Recent reviews by DaveyTheDuck

really really fun with friends. the nightlords are awesome

my only complaint is that this isnt MORE of an asset flip. i hope they add more dark soul trilogy asset flip bosses because they're genuinely super cool to see and it's awesome seeing them with new models and moves.

worst game i've ever played (affectionate)

really charming world and story, strikes a good balance of funny and serious. music is great and the platforming is pretty neat. It has some jank but I genuinely believe this game is worth your time! for me, a solid 9/10!

7.5/10. Better than downpour in a lot of ways but also suffers from the same mistakes. The new creatures and (most) of the regions are easily the highlight of the dlc, theres a lot more creativity in this than in downpour where 80% of it is really bland variants. The gameplay really recaptures the feeling of the original game, just wandering around not knowing what to do and i loved that. putting this slugcat in a completely new setting freshened things up a lot. I was expecting this to play the exact same as the other campaigns and having to go through 5 pebbles for the billionth time and was pleasantly surprised. Also the music is great but that goes without saying (I do miss the OG Badlands threat theme though). I think this campaign has way more replay value than anything basegame and I appreciate that a lot.

However there's an extreme lack of cohesion in this campaign thanks to the new method of traversal. Despite these new regions being very easy to link together, a new method of region traversal was chosen. Yes it's cool but it really took me out of it. It felt like i was just selecting levels in a game rather than exploring a new hemisphere of rain world or something. It also made getting to a region you want really annoying, as passages are disabled and these things arent marked on the map. Also the story itself is confusing which I expected, but I was hoping it wouldnt be saint all over again and it kinda turned out to be the case, (not as bad though). Watcher doesnt do anything in this campaign, you could skip the opening cutscene and beat the game and it would feel the exact same. The 2 endings feel completely disconnected from each other (and one of them is so unnecessarily tedious) The First ending is honestly kinda sweet, but again, its not really an ENDING for watcher more like a quest. The second ending is more ending-like, but is extremely cryptic in its meaning and honestly not worth the work you have to go through to get it. I dont really like what it's implying lore wise also. Also some of the vfx, although cool, were extremely distracting from the gameplay. fingers crossed updates can fix this?

Also another gripe i have is that in the offical soundtrack for this dlc, the threat themes play all the layers at once immediately instead of building them up and it makes the songs not only shorter but way less engaging.

I'm only about 8 hours in and honestly thing this is a must play scifi game. If you love outerwilds or space exploration in general you're love this.

Fun for a good 7 hours but it got really repetitive after a while and grindy.

really silly ending

with how meta it is, idk how to really review this game. its good tho.

I have never in my life played this game unmodded

extremely fun game, only downside is an annoying cat and one boss with 5 trillion health