Hero or Villain: Genesis

The extensive customizations are just renamed abilities that give the same outcome in game no matter what you choose. For instance, whether I am hitting an enemy with a stream of water, hot plasma or shadow bolt, they simply fall unconscious, start running away or my favorite-- brush it off and keep fighting. Really? Some thugs can be sprayed with searing hot plasma and keep fighting, Run away, Fall unconscious? How about no. They would be dead or extensively injured if they're lucky to escape the reaper. That's just lazy. If you can't deliver the extensive list of abilities advertised, don't try to implement them as silly illusion choices. And don't try to save everybody or low key dictate the players moral limit with plot armor and deus ex machinas. It's a very very bad look. If I'm a villain, why do I want to save kids? Why do I want to keep up the image of a hero? Why do I want to keep living the life of a pleb when I can elevate myself above the rank & file with my powers? Why ...

Another super hero game. Okay, yeah I got it. Who doesnt want to spend a few hours being impossibly cool and bad ass? Saddly this game doesnt deliver that feeling well at all. You do get to pick from alot of different things to make your super hero, well super! And I mean alot. Then you get to flesh it all out with how your costume looks, and even a bit of pre shadowing what kind of super hero (or villian) you are! And thats where the coolness ends. Saddly it seems the main game play doesnt care at all what kind of powers you have, or let you use them in any fun way. There is a section when choosing your "powers" that arnt powers at all, but normal things like, athletics, hunting, fighting. having more money, and it seems like 90 percent of the game revolves around your skill (or lack of) with these mundanes. In my play through I never once got to leap across and take an enemy by surprise, despite this being my main super hero skill granting me extreme agility. Not only that...

This game isn’t the best, but it’s certainly not the worst Choice of Games/Hosted Games has to offer. I usually love all these superhero/villain CYOA games, but this one left me feeling a little disappointed. Positives: -A lot of customisation. I spent a fair amount of time picking and choosing things. -Choice of being a hero or a villain (who would've guessed), and actually getting to do bad things. -The world updates on the news were cool. -3/4 hours long, so not too bad in length. -The idea of having a secret identity and juggling your real life/superhero life was interesting. -Having different difficulty settings is a welcome addition, although I had 0 issues with the default one. Negatives: -Fight scenes can get stuck in this weird loop of repeating the same attacks/dialogue. This feels like it shouldn’t have gotten past beta testing. -Pretty much all the characters are bland and one dimensional. My “romance” character had 2 scenes and then we were in love. My...

I'm going to come straight up and say it: this game is not worth its price. I'm not saying it's not worth your time or to play it, I am merely stating that, in the current market, there are far better investments of both resources. It is still quite cheap, and if you have a few hours to kill you can give it a try, just don't expect too much. The main part about enjoying this game is that you probably have to already like this flavor of stories - superheroes and whatnot - or else, due to it not being exceptional or... all that good to begin with, you're not going to have an easy time enjoying it. I like it, and I'm giving it a recommended, but I can also easily, objectively see that most won't and chances are that's you. If I had to come up with a target audience for this game, I would say children who enjoy the superhero genre; I can't see many adults being content with their purchase. I'd say... 4.8 out of 10 everything considered. That is regularly not a passing grade, but I did dr...

So be forewarned there will be many somewhat non-specific spoilers in the review below, though if you play the demo you'll find out who the mech i'm often referring to is pretty fast. So I found this story to be exceedingly annoying to play, it has the typical problem these games have where you will make decisions you think are consistent but leave your personality stats all over the place because the author has their own idea of what you should be choosing rather than being consistent. Other times your stats don't matter, like relationship stats, I spent time invading an antagonists dreams and improving our relationship, but it changed nothing at all about our interactions even after we met outside of our alter ego personas, based on the stats she should be in love with me but reacts to me exactly the same way as a previous play through where she hated me for foiling her plots. So how relevant your stats are and "when" they are relevant are invisible and unknowable to the player at al...

Even on sale, not worth the price. I don't know, i it was okay while playing/reading it, but it is kind of forgettable and the fights (at least in my play-through on normal difficulty) were a blow-through. 4/10, fine but not something I'd really recommend.

Would be nice to actually start out as a villain and not be force to either be a hero or pretend to be one. There are no superhero nor supervillain teams to join. The only team one can join is a generic Suicide Squad. Just about every character in the story in a leadership position is a women for some reason, the mayor, the wallstreet ceo, the supervillain genius power armor user, the leader of the generic Suicide Squad, the top hero in the world from Japan, the boss at office, the police chief, the vampire leader, and so on. Even this one superhero spends half the time treating my character like rubbish, and even calls him a bitch in Spanish, but then gets mad if I point out how overwhelmingly incompetent the person is. She even expects me to be defaulted to being her side kick to meet the only character in the game that is a guy in a leadership position. Every battle is the same with the powers relabeled. And unless I am a powerful psychic, any face off with the psychic hero...

Remember the time when we had choice in games? Well, this game is (supposed to be) all about choice. And then it just ends abruptly, without even giving you a chance to finish any of your plot lines, leaving you with a general feeling of "what the hell happened". Sure, you can play again and choose differently, but at this point you think why bother. Superhero, yes. But most of the time you can spend juggling your own problems, like MOM DYING or WORK NOT DONE NO MONEYS, the opposite of a fun superhero game. Suppose you can, again, try once more and choose differently (seredpity?), but, again, why bother... Want real choice? Try "Choice of Robots" or even better, MetaHuman Inc. Same publisher, different story.

Just finished first play through. I liked it overall, most of the psychic powers felt useful, early game is pretty nice, a lot of what I was looking for, mid game was kinda eh, picked up for the last arc, which was great...right up until the epilogue which I absolutely hated and wish was not included. Overall I would say it has good replayability at least. I do wish there was an option for checkpoint saves, to avoid redoing the entire early game again each time, if you want to keep the same character concept. Positives: A lot of options for powers and difficulty Plenty of choices for how to approach fights Early hero/villain dynamics seemed pretty interesting Plot seems to branch out significantly later on, I expect the other ending sections of the game to be completely different than the one I took. Downsides: Most of the characters feel a bit bland. They have names, and say and do things, but don't really show much depth, and none of them ever quite feel like actual people ...

- DIFFICULTY - 🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it 🔲 Easy 🔲 Normal ☑️ Depends on the difficulty 🔲 Hard 🔲 "Dark Souls" - GRAPHICS - 🔲 "MS Paint" 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh ☑️ Graphics don't matter in this game 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Masterpiece - MUSIC - ☑️ (N/A) 🔲 Bad 🔲 Not special 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful - STORY - 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Like playing "Temple Runners" for the story 🔲 It's there for the people who want it ☑️ Well written 🔲 Epic story - PRICE - 🔲 Free 🔲 Underpriced 🔲 Perfect price ☑️ Could be cheaper 🔲 Overpriced 🔲 Complete waste of money - REQUIREMENTS - ☑️ You can run it on a microwave 🔲 Average 🔲 High end 🔲 "NASA" computer - LENGTH - 🔲 Very short (0 - 3 hours) ☑️ Short (3 - 15 hours) 🔲 Average (15 - 50 hours) 🔲 Long (50 - 90 hours) 🔲 Extremely long (90 - 110 hours) 🔲 No ending - FUN - 🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry 🔲 Hard to enjoy ☑️ Repet...