Looks fucking great! I should be exhausted by indies cribbing from the BotW the aesthetic of glowing blue tendrils of light, but the new things that Windbound does with its look really elevate it - the player character looks amazing, the clouds and water look excellent, and the Nautilus god is a really sticky piece of imagery that keeps coming back into my mind when I’m not even thinking about video games

Shouldn’t have played this on the Switch because it runs pretty badly and the feeling of jankiness infects the mechanics making them feel much worse than they probably are - the crafting and inventory stuff isn’t very fun or intuitive, but the feeling of slowly improving your boat is really cool and scratches a part of my brain that loves the idea of subsistence and the making of functional items

Combat is unfortunately dogshit, and dying forcing you to restart from chapter one in the base difficulty is stupidly punishing without having a strong enough foundation to encourage mastery

It was on sale for 2 bucks on the eshop, and finding such a full-featured little budget game when I wasn’t really looking for one was a nice surprise! I’ve definitely got my eye on whatever the devs do next even if I was pretty mixed on it overall