Werewolfguy173

Combat is repetitive and there is no strategy or action involved just click when the guns are ready and hope that your enemy is destroyed before you are. Making money is almost impossible as simply maintaining your ship is hard enough let alone making a profit out of the mostly luck based "story" events. The characters have mostly good back-stories but you won't know them unless you manage to get them to open up, which means inviting them to dine with you by spending some of your supplies (which are expensive to buy just like fuel) and possible a rare item which you will need to use in some kind of quest later on and then going of to some obscure island to complete part one of their story makes learning the stories of your officers a chore. The speed at which the game is played is the slowest imaginable. You can buy different engines if you somehow manage to turn in a profit but even then the change in speed is barely noticeable. The increased fuel consumption on the other hand is more than noticeable. The music is one of the few redeeming qualities of this game but there is only so much good music and eye candy can do before the ludicrously slow speed, repetitive combat and the repetition of playing the early game again and again because of the permadeath feature make any sane player turn the game off. Although permadeath can be turned off it doesn't help much as you will mostly die because you failed a skill check (you start of pretty much useless with the exception of one skill of your choosing at which you are the least useless) after an unfortunate turn of events and this can't be medicated by way of save scumming (not to mention that save scumming should not be essential in order to progress). In the end this game has a great setting and nothing else.