Good game, but has issues
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-.
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