It's a game that hates you. It will drop you on a planet (usually a Hot Toxic hell hole) that will quickly kill you. While you are dying every couple of minutes, the game taunts you with messages that you can't turn off, telling you that you are dying. Nice. If you try to save yourself some of this dying (and taunting) by using some of the very scarce resources to keep yourself alive a little longer, than you have just totally screwed yourself. How? You now can't fix your ship, since you need the those resources to fix a item on the ship. (the game waits till you use them, then lets you know you need then for your ship). Really nice. In several starts, it's always the same. Toxic planet, temperature 170's degrees, death soon after you start. The really stupid part, once you get in and out of the ship (fixed or not) that is where you will spawn. So walking really far to get needed resources is now out of the question since you will never make it back to the ship with resources to able to fix it. I am a pretty determined person and made past this torture test. Now the really stupid stuff starts. The game "guides" you through the "missions." The problem is, game mechanics seem to be thought up by a 5 yr old. If you like convoluted IU this is your game. The game will tell you to "tag" a place that you are going to. Sounds good, and it is if you a walking there, if you get in your ship all landmarks disappear except a couple that you are not going to. This bring up another sad point, you can never go back to a place you were before. Why? You will never find it, tags go away as soon as you get in your ship so why have them. There are drones that watch over planets, they don't like you doing anything, like gathering resources. Once you are on there bad side you have to let them kill you. If you fight back, they will keep sending more and bigger drones until you are dead. You can leave the planet, and go to space where more drones are waiting for you, hunting you till they get you. Again just another totally stupid game mechanic. (Who was the 5yr old that came up with that.) NMS is nothing more than series of gotcha moments wrapped up to look like a game.
Don't waste your time on this game. After you play for a while you will be constantly attacked by multiple ships. You could defend against this with your own multi ship convoy, but you'll never get the chance, since you need a captain, which never show up. So you are at the mercy of the pirates. I tried doing the pirate thing, but it is boring, all you do is hit next turn forever. Not fun at all. So in the end you can't beat the pirates, being a pirate is mind numbingly boring. A total waste of time and money.
