Probably a quarter of the way into it, and there is not a lot to do. You drive your car, try to avoid crashing into things, deliver illegal packages, and then wait for the next call to deliver something else. Nothing difficult about it really. Kind of a chick game as they have an emphasis on hanging pictures in your apartment for example. No guns so you can't defend yourself, but are asked to deal with dangerous people. I see a real missed opportunity here where a deal goes wrong. Upgrades revolve around your car, such as plastic bumpers so you can take more damage from accidental collisions, and speed boosts for when you are in the freeway traffic corridor. Again, the ability to arm your car is again a missed opportunity. The city itself is cool looking, so kudo's for that, but it is based on small areas and you have to use transition hubs ala 1990 games instead of having one big massive open world. There concept of size is wrong though as they claim the city is 1000 miles high or whatever which is why you have to use them... Space starts at 62 miles people. The story is what attempts to tie all the ends together and make you want to play, but it is not particularly interesting. You are some chick, running from who knows what, trying to get by in a city by being an illegal driver. Add in a dash of wokeism, and that is the recipe. I guess it is something to do on a boring night when it is raining outside for real. The rain in game all the time won't bother you then.
Got so tired of trying to reach certain unreachable points. It has all the potential to be a great zombie game, but they constantly put these boxes around you. My perfect games are ones that allow me to determine the approach I want to take. This one takes that away from you. Two stars as there is some fun to be found, but most of the time, I was bored.
This game is different every time you play it. It is purely sneak survival horror. It is not a FPS where you just blast robots. You have very limited ammo if any at all. Your best bet is just to avoid everyone. If this style is not to your liking, this is not the game for you. You are the one being hunted here... Until you equip yourself to turn the tables... Best part is the procedural generation. There are 5 island types, and 5 islands. You can set each island up as say rural, or industrial for example at the start of the game, and then it will use procedural generation to create that island so you never know where locations or towns or anything is going to be on start. If you don't like your starting island, regenerate it. Problem solved. Anyway, I have beaten this game and it was good fun. I started a new play through last night, and having fun once more. Tip for newbs... Don't bother with the artifact pieces initially. Go find a weapon, preferably an axe. Loot every house you can find. You will quickly gain what you need to survive. Then go look for pieces of the artifact. The reason I say this? The game will get progressively harder the more pieces you find. Why? The robots will put ever more resources against you to prevent you from escaping the closer you are to escaping.
Still getting used to the controls, but they are decent. You have the option between mouse aiming or using the keyboard. I am going with mouse aiming. Lots of 2D freedom in this game from first impressions. Story is OK with you waking up and not knowing what happened, followed by an escape from an exploding space station? The story won't win any awards, but it is good enough to describe why and what. Linux users: Saw reports of it not working well, but I am not experiencing the same. It works great on my machine via Lutris using the 7.2.2 runner. The only thing I had to install was xna40 via Winetricks. Nothing else was listed in the log files, so after the xna40 installation, it worked great! No performance problems. OS: Manjaro.
Running via Linux / Lutris. Widescreen fix found in the GoG forums: https://www.gog.com/forum/robin_hood_legend_of_sherwood/widescreen/post19
I wasn't initially giving it as much credit as it deserves, but if you are looking for that Civilization version of Weird Worlds Return to Infinite Space type play, this is exactly that. You can win in an hour. Great short time killer as that hour will go fast. I see some reviews that say it is a bad Civ clone. This is not what it is. This is something where if you don't want to spend days or weeks beating it, this is that game. What I find most intriguing is you must spend each turn thinking. You know that mid game when you are waiting for something in Civ and clicking turns waiting for it? That doesn't happen here. Every single move must be thought out so that you can maximize return on the resources you have as you know the AI is going to. Something about the short play that gets you to try different strategies that you just don't get in Civ. Love it. Linux users - Works great in Lutris... But you all already knew that. E-Sync messes it up though, so disable that. It is coming to the point that Linux users just expect things to work, and many times on some of these classics, it just works better than Windows. Figured I'd mention it anyway for those that care.
Figured I'd write one more thing here that just popped into my mind... Can someone limit the number of cores this game uses to 1 and retry starting it? I forgot to try that after I bought it and I already refunded it. My guess is that it is one of those games that crashes if you have more than one core available.
Finally got normal widescreen fixed on this via Proton in Lutris and the widescreen fix found here: https://thirteenag.github.io/wfp#hd2 For Lutris users, add the the DLL override d3d8.dll and the value n,b and this will force it to use the dll provided in the widescreen patch. Note I did try UWD 21:9, but at 3840x1600 you start to get some fisheye look to it, so I backed it off to a 16:9 aspect ratio. Anyway, fun game if you like sneaking around and blowing things up. Thumbs up.
