Recent reviews by SynthHunter TTV

I'm here to kick ass and drink soda.... and I'm all outta soda!

Its okay....
Then you find out about custom songs, and sabers, and the whole modding community and it becomes fantastic and one of the best VR experiences out there that can entertain and challenge you for hours, days, months, and maybe even years!

*SPOILER FREE REVIEW*
To avoid spoiling anything at all, I will simply just talk about some of the newer mechanics provided as well as what feels like a much better choice system (without spoiling anything).
-Movement and Combat
I would say the biggest improvements I have noticed so far is a much more fluid movement and combat system. The camera angles now are mostly behind the shoulder 3rd person perspective. This overall gives a much better sense of control in combat and movement without fixed camera angles allowing you to look and turn around with the mouse and walk with the keys. How does this fit into combat? Whereas before combat would usually consist of pressing a button prompt in a QTE or quickly hovering your cursor over a certain spot and then clicking, the combat with this new movement system feels more engaging. Giving you the choice to stun a target for an easier takedown or to manage multiple walkers. It adds a sense of control and caution as you may have to stun one walker and then takedown another before the one gets back up, etc. You take the comabt into your hands, not a pre rendered QTE. There are still of course normal QTE's and such that we have come to know, but there definetely is not as many and it just helps the game feel so much more intuitive.
-Now onto choices....
This is a hard one to explain without giving any examples whatsoever that would spoil anything. You remember making a choice in previous games where it would say "blah will remember that?" Then sometimes it feels like it never had an impact at all in the end? What are they remembering it for? Did it affect anything at all? Well, this now gives you a much better idea of what exactly your choice has done. Either with dialogue that changes now entirely based on this choice, or relationship statuses and opinions on your character popping up rather than just "They will remember that." It really gives you a feeling that your choices are ACTUALLY impacting what is occuring in the story so far.
-Graphics
I feel that there is a major improvement here. I just feel the lighting is a lot better, there are more details on characters faces, and the gore/blood an improvement. It just looks and feels a lot better than before. The backgrounds also look a lot better and less muddy, and the definetely kept true to giving it a much more realistic feel with comic style graphics.
-Overall
Yes! So far, I would say the changes they have made to the core mechanics mentioned above help this feel like a MUCH more better and engaging experience. I know a lot of people were getting tired of the same formula over and over again, and I feel like this is a significant improvement that many people can get back into! If you are a previous player of the past seasons, I'm sure you will pick this up and love it. If you were on the fence waiting for change in gameplay, you got it, pick it up. I am enjoying this experience much more than the previous ones, and I have always enjoyed them. This just feels so much better from Telltale. A welcoming wave of change that shows the developers are listening to our requests.

Following the failure of The Culling 2, they reverted the game back to day 1 patch! In other words, the game is worth playing again as the devs are now going back to their ORIGINAL baby!

♥♥♥♥ you James. ♥♥♥♥ you for ever bringing this game up.

Addiction Simulator 20"every year"

Before you buy, know what you are getting. You are buying an Early Access Bug-filled game that is full of the stupidest of bugs such as, randomly dying by stepping on an object and getting flung across the world. There are a quite a few more, but i wont list all of them.

Now that we've gotten that out of the way, I can personally say that this game WILL BE amazing. Its current state is not, at all, the best, but if you are willing enough to support the developers and understand what you are buying, this can be worth it for you. I was extremely hyped for the forest last yeear. This is why I can say i enjoy it. I've been waiting and im willing to look past the bugs.

Thats all i can really say, I'll just give the list of Pros and Cons.

PROS:
Amazing Potential
Looks amazing for an alpha
semi-realism(chopping trees,building stuff from sticks and stones, killing and cooking stuff, and getting hit by stuff and bit by sharks actually hurt.)
Potential for a story line
great develepors who give themselves a time limit to release an update.
interesting thought put into the game(cannibals and weird mutated cannibals)
abducted my cannibals after "death"

CONS:
BUGS BUGS BUGS
A.I. needs improvement (suicidal birds and cannibals/sharks are easy to dodge)(you just have to strafe and swing)
MOAR BUGS
There are plenty of more CONS but i dont want to list them.

Overall, if you are willing to support development and see past the bugs, i would HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS! If you are questioning buying this game, wait a while and see where this goes until it appeals to you the most.

EDIT: May 16, 2018 - This review is heavily dated and further more, the game has come A LONG way. I would now consider a lot of my cons to be completely gone. They have now added a story, many more things into the game, etc. Now would be an amazing time to pick this game up since my review has come to its conclusive statement that after a while, it would be a fully functional and complete experience. Which now, I can happily say it is.

this is an amazing game