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  • I completed that game just before this update. It’s a big disappointment really. Age of Calamity was a lot more fun than this one.

    Characters are boring, both in moveset and design. The zonai artefacts make everyone feel the same whereas the sheikah slate had custom moves for every characters. The unique mechanic on the right trigger for every character is gone too. The character specific attacks are technically different, but most feel like the same over all characters, and since they have long cooldowns and artifacts don’t, you’d better replace a lot of them.

    The game doesn’t throw any challenge at you, even starting in hard mode. It gives you a lot of health from scratch and nothing much to lose it.

    Age of Calamity had enough mess going on that you occasionally needed to juggle through characters to meet the time limit and protect allies. Often it’d throw several serious enemies at you and force you to watch out for all of them at once. The feeling of urgency never happens in Age of Imprisonment, and engaging fights only happens in the few dangerous battles they added in the post-game.

    Speaking of post-game, nothing worthwhile to unlock there, though AoC had a couple special characters left to throw at you.

    It’s bad enough that I restarted my AoC game to see if it was just musou fatigue and I remembered it better than it was. Nope, even in the comparatively slower early game, AoC is still fun.



  • I mean, that setting alone shouldn’t be enough to claim copyright infringement, but the visual identity of the Tencent game looks way too close to Horizon. And since apparently they tried to get the licence and failed, it’s even harder to see it as anything but an attempt to make “I can’t believe it’s not Horizon”.

    They could have made it look different enough that it would be considered at most heavily inspired and there would be nothing wrong with it.

    I certainly don’t think Sony needs defending, but yeah, I can’t say that result is surprising.