A serviceable tactics game lumbered with an uninspiring setting and narrative, brought right down by bigoted stereotypes. Miasma Chronicles is a disappointing follow-up to a tacitcs gem. Our review:
The basic elements remain the same and they do provide a reasonably solid foundation. Like its predecessor, Miasma Chronicles is a turn-based tactics game at heart, with a lot of conventions borrowed from XCOM. The twist that Mutant Year Zero put on the formula is that this core is plopped into a real-time framework that sees your team ambling about the game's levels and getting into a prime position before fights start.
It doesn't help that new skills are doled out at a glacial pace. Each character gets one point per level up, which happens roughly once an hour. Most skills cost two or three points, with some being even more expensive. While there are other sources of new abilities for some characters, like Elvis' glove-based miasma powers, for much of the game you'll just be moving and shooting with the occasional reload.
Unfortunately, that's where Miasma Chronicles completely falls down. At best, it's uninspired. It's the same post-apocalyptic setting that we've seen a dozen times before, all doom and gloom and misery, excessive use of grey and brown palettes and people who don't clean the houses they've supposedly been living in for decades. Sure, a few details have changed, the technocratic overlords and mutant monsters have different names, but there's nothing new.
For the most part, they're just crappy characters, but Diggs is a real problem. He's a modified mining bot, having been upgraded by Elvis' mother to serve as a protector. He's strong, tough, but not too smart. One of his core abilities is that he can serve as mobile cover for other characters, an interesting addition marred by context. At one point he mentions bling.
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