stop making good franchises into bad mobile games the codex astartes does not support this decision ladies and gentlemen welcome i'm josh dreyface i download and play terrible games so you don't have to recently i've been seeing adverts for warhammer NUMBER_TOKENk lost crusade popping up absolutely everywhere you know the traditional phone game advert with fake graphics and bad voiceovers and mechanics shown that aren't even in the game so i've praised the emperor informed the inquisition and sacrificed my pc to the machine spirit so i can download this game and play it for a whole day to bring you the truth so warhammer NUMBER_TOKENk lost crusade i'll show you the good the bad and then a small but telling design decision that might be one of the most player unfriendly manipulative monetization methods i have ever seen but before we dive into the NUMBER_TOKENst millennium a big thank you to all the supporters on patreon and twitch who keep the channel alive more on how you can support at the end for now let's begin let's start with a personal matter i love the NUMBER_TOKENk universe i love the law the books the games the history the models the battles the audio dramas the music the cosplay the community the youtube battle reports the painting tutorials i love everything about NUMBER_TOKENk except games workshop from the endless price increases to their draconian attitude on third-party minis to the legal action being taken against youtube's best content creators in the warhammer NUMBER_TOKENk space games workshop have produced an excellent fictional universe and then done nothing to ingratiate themselves with the players especially how i can't spend five seconds inside an actual warhammer shop before the only staff member there is required underpain of death to ask me what army i play what paints i need what my mother's maiden name is and if i want to buy whatever overpriced box of the week they are pushing i love warhammer as a universe and do not like games workshop that much with that established let's play warhammer NUMBER_TOKENk lost crusade is a free mobile game it's a city builder hero upgrader semi-idol game with limited interaction in linear on-rails fighting sections with so many upgrade systems even the adeptus mechanicus would call this excessive the app store page describes it as a game which fans of the NUMBER_TOKENk franchise will love which is about as accurate as telling an eldar player they'll be getting new models any day now the plot of lost crusade is loosely based on the indomitus crusade storyline basically you're a space marine commander who performed an emergency warp jump during a crusade and now you are lost so it's up to you to rebuild your battle barge requisition your troops and go and kill chaos the game starts as all high budget mobile games start with a brilliant opening sequence which very quickly devolves into graphical novel style text and image overlays now credit where credit is due the graphics in this game both the NUMBER_TOKENd rendered assets and the NUMBER_TOKENd artwork are really nice they've modeled all the troops accurately after the warhammer models and the artwork is detailed the battle barge itself as your city
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