Recent reviews by Bacon Overlord®

Well, originally this was a great game.

I mean, so much fun, hours and hours of side-quest fun.

Now? If you can get it to launch you're way ahead of the curve... even then, good luck with your settings. This game is what we call a "bad port" now. You can't even adjust your settings until you select to start a new game. Understand that part, because it's important.

YOU CANNOT ADJUST THE GAME SETTINGS UNTIL AFTER YOU LOAD A SAVE or START A NEW GAME. Even then the options are console options which are insanely limited.

Oh, and good luck clicking on anything to make that happen since the mouse acceleration is utterly broken.

Want to change stuff like that that you can't change on a console? You'll have to edit the .ini file. Want to change mouse accleration? You can't. You'll have to ADD A LINE to your .ini. It's not even in there natively to edit or change. The same is true for almost everything we take for granted in modern games like vsync, bloom, god beams, etc.

This used to be a good game, but I simply don't have the patience anymore to try to coax it to do what it should do.

Sadly, this game is being retired into the "no category" bin where it will be gratefully remembered, but likely never attempted to be played again.

What in the ♥♥♥♥ even is this?

Some kind of map builder simulator or something?

And... I picked... a person, I can't tell if it's male or female because it's SO PIXELATED, but the rest of the game is NOT??? I'm running it at 4K and the only thing I can't make out is my character or the things they are obviously supposed to interact with. Is that some kind of weird art choice or something?

They really lost their way with these games. The Secret of Mana was great. It was to the point without a bunch of weird stuff slopped on top to make it different.

No way to reverse the y-axis on the mouse. Just on a console controller.... which, why that's even a thing on PC is confusing in the first place.

FYI.

And apparently the game hasn't gotten any updates for almost a year so it's not likely to change.

I'd love to say this game aged well, but no.

It's still a good game, but it's a pathetically LOADING SCREEN RIDDEN mess.

I mean... "you can't fast travel from there"

You're 3 feet from a door.

You have to walk 3 feet go through the door which is a loading screen
Then you can fast travel which is a loading screen
In order to open a door which is a loading screen
Have one line of communication
Go back through the same door which is a loading screen
Then fast travel which is a loading screen

I swear I spend more time looking at loading screen art than the game itself. Even though each loading screen is... what, 2 seconds on average?

It's... testing my sanity at this point.

The game was great when it first came out because we didn't know about seamless maps. They really, REALLY should have "remastered" that part of the game. Not to mention fixed most of the broken questlines and bugs that have been in the game since it first came out like the pathing of NPCs that have to go do something (like let the count know you're there to see him) and get stuck trying to get on a stair case... forever. The bugs with spells not showing how much it costs to cast them because it says "constant effect" instead of the mana required as you scale up the damage, the problems with general physics, the problem with mounts getting lost or disappearing when you fast travel on foot (even special ones like the Dark Brotherhood provides), the glitch where you can be completely invisible when you're at 100% Chameleon, but still get bounties for killing people even though literally nobody can see you.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a charming game, but if you're AT ALL impatient, this isn't going to be a game you're going to enjoy in 2025.

Now, granted, this is end-game I'm talking about where you've explored most of the map, made it to level 40 and are just fiddling with "luck" and the last few holdouts of skills you don't use much for leveling and have most of the map unlocked so you're basically fast-traveling almost everywhere. But, when that happens... you're going to think about this review and go "yep, he was right".

I have to vote it down for the quality of the "remaster" rather than the game itself. They did very little to update the problems and issues this game had and did NOTHING to update the mechanics of the maps and the game itself.

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Disclaimer:

I believe in a game being GOOD or NOT GOOD.

Not "It's good for the money" or "buy it if it's on sale" or "It has the POTENTIAL to be a good game" or "It's EA so it might be good eventually"

No.

IS IT A GOOD GAME at the time that you invested your time and energy into it, was it GOOD compared to OTHER good games?

That's what I go by.

If a developer posts shovelware, but it's only $.50... it's still shovelware.
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What they do good, they do great.

The ambience, visuals and graphics are amazing.

Beyond that, it all kind of falls flat.

It has a pointless building mechanic that apparently doesn't matter even slightly since you can build workbenches outside, sleep outside (even in the rain), put your storages outside, etc.

The whole "Look, Wendy I can fly!" thing is fun for about 5 minutes, then it becomes realistically the ONLY way to get around since all the islands are tiny and spread apart (the 5 or 6 that exist so far anyway)

The whole ONE monster you can fight is only on specific islands that are "corrupted" and you have to kill a tree with two roots so you can basically ad-nauseum loot the island. Just like you did on the last 5 islands.

The only real difference in the islands appears to be the rare nodes where you can "learn" something you can craft that really has no impact whatsoever. You can literally fly from start to finish across ALL islands at the very start. Collect all the learning nodes and ignore everything else. That's.... pretty much it. Then you go back to YOUR island and "build" things that have relatively no impact beyond being just something to build.

