Análisis de Fights In Tight Spaces

Slay The Spire is a video game Roguelike, RPG of cards and also dungeons created by Megabit and also released by Humble Package. Awaited gain access to was offered first on Mac, Windows and Linux at the end of 2017 and also 2019 The game will be offered for the Nintendo Switch over

Inspired by Slay The Spire and bringing Formula One step further, your progression system can end ruin the experience.

The game has always known how to represent the action of a new and dramatically. Whether with firearms, with cars or melee, she has given its own space to each of these focusing their forms in specific genres in eternal evolution, where the level of refinement is such that any change, however small, it feels like a big leap into the void. So much so that even new approaches make these same forms appear suddenly something totally different. This is precisely what happens Fights In Tight Spaces, a title he chooses to represent the action style John Wick as a card game.

Basic information

Developer: Ground Shatter Editor: Mode 7 Platforms: Series X / S, One, PC Version tested: PC Availability: 02/12/2021

To be exact, Fights In Tight Spaces is a roguelike building decks where you play a special agent who must break through criminal groups, terrorists and mobsters to reach the final boss, who, after being knocked down, we will open step towards next mission, as its own dedicated map. All this is structured style Slay The Spire, advancing choosing between events, battles and places to buy or cure cards, changing the layout and resources available between games. If we die, even once, it is game over, and we must start from scratch with a whole new set of cards and abilities to go unblocking.

Roguelike moment of creation seems a very orthodox mallet, but where it shines is in the mechanical. At every turn we have a hand of six cards and three focus points to spend, can use as many cards as you want, provided we have enough points to pay for them. If here is basically Slay The Spire, it is not as we talk about the character and his rivals; located in a 3D scene in a grid, we can move along and breadth of it using different cards motion, which makes positioning is as important to resource management itself, for as in Slay the Spire, in our turn we pass the mouse over our enemies to know their abilities and what they will do during your own turn, as well as the order in which they attack, thus making our position radically change the outcome of each turn. There is nothing more satisfying than getting a well-executed movement, in turn, two enemies end up killing each other.

All this would do little if the cards at our disposal were few, too specialized or very unbalanced, but that's not the case. May choose to start with a prefabricated deck, which will focus more on specific aspects of the game, or if you prefer to play draft, having to choose one to one card our initials in a random series of the same, the fact that if we focus on more defensive style, offensive or based on different because effects depends on the initial deck to get started, but also of the letters we encounter. This makes no two identical items, even if just always tilting toward a particular style of play.

So far all the problem sounds good, but comes when we dig a little deeper. While it is true that randomness is inherent in the genre of the roguelike and card games, and their success or failure depends on how you decide to manage the problem Fights In Tight Spaces is precisely this, that its management of randomness in along with several other systems of the game, just burdening experience.

With runs very long, we can leave at any time and continue later, and a very slow progression, justified by the number of different mechanics that develop the cards, the problem is that the mechanisms put into play to alleviate these problems are those that, fed back by randomness, just burdening the set. As the games are very long, the cards are unlocked very slowly, and since we have a wide variety of letters, most strategies are lame, making the RNG is more beset by failing to strategize complex to carry a lot of hours of play. This just hurting progress because the optional victory conditions, which give us the bulk of rewards are virtually impossible to meet certain builds, especially if we do not have all the cards.

Of course, when we have acquired enough letters the randomness becomes a minor problem, but that also implies that we have had to be playing one or two dozen hours in a suboptimal way to learn a system that is not as complex or, not much better, we had to play in shorter difficulty ways that allow us to continue the game even after losing by an evil RNG to be able to move forward in a way that breaks with its same condition as Roguelike. All this remains value to the game, precisely for the ease with which you can lose the interest of the player before acquiring his, otherwise excellent, final form.

That is why it is difficult to consider this as a minor problem, especially when all other aspects of the game are little less than excellent. Artistically is minimalist, making use of pure white and black, with strokes of solid colors for some concrete enemies, which gives a very particular aesthetics, but also an extreme readability to the set of the screen, something beneficial considering that we always fight in Very reduced places and the number of enemies can become overwhelming past the first phases. If we join the system of daily missions, items that we can only do once and are changing daily with special conditions so that we can compete with other players to make the best score, and the replay system, which allows us to see each of The fights as if it were a perfectly choreographed action scene, in the artistic and its implementation the game is an authentic delight.

That's why the great virtue of Fights in Tight Spaces is to reproduce the wild matches of martial arts of action cinema without forcing us to have the ability of a man who carries his whole life training his body and his mind, but at the cost of forcing us to be forced Go through a rite of step that is an authentic nonsense. The game never becomes bored for it, but it does feel unfair for too many hours, closing our step not because we lack the skills needed to do it, but because the game imposes an invisible barrier to our progress until it considers that it is already enough.

In the end, if it weighs more the elegance of the artistic department and the solidity of its mechanical design or its lack of refinement in the progression will depend on the interests or tastes of each one, but in the case of a roguelike, where the progression and natural learning what It is all, it is difficult to be indulgent with a game that does not know how to level those concrete aspects of experience.