Sable

This game takes the exploration aspect of open world games and focuses mostly on that, along with a few quests to move things along and uncovering world-building mysteries. The graphics are some of the most effective cell shading I have seen of this type, and with intentionally choppy animations, this is the first game I ran at a locked 24 fps to fully immerse as if the whole game was hand animated. The open world is a vast desert with some variation, and you are supplied with a glider bike that you can find upgrade parts to mix and match. You can also customize your wardrobe and masks, which have little effect that I could tell, but occasionally feed into quests. A lot of climbing is involved, and the game constantly dares you to puzzle out climbing terrain, stuctures, and platforms. It reminds me a lot of Shadow of the Colossus, where much of the game is a desolate journey followed by a lot of climbing, but instead of 30 story monsters, it is derelect ships and rocks. The clibing works very well. In many cases I felt like I was cleverly cheating the game by finding shortcuts in the geometry to climb, much like the jump exploit in later Elder Scrolls games to climb steep terrain, only to realize it was an intended route or a secret after all. This felt like the level designers were very precient with thier level design. Rarely did I feel stuck, mostly because this game doesn't force you in a linear direction. There is no combat or death. Failure is on your own volition by falling after climbing a great height. Those who love climbing in open world games just to see if you can will be hooked for sure. Explore what you want, as much as you want, and finish the ending when you've had enough. Music is relaxing too. I've had some issues with sound glitches.

The gameplay, visuals and audio are all good in my books. The story is... there? "Go out and do stuff now that you're almost a grownup, then come back to do adult stuff" - Essentially the whole game is kinda about a post-apocalyptic tribe sending you on a "rumspringa" of sorts. However... I'd consider my pc fairly high-end (3900x, 32 GB, rtx3090, ssd), which is why I find it really baffling how hard this game stutters. Stutters are most noticeable while driving the bike, during which even audio struggles to play. Considering how much driving back and forth there is in this game, I can't fathom why this hasn't been fixed already, considering the game has been out for more than a year at the time of writing. The game also defaulted to 30fps lock, which in 202X I find absolutely baffling. This might be because the characters are *mostly* animated at that framerate, so their movement is bit janky, and even more janky if you raise the fps cap (the setting is under "details", not "display", in case you can't find it). Found few quests which I couldn't continue on until I saved, exited to menu, and continued again. What made this more annoying was that the unskippable introvideos play every time you exit to main menu. And there's no "exit game" when in-game, no, you need to exit via main menu. They really wanted the player to know which companies made/published the game. It might sound like I found more negatives than positives in this game, but I did play it to completion (didn't bother completing all of the collectathon thingies) and I'd say I enjoyed my time in it. Took me bit shy of 10 hours at a chill pace. Now, as for a rating? If fixed, easily 4 stars. But at current state I kinda want to give it a 3-.

I originally bought it a year ago, it was wonderful but stutters and lag were too much ; I reinstalled the game 2 days ago and the devs (2 passionates human being) did A LOT of upgrades and the game is playable as hell, there's still minor issues but man they're irrelevant at this degree. They even add new contents and new translations, for free, and improving the game. Speaking purely about gameplay and lore now, there's a lot to discover and to travel, the story is unique and immersive, proposing new and lovely gameplay, little riddles and if you want lore to understand all the world they created you can, and if you just want to live the story peacefully and focusing on Sable, her and your feelings you can TOO. It's indie, unique, improving and charming, only 2 devs are behind this gem and the game is worth your time and monney, the experience will make you grow as a human and a gamer.

its a game to relax e think about how we are differents, how we romantize somenthings and how we can enjoy many tings without idealize, but just breathing and staying in present, here. looking beautiful things and share beautiful and nice things. oh yeah, i think it that is

Great looking game, nice music, some technical issues and jank im sure will be fixed with time and i played this at release. My issue with it is its repetitive nature, go to place, and its a fetch quest with a puzzle element in most cases, im sure people love to have a game all about that, but to me i just got bored after 5 hours and i felt like ive had enough, maybe il come back one day but i felt like a game with this particular style and gameplay could had been a shorter more concise game. As im reviewing this game and i have not finished it, be aware that my perspective of the game is from simply playing for 5 hours and not finishing the game, because i got bored of it. Are there more things to game such as its lore and philosophy uncovered through exploration etc? yes, but it does not make it worth for me to continue playing.