That's it.

That's the game. it's basically a cozy builder with an opt-in fight if you happen to need/want to go to an island that's corrupted.

Beyond that, there isn't much to do. Will it get better? maybe, but as it stands NOW is it a good game? It's a building simulator and a lukewarm one at that. Not the "survival" game it's billed out to be. Not eating does nothing, not drinking does nothing, falling does nothing, if you die... you get a message saying "I should go home" and get respawned a few yards away with half health. It's anything but a survival game.

So if you like cozy games, this one is for you.

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Disclaimer:

I believe in a game being GOOD or NOT GOOD.

Not "It's good for the money" or "buy it if it's on sale" or "It has the POTENTIAL to be a good game" or "It's EA so it might be good eventually"

No.

IS IT A GOOD GAME at the time that you invested your time and energy into it, was it GOOD compared to OTHER good games?

That's what I go by.

If a developer posts shovelware, but it's only $.50... it's still shovelware.
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Once again I lose faith in the Steam reviews system.

This isn't a good game. It's an hour log if you absolutely do EVERYTHING. Literally.. one hour for 100% completion for everything...

I don't care if it's $1.00... a game that takes an hour to complete isn't a good game, it's a distraction at best.

This isn't a "it's a good game IF" or "It might be a good game someday" system of reviews.

IS IT A GOOD GAME?

It's an hour long.

No.

Plus the developer posted this on Steam.. where you can refund a game you've played for less than 2 hours, which isn't very bright on multiple levels.

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Disclaimer:

I believe in a game being GOOD or NOT GOOD.

Not "It's good for the money" or "buy it if it's on sale" or "It has the POTENTIAL to be a good game" or "It's EA so it might be good eventually"

No.

IS IT A GOOD GAME at the time that you invested your time and energy into it, was it GOOD compared to OTHER good games?

That's what I go by.

If a developer posts shovelware, but it's only $.50... it's still shovelware.
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Game is.. eh.

There are far better choices out there.

The gunplay is.. eh
The aiming is loose
The enemies are super spongy considering the weapon being used
Upgrades feel meaningless in most cases
Very little of anything is explained once you end up in the "lair" or whatever which is where I started after I quit during the tutorial because I was bored
It's basically a budget extraction shooter with RPG thinly smeared on top of it.

Not a fan.

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Disclaimer:

I believe in a game being GOOD or NOT GOOD.

Not "It's good for the money" or "buy it if it's on sale" or "It has the POTENTIAL to be a good game" or "It's EA so it might be good eventually"

No.

IS IT A GOOD GAME at the time that you invested your time and energy into it, was it GOOD compared to OTHER good games?

That's what I go by.

If a developer posts shovelware, but it's only $.50... it's still shovelware.
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What an utter trainwreck of a game... can't skip the cutscenes, can't start the damn game. I quit after 2 minutes of starting cutscene because I was bored out of my mind and couldn't care less about the "love story" of two sets of pixels.

So, I didn't give this one a fair shake, but my god... a love story including apparently sex in a video game is a total waste of time. Especially when you can't skip it.

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Disclaimer:

I believe in a game being GOOD or NOT GOOD.

Not "It's good for the money" or "buy it if it's on sale" or "It has the POTENTIAL to be a good game" or "It's EA so it might be good eventually"

No.

IS IT A GOOD GAME at the time that you invested your time and energy into it, was it GOOD compared to OTHER good games?

That's what I go by.

If a developer posts shovelware, but it's only $.50... it's still shovelware.
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Eden Crafters

Felt like a budget, knock-off Planet Crafter and not in a good way.

Definitely needs a bunch of work.

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Disclaimer:

I believe in a game being GOOD or NOT GOOD.

Not "It's good for the money" or "buy it if it's on sale" or "It has the POTENTIAL to be a good game" or "It's EA so it might be good eventually"

No.

IS IT A GOOD GAME at the time that you invested your time and energy into it, was it GOOD compared to OTHER good games?

That's what I go by.

If a developer posts shovelware, but it's only $.50... it's still shovelware.
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How the hell does this have such good reviews?

It's a platformer with some very mild, basic and incredibly janky combat thrown in with 8 hours of cutscenes of reenactments with stick puppets.

Really... there must be some kind of bot website that you can pay to give your games good reviews. I was bored by the time I got to the ACTUAL GAME and that was even with skipping most of the boring cutscenes.

Not a great game if you're looking for something "action" which is one of the tags for this game. I'm surprised she didn't start planting flowers and singing them until they were ready to harvest so she could make some tea. Honestly, this game is more of a story than a game and not a great one unless you're into knowing 8 hours of backstory for some pixels.