An important twist beyond the already mentioned real-time exploration is that your units aren’t randomly generated. It does a great job of taking that formula and mutating it into something new. I know I’m making the comparison a lot but, to be clear, Mutant doesn’t feel like an XCOM clone. It’s just not something I’ve seen done with XCOM-like combat before. But the way Mutant seamlessly switches between turn-based and real time before and after fights was exciting every time I saw it happen. There are special abilities to use, different weapons or items to try, a bunch of different and deadly enemies to fight, and, of course, a whole lot of hit percentage chances waiting to break your heart.
Just as you’d expect, it’s grid-based with every unit getting to move and shoot once per turn. And maybe after another few games, The Bearded Ladies will be putting out a few all-time classics.Once you do, Mutant goes from real-time to full-on XCOM-style turn-based combat. But given a month, Mutant Year Zero is going to be a helluva lot of fun to play. There are also places where the dev team seems to be scratching their heads and shrugging. There’s good writing in this RPG, and clever combat.
It’s certainly not the masterpiece that The Witcher 3 is, but it has all of that potential and creativity of the first Witcher. A few years later, we got The Witcher 3, the most beautiful, refined, RPG I’ve ever played, and one that was unafraid to leave decades of game design behind in the name of creating something that felt right. So was the way you had to oil your swords to fight specific beasts. The potion system and meditation was unusual.
I remember playing the original Witcher and seeing the bones of a Bioware RPG, but also something entirely unique. It was the original Witcher game from CDProjekt Red. Developers The Bearded Ladies are an indie studio from Sweden, and I can’t remember the last time I played a non-English import with such good writing.
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