Posted on: July 9, 2021
Falathi
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 114 Rezensionen: 3
It could have been great. Could have.
I`m a pretty big fan of all submarine related games, historical, fantasy, tactical, you just name it. Therefore I was looking forward to this one - less realistic, but also with promising story and audiovisuals and finally a nice departure from usual sub genre - no WWII or Cold War, no actual conflict but instead set in a strange post apocalyptic world. This could be great, but it isn`t. Why, do you ask? First of all, it`s a real bugluvion. I`ve never seen that many bugs, that frequent and NOT fixed in a released title. Well, at least some of them are amusing like the chance to just keep selling your items over and over again, draining the merchants of their cash. However, quite a few of them can be game breaking. Say, you need to sail into a tight labirynth to save a mate and the only way to find the objective is by following a path of buoys? No problem - they`re not visible. They should be, but they just aren`t so have fun. Also, UI and controls are rather flawed - they seem to work, but following your quests as well as navigating and findins objectives can be pretty difficult. There`s also this issue that the map is often giving you a rough idea, but do not rely too much on actually finding your objective by following it. The UI makes a fighting also an extra challenge as, especially at first it`s quite confusing. Lastly, there was a potential for a great story and interesting characters, something you can get regardless of bugs, UI or limited budget. Unfortunately, the characters are rather simple, there isn`t much interaction between them and most of the have just a few lines to share. Could be great, but isn`t. To wrap it up: nice potential, nice music and audiovisuals, great melange of 3D and 2D executed very well - but all that is buried under a deep sediment of bugs, half cooked ideas, half working solutions and lack of that special something. It stands out in my eyes as a beautiful failure.
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