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Disappointing
I was looking forward to this game but there's just too many things that drag the fun-factor down. The best part is that there are lots of blueprints to buy and then one can spec out your ships in very different ways. But that's really the only great part of the game.
The space combat is real-time and has some strategy to it, but it also is subject to too much luck. It is entirely possible to win or lose based on one lucky or unlucky hit. Some wont mind that but for me it takes the strategy away from the combat. Just be sure to save all of the time because if your ship loses in combat it is game over.
But there's other things that makes the game downright tedious: Dialog is over-long and will repeat. You'll have to talk to people repeatedly to determine if they have more information for you or not. There is no quest log! So that means traveling around and repeatedly talking to the same people to generate the next quest. There are not tons of quests to do so you have to fly around space looking for anything to do. A quest log would have made a big difference in this game. Traveling is also tedious: you cannot go directly anywhere. You have to look at a map grid and travel to multiple planets to get to the one planet you want to go to. That's fine at first but it adds to the over all tedium of the game. I am giving it 3 stars but -- honestly -- this is closer to 2.5 stars.
I'm no RPG junkie, but I love this game anyway.
I'm going to be brief and to the point on this. Everything about this game just demands that you pour hours of your gaming life into it almost as soon as you start it up. It doesn't have much along the lines of backstory to set you up beforehand, but did you want to watch Luke Skywalker prior to his surprise introduction to the Empire? Did you want to see him go about his day to day life maintaining his landspeeder and the water vaporizers? No? Not your bag? Mine either. You start out with your character right when his life becomes interesting, just like in Star Wars.
What happens next? He runs into an oh-so-chummy space pirate that wants to show him the intertstellar ropes. Sound familiar? Well, you'll be in for a surprise that I'll leave you to discover. This is no Han Solo, but the character's function to the story is roughly the same. Anyway, from the get-go, this game just continues to thrust you into the meat of the goings-on, and it seems like a wonderfully drawn out space opera; Star Wars fans, Mass Effect fans, and Star Trek fans, take note!
Oh, what's in it for the Trekkers, you ask? Almost as soon as you start the game, you become captain of your own battle cruiser! That's right! You're Captain Kirk AND Luke Skywalker, all rolled up into one big ball roughly three hours into the game. You can customize your ship to your liking, and it is all reflected on screen. Its great. The combat is where it feels most like an RPG, but since you're 'in command' of a large ship, it feels less like an RPG battle, since so many delays on firing weapons and thrusters would actually take time like it is represented here.
Wow, and I wanted to be brief. I'll agree that this title could become coveted after a while, so if you want to get it before it hits the gray market at hyper-inflated prices, there would be no better time. Well, I've gotta get back to constructing my ship. See you later! :)
A Fantastic Game in Need of a Tutorial
Infinite Space is hands down the single best RPG adventure on the Nintendo DS. It's possibly the best game to arrive on Nintendo's dual screened moneymaker.
It's got almost everything you could want in such a game. An epic, galaxy spanning plot. A huge cast of memorable characters that really grow on you as the game stretches onwards. An amazingly huge world that will have you exploring for hours on end! And the game itself is incredibly long! Expect to spend over 60 hours on the game unless you're skipping everything to race for the end.
What the game doesn't have is a decent in-game tutorial, and it shows in a lot of the reviews you read here, and even in the professional gaming media.
Lots of frustrated gamers and reviewers complaining about the game's steep difficulty, how even the random encounters on the way between planets wind up being grueling. People claiming that battles rely too much on luck, with most of their shots missing entirely. Many people don't know about the fatigue bar, individual weapon ranges, character skills, fleet formations, and everything else that the battle system is built on. Crucial information if you want to get very far in the game.
To be fair, all that information is in the instruction manual, and in tutorial trailers released by Sega prior to the game's release, but let's be honest. Most people don't read the manual, and most people who get frustrated aren't going to go looking for a YouTube tutorial video. They're just going to assume that the game is insanely difficult. The game would be receiving much higher review scores if it had a proper in-game tutorial to explain everything you need to know.
The reality is that the game actually isn't that difficult at all, once you understand the basic gameplay mechanics. If you own the game, and gave up in frustration I'd recommend searching YouTube for those tutorial trailers. If you don't own the game, and epic space adventure sounds right up your alley, then I'd highly recommend Infinite Space. Aside from the lack of a tutorial, it's the best game to land on the DS in years.
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