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it's a fine collection, but the real reason to get it is armored warriors and battle circuit. it's nice that the other titles are included for the sake of availability, but the other two are the real highlight. battle chaser plays great and lets you pull off some nice stuff, and armored warriors has an insanely cool system of using parts broken from other robots.

personally i don't care much for some legacy offerings (side eyeing you, final fight) after playing more recent beat em ups, because in terms of gameplay feel, they blow these games out of the water. not really fair to compare them to games that came out 30 years later, but it is what it is.

I had to get drunk to beat bosses in ringed city

i decided to do a blind playthrough only taking the hardest paths kind of by accident. the game is good but wow does it kind of want you to die bad

but i refuse to shoot kids through the canon. no matter what you try, video game, i aint doing that

Absolutely abysmal port. Frequent crashes and bugs. Save your money.

works great on steam deck.

it's a refined and iterated take of ender lilies, which was (rightfully) well received. if you liked it, the best time was to pick it up cheaper during access. the second best time is now that it's fully released.

the best advice i can give is to try the demo. it's extremely fine, i guess, the game handles well in terms of gameplay. it doesnt try to reinvent the wheel but it also doesn't try to go on forever, it's very clear cut what you have to do instead of letting you have a go at a run with set bosses, floors and such like its contemporaries.

a cautious recommendation?

as others mentioned, this version has pathfinding issues

other than that, the game is very raw. being the predecessor to aoe2, where they greatly expanded upon a lot of ideas found in this one, a lot of things do not feel as thought out (namely, where you research tech is a bit confusing if you go backwards, amongst other things)

i do still think it's one of the greats of the RTS genres, but if you want something a little less raw, the return of rome DLC in AoE2 DE kind of covers a lot of bases, in a better wrapped package

that said, this one has more campaigns if you want the full AoE1 experience

very bold way to take AoE 2 forward in terms of expansion content. while part of me is slightly frustrated that new civilizations are starting to break the established mold, part of me also kind of enjoys the novelty.

the story presentation is excellent, and it's essentially the length of 3-4 regular campaigns baked into one, that has some replay value because of choices you can make.

a good addition to a 20+ year old game, and one that makes me curious where they will take further expansions.

the gameplay loop is solid, but the balance is all over the place.

once you finish a run, you unlock the possibility of doing hard mode bosses and minibosses, which will mostly kick your ass.

to offset that, you can arguably get stupid strong from the meta progression, but once again, that is poorly balanced, due to being an apple arcade title ported off it. unfortunately, i can only assume that they want to keep people hooked because there's a *lot* of meta progression, that require you to run the game several several times before you can make a dent into it to comfortably tackle the hard mode stuff and extra difficulty modifiers to progress.

you *can* still progress hard mode without investing too much into the progression but it is kind of a chore because enemies get massively boosted HP. as i said, all around whack balancing to keep people hooked to the apple subscription.

it's a bit wonky, and is somewhat carried by the voice acting and the general presentation of the game. i would recommend it on sale.

historically mahjong has only served to crush the human spirit. while this is no different, at least big hand score big number

(i enjoy the game)