The Long Journey Home

I really like the idea of the game but the controls are horrible. I started tutorial, because I have heard it is difficult to control. But it is also difficult to understand. The tutorial does not explain anything at all. It just says land on the planet. After few attempts to do so (I pressed every key on the keyboard) I noticed that I am supposed to land on different planet than the one where I started. By very weird control I managed to get into the orbit of the another planet, while crashing into it unintentionally. Finally button that allows me to Land appeared. The same repeats during the landing phase. Tutorial tip: Mine some metal. That is it. I spent 30 minutes splashing the module in the water or trying to approach a zone, but I never figured out how to actually mine. Apparently you have to be within three pixels in the mining zone, so it is possible that I never acheived that. Get Starcom: Nexus instead. The premise is similiar, but everything controls fine.

In the future there is no effective fly by wire or autopilot. The lander mechanics are simply bad, the solar system navigation is simply horrific. Although the game looks really interesting and I like the premise of it, the controls are so bad as to make the game all but unplayable and simply un-enjoyable.

The game grabs your interest at the start, and I really wanted to like it. But then you play a handful of hours and realize how many problems it has. The boring grind for rapidly depleting resources for one, the bad design and bugs for others. I save a Wolphax from a derelict ship. I warp to a Wolphax system to let him off at a spaceport. Before I can make it there a Wolphax destroyer accosts me and demands to scan my cargo bay. Apparently the side quest NPC counts as a slave or prisoner, I am immediately accused of such and attacked. I complete a side quest chain and nothing happens. I look up the quest in the wiki and the NPC who is supposed to show up did not. etc etc. The game starts off promising, then gets steadily worse the more you play.

I like the concept, I like SF, everything was so perfect that I didn't hear the reviews. Well, it is true : This game could have been good if it wasn t THAT frustrating. A BAD controllers and a BAD interface. I am so angry right now, cause I can imagine the game it could have been with good controls and interfaces.

The title says it all. Music is nice, once you get used to the controls, gameplay is manageable. I didn't encounter any bugs. However, I didn't encounter any relevant story