Good people! How are you doing? Here Mattress again this time I bring you a strategy game in the best Stronghold style, from the hands of the guys from Door 407, will you have what it takes to have your audience in this genre? We’ll see!
Diplomacy is Not an Option it is currently on Steam at 279.00 $ARS
doRoyalty or people? Decisions decisions
Although the story is the main course of the game, it does have it, each screen that advances we see how it develops, we inherited a county from our father, he was not very loved by anyone, the truth is, he may have also been a little corrupt, so we took the lead to patch up everything he did, and obviously diplomacy is not an option! so the only way to remedy it is WAR!
Are you telling me it’s like Stronghold?
The truth is that when you start playing it feels like a clone of strong hold (2001), but with a change. In addition to withstanding the waves, there are groups of enemies all around us and auto-generated maps, so if we repeat a screen, things will not be located in the same place.
To be honest, I think Diplomacy is not an option is a spiritual successor to the renowned franchise, and is part of what should have been the Warlords.
As an innovation, it has a research system that I really feel is not very well worked, but it is there and it works.
The pace of the game itself is chaotic, we can’t know where the hordes will come from and we have to cover ourselves everywhere, not only from the invaders but also from the loose enemy camps all over the map. Although we can clear them when there are no hordes, it will require our attention to minimize our losses, and there are quite strong enemies as you clear towards the edges of the map, so if we are going to clean it, we have to do it with HEAD.
The hordes themselves tell us where they are coming from on the mini map 24 hours before receiving them, this gives us a very short period of time to be able to build minimal defenses if we did not have anything armed right from the side they are coming from, but usually it is not enough because our builders they will always be busy building something.
Another thing to keep an eye on is the generation of food, if we receive many pawns because we need to convert them into soldiers, we run the risk of not producing enough food per month, this will generate a chain reaction if it is not remedy in which the inhabitants will die, which will damage our economy and almost certainly mean game over.
A gem in the rough
Although the graphics are not something that blows your mind, they are well done and the setting is very good, the soundtrack is a bit repetitive but it is to be expected, what is really good about it is the difficulty, I say this because even in normal difficulty it is really difficult to overcome each screen, one would think that only taking archers from tier 1 could win easily, but it is not the case, as we pass the levels we realize that we have to devise a strategy before even starting the screen, without good planning they literally pass you over, to that add the luck factor because we don’t know where the next horde is going to come from and the distractions already existing on the map and we have a cocktail for a very good game that is going to do hit the desk a few times.
In addition to this, there is the whole issue of city planning, which cannot be left to chance and must be more or less organized/optimized. I went from building houses in a way that blocked the workers of the stone mines, and that made them have to take a long detour that made me lose time, this type of thing that may seem silly can cost you defeat.
System Requirements
MINIMUM: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system – OS: Windows 7,8,10 64-bit – Processor: Intel Core i5 6400 / AMD X8 FX-8300 – Memory: 6 GB RAM – Graphics: GeForce GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R9 280 – DirectX: Version 11 – Storage: 2 GB available space – Sound card: DirectX 11 compatible – Additional notes: mouse wheel
RECOMMENDED: Requires a 64 bit processor and operating system – OS: Windows 7,8,10 64 bit
Processor: Intel Core i5 7400 / AMD Ryzen 3 2300X – Memory: 8 GB RAM – Graphics: GeForce GTX 1060 / AMD Radeon RX 480 – DirectX: Version 11 – Storage: 2 GB available space – Sound card: DirectX 11 compatible – Additional notes: mouse wheel