Detto 最近的評論

Very good time waster and... idler, as the game's name would suggest. I haven't paid a single cent yet and feel pretty confident that I can see everything the game has to offer without changing that fact. Only complaint that I have, which is kinda normal for those types of games, is that it gets super repetitive and progression is a slog. But overall, for a free game that you can boot up randomly it's good!

Having played the game when it originally released on the PS3 because my PC was poopy at that time left me with good memories of it. So when I now replayed the game on Steam to get the achievements I got a good reminder why Telltale Games where so popular back in the day with this game, Wolf Among Us and even the later Tales of the Borderlands game... they are just good at writing stories or adapting stories into their games.

I know those kind of walk and click simulators aren't everyones coffee but damn is this game fast paced (in context of course), has super good writing with classic cliche moments here and there and amazing characters. Wolf Among Us and The Walking Dead are the games where Telltale was at its peak and you can't tell me otherwise.

You know... for a game that probably started out as a stupid "haha funny joke" game it has grown quite substantial with updates and offers a lot more than you'd think! Doesn't matter if you are good at rhythm games or not, get this game is you wanna toot to your heart's content!

Having the Wario Land 4 title screen as your background is what all true kings and queens strive for.

EDIT 26th Feb: Changed to thumbs down after exploring a bit more and getting into the... "meat"
EDIT 03rd March: Finished the game and saw most this game has to offer!
EDIT 26th March: Two big updates in and another full playthrough later!

The Good

• The game looks gorgeous. I've never seen a better looking forest in any recent game with such a dense and natural feeling atmosphere. The caves also have been completely overhauled since the first game and feel more claustrophobic and dangerous than ever! The seasons and their changes to which cannibals spawn are also great and got patched to arrive and leave more realistic!

• The AI in this game is amazing. The cannibals in The Forest already were a sight to behold but this game enhances it by MILES. More communication with the player, tribes and mutants interacting with eachother, cannibals actually reacting to more things the player does and so on, it's just fun to watch them!

• The building has also been completely revamped and is now super detailed with a lot of freedom but also logical limitations to how and what you can build. While still being able to build basic huts and shelters from prefab blueprints, you are now able to freely build things with logs and sticks in a way more detailed manner than in The Forest. Chop a log in half, shorten it and so on to build various sized buildings and foundations.

• Cannibals now have respawning camps that can spawn with mutants in them, different tribes living there and so on, pretty nice touch and creates a living and breathing overworld! These camps have been made way more vivid and interesting with the first major updates!

• There are 6 "mutants" in this game, all new. None of the old mutants from The Forest return here, which makes sense. But these 6 mutants are very distinct from eachother and all feel super good to fight and watch.

• With the last 2 updates they added more staples from the first game (Hang-Glider, lockable doors, turtle water collector aso.) along with actual bossfights, new caves systems and made the game feel a tad more harder and focused on exploration now!

• The sounds in this game are wonderful. Wind can be loud, trees rustling and mutants and cannibals all sound super realistic (for how real these sounds could be).

The Bad

• Performance issues have been fixed big time, but there is still the occasional lag spike here and there, or some stuff not loading properly. Hopefully the devs will keep optimizing the game!

• While the new building system is amazing and allows for a lot of freedom, it is super finnicky and can cost a nerve or two. Luckily you can easily dismantle things you built so nothing is lost in time, but I certainly had moments where I got super angry at one specific log not wanting to go where I wanted it.

• AI companions are fun and stuff, but the first one is super buggy when it comes to resting. Sometimes sitting down next to a campfire and just spinning on the spot or running away with no task and only coming back 4-5 minutes later with literally NOTHING happening or being done.

• 6 new mutants sound good! Too bad 2 of them are story based and 1 of those 2 you are never able to properly fight and just appears twice in caves and once in a cutscene, never putting up a fight for you as the player. Another mutant only spawns in the overworld after a certain amounts of day passed. The other 3 mutant variants you are more likely to find in caves or in camps, but RARELY roaming the overworld like they did in The Forest. Really a shame, making the game feel waaay more safe than the first one.

