TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children

Troubleshooting: Abandoned Children is a big, complex game with an incredible number of settings, crafting and modifications, which can take hundreds of hours to complete. The anime style, atmosphere of Atlus games, deep characters and a strong plot make this project a real gift for fans of the genre.

TROUBLESHOOTER: Abandoned Children is a game created from pure heart and passion, and if its reach exceeds its grasp at points, then this is far more desirable than the opposite. Though details of Dandylion’s next game are scarce, I would find it compelling to explore the world of Valhalla and its characters further. With a tightening up of the UI, and an increase to the narrative and translation budget, it would be an exciting prospect that would build on this game’s strengths and values.

While it looks like an XCOM knock-off, Troubleshooter is much more RPG than tactics. It has unique characters with different mechanics and literally hundreds of perks that lead to drastically different builds. [Issue#246, p.39]

It's a must buy game if you're an XCOM fan like me, the Art is superb for an indie game, gameplay is fun and the story is pretty decent. My only complaint so far is the Translation, it's not bad but it's not great either and there's a lot of awkward phrases.

At the time of writing this game has 8.9 from 27 ratings. But if you check most of the ratings you will see that they are from dubious accounts. I fell for the reviews and played the game. Its got some interesting elements but nothing that makes it a decent or good game. At best its a below average game with poor graphics, over complex game play elements and a worthless story. The mission layout and planning is also problematic and buggy, If you expected this to be anywhere close to XCOM then you will be disappointed.

Les mécaniques de jeu sont bien, mais le scénario, les personnages et le rythmes sont horribles.

It's like a quirky X-COM where you command a group of angsty teens protecting neighborhoods from ****'s not exactly bad, but it's almost a direct copy of X-COM's gameplay mechanics, except much inferior in almost every way. The combat system is overly complicated with all sorts of janky rules and affinities tacked on. The research portion of the game is weird and unintuitive. The main difference is that they've added a social aspect to the game similar to Persona, and it's pretty terrible. The dialog is cringe. The story is about some cult that worships spoons. I believe it's supposed to be funny. It's not. The combat is strangely weightless in the sense that it doesn't feel satisfying to kill enemies. They just come in waves, and it doesn't feel like anything was acheived when defeating **** beauty of X-COM: Enemy Unknown was the simplicity. There was deep complexity in understanding the subtleties of tactical combat and macro-management, but the game fundamentally was very easy to understand and pick up. There wasn't much dialog or having to explain everything. Abandoned Trouble Shooter adds complexity without benefit, and a rather lame social element to the game, and it way to wordy.

Il s’agit d’une espèce de X-Com mais d’une espèce seulement… l’histoire, les enjeux, ce ‘monde’ proposé est beaucoup trop à côté de la plaque et pas crédible pour un sou. C’est à la fois assez niais, résolument naïf et souvent inepte, quel que soit le bout par lequel on le prenne ! personnages, environnement, dialogues, c’est toujours très bête. En fait, le seul point positif concerne l’emballage : c’est en effet mignon comme tout, ce cel-shading et ce côté manga animé, vraiment très réussi, bien que techniquement parlant, le jeu ne casse pas des briques pour **** jeu n’est qu’en anglais (intégral) et l’interface n’a pas grand-chose à voir en termes de clarté et ergonomie avec les X-Com (ou leurs meilleurs clones ici et là), ce qui rajoute à un certain agacement lorsqu’on tente de jouer à ce jeu à problèmes. En somme et en bref, tout dans la gueule, rien dans le sac pour ce jeu qui n’a que son côté mangaesque pour lui :un simple vernis brillant mais qui se terne et s’écaille rapidement.