Stars: Cold toys: Review

Fashion. What is bad fashion? If the topic becomes popular, then until all the juices are squeezed out of it – they will not stop. Today, domestic developers torment modern literature. Especially science fiction. Whatever the year is almost ten games on books. And you never know exactly what the project will turn out. You will delight us with an interesting “tomorrow of war”, then they will upset the action movie on the “inhabited island”. And what emotions the space simulator is caused by the work Sergei Lukyanenko “Stars. Cold toys “? Now we’ll figure it out.

The name can mislead. The word “toys” reminds of childhood. Immediately a rainbow cosmic story is presented for a little boy who always dreamed of flying on starships.

But I will remind you that the author of the book – Lukyanenko. And he is far from childish, therefore do not be deceived, we have a quite ordinary project in front of us. Not for kids, but not only for adults. As already said – ordinary.

I will not retell the history in detail, since it is practically the most important thing here. It is pointless to take a large and relatively deep work on the basis, and then just ignore it. No, the developers acted correctly. They took the world, its laws, features that we will briefly say.

Action “Cold toys” It takes place in the near future, shortly after people finally met the first reasonable creatures in the universe and occupied a certain niche among other races. Humanity trades, conducts diplomatic negotiations, explores. But all this is not very interesting for us, because the main thing is war.

Yes, at one not very beautiful moment, active battles begin in a calm universe. A strange race of shadows appears. What is it – we will not say. Otherwise you have to reveal a bunch of secrets.

Toy world

It seems to be https://roulettetv.co.uk/ what is terrible here? How many cosmosimov plots we know? Is there at least one suffered from the fact that someone recognized his story in advance? We can recall the recent “chronicles of Tarr” and even “tomorrow war”. There the plot was important, but if it hadn’t happened – nothing terrible would have happened.

However, the developers “Cold toys” reacted to the matter somewhat different. They decided to fully justify the title of “Games in the Book”, and therefore the plot here is the most basic. Just imagine: you fly, perform a mission, and with you Non -stop Someone is talking. Moreover, if you can quickly deal with all the instructions, then you will not hear the silence on the air (in any case, in the first chapters, it will be more difficult, and therefore it will not be possible to win in a hurry).

The effect is quite funny. Cosmos, loneliness, complete silence. And then someone is constantly chatting with you. Of course, you cannot answer. But friendly feelings will appear to the speakers.

Something similar was, if you remember, in the original “Tarr chronicles”. There, too, everyone loved to talk. Especially during shootings. But it was just awe. Here we constantly tell us a little history of the world, they say what happened, why the war began. I will not say that feeling – as if you are reading a book. No, it’s different. But the effect of immersion and pleasant sensations are comparable.

Battles for kindergarten

Let’s give a little more. Here we fly on our spaceship, listen to the grunts or instructions of the greenish gentleman, who considers it his duty to constantly entertain us with chatter. We look at space. Idyll. And now we are not just moving aimlessly forward, but also do the task. For example, we need to collect fifteen minerals. We find the desired point on the map, fly there for three minutes, collect the load for a couple of seconds and we head for the next point for another three minutes. Then three more minutes. Then more. More. More.

And at the same time we do nothing, only we fly! Sometimes there are enemies, whom we destroy literally from one laser half -punch, and again we rush further.

Here you understand that with missions something is wrong. We are forced to perform terribly routine classes. As if we are not heroes-heroes, but pimples from Futurama. Or another comparison. As if we could not relax for the game sat down in the evening, and again at the school desk/office table found ourselves. And we carry out the hated tasks that the one who was above gave us.

You are looking for an outlet in the battles, but they are not there either. What fashion has gone – to make space battles with the standard of casuals? There is no difficulty, no tactics, but what is then? Dynamics? There are still a dozen good games in which you can fight interestingly. The same “Chronicles Tarr” – a great thing. About the series with “X” in the name I generally am silent.

But well, the battles would only be simple, so they are also of the same type. Yes, and starships are a little here. I am already tired of comparing, but again, we take decent cosmosyms and we see that for many years we have been collecting ships ourselves. And here we are given something to choose from, and all-Basta. Do what you want with him.

In general, playing is just boring. You saw the battles in the “Baptists”? Here is something like that. There is no complexity of a real simulator like “silt”, but there is not enough dynamics and entertainment of Hawx.

Akella missed

About entertainment and graphics can be said separately. I remember when I first saw the Chronicles Tarr, I opened my mouth and was fascinated. Let the developers then forced us to explore the uniform cosmos, but at first they shocked. IN “Stars” from the very beginning they show nothing interesting. Ugly monophonic backdrops (but they are insanely important in cosmos games; remember how well they were worked out in the Rangers and Star Wolves – a sight for sore eyes) with a view of the lonely planet and soulless gloomy meteorites that expect our appearance.

Moreover, besides the fact that here is ugly, so also bugs around. As you, for example, the opportunity to fly through the enemy? The blow about something also does not mean anything special. And how much sometimes “stars” “jam” – this is generally a nightmare. The spirit is felt “Akelly”, which released Disciples 3. Even in the texts there are banal errors.

So it turns out that this time the game on the book too much decided to approach the original source and became something like a quest, where there is a lot of meaning, little dynamics. But the genre is clearly chosen not the same. The space simulator should be dynamic and fun.

Pros: An interesting plot.
Cons: boring;ugly;bugs.