• They fixed a lot of sound issues that I complained about, but waterfalls, rivers, birds and wind sometimes just blasts out my eardrums! Also, no volume sliders for different aspects of ambient sounds. Would be nice to get a slider for NPC voices, nature ambience and so on! Please, it's a staple in most games!

• After getting more into the meat of the game and finally finishing it TWICE, I really gotta say... there is not enough to do to justify the big overworld with long travel times. Yes, the bunkers are a nice touch and so are the overworld story elements, but I wish there was a bit more to explore and find out. As they add more story elements with each big update, I'm very optimistic that they might add more interesting stuff to the overworld.

• Speaking story stuff... the whole story is poop and all over the place right now. The devs try to make it more understandable with the added story elements, but the ending still confuses the hell out of me.

Hopefully this will be made more clear as updates come. In conclusion, it is a more update version of The Forest. If you liked The Forest, this game will be massively fun for you. But for people that never touched the forest and expect a good, detailed survival game with horror aspects, you're better off waiting for more patches or the full release.

Overall, I'd give this game a 7.5/10 right now. The two updates really added a good amount of stuff to the game and I'd like to see more of it!

Fantastic presentation, a cat, fun story and writing, great characters, a cat, wonderful, tight gameplay, good choice of music, a cat, beatiful graphics and a cat makes this game an amazing, fun experience that came out of nowhere, including a cat!

This game was revealed AND published on the same day for a reasonably good pricing. Clearly a hidden gem that will gain a lot of attention for just how fun it is to play plus the cat is cool. Already a top game for 2023.

If you are scared that you won't be able to properly play the game because you aren't good with rhythm based gameplay, don't worry. The easy and normal difficulty is forgiving and even with the rhythm feel of a rock, you'll get through the game without major roadblocks on lower difficulties.

100% recommend to check it out. It's the most fun I had in a game from the start since forever.

9/10 + Cat

Greasy graphics that ooze pure handcrafted love. Fast and tight gameplay that doesn't punish you if you want to go slower and just enjoy the game but allows for high octane pizza action.

Clearly it took a lot of inspiration from Wario Land 4 and it's not hiding it which is NOT a bad thing because fans of Wario Land 4 have been flopping on dry land for over 20 years now, so it is more than welcome to have a spiritual successor that is not only amazing in terms of gameplay, but also with wonderful visuals and extremely good and fitting music.

Don't get scared by how fast and precise the gameplay looks, you can also play this game at your own pace without any pressure (except for the rush back to the start of course).

If you like faster paced platformers and pizza, this game is a must have. It really is a Hot-N-Ready game that you should pick up and play.

9/10

Relaxing game, relaxing music and relaxing loop.. damn, it's relaxing!
The simulation beneath it is good too, but very forgiving and not pushy.
You have a lot of options and content at your hand to create whatever you wish, there is a nice little story going on, the DLC is cheap and purely cosmetic AND the game is also reasonably priced!

Only downside is, that there hasn't been any update since October of 2022 and it's still in Early Access. But still, it's already full with content!

EDIT 14.01.23
They put out a substantial 2.9GB patch that fixed a lot of issues and complaints I had! Review is edited likewise!

There will be slight spoilers!

Let's start by stating the obvious: The game is good! So why the negative review? Well, the biggest problem is that it tries to be a full-price AAA title with the advertisement, pricing and everything around it, while actually being a more elaborate indie game at heart. I enjoyed my time in High on Life and still haven't finished it so I can backtrack and go for the 100% completion, but I sadly reached the final threshold very fast and in a matter of around 5-6 hours. But let's just make an easy overview about what I think is good and what I think is bad!

The Good
- We all came into this game to get our classic Roiland humor that we know from Rick and Morty and the game delivers greatly on that! It's either just the guns or NPCs rambling about the most random and weird stuff, the enemies shouting weird lines at you or everything breaking the 4th wall. If you're not a fan of that kind of humor, you'll quickly hate this game.

