Other, more esoteric resources require much more convoluted circumstances to drop.Īnd yet, those intriguing possibilities dwindle in the rearview mirror and the resource grind becomes the game, which starts feeling noxiously like pay-to-win mobile games.
If it takes 13 fragments of scrap to form one unit of metal, think of how long it takes to gather 18 whole units of metal as some later buildings require – and that’s for basic resources that drop from common enemies. That means even basic structures might take several runs of resources to assemble: an early-game building like a farm, for instance, needs 5 wood, 5 stone, 3 metal, and 2 metamorphosis orbs.
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Unfortunately each enemy only drops 1-2 fragments of a certain resource, and 10-20 fragments combine into a full resource unit.
Loop Hero isn’t the first game to drip-feed players story and mechanics as they play, but the balance feels quickly weighted toward discovery via attrition: even when I excitedly find new tile interactions, it just results in a new enemy to fight, not a way to sidestep the hundreds of resources I’ll have to grind out to construct a new building in my frontier village.Īnd no, that's not an exaggeration – you'll need hundreds of resource bits to get anywhere. It's just too bad that the pace slows to an absolute crawl after the first few hours. In a game designed to start as a void of information, discovering new ways to play fills out the narrative and defines your direction. Combine tiles in new ways and maybe they’ll produce something unique – a novel environment or monster that adds another small piece to the puzzle of what’s happened to this world. To a degree, this is all baked into Loop Hero’s design: without much direction, players must experiment to progress in the game.
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