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Age of Wonders III simply neglects about a decade of improvements in user experience, resulting in a game that feels opaque and unintuitive up front. While 4X games are always complicated-there are a ton of systems to learn-a game like Civilization is good about giving you the small victories up front. You can feel like a decent strategist without delving too far into the game’s mechanics, even if there’s a lot of room left for you to improve.Īge of Wonders III throws up roadblocks. Most of the tutorial hints are presented in text tooltips lengthy enough to have been written by Proust. Vital tactical techniques, such as the game’s reliance on flanking, are left to these text explanations, so it’s easy to lose the game’s relatively easy battles early on without understanding what you’re doing wrong.Īge of Wonders III’s story is delivered in big walls o’ text. Most of the story is told through lengthy interludes between chapters, presented to you through one of the slowest text scrolls this side of Star Wars.
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