I also think it might benefit from an easy mode, like FTL's Advanced Edition did, for when you mostly want to enjoy the experience of travelling through space and the bits of story. I still wonder if the amount of numbers on screen and systems could be trimmed down a bit, but that's just based on my initial impressions of the demo. What will you do if a heavy missile barrage shuts down. Its a dangerous mission, with every encounter presenting a unique challenge with multiple solutions. In FTL you experience the atmosphere of running a spaceship trying to save the galaxy. Aedma explains that development has already wrestled with feature creep, and that what's in the game now basically amounts to the team's last wishlist. 'FTL is a vital, surprising game where death never feels like the end.' Polygon - 9. The interior of your ship and the hull need to be repaired separately when they're damaged, for example, and you might need to go to separate stations to get each part of the ship fixed up, which seems unnecessarily obtuse. I hope the cat somehow still lives.įeature creep is probably my biggest concern, here-after writing almost 600 words of notes on my phone in a 30 minute demo, I stop listing everything that's in the game, because some of it is super granular and a bit complicated. I couldn't quite get a clear answer on whether intruders will murder the ship's cat, but I suppose if they blow up the vessel, that's basically the same thing. The enemy sends their soldiers to board in a little shuttle (no one teleports in this universe), and I see them wipe out four or five of the crew in an intense top-down shootout. I only see one battle in action, and it's pretty brutal. The pace is similar, and you can pause while you make decisions, but you control the arc of your attacks rather than targeting a specific module or room. There's a few different ships to choose from with different strengths, with more unlocked deeper into the game.Īlong with the increased number of potential enemies, the combat is a little different from FTL. You're venturing through ten different levels to reach Earth, and each will be controlled by an alien species. Now Earth and this alien faction are at war. This ability gives Transistor an element of strategy to the core battle mechanics as well as fluid gameplay. When this empire demanded you sacrifice a crew member's life in order to broker peace, you shot their emperor in the face and ran for it. Transistor is primarily a hack & slash style action RPG, but has an interesting twist in that you can pause time to plan out your next moves. Your ship has just met an alien empire on a planet far from Earth. Its four creators have been working on it for five years, and it's complex and detailed in ways that hardcore FTL players will appreciate. In Shortest Trip to Earth, many familiar elements are retained: the story instances with multiple outcomes, ship-to-ship combat, sectors dominated by strange alien species and intense resource management.
I'm not a copyright lawyer, after all, and I want to see someone else put a brilliant spin on Subset Games' space-based strategy game, because I don't think it's happened yet.
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