Capes - Full Review After 40 Hours

This video showcases my first impressions after playing 20+ hours of Capes.

#Capes #slanderedgaming

00:00 Intro
00:45 LIKE - Premise
03:22 LIKE - Heroes
08:20 LIKE - Combat
10:14 LIKE - Easy Backtracking
10:35 DISLIKE - Writing
12:26 DISLIKE - Leveling System
14:06 DISLIKE - Slow Combat
15:49 Final Thoughts
16:58 Magiseven

[danebramage]

Thursday is May 30th... this drops Wednesday!! Sorry to point out an error!

[trevalyon]

Most of the game reviewers I typically frequent didn't review this game. Thank you for picking it up and covering! Liking and subscribing, in gratitude ^_^

[dannyslag]

I really hope the developers watch this video. This is the kind of valuable feedback that improves games. When the point of the game is all the unique and wild heroes, having them level up individually pushes you to not try out a variety of combinations. Having heroes who aren't in a battle still earn maybe a percentage of the xp, would be an excellent change, and should be fairly simple to do.

[camko]

Hey man, thanks for reviewing this.
No one else is, and out of the few who are, yours was the best.
Take my like good sir

[biggleazy]

Great review, glad to see you covering this one. Been curious about it simply because, like you said, we rarely see games superhero games in this genre. I'm hoping someone will make one where you create your character at some point, but this may scratch the itch for the time being. Thanks for sharing.

[TheCrimsonRevenger]

When I played the Demo in 2022, I actually liked the writing except for one element: So much profanity. Used the right way, you get iconic lines like John McClane's 'Yippy Ki Yay Mother****". But used casually it drags down the vibe HARD. In 2022 the game used profanity very casually. Is that still the case?

[Omega]

Great review! It looks fun and I might pick it up on sale. I can't really justify paying full price personally because the bad writing in Midnight Suns kind of killed my desire to be generous on that point. But the rest does look compelling so we'll see.

[EnglishInfidel]

Very good video, direct, thought out, earned a sub here 👍 I've been looking forward to this game and I wanted a straight-to-the-point review and you delivered.

[demoniovargas]

Fantastic review.Thanks for sharing your thoughts

[Vigilluminatus]

Very detailed and nuanced, thank you!

[willemverheij]

Thanks for the review, I will keep the game on my wishlist for now to see what kind of improvements the devs might be making in the coming months.
I hate how this seems to become more of a common thing these days, games getting released way too early and we just have to wait and see if it will get fixed or not.
It's why I rarely buy games on release any more. It's just not worth it if you're barely going to play it for months as you wait for big patches, better to just wait a year or less, get the game for half price and without having to wait for those crucial updates.

Blockbuster Inc is currently also on my wishlist in the same situation, and Crown Wars: The Black prince probably should have been there too but I was starving to play something new.

[shinnyshin]

Really appreciate reviews like this--the way you contextualize the pros and the cons makes it very easy to make an informed choice. In my case, the pros are all things I love and the cons, though valid, aren't that big of a deal. I've a very low view of all video game writing and rarely find even "good" writing all that good, but am willing to cut older-style comics that roll into the zanier storytelling elements a lot of slack if they go about it with style. I was the one person who didn't hate Midnight Suns writing. Slow pacing isn't a downside if you're looking for something to relax with alongside a movie or show, and I just finished my last low-energy game off and was looking for another. Etc... Perfect review for what I needed to know, thank you!

[leopoldkain]

Thank you for this review. I really enjoyed watching the video you did a really great job explaining the video game to me. And I'm pretty sure that I'll wait until I see it on sale on Xbox Live . Hopefully the creators of the game will see reviews like this and take some of the suggestions to Heart Like Making It optional to have to see those cutscenes that you were talking about. Again thanks for the review really great job

[jonathanpickles]

Freedom Force wasn't even turn based, which was a shock when I last went back to it.
I really liked the demo for this, despite not really being a fan of the puzzly into the breach type of combat. I can see levelling being a pain, I'm not big on farming xp or loot or anything. I'll certainly grab it when I get a pc again

[Vagran]

A couple of build guides for the Heroes would be fun, also guides like that are usually popular with bringing in viewers.

[jda]

I loved Freedom Force. Going to give this game a try. Good job on the review!

[Esmoure]

I feel like it doesn’t allow for as much creative strategy as I would like. It’s unforgiving and I absolutely hate the fact that I spent an hour on a mission to fail all the sub goals.

[SirDiesel]

Great video, very helpful. However you did make me freak out because of my job, this game released yesterday on Wednesday the 29th not Thursday.

[hden_]

One of best friends from high school did the character design and concept art for this game!!

[kbar]

Appreicate the full thorough review. Would love to see yhe full breakdown on characters you mentioned potentially putting together.

That might be the saving grace for me since a weak written story and that leveling system is really off-putting.

Also, youre the man for giving the Freedom Force a shout out lol