It’s a potentially bizarre and wacky premise, but honestly, the story just serves as an excuse to explain why Henry Fleming and the Lion from the Wizard of Oz are fighting H.P. Lovecraft are invading the earth, and Abraham Lincoln (yes, that Abraham Lincoln) recruits a squadron of heroes from history and fiction, to fight back. Aliens that seem to borrow heavily from the lore of H.P. This is not an aesthetic that anyone can appreciate, and while I grew to be more accepting of it after the few dozen hours that I invested into the game, I cannot truly say that I ever truly liked what I saw.Ī similar problem is the game’s story (although frankly, this can be much more readily forgiven). The artstyle seems to be trying to evoke classic graphic novels, but the execution seems to be flawed, and we are just left with a game that looks completely unappealing. Codename STEAM is not one of those games. The first thing that is immediately apparent is how the game looks. No, I’m not talking about the technical side of the graphics here – it is a 3DS game, we can’t expect much on that front – but Nintendo games on the 3DS have usually boasted gorgeous artstyles that have made up for all of their technical shortcomings.
"Unfortunately, Codename STEAM, while having a rock solid foundation, seems to suffer from some amount of shallowness as well as some shockingly amateurish mistakes, which do make one take pause and wonder how a developer that has been working on turn based strategy games for over two decades managed to release a product in this state." Make no mistake, somewhere buried deep inside of this is the nexus of a very good game potentially in the future, should Nintendo and Intelligent Systems choose to follow up on it- but as it stands right now, Codename STEAM comes with enough issues that any recommendation would be littered with caveats. Unfortunately, Codename STEAM, while having a rock solid foundation, seems to suffer from some amount of shallowness as well as some shockingly amateurish mistakes, which do make one take pause and wonder how a developer that has been working on turn based strategy games for over two decades managed to release a product in this state. Developed by a studio which pioneered the turn based strategy game genre, what could possibly go wrong with this game, right? Splatoon may be the game that got all the mainstream attention, but Nintendo debuted two new IPs this year- the unsung one is the new 3DS game developed by Intelligent Systems, of Fire Emblem and Advance Wars fame. When unveiled at E3 last year, the game garnered some attention from the press and public for its take on the XCOM and Valkyria Chronicles formula.
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