Recent reviews by steelson__

This game doesn't respect your time at all, trying to be immersive when it doesn't need to be. Namely:
- Unskippable animations that you have to watch again and again
- No run button
- There's nothing to do while sailing because you can do the same stuff on stop. The game doesn't teach you how to fast travel. There is a fast travel feature, but not in the most familiar sense - you have “bus stops” closest to the main points, but you have to sail to main points anyway
- ♥♥♥♥♥♥ fishing, it's not even a mini-game, WHAT?
- You have to do everything on the ship as the main character. Why can't you just control everything remotely like a normal base in all other games? Why should I instead go into the kitchen as a character and watch those animations over and over again?

The best game with a good release state! Broken disconnection rate counter, bad optimization, few cosmetics items, UE Polaris bug, all characters are overpowered, crazy throw break windows.
This game just keeps getting better and better! Broken DLC characters, battle pass with avatar cosmetics and THE BALL, in-game store with real money items, Chipotle ads, Nike collaboration, Heihachi resurrection, HARADA, MURRAY.
And, despite everything, the best game.

Oh, I forgot to mention Heihachi resurrection...

I very rarely leave reviews about games, but I want to talk about my experience with the game.
I've been waiting for this game to come out since the very first trailer. I was fascinated by her visual style. I waited for it to be released on Steam, and then for a very long time I was looking for time to play it. So I bought it and started playing. And I was disappointed.

I want to enjoy this game. I like the visual style, animation, models. I like the whole visual, but it plays so poorly that I dropped this game in the last location. I know this is the first game from an animation studio and it's an amazing first time game. But if you don't take the fact that the studio has no experience in game development and evaluate this game as a game, then this is a bad game.
I just can't play it anymore, I'm just tired. This game sucked all my strength. It's just a pretty wrapper with bad content.

This game has bad design decisions such as:
* long battles with multiple enemies in really closed arenas without "health flowers"
* countless boxes that contain money that you can only spend on cosmetic items for the little creatures that are your companions. this might work well, but you won't see these creatures up close for 95% of the game
* a camera lock on the target that stops after taking damage from enemies. some people say I should say thank you for blocking the camera in a soul like game, but i don't want to be thankful for a broken feature. I don't want other game developers to think this camera lock is a good idea
* the camera control itself is very poor. it seems so sticky. yes, you can increase the sensitivity, but even at high sensitivity it feels bad. for example, aiming a bow is very slow at any sensitivity, i think it should make me feel that it is very difficult to hold the bowstring and aim, but I play a cartoon game that doesn't seem realistic at all and you want me to feel that I'm using a real bow?
* I hate how after death I have to run for a certain amount of time (sometimes very long) before the encounter, to die again and run for so long. it would be much better to restore me before the encounter so I can try to win again and again
* oh, those beautiful roots and other things that grow out of the ground. the problem is that these things are look like a path to somewhere and every time I see them I try to jump on them to find another secret that is hidden from me, but I can't do it, I just slide by them. please don't ever do this again, everyone hates invisible walls

I cannot recommend this game. This is one of the most beautiful games in history with one of the best animations. But it plays badly. I'm very interested in what the next game of this studio will be. I hope they don't repeat their mistakes.