Recent reviews by JNat

Decent game, with really neat hand-drawn characters and backgrounds. It's described as a "action-exploration" game but (as other reviews noted already) the game is like 80% walking... but it's not quite exploring, since there's not much to be discovered. It's really, just... walking, 'til you get to the bosses. And other than the bosses there isn't much else to fight either.

Anyway, I recommend it if you want something that's not too time consuming, with some neat looks. The bosses are also relatively challenging, particularly if you're looking to go 100% on the achievements — there's plenty to be had, really.
If you're looking for something more involved — particularly, story-wise — I'd avoid it.

The game is easy, and pretty short — I was able to clear it in a single run, which is really unusual for me. Despite that, though, I still enjoyed it immensely: the soundtrack was immersive; the artwork was beautiful; and without a single word being spoken, I was still able to feel a connection with the character... and the "boat" :)

Really enjoyed this one. The story and the world have depth to 'em (you can explore a map for a bunch of lore, which helps there), and your choices actually matter (lost my best fighter because I tried to save some supplies, for instance). The game can be somewhat hard: since supplies are important and hard to get, and they're obtained with the same "stat" you use to level up characters (renown), choices need to be made there too — and battles aren't easy either!

Excited to go for the sequel, especially since it appears you actually continue from your own story — as in, the choices you made, and the leveling up and all that, matter and progress through to the sequel.

I bought this game after a long time trying to decide between it, DayZ and Rust. I ended up choosing this one, but I don't quite remember what made me choose this one over the others. Maybe the price may have had some influence, since this is the cheaper one of the three, and back then I don't think there were many negative reviews for the game either. I haven't played any of the other two games, so I can't really compare them - not a problem anyway, since this review is for this game.

As many other reviews out there have pointed out, the game mechanics, graphics and design are all pretty good. The monsters are well designed, the atmosphere is pretty cool and intense. Most of the time you're all alone running around, and won't find anyone for over half an hour, or hear anything other than your steps, wind and some random Nether sounds in the distance - or sometimes right in front of you out of the blue. Nothing of that was a problem for me, those are all positive aspects in my opinion.
However, most of the times, after all that time running around completely alone, when you do see someone, you're gonna get killed. Not only for the first time. ALWAYS. You'll get killed by other players much more than by Nethers. Guns are very hard to come by, which does not help. More experienced players - I only have about 8.3 hours played - will have better weapons, and you won't stand a chance against them. I found that the game lacks a sense of community, something I was looking for when I was trying to make up my mind between the three games - the reviews on the other ones seem to point to there being a little more sense of community in either of those.
There are missions you can do that will earn you items, money or experience points, which you can use for crafting new weapons and whatnot. All very fine, except for the fact that you'll be running some 15 minutes or so to try to complete them, only to find more experienced players - thus with weapons you don't stand a chance against - camping and predating on you on the arrival point.

So overall, the game is not bad and is very fun for the first 4 to 6 hours or so. But after that, I became terribly tired of getting randomly - and ALWAYS - killed by other players. If you're looking for a good sense of community - which was what I was looking for - I do not recommend this game. However, if none of the above bothered you, than you should play this game. Once again, the gameplay, graphics, design and whatnot are all pretty good - I'd say about 7 or 8 out of 10.

Overall - 3/10 - mostly because it gets old pretty quickly...