Recent reviews by DMBlackheart

Story - 2/10

The game lacks direction. Most things are pretty vague. A few lines are kinda funny / cute. But there's nothing here.

Combat - 0/10

There is no challenge. You Get 1 weapon, the stunlocks all enemies to death assuming you upgrade it. When you get hit by anything that isn't a trap, you just drop items. Traps will make you restart a room without consequence.

Exploration- 5/10

Maps are okay to run through once. Lots of baby mode puzzles. Think dumbed down Zelda puzzles. Many things (lava playforms) are buggy af.


Building - 4/10

You can make a cute farm if you try. But the game pushes to put animals with your crops to deal with pests. Fertilizer, Crop, and resource yields are all laughable for the amount of grind.

Gampleay - 2/10

The game is hollow and shallow. There's nothing here except mindless grind.

Didn't like mining farm stone and farm wood with 8 hits for a single resource? Too bad! Do it again with Forest Stone, and now mountain stone, repeat forever.

The jobs are all the same. Craft 6 things that only work as sellables per biome.

The Lumas are mostly ugly pets. And just another vague resource engine though does nothing in terms of gameplay,

You can't even get rid of your starting trailer, you have to build whole new houses elsewhere.

Do not waste your time and money here.

Story - 5/10

It's all hidden in notes scattered about the world. If you read them, some are interesting. But I assume most players will skip over the text and miss out. NPCs will ask you to do things, but it often feels like they're just making a checklist longer.

Combat - 3/10

Not much depth. All magic is ranged damage. Wands are boring and auto lock. Melee is just a clickfest. Ranged auto aims and grinding arrows is sad. Auto lock has bad priority too, often aiming at some random enemy in the back rather than the one your cursor is on.

Skills that should be core game play features are over costed or locked behind others. The skill tree is very poorly balanced and themed and needs a complete rework. Many skills are bugged or poorly written.

Enemies have no tactics, and there's not much variety. Almost all the bosses you can just stand next to and bonk and they can't do a whole lot to you.

Parrying is inconsistent. Numbers don't mean what they say and have abstract calculations.

Building 9/10

Honestly building in this game is pretty rad. Grinding for the materials isn't. But you have a ton of freedom within the system to make whatever fantasy town you want. Furniture is a little limited for now. But it's still early access.

Exploration 7/10

There's a lot of neat little hidden spots. And secrets hidden everywhere But at some point it starts feel like every other BOTW styled crafting clone. Also the maps were laid out thinking you were going to explore them from the ground, but the introduction of the glider negates all of that. It's very easy to skip right to the end of anything that isn't the Hallowed Halls, leaving most areas to feel hollow.

Other -

Company actually works on community feedback and wish lists, at least a little. Which seems pretty cool.

Still better than Valheim.

Number go up.

Watched my wife kiss a Muscle Mommy. Pet a dog. 10/10 GOTY

Crab

Great game and good writing only really held back by classes and abilities that don't synergize with eachother well due to split armor and elemental opposition.

Some skills are so good you want them on every character. Adrenaline, Teleport, Bone Cage

Still, good fun 9/10

Spent 2 years in the mines and fought over the mean blonde and goth gamer with my wife. 10/10

Game still has pretty big bugs even years later.

Elemental Damage is bugged in the Shop and Bank so you can't get an accurate read on what items do.

Myth Ranks freeze and the only way to fix it is to delete your player save essentially resetting your progress and wiping your bank.

Enemies will glitch out and disappear under the map.

NPC dialogue cuts each other off.

None of this will be fixed with the age of the game.

Writing is campy, but still better than BL3s story.

If you want to waste a few hours, its... fine? If you want to play with buddies somewhat seriously, be prepared to have your progress reset towards the endgame or be constantly frustrated by a stream of bugs.

Likely one of the best co op experiences in gaming. Classes blend well together, missions are engaging, and the game does an amazing job of fostering a wholesome community. Wasted 100 hours, will waste 100 more.

If you catch it on a sale, it's a decent way to waste 10 hours. There's a few bugs and graphical errors even still. Was fun to co-op.