Posted on: November 29, 2022
cuddlyogre
Verified ownerGames: 207 Reviews: 3
A gem if it knew what it wanted to be
There is a lot to this game. It is filled with game mechanics from lots of fun games. It has the character customization and exploration of Elder Scrolls and combat trying to be Soulsy. Loadout customization and crafting for days. The world building is pretty thorough. But it all feels wasted due to the execution. There is little coherence between systems and no real idea about what the game wanted to be, which is a shame. This would have been the perfect game if the devs knew what they wanted. I don't know if it was due to my exploration before starting the main quest, or a glitch, but I feel like I suffered from a sequence break somewhere along the line. Everyone kept asking me about fighting the bad guy again and how terrified I must be. I had only seen him twice outside the tutorial. Once where I easily defeated him during a random encounter involving a wild mount, and when the one-legged guy told me where his hideout was. There was no leadup to being sent to his secret hideout. Just go and beat him. Crafting never once came into play. Neither did clothing customization. Even though both systems seemed to have a ton of depth. The economy exists, but I never needed to engage with it. I settled very quickly into a melee, auto rifle loadout using items I found in the world. Combat is decent. Parrying and dodging was rough around the edges, but passable. The narrator was ever present. He would talk about the day/night cycle as if it were important I know what time of day it was. If it was, I never discovered why. There were lines referencing what kind of person I was becoming and how my story was important which seemed to be triggered by something in the game world, but I couldn't figure out what. I know he could be turned off, but I realized that too late and didn't want to miss something important. The art style is perfect. Everything about the look, sounds, and aesthetics was perfect. I would absolutely love to see a cartoon set in this world.
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