KingIsaacLinksr
2020
What starts off on a high note with its otherworldly soundtrack, interesting narrative and feeling like you're exploring an alien ocean drags itself to a hault by the third hour. The clunky traversal system means you spend most of the game waiting to get to your destination. And the overwhelming amount of text thrown at you can get super tiresome. It sort of has some survival mechanics but they are easy to manage and ignore. Where they just shouldn't have existed.
I don't like criticizing games that are different like this but this really should have been a book. Or even a visual novel but there is just so little visual storytelling going on. To the point where I skipped large amounts of world building because it was large text info dumps. Which don't really do anything for the marrative and arguably hurts the world building.
Exploring alien oceans is one of the things I enjoy most in gaming but In Other Waters it was mostly exploring the world in my mind and listening to the music. That makes it hard to recommend.
I don't like criticizing games that are different like this but this really should have been a book. Or even a visual novel but there is just so little visual storytelling going on. To the point where I skipped large amounts of world building because it was large text info dumps. Which don't really do anything for the marrative and arguably hurts the world building.
Exploring alien oceans is one of the things I enjoy most in gaming but In Other Waters it was mostly exploring the world in my mind and listening to the music. That makes it hard to recommend.
HZD has one of the most masterfully crafted open world maps from a AAA developer since...well, ever. If you ignore Zelda: Breath of the Wild at any rate. Still, the extreme beauty of the world and small variety of challenges works together to leave an impression.
It's a little undercut by the fact that the game is far too bloated and the inventory system is a mess. Plus, the constant collecting of herbs and slaughtering an entire jungle's worth of animals to stay alive got old 20 hours in. Constantly switching between weapons and armors gets old after 40 hours of gameplay and I found myself uninterested in tackling The Frozen Wilds expansion if it was just going to be more of the same but harder.
I would rather end the game on a high note than continue and have it become a seemingly unending grind.
It's a little undercut by the fact that the game is far too bloated and the inventory system is a mess. Plus, the constant collecting of herbs and slaughtering an entire jungle's worth of animals to stay alive got old 20 hours in. Constantly switching between weapons and armors gets old after 40 hours of gameplay and I found myself uninterested in tackling The Frozen Wilds expansion if it was just going to be more of the same but harder.
I would rather end the game on a high note than continue and have it become a seemingly unending grind.
I mean, it is what it says on the tin. Another personal brief stint in this weird dreamcore/glitchy part of the internet and it's always a little more odd.
Crashed several times to an annoying degree and overall get why this is such a beloved franchise. For me though, putting more time into it would require something more...
2016
Truly NMS is constantly the game I am impressed by and the most frustrated by. This new Endurance update gave Freighters a hell of an uplift in usefulness. And its great! It's what I wanted!
But then I got a new Freighter and it didn't transfer my old base to it. A bug. And so many times my enthusiasm for this game will be undercut by bugs like these and it is just so frustrating. That is hours of tinkering and tweaking my home just gone. And I am so sick and tired of this issue constantly coming up that I am retiring this game forever. I just can't trust that my work and effort won't just disappear because some random bug intervened.
I really, really want to like No Man's Sky. But this is just the final straw.
But then I got a new Freighter and it didn't transfer my old base to it. A bug. And so many times my enthusiasm for this game will be undercut by bugs like these and it is just so frustrating. That is hours of tinkering and tweaking my home just gone. And I am so sick and tired of this issue constantly coming up that I am retiring this game forever. I just can't trust that my work and effort won't just disappear because some random bug intervened.
I really, really want to like No Man's Sky. But this is just the final straw.