RTS RTS, basically. All the resource pockets have already been explored and mined by the enemy faction, and if you piss off the enemy, they WILL kill you immediately. So you don't piss them off. You find the exact resources you need and steal those away, and hopefully the big AI empire is like "psshaw, I don't even need those" and lets you get away with it. And you get as close as you dare to the enemy homeworld with what should be a pitiful little fleet, and hopefully, just maybe, you can snipe their One Important Building away from them.

The interface is horrid and the game doesn't explain very well what it considers an "important" planet--my first game ended when I took the least important planet I could travel to away, and the enemy sent a massive fleet plus two hero units to kill my One Important Building in less than 10 seconds--but it's a fascinating idea for the game.

The expansion packs are, like, whoa, too--most games are happy with introducing new units. The expansions actually EXPANDED the gameplay. One adds hero units that perform missions in star systems only they can travel to, and you can have human players either be a hero themselves or each empire can have their hero controlled along with the rest of their fleet. Another expansion adds "golems", which cost a huge amount of resources to repair but are RTS units you can add stuff to and have a few cool and bizarre abilities. Another expansion? Adds a human-ish sort of intelligence to the normally placid AI if you want, so they'll actually try to stop you from turtling and actually care to wipe you out. That sort of thing.

Terrible game IMHO, though. Fuck me. I have NO fucking clue how to play it.
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