"Almost everything is bad here." Gamers are criticizing the game "Smuta," which has received almost 500 million rubles from the budget. But the Nizhny Novgorod governor liked it.
A pompous presentation of "Time of Troubles" took place on April 4 in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin. The governor Gleb Nikitin said, who was delighted with the virtual world.
«It embodies the true Russian spirit, the Nizhny Novgorod spirit, which very vividly reflects the atmosphere of four hundred years ago, - he said. - Young people will be able to immerse themselves in the past, understand the scale of those events, and reassess the role of Moscow’s liberators.”
The game's development took nearly three years and 490 million rubles from the state-sponsored Internet Development Institute. The plot is based on the events of 1612, when the people's militia led by Minin and Pozharsky stormed Moscow and liberated the Kremlin from Polish intruders.
Gamers who have already played Time of Troubles leave mostly negative reviews.
«It turned out to be a history textbook. That's the only way I can describe the countless dialogues that make almost no sense.- пишет Artem Bausov. - Players are bombarded with endless facts that have no effect whatsoever.».
Gamers criticize the banal and boring plot, tedious walks, "too much fluff" in the dialogues, the "dead world," the primitive engine, and the "godlessly stupid enemies" that are not interesting to fight.
The only positive aspects are the graphic design and carefully drawn landscapes, which are recognizable as Russian nature.
«But as entertainment, this game, unfortunately, doesn't work. Almost everything is bad here.“,” Bausov sums up.
Another gamer - Eduard Chuburov — already regretted that he acted as an “advocate for the game” before it came out.
«Now I will be in the role of the prosecutor- пишет He. - I've played for about six hours and I already have an opinion. Some might say, "You should play the game first to form an opinion." But I'm sorry. If a sewer burst nearby, you don't need to smell it for 40 hours to know that it stinks of shit. Sometimes you can tell even from the first few seconds."
