Played this on the xbox way back. Updated graphics look good. Sound is solid. Story leaves some to learn as you play through instead of giving the whole picture upfront. Gameplay is a mix of first and third person view which you can switch between at will. Your crossbow can only be used in first person. Third person is mostly used for runing around, talking and bagging bounties. I only have two issues with this game. First is the controls. Keyboard works fine. The game launcher does not auto configure a game controler and has to be configure manually. This is a minor issue for older games in my book and I did not have any issues getting the launcher to see or configure my xbox one controler. It even creates a custom option for the controler so I can go back to default if I need to. Second is an issue with nvidia drivers. Threaded optimazation caused the game to crash when loading a saved game. Took a minute to find this fix. Go into the Nvidia control panel and select a specific game. If the game is not listed, use the browse button to add stranger.exe from the game folder. Set threaded optimazation to off and start the game. Works great after this adjustment. A minor note. Some players have posted about turning off the graphic settings in the game and using the game specific GPU settings instead. Some get better visuals and performance. I'm happy with the way it looks with out this and I don't think I will be bothering with settings too much. Hope this helps, Stranger.
Overall loving it. Art style is great, game play has a nice pace and the audio is welll done. The story is presented in the for of people talking to you and messages in a bottle you find throughout the ocean. A sense of urgency is conveyed by how crazy your character is becoming seeing objects on the water, which gets reduced by resting instead of fishing. The most enjoyable part of the game, to me, is the boat. The way the game presents you living, working, and upgrading your fishing boat leaves me with a feeling that this is my boat.
