this game is amazing, i love the immersion of seeing the results of my choices, i relish seeing the connections between the characters. All in fun, enjoying the creator's attention to the small details. You love Jill? enjoy the scene where you worked to get the main character to declare his love. You don't have an interest in Jill? enjoy the scene where she burns Tybalt down to the ground. Love it
In the midst of previews and Sean Murray interviews, I watched the gameplay, and I found myself seeing a game that resembled previous games I played. I saw a game akin to Artdink's Aquanaut's Holiday and Tail of the Sun, games that had very unique and (for the time) pretty scenery but no significantly deep gameplay. In Aquanuat's Holiday you explored and mapped the ocean floor, and in Tail of the Sun you glided through the vast primitive landscape consuming items and slowly evolving your tribe. Here in the infant NMS, you were simply observing and experiencing planets with minimal interaction partaking in mining, enduring the various environments, or battling angry sentinels. I logged 80 hrs of gameplay before burning out and losing interest in just under a year. Now I re-downloaded the game and endured the forced survival scenario/tutorial and realized the added complexities added to the game, and feel the eagerness to begin again my trek through the universe. I play wide-screen and every lift-off gives me a rush of vertigo as I leave a planet and point my craft towards the next star.