- Adding to that is the voice acting in this game. Yeah, Roiland can only do one voice and it shows, but hey, it's a familiar one! The other voice actors also do a fantastic job (including the guest star which I won't name/spoil!). Plus, if you ever get sick of all the rambling and weird lines, you can just toggle the frequency of them in the options menu, neat!

- The game now looks fantastic with the right settings! The alien planets feel VERY alien, especially the jungle has such a cool vibe to it. Even the city (while not being that big) gives you a good feeling of actually walking around a buzzing city, especially at night.

- A big part of the wonderful alien feel is the music, which is on point for that game! While it may sound weird at the first listening, I quickly grew attached to it as it greatly compliments the alien enviroments. Don't go in expecting action loaded music or some EDM-stuff like Borderlands 3 did though.

- You "only" have 4 guns and a knife for most of the game. On paper it sounds lackluster, but each gun has its own personality, handling and various mods to even change how their "Trick hole ability" behaves and works. I never felt bored of even using the base gun throughout the whole game, very fun, limited gunplay here!

- Exploring the enviroments is fun and as you unlock more abilities with defeating bosses and just progressing the story you are urged to get back into already visited worlds to explore places you couldn't go before. It's like a metroid game! Backtracking and going for the 100% can get tedious at some point though.

- The bossfights, while feeling lackluster in terms of overall battle quality have unique mechanics each! They are fun for the most part but usually grind back into the "just shoot until it's dead, don't bother with the mechanics" type of fight. Still counting them as a good thing as I had a LOT of fun with them!

The Bad
- The pricing of this game. It's one of the biggest points for the "Not Recommended" here. It just doesn't feel like it should be priced like that at all as it gives me, as a customer, AAA-game expectations and the game just doesn't deliver them. The game is short and people finish the game in less than 7 hours without side tracking. 29.99$ would have been a way better and realistic pricing in my opinion.

- The enemy variety is laughably small. You have your general enemies which come in 5 different flavours, 1-2 planet specific enemy types and that's about it! Even the variety of aliens in the city is minuscle. With just 2 species that roam around the city while your ally and the pawn shop owner are completely different species! Why not make a few more of the populate the city? You know... variety?

- While the gunplay is fun, the fights aren't really the same. There is just so much that the quirky gunplay can save, but having the same boring fights over and over again is just NOT fun. It's a base warping in here, a group of enemies here and there and so on. If they at least had more variety they could've been more experimental with the fights...

- Missable achievements. Yep. I'm gonna complain about that because there is one way that missable achievements can become a pain in the bum: If you can't make seperate saves and are forced to play through the whole game again up until the point where you missed the achievement. Very bad design choice.

- I'm German so I play with German subtitles and dialogue options and let me tell you, the translation crew did mess up big times towards the end of the game, not translating half of the things you can say or the subtitles to what other characters say! Can't speak for other translations though.

The Fixed
- Some graphic settings are missing! Like you can't tone the intense bloom and chromatic abberation down in the settings, this game is super bloomy and shiny, reminding me of early games during the PS3 era where everything looked polished and made out of chrome. You can only partially influence that by editing the Engine.ini file in your AppData folder to change these settings! Has been patched in!

- A lot of potential to softlock yourself, get stuck on the level geometry, not being able to clear out groups of enemies due to some bugging into the ground or walls and basic game functions suddenly not working anymore. Seems to be fixed too, enemies can still bug into the ground but after a bit of time passing they will just count as killed. Also I experienced waaay less bugs and glitches with the games mechanics after the patch!

- Speaking of bugs! A personal hatred for me is that the reload sound doesn't synch up with the animation a lot of times! Partially fixed. There are still audio issues here and there, but not as much and glaring as before. Also! Knifey now actually says stuff when using him and not only randomly when being afk!

TL;DR: A very good game with the humor you'd expect, but with a pricetag that leaves a sour taste in your mouth.

I'd give it a 6/10. If it weren't for the price tag or they add in some endgame content I'd rate it higher for sure. Get it on a sale!

It's relaxing, it looks nice, has a calm soundtrack and is just fun to look at and sink into!


Now if only I wouldn't end up creating tentacle beasts with train tracks or rivers...that'd be nice!