This game is so cool. A super earnest top down freelancer-like with an audatious licensed soundtrack. Some people say this game is like "freelancer + an adventure game" but at least as far as I got there are no actual adventure game mechanics, just an almost monkey-island fanart style structure for interacting with shipyards (including monkey island style jokes.) Fwiw this is great, I'm totally charmed by it.
Three stars, though, because there's not really all that much to playing it. This is a problem with more grown up space sims too -- nominally you're doing exciting things (smuggling, scavenging, navigating, dogfighting) but ultimately you're just flying half circles and watching healthbars or timers tick down. The most you can hope for is a really interesting economy, but at least as far as I got (to the half million + ships, maybe under halfway thru?) that's pretty flat too.
Everything moment to moment is incredibly competent -- it's polished and most actions feel great. But it's ultimately not a game about doing anything, just passing time.
Three stars, though, because there's not really all that much to playing it. This is a problem with more grown up space sims too -- nominally you're doing exciting things (smuggling, scavenging, navigating, dogfighting) but ultimately you're just flying half circles and watching healthbars or timers tick down. The most you can hope for is a really interesting economy, but at least as far as I got (to the half million + ships, maybe under halfway thru?) that's pretty flat too.
Everything moment to moment is incredibly competent -- it's polished and most actions feel great. But it's ultimately not a game about doing anything, just passing time.