03/12/14 initial release review. What this game needs: Massive Patching. What it needed: More testing. My rating: A 1 and a 5, but mostly a 1. Why: While I can save just fine, and flying around via grapple hook or ship is fun; everything else largely isn't. The difficulty curb doesn't really exist. You can die doing pretty much anything from walking to pausing to lightly bumping your ship into a wall which sends it careening three maps over into a cliff wherein it explodes in such a fashion that Michael Bay would be mildly disappointed... The NPC's are useless and barely interactive at best, the AI is retarded, the graphics are glitchy, there is little to no properly done compression making it a laggier experience than a full 3D game, mining for resources is a long and grueling process at points that will make the game feel tedious, building a ship takes forever and feels sloppy... It's a game with GREAT potential and poor execution. It's better described as a generic side scroller with some Worms 2, Terraria/Don't Starve/Minecraft, early Ultima, and so on... In otherwords, it's not Contra, it's an overly complicated mess that needed to be smoothed out and refined a lot more to properly mesh.
If you are into to an uphill battle for survival that only gets rougher as you go, this game might be for you. Take it slow, and get used to all the things that are trying to kill you (including yourself.). Then if it seems to be too easy, go through Maxwell's Teleportato to initiate your first "challenge" - be warned though... You may only survive a few seconds at first as you freeze to death or get stomped out by a three story tall deerclops that follows you throughout the land. It's a macabre story full of death, starvation, and insanity with you as the puppet. Or if that's all too much to read. Basically it's a 2.5D survival game vaguely comparable to Minecraft. The biggest differences are that it's less about the creativity and interactivity, and more about the strategy and survival.
