Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games.
Pirates are like vampires—they should make perfect videogame protagonists, but there are only a handful of genuinely good games about them. It's tricky because we want such specific things from them. Theis a raid-and-trade game of battle on the high seas, but also one of portside economic simulation; broadside-maneuvering but also dueling on storm-tossed decks.
Once that's over you swing across to their deck to take them on turn-based-tactics-style. While there's no flanking and cover is only important for breaking sightlines, positioning matters because almost every attack is a pushback, and making enemies bump into objects—or each other—causes extra damage. Defeating someone with a shove over the railing and into the drink is real satisfaction.
Different varieties of pirate also have their own skill trees. While the refillable mass of your crew are basic mates, you can also recruit randomized individuals from classes like the spearmaiden, who can stab two enemies at once, or the musketeer, who has a rare ranged weapon that has to be aimed for a turn before firing a high-damage shot.
The scope seems deliberately limited to fit a smaller studio's budget , but though it's not as deep as some other roguelites, it's plenty of fun to splash around in the shallows sometimes too.
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