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Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 32.9 hrs on record (23.9 hrs at review time)
Posted: 13 Aug, 2016 @ 5:47pm
Updated: 14 Aug, 2016 @ 4:11pm

Advantages
- Exploring the stars and all the different systems.
- Beautiful scenery ( good for screenshot ♥♥♥♥♥♥ ;).)
- Can keep you addicted for hours.
- Has a set goal ( get to the centre of the universe.)
- 18 quintillion planets, endless exploration for those users who love to explore.
- Space battles against Space pirates is fun
- When you die, you drop your loot on your body and it's marked on your HUD so you can get your items back.
- Learning the language of all the different races of aliens and then deciphering their sentences with the words you've learnt.
- Finding planets that have rare resources on and farming for hours
- Good time waster, if you want a day to go past quick, play this game.
- Easy crafting system.
- Icons when scanning are easy to get the hang of, so you know where the Zinc/Platinum is.
- Upgrade laser/suit and ship with necessary upgrades that can make your journey better.
- Naming planets and animals and other things such as plants and rocks is very entertaining although no profanity :(... But naming planets is very cool if you are clever with it.
- Scanning all the species of animals on a planet will give you a bonus of credits which can help begginers out a lot.

Disadvantages
- No real indication of what to do in the story... Not enough information to know what's going on.
- Who's atlas?
- When uploading the planets and animals ect... It can take a while as you might have a lot to upload.
- When you get to a planet that has pearls on gravition balls, the Sentinels are aggressive and they sent elite sentinels after you, which is super annoying as they don't go away and kill you a lot when farming money.
- The controls are very hard and not accurate for the mouse and keyboard when flying your ship through space and planets atmospheres.
- You need a lot of money if you want to upgrade your ship massively.
- Random drops in FPS, which means you have to find a save point and quit the game.
- When Alt+Tabbed out of the game, you're unable to re open the game. So you have to close the game down.
- When buying a ship, you could be waiting hours until you find a ship you want to buy. Although it's a cool idea to have the ships flying in from outer space, it does take a while.

In my opinion the game is amazing and worth every penny, it is a very well made game. Although there were/are a lot of bad reviews at the initial release due to the FPS being awful and not a playable game, Hello Games took action and brought an update out within a few hours fixing most of the problems, yet there are a lot of issues surrounding the game, it is playable. I am certain there will be more updates in the near future which will fix some of the bugs surrounding the game and making it much more user friendly.

What happens at the start?
Basically you start of on a random planet, could be any biome/ weather; and It looks like you crashed your ship. From here you go onto your inventory and see that your ship needs repairing and it asks you to go out and get the most basic resources to fix the ship, through this process it gets to you craft which is helpful as it can be quite stressful not understanding how to craft.
Once you've fixed your ship you can venture of into space and explore to your hearts content. But it is keen on getting you to build a Hyper drive which is very important in the game. This allows you to warp to other universes and discover a lot more in the universe... From meeting different races of aliens, go different planets/biomes to even finding moons to land on.

Aim of the game?
Well everyone should know, the main aim of the game is to get to the centre of the universe and no one knows what's there yet. That's the whole secret... Which has got met hooked since I want to know! But there is another way, you can follow Atlas, I have no clue who they are... But they give me Atlas Stones which are worth a lot. But if you are aiming to complete the game, I would keep them as they are a big part of the story.

Atlas is love, Atlas is life. Obey the Atlas, Praise be.
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1 Comments
Marigold 29 Aug, 2024 @ 11:23am 
Wow,your review is on point! So much info and thought put into it. I'm seriously impressed. Keep it up! 💖👏