Superepic: The Entertainment War: Video Review Games

From the game called Superepic: The Entertainment War don’t expect something serious – it seems that this is some kind of comedy with jokes-booms at every step. Approximately the way it is – before us by metrousements, the action of which unfolds in the largest video game corporation. Here, all modern trends are ridiculed here, thanks to Superepic Looks special. But also some original ideas related to the gameplay, it also has.

Greedy monopolists

In the yard of 2048, after a series of hostile acquisitions in the world, only the company REGNANTCORP, engaged in creating games. Obviously, these are not single-user adventures with big budgets, but a conditional free garbage, made in such a way as to “change behavior, suck money and prevent communication» People of the planet. All the money earned society spends on-game purchases, and the quality of products REGNANTCORP does not improve.

Put this end is solved by the detachment of resistance, inviting everyone to attack the corporation from the inside. The main character is a squeezing on the lamp of the raccoon, which against the background of the other heroes looks not so absurd. The REGNANTCORP building consists of several floors, each of which is a large location divided by dozens of “manually” rooms with a mandatory boss at the end.

The authors are joking Superepic For any occasion. The boss, named by the leading game designer, hides in the laboratory, on which scientists in white coats go and crawl into green slugs. In dusty basements resembling abandoned castle with bats, lives “Senior Monetization Vampire”. Not to mention a specialist in the establishment of collective work, armed with rods and standing on the backs of slaves.

Ordinary opponents also tried to make original – basically it literally corporate pigs. Either they are dressed in expensive costumes and in a hurry somewhere, knocking down a character with legs, or jump on a pogo-stick or hoppers in different directions, bored out of idleness. There are large guards dogs, incorrectly working mechanisms, drones – delifers, dropping boxes on the head of the hero, zombies and many other creatures showing aggression at the form of a violator.Oh, these monetization vampires!

No need to pay extra

The game itself as a whole is the standard metriculum with the study of locations, locked areas, which do not get to no appropriate abilities, and other familiar elements. Protagonist at first nothing can do anything, but very soon he will acquire a double jump and learns to accept, for the use of scales of rage and endurance. The first is needed for the use of any abilities, including a long battle, and is restored by conventional blows. The second comes in handy for jerks in different directions and flights above the ground after jumping.

You can return to the old, not to the end of the studied locations with the help of elevators – more than once there will be places where the double jump will come in handy, and the ability to swim under water, and the ability to throw bombs to blow up stone barriers. The system of progress does not complain – new skills appear quite often, and the currency of opponents falls in large quantities. With the way, by the way, is also associated with one of the jokes. Here, as in popular parlor games, there are two types of currency – ordinary gold coins and precious stones. For the second, fortunately, nothing should be paid, but usually they are well hidden.

Money is needed to buy improvements and equipment. It is possible to invest in an increase in health, rage and endurance, which will be more expensive every time, or spend on items that enhance the character. Among weapons there is a road sign, an umbrella, a sword, a tree branch – nothing serious, but in fact all these goods differ in characteristics. Some kind of damage is applied, everyone’s swapping rate is different, and it is worth paying attention to the distance – a tennis racket, for example, hurts, but approach to opponents will have to be closer.

Armor is also important – if you do not update your wardrobe on time (and not change the saddle of your Lama), the enemies will kill the hero of a pair of blows. There are still talismans that can be put in two cells. They increase the speed of weapons, increase the force of attack at low health reserves, reduce the volume of expendable rage when using special attacks – often this useful bonuses, for which it is worthwhile to study each room.Animals among opponents a lot, but mostly these pigs.
Finally, money can be spent on resurrection. The game allows one time to die, after which it proposes to pick up half of the coins and resurrect the character in the same place. It is not a pity to part with the currency – it will be possible to earn it, if necessary, it will be possible to. In the event of death, the character will return to the last point of preservation – here these zones are toilets placed in large quantities in all locations. If you’re lucky, it will be possible to even find a map of all toilets in a specific area to make it easier to reach them if necessary.

Everything like in life

In general, it is a classic metriculum – with pumping, research and necessity often fight. It is not less exciting to play in it than in many analogues, except for the battles with ordinary opponents of the same type and at some point we tire. Despite the fact that the hero has three types of weapons, with which it seems to be able to perform all sorts of combinations (one throws up, another beats from above, the third simply inflicts damage), in most cases I used only 1. Yes, and the techniques that are purchased for precious stones rarely turned out to be useful – if you need to throw objects a couple of times, then you didn’t have to attract enemies with the Lama.The coolest the combination of shocks, the more gold falls out of enemies.
One of the most interesting features Superepic associated with QR codes that you periodically find on floors. It is worth scanning them using a smartphone, as you get to the real website REGNANTCORP, where they offer to play one of the stupid casual games. They are always different, but very similar to what can be found in the App Store, Google Play and other services, – Endless Ranner, “Three-A-Routers” and Other. When you earn a lot of points in the game, it is supposedly “stood” and shows a combination that you need to enter in the panel of about QR code. For it will open a small bonus location with the items of equipment.

In any other game, such a mechanic would cause bewilderment, but it fits fine here, because it fully complies with the main idea of Superepic. It may ultimately some jokes are not entirely successful or too banal and are obvious, but in general, laugh at modern trends and fit everything in one game, for which the audience dislikes the current conditionally free entertainment, the developers managed. There are even a payment card hidden in safes, thanks to which the number of coins in the wallet of the main character increases, – not so bad these models of monetization, if there is at least some benefit from them!

Separately, I want to praise design and attention to detail. I have already written about locations above – all the floors of the building are unique. Randomly the area are generated only in a separate “rowlite” -rezhim, which runs through the main menu and uses another saving file. Opponents are greatly animated and after death leave after themselves smacks in the form of a dollar icon, which seems to be a trifle, but fully corresponds to the atmosphere. Decent mention and battle with bosses – they are diverse and moderately complex. Although now even in unsuccessful metriculosions, they are trying to make high quality.

If the enemy puts the unit, it does not beat it with conventional blows – it is preferably stunning first.
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Certainly, Superepic far to the best metrousen – it is too similar to their ancestors. But there are elements in it, due to which it stands out against the rest of the rest, including the original idea with the ridiculation of the gaming industry and an unusual mechanic with QR codes. Like entertainment for a couple of evenings (no more than ten o’clock leaves for passage) Superepic Very good – a good humor, a well-thought-out system of progress and funny visual style help to close the eyes to not the most exciting “battle”.

Pros: Funny jokes associated with the gaming industry and monetization of conditionally free “Casualok”;Excellent progress and healthy writing role elements;Locations examine not without pleasure;Interesting idea with QR codes;Cute visual style and good animation.

Minuses: Tedicial combat system;not the most informative card.