Cute little game, I finished it (not 100% but played to the story ending) in 4 hours. You gather different materials by exploring, and you earn XP to spend on some skill leveling where you will have everything unlocked by the end. There are many camps you need to find, and build/craft stuff for the campers so they will be satisfied with your park. Got a little annoyed at the jump that isn't the most tight mechanic if you try some platforming. Also a bit cumbersome that the way you need to go is often blocked, so the map is like a big labyrinth where you need to memorise how to best get from one place to another, cause there will be a lot of running back and forth finding things and doing small missions.
Very cool concept, but the actual gameplay is a bit boring and sometimes tedious.
Thought it would be too hard for me (50+) but I just finished it on default difficulty :) Was more fun than I expected - kinda addictive to try again and again until you finish the largest fights. Pretty braindead game though - you probably won't care at all about the story, and you won't find much in the way of physics or other advanced interactivity either. It's just about shooting, and that's pretty fun for 15-20 hours! You have some different upgrade paths so you can play it with your prefered strategy, but in the end you will sort of have everything upgraded anyway. Some environments are pretty cool, and I can't help but wishing it would have been a more serious sci-fi shooter instead - slower paced, real story, more tactics, but oh well...
Right from the start you notice how stiff and clunky this game is. You can not run, you can hardly jump over anything, you get stuck on small obstacles on the ground. You are often locked in by hedges/fences and other stuff (like invicible walls) that shouldn't be a real obstacle in any other game. Also for me it only plays at around 50 fps. Many seem to have 30 fps cap, so don't know what's up with that...I have a 4070 anyway so no reason it shouldn't reach 60... 100% linear. 100% on rails. 100% respawning enemies. 100% clunky and stiff and not very fun at all.
I usually like point & click, unless oldstyle totally unlogical, but did not enjoy this one! Game starts out nice with a great artstyle and humor and voice acting. But then almost all of the map, with load and loads of locations, opens up very soon. And you can start many puzzles at the same time, not knowing what most of them will help you with, cause most of them will be stuff for future needs. As soon as you are stuck, which will be a lot, you will need to visit all these places, over and over, to see if you missed something somewhere, or if a new dialogue option has appeared, or if maybe a person stopping you from entering a room might have disappeared. It gets very very grinding and annoying! Some of the puzzles are a bit mean also I think. Anyway, then comes the ending....love it or hate it I guess, but I thought it was very cheap and hated it very very much!
1/3 of the game is played platforming your way through a young girls diary. You jump on the words and do some puzzles that are simple but fun and don't overstay their welcome. This part is the highlight of the game, cause the story is very good. Sad and cute and heartwarming, very well told and voiceacted. Then we have the other 2/3 of the game, which is played in a fantasyworld of the book she is writing. Here you also have some platforming, but the puzzles here consist of you dragging some "magical" words from a spellbook to overcome obstacles. You might have a large stone blocking your path, so you open the book, drag out "break", and run it over the block a few times and it will shatter. There are a handful of these tricks, and you will do them over and over, and over and over and over and over, the exact same thing! It is so tedious and it never stops, and the story ain't even interresting at all. Buy and play it for the diary part, it's a very good story and simple and fun platforming/puzzles - hopefully you'll endure the fantasy parts - I did, but just barely...
First half was very nice and relaxing, clever puzzles that was not too annoying, no getting lost. Second half started getting on my nerves - several hard puzzles (for me), some even after finding solution on YT because you had to time lots of jumps etc. After getting stuck 3/4 into the game, underwater in a almost totally black area with no lights so I can't see a thing, I quit and watched the ending instead! You can turn yourself to a stoneblock, which is one of few mechanics the game has, to crush stuff below you for various puzzles. I pretty soon tested that when jumping into the water, thinking it would make you sink to the bottom, but it didn't take me deeper at all. Tried multiple times! Later on in the game I got stuck at a place, and guess what the solution was? Turn into that cube and jump into water, cause at that particular place it takes you to the bottom. There were another place, one-time-only in the whole game, where you need a tripple-jump to advance. Nowhere the game teach you that, and I see many others complain about this since you can't do it any other place - not logical at all. Overall annoying game for me, not relaxing, rather frustrating. I came straight from infamously hard Kingdom Come Deliverance, almost thinking it was too easy, but this game was harder and more frustrating....not to compare RPG to platformer, but yeah, strange many think this game is totally chill and not hard at all...
Very cool to be a part of The Expanse universe, with voiceactors from the TV series! If you don't have any knowledge about The Expanse I would not recommend this. Watch the show first and then come back, it's great! Game plays perfect with a controller (probably the prefered way to play), and you can set difficulty/timing for QTE etc, to make it as easy as you want. Story starts of great, but I think the last episodes where not as good as the first ones, but in the end it all was alright and just perfect length (5-6 hours). Woulnd't say it's better than TWD, but still very good, if you enjoy Telltale games.
Immersive and historically accurate game, with VERY good dialogue and voice acting! I held off with this for years, cause I heard it had a very unforgiving save system, and that battles were too hard. I'm 50+ and not too good at fast reactions or perfect coordination, so never thought I'd manage this game since it doesn't have any difficulty settings. Bought it on a sale after many years, and turned out it wasn't bad at all! Save system is pretty generous, there will always be a bed nearby to sleep in (save), and I never was even close to running out of the saviour schnapps you drink to save manually. Melee was no worries either - you just need to be patient and careful first hours, until you've gotten the lessons needed to do all kinds of blocks. Just finished the game after 75+ hours, but I did not do all sidequests and tasks. After 1/2 of the game, when you've seen everything and have all the best gear and know how the game works, some of the excitement and challenge were lost for me, so I focused more on the main story. In the end it all was great though. The ending is alright, not totally abrupt as some are saying, and now we have KCD 2 as well to continue it all :)
I didn't stand more than 20 minutes of this - sound quality of the voices are very bad! Harsh and distorted, not pleasant to listen to. And the main characters are very annoying, don't make me want to spend hours exploring this story. Just my take on it, after 20 minutes - glad most others seem to enjoy it though.
