TL:DR- game could be great if they would get rid of all the reading or just allow for a creative mode, right now it takes hours to do anything cuz of all the constant interrupting "chatter" from all the characters constantly talking to you about everything. all in text form. seems pretty much a game for 8 year olds who love to read A LOT.
If you can get past the meandering, useless slogTL:DR- game could be great if they would get rid of all the reading or just allow for a creative mode, right now it takes hours to do anything cuz of all the constant interrupting "chatter" from all the characters constantly talking to you about everything. all in text form. seems pretty much a game for 8 year olds who love to read A LOT.
If you can get past the meandering, useless slog of a story and character interaction that it throws at you, then there is a pretty useful building game to play around in.
The games main problem is the story and talking amongst the characters, as people say once it "opens up" its good but its almost a tutorial on the 1st island, which took me about 6-8 hours to get through and I would read the dialogue and get the point of what they wanted as fast as I could.
There is tons of talking in this game, they talk to you about everything, they hand hold you constantly and even come up with useless conversation, like the devs throwing in a billion jokes and just useless things, by the end of the 1st island I was just auto-speed scrolling(skipping) as much of their chatter as possible because most of it is useless to whatever your currently trying to do/build.
None of this game is voice acted but if it were, it would add way too many hours to the game, you can get a mission done and if you actually read all the dialogue like a normal person and didnt speed read it, you would be there for 10-15 minutes just reading and having everyone in the town bombard you at once with whatever useless chatter they want to drone on about and after 10 or so villagers talk to you, only 2-3 of them actually had something they wanted you to do.
It seems like the devs made this game for 10 8 year olds who also read a book a day, you have to love reading and with a pretty much 6-8 hour tutorial, this game will turn off loads of people before the game can even "open up".
I have currently played past the 2nd island, which also functioned as an almost tutorial for all the new materials they wanted you to use and once I "beat" that island, the game introduced a new story element and even with skipping all the dialogue at this new prison like place(no spoilers) its just boring story, loads of talking and not doing anything fun, its like they cut your legs out from under you when your in the middle of building your main base to make you slog, forcefully, through a story section you dont care about.
Since it has a MASSIVE amount of story heavy text and reading, the game has just become a slog to play and any updates to the game would benefit from turning off all useless dialogue that has nothing to do with whatever the characters currently want you to build, its just too much and its pretty much smothering.
If anything they should add a "skip" to the entire story and just give you a creative building up your main base mode. it would be a 5 out of 5 stars if the devs wouldnt make playing such a slog, reading orgy for my eyes, even when I click through it as fast as possible.… Expand
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