Eastshade

 PlayStation 4
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5.6

Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

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  1. BDKaos
    Oct 29, 2019
    9
    I highly recommend ‘Eastshade’. A game where you play as a traveling artist and use the landscape and townsfolk as your inspirations to make paintings. You can sell these paintings, fulfill special requests, or even keep them for yourself if you love it enough. The games uniqueness mainly comes from how your paintings are made. A blank canvas is crafted out of cloth and wood, and youI highly recommend ‘Eastshade’. A game where you play as a traveling artist and use the landscape and townsfolk as your inspirations to make paintings. You can sell these paintings, fulfill special requests, or even keep them for yourself if you love it enough. The games uniqueness mainly comes from how your paintings are made. A blank canvas is crafted out of cloth and wood, and you select your own aspect ratio before proceeding. Then within this aspect ratio, you basically take an in-game screenshot and watch your painting drawn out right in front of you. This game is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. I couldn’t walk 10 feet without wanting to break out the easel and create something from what I see. With NPCs and wildlife looking and animating a little goofy, you can tell the environments are mainly where they focused on graphics; which isn’t a bad thing at all since this is what you’ll spend 99% of your time focusing on. You go from town to town listening and talking to others, following sub-stories and completing little side quests all incorporating your painting abilities. The writing and dialogue is quite good in this one. You actually want to be involved and help out within these small communities. I have yet to run into any “people” in this though. Every NPC is a humanoid-looking animal which I think enhances the experience by giving it more of a fantasy-like setting. For example: monkeys, deer, bears, owls, etc all act and talk like humans. You’ll see what I mean if you play. I’ve been getting MAJOR Oblivion feelings from playing this. So much so, it’s almost nostalgic to the hours and hours I spent in the world of Elder Scrolls 4, while also giving me slight ‘Myst’ vibes here and there. I really want to say this game is heavily inspired by those from its outstanding visuals and its MUSIC. Oh my gosh the soundtrack to this game is brilliant. Due to the game’s calming, mysterious world, you won’t find any parts to the score bombastic or tumultuous. I’d be willing to buy it separately if it was ever available in a physical form. -- Looks like it’s available on all main platforms for a pretty low price of 20 or 25 bucks from where I’m from. I’ve only come across small issues like subtle frame rate slowdowns and look sensitivity jumps, but nothing to ever break my emersion. Take a break from all the intense and action packed or competitive gaming. With that being said: roll a joint, pour some whiskey (or whatever you do) and relax with ‘Eastshade’. I’m only a few hours into it and have been thinking about it nonstop. -Brad… Expand
  2. Rho
    Dec 12, 2021
    0
    Ran into a bug about 45 minutes in that caused the game to no longer allow me to save nor auto-save. Even after reloading that save I still can't save. I would have to start over, and I assume would end up running into the same bug again. I found a thread on the steam forums talking about this issue since 2019 and they still haven't fixed it. Do yourself a favor and avoid wasting $25.
  3. slorb
    Nov 19, 2019
    10
    The best game I have played all year. There is no combat, but the quests, NPCs, and locations are so interesting you will truly care about what happens to everyone you meet. The choices you make have a real impact on how the game plays out and how the NPCs will treat you. The length of the game is well worth the price, but you won't want it to end.
  4. storageheater
    Nov 12, 2019
    9
    If you've played big RPGs recently and felt like you were staring at the minimap as you trek from quest marker to quest marker, Eastshade offers an alternative. It's a gorgeous and detailled island with a couple of towns and plenty of curious landmarks you'll want to visit, and using them to navigate around with its map is just a delight.
    Your primary goal - to paint pictures of the    If you've played big RPGs recently and felt like you were staring at the minimap as you trek from quest marker to quest marker, Eastshade offers an alternative. It's a gorgeous and detailled island with a couple of towns and plenty of curious landmarks you'll want to visit, and using them to navigate around with its map is just a delight.
    Your primary goal - to paint pictures of the landscape - constantly keeps you aware of your surroundings and on the lookout for new things. To access certain places you'll need to please quite a lot of people in an impressively organic chain of events. The NPCs are lively and unique, and won't waste your time with pages of wacky dialogue and backstory, and the excellent quest log means you won't lose track of what you're doing.
    That said, the PS4 port is quite janky. If you're the sort of person who looked up early Red Dead Redemption glitches because they were hilarious, but also wanted a light combo of Myst and Skyrim, this is heaven. Crouching before talking to people often results in unexpected silliness, and certain dark locations were very unclear about whether they were full of really stylish contrast or just dimly lit, as it changed depending where I stood. It also won't win any awards for NPC programming or animation, but none of that detracts from the actual experience for me.    … Expand
  5. a_void
    Jul 29, 2020
    9
    I've waited for this game a lot and it didn't disappoint. Though being an indie game it has some technical difficulties, especially on ps4, but I really enjoyed this experience and wish to play more non violent games like this. I want to believe that there is a future where AAA games are more like Eastshade.

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  1. The Digital Fix
    Feb 27, 2020
    90
    Easy to play, even easier to lose yourself in, Eastshade is a beautiful storytelling experience unlike anything else seen in the RPG genre.
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  2. 4P.de
    Dec 20, 2019
    70
    Quotation forthcoming.
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  3. PlayStation Universe
    Oct 31, 2019
    90
    A combat-free, refreshingly wholesome and decadent exploration focused yarn, Eastshade celebrates the spirit of discovery with aplomb and feels like the closest you'll get to a digital holiday.
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