Fragment's Moonrise

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[h1]Before I played Fragment's Moonrise, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

Currently game is unplayable because of the interface, but I can see the idea behind it, with RTS and random maps What I would change: 1) units advance automatically when experience is earned. I can see it that there are some rare cases when advancement needs to be avoided, but how often would that situation happen? I don't see a need for a separate action for it. All games I remember promote automatically if possible. Or require some additional situation like being next to a base. 2) currently resource collection is way too micro intensive. If I click to collect some grass, I expect units to keep doing it, collecting other grass around, most rts do this, aoe, sc2, cnc. 3) the whole spell book... it has to go. I understand that the idea is about fully customizable interface. But absolute majority of people do not need it. Even not every pro player would need it, even if you target this audience. What sc2 did instead was that buttons like build main structure, or attack, was in the unit's card, that has some 12 button slots. And those slots are context dependent. So that builder may see a slot being filled with a command to build the main base. While fighter would see the same slot…

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It's a bit like taking the RTS genre but then make the complete opposite of a great UX out of it.

=====REVIEW FOR NOVEMBER 2022 VERSION OF THE GAME===== As with most remakes, I personally like the original better. Fragment's Moonrise didn't need updated graphics, it needed improved gameplay. What this switch to 3D did was degenerate the game into a tech demo. There's nothing to do anymore except walk around a little and cast one spell; if you figure out how to leave the starting area, you can fight a dragon, but shortly after that your rat mage will be killed by a swarm of dragons - and without the ability to build more units, that's where the demo ends. Or so I thought - the developer posted a video showing the full depth of the tutorial. I guess I just got stuck? So the remake has mostly kept the same gameplay, but now it feels like you're submerged in mud. Maybe my PC is too weak to play without lag? Or maybe things will improve with updates. One thing I found funny is that pressing M to zoom out reminded me of the original version. However, it's clear that the developer has great passion for this project. It has not been abandoned and they have not given up. To support this developer's work and their vision, I have changed my review to Recommended. I do suggest having…