This game hates you and will do everything in its power to make you lose your grip on sanity. That's why it's a special, one of a kind game.
It took me 8 months to finish the game, having gone through various moments of stalling due to not coming into terms with the gameplay loop. Right off the bat, it drops you into a wildly unforgiving world, with damn near zero direction and a vague opening cinematic that doesn't do much to fuel motivations. It's a tough game to recommend, having said all this, but it's no lie to say it's an exceptional game.
Rain world consists of a very unsteady progression path of regions of various unique ecosystems of flora and fauna, everything affecting the way you traverse and survive, from food sources to predators, and to apprehending fellow creatures to use to your own benefit. Despite how possibly unfair the world seems, it never fails to provide the tools towards the path of success, it's cleverly designed in that way where it greatly emphasizes perception and observation of the environment, the process of learning routes and rooms through trial and error, and a great dash of improvisation and experimentation in the mix to survive the wilds. It's like a strange combination of puzzle and platforming at every step of the way.
My issues with the game are few. One of them being the camera, which can be especially awful in moments of vertical movement, turning particular sections downright terrible experiences when you're at the whims of the ai and camera screwing you over.
Another, is a bit more of a nitpick, but I did feel the game going on for a bit too long by the end. Some of the final sections didn't feel different enough to be worth whole areas.
Rain world is awfully hard to get into, but once you do get into the grip of the mechanics and the gameplay loop which demands and rewards player effort and ingenuity.
It took me 8 months to finish the game, having gone through various moments of stalling due to not coming into terms with the gameplay loop. Right off the bat, it drops you into a wildly unforgiving world, with damn near zero direction and a vague opening cinematic that doesn't do much to fuel motivations. It's a tough game to recommend, having said all this, but it's no lie to say it's an exceptional game.
Rain world consists of a very unsteady progression path of regions of various unique ecosystems of flora and fauna, everything affecting the way you traverse and survive, from food sources to predators, and to apprehending fellow creatures to use to your own benefit. Despite how possibly unfair the world seems, it never fails to provide the tools towards the path of success, it's cleverly designed in that way where it greatly emphasizes perception and observation of the environment, the process of learning routes and rooms through trial and error, and a great dash of improvisation and experimentation in the mix to survive the wilds. It's like a strange combination of puzzle and platforming at every step of the way.
My issues with the game are few. One of them being the camera, which can be especially awful in moments of vertical movement, turning particular sections downright terrible experiences when you're at the whims of the ai and camera screwing you over.
Another, is a bit more of a nitpick, but I did feel the game going on for a bit too long by the end. Some of the final sections didn't feel different enough to be worth whole areas.
Rain world is awfully hard to get into, but once you do get into the grip of the mechanics and the gameplay loop which demands and rewards player effort and ingenuity.