Star Trek TNG: A Final Unity - Review 

Universally positive responses so far. People enjoy your laid-back and conversational approach combined with soothing jazz in the background. Very RLM but with a British twist.

Honestly, I think it's one of those games that works perfectly as a product on it's time.

The 2D visuals are still beautiful and don’t need an update. The CG stuff and the space battles, maybe. But they still hold up decently too.

Generations was massively underrated, and I love how Microprose had their own internal lore that linked the games. Brilliant developer.

Nu-trek is fake-trek. Not a single one of us would watch that crap.

I think SNW benefits from being episodic in nature instead of serialised story arcs. You get a story per episode that resolve at the end of the episode, there's no galactic doom level threats, the Captain is very likeable, most of the crew I can remember their names and aren't completely irritating and overall it feels... hopeful and generally is actually more about exploring. It still suffers from this modern eras preference for 'witty/snappy' dialogue that is too contemporary. Basically its the most Star Trek attempt at being Star Trek. If they had started the new Trek era with this, I think it would've gone much better. Sadly Discovery and Picard still.... exist. But I just head canon them away :D

Strange New Worlds is the best of current Trek so far, its surprsingly decent

Thanks! Just recorded my DS9 Harbinger review today, will be posted later in the week :)

Oh I know about the shift key to speed things up, I didn't as a young kid though :D

@@ange1uk Did you know about getting changes to the story by blowing up the Garidian commander? I have also seen different personalities if you talk her down in different ways.

@@enterprise-h312 I know there are a handful of critical points which affect the flow of the story in different ways. I wasn't aware of this one though. How does that affect the Unity Device section if you kill Pentara?

@@ange1uk I am going to leave some space just in case for the spoiler if you wish to experience the twist for yourself. SPOILER Pentara will survive, heavily mutilated when she first appears with a mechanical mask leaving her wounds to the player's imagination, and later "patched up" using 24th century medical technology. As one might imagine trying to kill her will make her a lot less amiable to the player. For example, she will NOT warn you about holding your fire near the Unity Device. (Important for when Brodnack tries to trick you.) It will also affect her dialogue with the Kabilan.

@@enterprise-h312 Ah yes I actually remember this now, or at least remember seeing an image of Pentara wearing the mask. Its cool there is some variety, though not nearly as complex as some of todays branching narratives can be ofc :)

I used D-Fend when playing this and simply left it at 'Auto' when it came to CPU cycles. But you can also set a shortcut so you can step down/up the CPU cycles by a percentage as you're playing so you can adjust on the fly, this is how I did it anyway but otherwise I don't know what the magic number is.

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What would you suggest in its place? I tried to choose something that was non intrusive (and copyright free)

@@ange1uk Hmm, usually I'd say most of the time no bgm would be necessary. IMHO that works well on a lot of channels. Otherwise, the channel LGR uses some very non intrusive smooth jazz type music, also mixed very silent in the bg. Additionally I'd also use the ducking feature. In your case, it might be possible to use some of the game background sounds (albeit very silently). I do applaud you for venturing into the review category!

Could you - as a test - upload that video with the bgm track disabled?