I really tried to enjoy this but the experience is very lacking. it has neat ideas and a fairly pretty presentation but many of its ideas just fell short and others just are sort of left hanging like they didn't know how they wanted to finish it.

The map grid concept, while neat at first and the game's unique leg to stand on, ends up getting extremely annoying due to the biome transition pieces and being unable to really link things together cleaverly unless you massively plan in advance. The mountain tiles are also pretty much worthless as you cannot walk through them in any way, so this "band aid" tile to connect drastically different biomes really doesn't help you at all. Also the fact you need to spawn new tiles to do the bounty board quests is highly irritating resulting in highly cluttered maps that you'll need to delete tiles from constantly.

On the topic of the bounty board, this was clearly made to try to deal with the games' somewhat lacking in things to do with tasks and rewards. This didn't really work as its extremely grindy to progress the bounty board past level 10 cause the exp for clearing bounties doesn't keep up with the curve at all, I think I got into the early 30s and there was still rewards to be earned but I sort of had enough at that point and couldn't make myself bother with it any further, the combat really didn't help with this as melee combat has such a terrible delay and clunky-ness to it its very hard to use, and ranged needs a lot of time wasting farming to build up stocks of ammo. Not saying its impossible to do combat in this game, just its got a very high learning curve you have to adjust to that doesn't feel very rewarding.

Lastly the story..... God this story practically goes nowhere, and it felt extremely pretentious. Being pretty much the chosen one for no real reason to solve a problem out of time and space that really goes as quick as it came, it felt extremely anticlimatic and rushed. like it was trying to reach an end as quick as it could. I dunno if this game was ever in early access, but it certainly feels like it was and tried to be a 1.0 just to say it was and be done with it

I dunno, there's worse games than this certainly, but this really wasn't as good as I hoped. its definitely never a full price game. The sale would have to be extremely good if you bother.

I really tried to enjoy this but the experience is very lacking. it has neat ideas and a fairly pretty presentation but many of its ideas just fell short and others just are sort of left hanging like they didn't know how they wanted to finish it. The map grid concept, while neat at first and the game's unique leg to stand on, ends up getting extremely annoying due to the biome transition pieces and being unable to really link things together cleaverly unless you massively plan in advance. The mountain tiles are also pretty much worthless as you cannot walk through them in any way, so this "band aid" tile to connect drastically different biomes really doesn't help you at all. Also the fact you need to spawn new tiles to do the bounty board quests is highly irritating resulting in highly cluttered maps that you'll need to delete tiles from constantly. On the topic of the bounty board, this was clearly made to try to deal with the games' somewhat lacking in things to do with tasks and rewards. This didn't really work as its extremely grindy to progress the bounty board past level 10 cause the exp for clearing bounties doesn't keep up with the curve at all, I think I got into the early 30s and there was still rewards to be earned but I sort of had enough at that point and couldn't make myself bother with it any further, the combat really didn't help with this as melee combat has such a terrible delay and clunky-ness to it its very hard to use, and ranged needs a lot of time wasting farming to build up stocks of ammo. Not saying its impossible to do combat in this game, just its got a very high learning curve you have to adjust to that doesn't feel very rewarding. Lastly the story..... [spoiler]God this story practically goes nowhere, and it felt extremely pretentious. Being pretty much the chosen one for no real reason to solve a problem out of time and space that really goes as quick as it came, it felt extremely anticlimatic and rushed. like it was trying to reach an end as quick as it could. I dunno if this game was ever in early access, but it certainly feels like it was and tried to be a 1.0 just to say it was and be done with it[/spoiler] I dunno, there's worse games than this certainly, but this really wasn't as good as I hoped. its definitely never a full price game. The sale would have to be extremely good if you bother.