Solstice Chronicles: Mia: Video Game Overview

We are accustomed to that mostly spin-offs come out to some famous aaa class game series. But it turns out, and Indi-developers are not alien to these traditions. Here, for example, studio Ironward released Solstice Chronicles: Mia – branch to her command isometric action The Red Solstice 2015. Here the authors tried to introduce new elements of game mechanics – but they did everything and works as planned?The game is translated into Russian only partially – the English text here is adjacent to the Russian.

Martian chronicles

Action Solstice Chronicles: Mia Deployed in the same universe – on colonized Mars, where people escaped from the ground, fleeing the zombie virus epidemic. We play for Morpa, the only mercenary, who remains alive in the dead colony, behind the front line.

Yes, you did not hear – if The Red Solstice was a team tactical action, where in one squad to fight up to eight fighters, including in a cooperative, then Solstice Chronicles: Mia Reminds Alien Shooter, where solorate one hero, and the crowd of the reptiles are precipitated. The only assistant of our Morpha – a talkative drone that supports us more or less successful jokes and special skills (about them – a little later).

Together they have to go through more than two dozen missions – Morpekh is trying to survive, save an important employee of the ELISIUM Corporation and find a medicine from the virus, and Dron holds his own secret task in the mind. In general, the plot here is served and perceived a little more interesting than in the first game – they contribute to the engines on the engine, and ironic bolts of dr1.

“Pumping” to the tooth

Nevertheless, the tasks at all levels are about the same and linear – go from point A to point B, pass through the crowd of monsters, to activate something or deactivate, open, find, save, protect during the allotted time and so on.

Some variability in passing, more precisely, in how and what you will parse with enemies, provides a class choice at the start. Here are four, and not eight, like in The Red Solstice. The attack aircraft, demolution, fireboards and the terminator – everyone has unique abilities and weapons, both the main and additional. And in general, the combat style for everyone is really different.Among other things, drone can build barricades, install traps, bombs with napalm, radars, turrets and other useful things.
As compensation for reducing the number of classes, the authors have changed and expanded “pumping” and setting up the character. You can develop at once three branches of skills – general, class and drone skills. Also, the more often you are a flattelline from a certain type of weapons, the faster the skill of ownership of them is growing. And even before the mission, they are allowed to change the “gun” and choose an active skill, replacing, for example, grenades to put turrets.

Make me provocation

However, the authors wanted not to just expand the role system. “Our team wants to find a new approach to shooters with a top view,” they wrote in the announcements and eventually introduced into Solstice Chronicles: Mia Such a concept as a threat rate. Danger scales affect damage to large monsters and shows how many enemies can attack the player at the same time at the moment. Than the level of threat higher (scale alets), the more monsters and the hotter at the level. It also happens that the opponents are even greater than the level of threats, this happens as a result of special, such as plot, scripting events. Killing mandes, we reduce the danger.

Also on this can be affected by applying different drone skills. For example, the ability of “provocation” first lures on you all enemies in the district, and then reduces the level of threat. The program “Protection” not only creates a power field around Morpec, killing small and slowing large monsters, but also leads to the emergence of new opponents – it is, accordingly, reduces the red scale.A lot of weapons, but ammunition, on the contrary, is not enough, so you can use a knife to save.
On the other hand, “Intelligence” skill, when Dron brings the player found in the vicinity of ammunition, aid kits and different other useful items, on the contrary, increases the threat – the enemies immediately rush to us from all sides. The same with the “bombing” – the bomb explosion when the program is re-started again, the danger scales in the red z1.

Many enemies do not happen

All this is kind of how it allows us to control and determine the pace of the game, increasing or reducing the number and strength of opponents at the level. In some situations it really works, but not in all. In fact, almost every skill of the drone, one way or another increases for some time “Spavne” monsters, turning the passage into a constant shooting in all directions.

At the same time, the emergence of a mechanical assistant and an extended pumping system (and “pumping” in one passing can almost completely and on all branches) made the game a little more “casual”. No, there is still quite hot, dynamically and dangerous, especially when the mini and maxi-“bosses” come out against us, but to say about Solstice Chronicles: Mia, that she does not forgive mistakes, as it was in the original, it is already impossible.In addition to the campaign there is a survival mode.***
It is gratifying, of course, that the authors are very successful The Red Solstice did not rest on the laurels, but decided in Solstice Chronicles: Mia On experiments with mechanics, simply improving graphics, management and plot feed. However, not all new gameplay elements are now working as planned, in something the game has become a little simpler, here less tactics and classes. Yes, and there is no full-fledged multiplayer – only a local cooperative for two at one computer. Still fans of dynamic acts in the spirit Alien Shooter just do not have the right to miss the game – the advantages in it more than minuses.