City of Brass Reviews
City of Brass could have been a truly fun game but falls short in its rogue-lite aspirations. The lack of engaging story, frustrating combat, uninspired levels and unsatisfying loot make this a chore.
City of Brass stands out for a roguelike. It's one of the first-person roguelikes with an underused visual theme that recognizable and feels more realistic than arcadey. The snap of the whip feels great and the opportunity it presents will vary from run to run. The different items, enemy variety and amount of traps will surely test you. It feels good and there's not much more to it than that. It's a roguelike meant for repeated plays until you unlock get it down with all the things to see and unlock. The gameplay might not be everyone's cup of tea, but it has its audience. For something that feels more weighted and isn't a shooter, City of Brass has you covered; not in sand.
City of Brass is a fun and swashbuckling adventure that gets seriously hamstrung by its clumsy and sluggish controls. Recommended to any masochist out there who wants to get punished on the go and doesn't mind looking past some issues.
Despite its promises, City of Brass is an ideal game to buy on sale, where the fun will surely be measurable with your investment. It's a shame, but with the Switch building a stronger catalog every year, the competition is fierce and City of Brass doesn’t have what it takes to be a must buy game on Nintendo’s console.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
City of Brass is a very decent choice for those who want to try a new genre or get familiar with the Roguelike games. But due to some mechanical shortcomings and lackluster rewarding system, City of brass fails to offer a complete experience as seen in the greatest games of this genre.
Review in Persian | Read full review
City of Brass is an amazing rogue like title. It really captures the spirit of the genre and understands what the strengths and weaknesses of this style of game are. It addresses these superbly by allowing players to customize their experience. The gameplay is fun but does start to feel repetitive after extended periods of play, considering the price of the title though, the hours of fun you’ll get well outweighs the eventual grating. If you are in anyway interested in rogue like titles like The Binding of Isaac, City of Brass shines as brightly as the best of them.
City of Brass offers plenty of thrills with its Arabian Nights roguelike adventuring, but after beating it once it doesn’t offer much to keep you coming back for more. The genre typically lends itself well to repeated playthroughs and extended challenges, but after completing the game in a relatively short time there wasn’t much there to encourage me to keep playing – a lack of variety as far as gameplay is concerned doesn’t help the situation, either. It doesn’t make City of Brass a bad game nor does it make it one that’s not worth checking out, but players hoping to be whipping their way through malicious genies for hours on end might be left a little bit disappointed by the lack of depth on show.
The game is truly cursed in a charming way and offers a highly enjoyable gameplay for the ones who enjoy roguelike games.
A Tasty Recipe For Rogue-lite Delight ...City of Brass - a first-person rogue-lite with a vivid Arabian Nights veneer - shows that if you have an enchanting art style, enemies that are a pleasure to duel and manipulate, and a combat system that's rhythmic and versatile yet simple to execute, procedural generation can become less like a vapid maze of eyesores and more like a tool that actually contributes degrees of surprise and suspense.
This game is a wonderful homage to "One Thousand and One Nights" / "Arabian Nights", utilizing the episode written about the City of Brass to its fullest and bringing it to life in a unique way. This game is the best implementation of the first-person roguelite I've ever seen. While it lacks permanence, it makes up for the great blessing and burdens system. The combat is a one-two punch of success, and nimble movement make everything feel fluid. In addition to each gameplay element being so well thought out, City of Brass is excellent at delivering stunning visuals and storytelling that other games dare to try.
City of Brass is a really well put together experience that's always fresh no matter how many times you enter the gauntlet.
“It’s hard to recommend a game like this when its gameplay seems to fall smack bang in the middle of no man’s land. It’s not that it’s a bad game or that it fails to do what it says on the box, it’s that it just doesn’t make you feel one way or the other, quite possibly one to keep an eye out for when the sales are on.”
Since I have played other FPS games like Destiny and Far Cry. I can't help but long for the fast-paced action these two gave me. But since it is a mortal sin to do so and the game has a charm of its own that sets it apart from other first-person shooter games I've come across, I'll leave my piece with this game as independently as possible.
City Of Brass is a satisfying first person rogue-lite adventure that brings a few neat ideas of its own to the table.
While repetitive in nature and presentation, City of Brass is still a fun, unique strategy-action game that provides plenty of key moments.