Hello Games lied on initial release, took consumers' money and ran for the hills. Never an apology.

No Man's Sky Next is a face-saving operation designed to bring their company back into a reputable position. And it's worked, thousands of gullible people have taken the bait.

The game is still devoid of content, the "procedural" content is at most - comical. The user interface is still horrid, and counter-intuitive. The gathering of resources, by expending significant amounts of resources, is a tedious task that is rarely rewarded. Every time you want to leave a planet surface, even if it's to fly a little further away on that same planet, requires fuel which will deplete extremely quickly and you'll be forced to create more fuel just to do the same thing.

The aliens still ramble nonsensically. Your learning of languages isn't via classes, or books, but through clicking on strange stones on planets. The "story" is, well, non-existant. The aliens in the game are happy to sell away all their ships at a few clicks, but they'll charge exorbitant prices for them - and for little upgrades. The ships also seem to follow a very common design pattern with the few variations relegated to wings, positioning of components and colour.

Free-form gameplay is the core concern, however, of most people. If you enjoy building structures that serve little purpose other than to build other structures, then you're in luck. Though once you get a freighter, it all seems rather pointless.

You'll get communications from random pirates at random points, demanding random amounts of credits, or your cargo to avert an attack - you have six seconds to press numerous keys to respond after which there's no way to communicate again. Or die.

Sentinels function as ecological balancers - as so the wiki says (it's not apparant in the game) and they'll attack you if you harvest resources near them. If you do somehow (easily) aggro them, your only real option is to die as they'll hound you pretty much forever. Alternatively you can leave everything behind and jump system, or sometimes hide in a premade structure and hope that works.

These are all very small fragments of what is wrong with the game. Nothing to say of the numerous gamebreaking, and frustrating glitches, bugs, and crashes that you'll experience.

Don't get too attached to a save, as you could easily lose it. The save function is awkward and saves at random intervals (leaving ships, etc), so make sure you abuse the few save functions available to stop crashes from wiping your progress.

Personally, I wanted to enjoy this game. I wanted to believe that Hello Games had redeemed themselves. They haven't. It's another pile of hot garbage, that a vast amount of people are hailing as amazing. It isn't. They took my money, and I can't get it back. Don't let that happen to you.

Avoid, at all costs.

Hello Games lied on initial release, took consumers' money and ran for the hills. Never an apology. No Man's Sky Next is a face-saving operation designed to bring their company back into a reputable position. And it's worked, thousands of gullible people have taken the bait. The game is still devoid of content, the "procedural" content is at most - comical. The user interface is still horrid, and counter-intuitive. The gathering of resources, by expending significant amounts of resources, is a tedious task that is rarely rewarded. Every time you want to leave a planet surface, even if it's to fly a little further away on that same planet, requires fuel which will deplete extremely quickly and you'll be forced to create more fuel just to do the same thing. The aliens still ramble nonsensically. Your learning of languages isn't via classes, or books, but through clicking on strange stones on planets. The "story" is, well, non-existant. The aliens in the game are happy to sell away all their ships at a few clicks, but they'll charge exorbitant prices for them - and for little upgrades. The ships also seem to follow a very common design pattern with the few variations relegated to wings, positioning of components and colour. Free-form gameplay is the core concern, however, of most people. If you enjoy building structures that serve little purpose other than to build other structures, then you're in luck. Though once you get a freighter, it all seems rather pointless. You'll get communications from random pirates at random points, demanding random amounts of credits, or your cargo to avert an attack - you have six seconds to press numerous keys to respond after which there's no way to communicate again. Or die. Sentinels function as ecological balancers - as so the wiki says (it's not apparant in the game) and they'll attack you if you harvest resources near them. If you do somehow (easily) aggro them, your only real option is to die as they'll hound you pretty much forever. Alternatively you can leave everything behind and jump system, or sometimes hide in a premade structure and hope that works. These are all very small fragments of what is wrong with the game. Nothing to say of the numerous gamebreaking, and frustrating glitches, bugs, and crashes that you'll experience. Don't get too attached to a save, as you could easily lose it. The save function is awkward and saves at random intervals (leaving ships, etc), so make sure you abuse the few save functions available to stop crashes from wiping your progress. Personally, I wanted to enjoy this game. I wanted to believe that Hello Games had redeemed themselves. They haven't. It's another pile of hot garbage, that a vast amount of people are hailing as amazing. It isn't. They took my money, and I can't get it back. Don't let that happen to you. Avoid, at all costs.