an great time, phenomenal pixel-art graphics with some really gorgeous animation and character designs, interesting puzzles and good moment to moment gameplay during dungeons in an similar feeling to top-down Zelda games which I love.

the story and text-box dialogues does get in the way though, not that the story is not interesting it indeed is and I was hooked to see what it was happening to the world and these characters but my god does it get tiring reading and skipping all these dialogue boxes, in Chapter 3 especially get ready to nearly 2 hours of conversations and getting to point A to B.

what makes things worst is that this approach to heavy storytelling hurts the game, imagine if this was more of an top-down Zelda game taking down dungeons with the interesting gameplay this game has and some really intricate overworld, this is not the case with Eastward.

if you like character interactions similar to Undertale you will probably like this but if you expect an Zelda game like the trailers suggest to be you will most likely get bored in the first 2 hours of the game, I still like it my time with it but I was expecting something more playable than what I got.