We beforehand posted about Falcon Age on its launch onto the Epic Store final 12 months, however we didn’t comply with up on it, and that’s a disgrace as a result of though I suppose it’s technically an action-adventure, I would favor to name it a first-person tactical hen game.
You are one of many native inhabitants of a planet colonised by an interplanetary company, utilizing superior robots and drones to suppress resistance and industrialise your own home planet, strip-mining it for assets. But there are few issues that may’t be solved by throwing a hen at it. Especially if that hen is sporting, e.g., a cowboy hat.
You met your falcon pal in jail – you have been in actual fact cellmates when the falcon was solely a child. When it’s little, it dabs (youngsters, eh?) and does different enjoyable animations, however after you escape and discover your Auntie, who will assist prepare you to be a falcon warrior within the resistance, the falcon will get fucking huge.
The animation in your feathery demise projectile is nice. It does very sharp bird-like motions – you know the way birds kind of transfer like they’re a video skipping a few frames? Combat could be a bit frantic and I encountered some glitches right here and there, however it’s surprisingly tactical. You and your falcon need to work symbiotically.
It’s harmful to name the hen in to assault an space when you haven’t first taken down the sentry turrets together with your electrical baton, for instance. With some robots, you want to first stun them together with your baton’s lengthy vary whip, earlier than calling within the falcon to suppress them and expose their weak spot. If you encounter a sand-wolf, you want to knock off its bone armour earlier than the falcon can end it off. This does imply that there are just a few management mixtures to be taught. Falcon Age is definitely a local VR game that additionally helps common screens/controllers, and my intuition is that it could be loads simpler to do all of the gesturing and giving issues to your hen with movement and VR controls.
Still, although, there may be immense satisfaction in getting an assault on a compound or outpost to go off nicely, and in seeing the native inhabitants begin to reclaim their land as you battle again. Talking to the locals is really useful, firstly as a result of they’re usually very humorous (see: the juggler who advised me he was spending quite a lot of time pondering deep ideas. “Lately,” he mentioned, “I’ve been thinking a lot about why some people don’t like me.”) however secondly as a result of they generally provide you with particular gadgets to provide to your falcon. They’ll make her do a singular animation, like this skateboarding one.
Because that is my favorite factor about Falcon Age (apart from it being an anti-colonialist game the place you batter fascist robots): it is aware of what the viewers needs, and that’s rad beauty choices on your falcon. Yes, you would promote your robotic scrap components and spend the cash you get on wise issues, like bombs or elements. But why try this when you would get your falcon a bit of t-rex hat or a bowtie? You may purchase what I assume is the avian equal of hair dye to alter the color of your Falcon’s plumage.
Thus, my murderbird, able to killing a complete whole goat and stripping the legs off robotic spiders, does so with an impressive and full pink feathered beard and moustache, brilliant blue plumage, and a VR helmet.
This is the long run communists need
YES. Niggles with among the controls there could also be, and some bugs I’ll have encountered, however truthfully. Whomst amongst us doesn’t wish to lace a hen of prey at a robotic’s non-face?
