The Long Dark
Fun until it breaks
Your plane crashes and you’re in Canada
The snows falling, there’s flames everywhere, you need shelter from the storm and need to prepare as you set out to find your lady Anna who was in the crash with you
This is a survival based game and a story mode that is set to have 5 episode from both of these characters perspectives..
Strangely enough thoughThe Long Dark
Fun until it breaks
Your plane crashes and you’re in Canada
The snows falling, there’s flames everywhere, you need shelter from the storm and need to prepare as you set out to find your lady Anna who was in the crash with you
This is a survival based game and a story mode that is set to have 5 episode from both of these characters perspectives..
Strangely enough though this game has a platinum trophy and no trophies for the 3 missing episodes...
You’ve got about 8 hours of story with Will in the first 2 with the remaining to be released later as I’m guessing dlc...
The Long Dark took me a while to get an understanding of what exactly to do as it has probably one of the worst tutorials I’ve ever played through..
you sort of have to mash buttons to figure out what button does what unless you pull up a manual like its 2002
The game also doesn’t really walk you through how to use its systems, for example it tells you fire melts snow..
Thanks for that… I would’ve never known
but it doesn’t tell you you don’t have to actually collect snow so I wasted a good amount of time looking for something to collect snow with... I went to google and thankfully I’m not alone in this...
So a lack of a proper tutorial is definitely an issue...
but after messing around with everything and understanding the game I really started having a lot of fun with this misison based story mode, gathering materials for fire, fetch questing for information,, swapping out my old duds for new fresh gear, making sure I had food, water and medicine incase I got hurt..
The game starts with a very linear feel as it teaches you the basics of surviving, but eventually opens up into a larger map...
and this is when surviving gets more challenging as youre dealing with dangerous wild life like wolves and later a bear
Wolves here are probably the most annoying thing about this game..
Food is the hardest thing to come by, luckily you’re able to stun bunnies and cringe while you snap their necks for food, but you’re also able to take the meat from freshly killed deer or wolves, 99% of the time though those bodies will have wolves on them that will attack you and will injure you to a point that you might as well just let them kill you and restart from a check point trying your best to avoid them..
Even though they’ll randomly just attack you as you leave a building sometimes...
They can be scared by fire...
but encounters with them are stil lalways terrifying because they pose a real threat, I found them to be just a little too frequent though, I never really caught a break when it came to food besides the occasional food on shelves in the multiple houses youll come across..
Which brings me to my biggest issue with this game...
Crashes...
The PlayStation 4 version of this game has a 50% chance of crashing every single time you leave a building...
I counted 14 crashes just from the first episode alone…
One crash actually stopped me from playing the game completely while in episode 2…
After finishing episode 1,, watching the credits, I continue my game to play episode 2, the game crashes while it loads, I retry, this time the game freezes,,,
When I reloaded the game my save was gone.. The game still knew I’ve completed episode 1...
But everything I collected from that play through was gone...
I didn’t fine it too much of a big deal having to recollect supplies...
until about 30 minutes into this episode when I realized all of my tools for collecting essential materials are gone too..
The game has no fail saves for potential problems like this...
Outside of the story mode there is a straight up survival mode where you see how long you can last in one of 7 maps if youre into that sort of thing as well as challenges such as making it to a location without dying after just being attacked by a bear..
I personally enjoyed this game the most delivered through its story mode...
it’s just a shame its bugs stopped that enjoyment...
The Long Dark is a really good, really fun, and really solid survival game…
But id hold out on the game to actually be finished and patched before picking it up...
Without its current problems I would score this game higher, but in its current state
I Give the Long Dark
a 6/10… Expand
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