Senaste recensioner av Luluwu

it's really good but I suck at it.

- stunning to look at
- tight, clean mechanics
- fantastic audio

ugly, clunky, slow.

tutorial is slow, painful and not engaging.

camera controls are very "wtf", it has a forced birds eye camera which sorely limits your ability to see anything, you can rotate but can't pan, tilt or zoom.

this would have been cool 20 years ago.

refund requested after 21 agonising minutes of gameplay.

cool premise, crap mechanics.
combat has WAY too much RNG.

Sun Tzu Says:
"everything I know about strategy, I learned from Eve Online"


I've been playing on and off since 2003 so I'm probably a little biased when I say that Eve is one of the most incredible games ever made. unique, saddening, infuriating and oh so satisfying. joy and sadness in equal parts. like life.

very very few games have the potentially to truly make you fear your own death.
very few MMORPG's truly create an alternate world where you can literally do anything you want and be whoever you want to be.

it's totally unique.

HORRIBLY STEEP LEARNING CURVE AHEAD (I mean like a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cliff) and a strong reliance on community (not necessarily for play, but if you don't talk to people it can be a very lonely universe)

its easily the most fun VN I've ever played.

it's silly, funny, totally adult and incredibly repayable.

love this game so much!

no idea why this is so popular or why people are implying its anything different.
utterly generic, incredibly ugly (screenshots do not give an accurate representation of quite how dated this game looks)

no idea why the reviews are flooded with people saying "it doesn't play like an Early Access game", it very much does. hit boxes are messy, animation and textures are all either very bad or placeholder, the building system is awkward and messy. (unless you want to make boxes, then it works)
standard chop the trees, hack the rocks build the things loop. I get why people are hooked by the compulsion loop, cos that's what it is, but there isn't anything remotely new or creative going on here.

totally not ready for public consumption. its a pure jankfest at the moment and runs like trash.

my 40 minutes was plenty enough to see the games gaping holes, and there are plenty of reviews from people with many more hours who totally agree, except they didn't have the sense to refund while they still could.

I'll check back in 3 years, but now the devs have made their money it will almost certainly get abandoned in EA like most of these games do.

edit 1: replaced "EA" with Early Access to avoid confusion
edit 2: corrected an amusing typo

can't ride uphill or off-road,

does nothing to fix the hugely oversized and empty map.

plays like a rough early access game.
no idea how they have the audacity to call this released, and to charge so much for it.

very clearly designed as a multiplayer game and has no focus on single player at all (there is no way to pause it for example)

no reason to explore as the BONKERS OVERSIZED MAP is empty and so repetitive. (every house falls into one of two design styles, the bunkers are all made of the same assets, even the barns all have the same "random toilet" in them)
there are only about 15-20 lootable items in the entire game, so looting feels totally pointless and unrewarding. there is no treasure hunt feeling as all you will get is more of the same.

everything is too big, there are no vehicles (except a bike that my character rides like a granny) so 90% of the gameplay is running from point A to B (very slowly as you have horribly slow movement for a game of the size)

the crafting system is totally pointless because all you can do is horde ingredients and dismantle stuff, there don't appear to be any crafting recipes unlocked without finding them needle in a haystack style.

I really can't stress enough how big and empty the map is.

all the missions are "go here click this" which is fine untill you get out the "starter area" and its a bonkers distance it wants you to travel on foot with the most HORRIBLE STAMINA REGEN (even with all 4 skill points in stamina).

the gunplay is so so, nothing special but not overly terrible.

there are no survival mechanics, the only thing you eat is first aid kits.

the balance is totally off, there is LOADS of ammo and Medkits because the larger enemies are bullet sponges and everything does too much damage. this doesn't make it hard, just tedious.

so many things are unfinished, the ONLY thing in the world you can interact with is doors, there are ladders everywhere that you can't climb.

the one thing I can really get behind is the design of the robots, which is super cool and super good, just a shame they aren't in a good game.

yeah, I played this a lot, finished it twice, I now feel justified in posting what I felt from day one: meh.

*MILD SPOILER WARNING*

I mostly feel that if they had been a WHOLE LOT more honest in the marketing this wouldn't have been such a let down.
the game boasted that it wouldn't make me feel uncomfortable as a Gay man, yet the only gay romance option was forced and so late on that all other romance options had been and gone (plus he's a ♥♥♥♥ and old, why would I want to date him when RIVER IS SO ♥♥♥♥ HOT?, why is River not gay???) I find the idea that basically every single gay person in this is a sexy skinny lesbian totally reductive, given we already know hetero men have no issue with seeing women kiss, but I feel like the one act of bravery they could have done was be inclusive here, it isn't. Why is there only one gay character, why is he a ♥♥♥♥? why is he first introduced as having sexual acts in a public place? (we really don't need these kind of harmful tropes in games, given how under-represented gay men already are in games)

I found myself sleeping with a woman pretty early on against my wishes as a player and the game didn't let me skip any of the (many) sex scenes. I DID NOT WANT to sleep with this character and only went to meet her cos I thought it would be a side quest, not a forced sex scene which totally undermined my agency as a player.

it was nice to have a trans character, even if it felt totally forced and tokenism there was no statement on transgender rights as a whole or it's place in this world which seems quite relevant?

I feel like the biggest failing of this game is being totally afraid to make any kind of political statement on anything, despite how deeply political the subject matter is.
Johnny Siverhand's "anti-corpo" ♥♥♥♥ really never progresses past "♥♥♥♥ Arasaka" and never actually makes a statement on class war.
totally cowardly. I don't care that Poland is homophobic at the moment.

I found the abject lack of customisation for ANYTHING (cars, body, augs, guns etc) totally perplexing, given how hard this concept was pushed in the marketing and how common these textures and models already are in the game.
HATE YOUR MEAT - I do, let me go get a bionic arm, oh wait, I can't.
can't even paint my car black!

there is literally an ENTIRE SKILL TREE MISSING which is pretty clear from the UI.

as for gameplay, the gunplay is a bland cover shooter with a (poorly) disguised level locking system which makes free roaming totally unfun as most enemies you're "not supposed to be fighting yet" are insane bullet sponges who kill you in 3 shots (played on hard) this is NOT the combat that was advertised.
I found most of the open world experience to feel like a generic ubisoft sandbox collectathon. no reason to go to an area once you've ticked the boxes.
the world feels lifeless and flat, none of the NPC's do anything at all meaningful or behave in believable ways.

there are some very heavy handed "choices" in the game, with little middle ground or room for meaningful character choice. I had to pick between two binary moral options (both have zero consequence anyhow) more than once, and neither felt "true" to the character I had decided to be.

I didn't kill anyone I could avoid, and the vast majority of my weapons were non lethal, why is V still so willing to massacre people without hesitation when this is so clearly not how I'm playing it. I felt totally mis-sold on the concept of player agency which was so heavily marketed "be yourself, face consequences etc"

I can't stress enough that there is ZERO consequence to your actions, you can slaughter hundreds of people from a gang and still get their missions, you can date anyone (if your body is selected correctly) regardless of what you've done before, as long as you pick the right dialogue options.

as for the "major update" it's just some standard bugfixes, the fact that it's 5gb speaks volumes for just how broken this game's code is.

the only part of the game with any love and care is chapter one, which if I'm being cynical makes me feel like they made sure the bit of the game you do before you write a review (or can get a refund) is the best made. once you get out of the first area there is a drastic dip in world quality.

finally, WHERE THE HELL IS MY DIGITAL GWENT?

the good:
- Storytelling
- some very charming side quests
- Voice Acting
- Graphics (when working)
- the endings I've seen were satisfying.

the bad:
- gunplay
- driving
- zero consequences to actions
- main story FAR too short
- very little variation or meaning to backstory choice

the ugly:
- buggy
- no post-game content
- full of placeholder graphics (take away bags)
- zero customisation beyond initial character generation
- AWFUL balance (enemies have one shot snipers which penetrate cover etc)
- very repetitive
- dishonest marketing.

it's a Recettear clone, except without the compelling story and cute characters.
it has a less developed shop/selling system and equally uninspiring combat.

this game is devoid of originality. the artstyle is kinda nice as is the audio, but neither are in any way groundbreaking or unique.

I enjoyed it, but it descended into pure grind pretty fast and has no end-game content at all (the end game is NOW START AGAIN)